To Ravishankar on Drummond St with b for 'Thursday night is saag paneer night' and what a treat the food is: you get a tray, as seen in the photo, with a salad, a mint dressing, three chapatis, a good portion of God's own Indian dish, and some rice pudding (I conformed to type and didn't like the latter). The saag is just bloody delicious, with excellent spinach, lush paneer and a really decent heat to the dish; what's more it combines very well with the chapatis, and by the end you feel you've had a really interesting and filling meal for £6.95.
Yet if the food merits an 'A' the service is grade 'D', pushing towards 'N' or 'U'. B had eaten there before with the Red Devil and they had had problems with the staff, so this was by no means a one off (and external reports have reached our food network of other disgruntled customers). The staff are, at best, offhand, and frankly rather rude in their surliness and the general impression they give off of not giving two hoots about their customers, seeing them only as a bottom line (by which I mean a line of bottoms that come in, sit down, and then file out).
I guess that in the end I may come to view this place simply as somewhere that has famously bad service, and learn to roll with it, but in a town where service is generally pretty good, I don't think I'll be back on any day other than a Thursday.
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