Reseñas de grian1954
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42-44 Gloucester Terrace, London W2 3DA
grian1954
el 7 Setiembre 2009
My partner and I arrived late in London in August 2009. We were staying in Bayswater just around the corner from the curry house. We were hungry and time was getting on and after being met by the seemingly affable man trying to drum up business from passers-by in the street we made the mistake of descending into that grim little place to eat.
We had been promised a meal deal with 10pc discount. We ordered from the few meals being offered at the special price. We waited and waited and waited for the starter to arrive. Finally it did, after almost an hour; it consisted of a tiny samosa like thing with scruffy bits of raw cabbage tossed around it. I managed to eat the morsel of samosa in one or two gulps but the raw strips of cabbage didn’t appeal to me much.
We then waited and waited and waited for the main course which was supposed to chicken tandoori. After another ridiculously long wait it finally arrived. It looked nothing like a chicken tandoori as I know the dish to be. Instead we had a few lumps of chicken floating in a brownish, watery gruel like sauce; it tasted worse than a one pound packet curry.
When the waiter was about to serve the main dish he brought some plates and wiped mine with a cloth but he faltered as he did this. This action made me look at the plate and it had a lump of crud sticking to it. Clearly he had noticed this but was gambling on the fact that I hadn’t. I handed the plate back to him and asked for a clean one which he then brought.
While we ate our horrid little meal I thought about A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn and the bowls of gruel they were fed in the camps in Siberia. Oliver Twist and Dickens’ Scrooge ran through my mind too.
Also while we waited and ate we noticed what appeared to be queries or complaints about the food and bill by other customers.
We also noticed that when customers were almost finished eating the plate was snatched away from them with a “feeneshed” remark by one of the waiters. This happened to me certainly.
When we got our bill, which wasn’t cheap, the 10pc we had been promised had not been applied. However we couldn’t be bothered querying it; we just wanted to escape.We never had a drink but noticed that they only offered cans of a certain type of lager which we later noticed were on a special offer in theoff-licence across the road. Just a coincidence perhaps.
Certainly that was the worst curry I have ever had - in every way.