kikimitchSurreySince November 30, 20074 Reviews
(2.2)- Food
(2) - Service
(2.3) - Value (2)
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Meh.
We had a large office lunch party here. The waiter highly recommended the salmon salad, so naturally that's what I ordered. For 20 bucks it was bland as hell and with piddly pieces of pickled beets and onions. And the teeny slab of salmon was nothing to write home about. The dish should NOT have been priced higher than $13 for what I was getting. Oh! And there was also a hair in my salad. A short black one (my hair is long blond - so it wasn't mine). All I can say is: There is no wonder the place is empty. They need to reduce their prices by about 30% or more to be proper value for what you are getting here. And their service is ridiculously slow. We were served our food one hour after arriving. The waiter was nice, however. He tried his best - not his fault the chef was so slow and not very talented.
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Ultimate Gelato? Err..... No.
Today I went into La Casa Gelato to get some ice cream. I wish I read these reviews before I did that though, it would have saved me a trip out there as well as the 25 bucks it cost me for the ice crea (or should I say: icy cream). There was a little boy browsing the flavours of ice cream and seemed quite enthralled by their selection. There is just something magical about a giant ice parlour to a child. But the two staff members working there, kept sighing about his indecisiveness and chatting amongst each other in, presumably, Cantonese. You could totally tell they were dissing him. Then the boy had the "audacity" to ask one of the staff members for a sample (they have signs posted saying you should keep your samples a minimum. Nice.) Well, from her reaction, you would think he was asking her to chop off her arms and blend them through a meat grinder for him. In a huffy voice she told him she is not the one who does samples, the OTHER lady, on the other side of the store, who seems to preoccupied with another task at the moment, is the one who does them. I mean, how hard would it have been for her to just grab a little plastic spoon and get the damn sample and say "here you go kid, knock yourself out." ?
So, after the boy left on the verge of tears, it was my turn to order and I was already a little put off and considering just leaving. But the sign on the door said it was the world's greatest ice cream (or something to effect) and I thought maybe this was a "Soup Nazi" kind of place where the service is brutal but the product is amazing.
If only.
When I brought home my two selections: praline and marzipan I was NOT impressed. The marzipan tasted like icy, frozen milk with splashes of almond extract in it (the chunks of ice actually hurt my tongue). The praline was slightly better... but nothing special. Hagen Daas, or even Ben and Jerry's, which you can buy for cheaper at your supermarket, is better than this. I will never shop there again. Not unless they can provide polite service and dramatically improve the quality of their product (or severely reduce the prices).
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Not the Place to Take a Date You Want to Impress
First of all, this place has horrible service. When you enter the door, the server (who is across the restaurant from you) points at a table where you should sit. No "hi, hello, how are you?" or anything like that. You take your plate and head to the buffet, which happens to be right next to the counter where you pay and is often very crowded. More than once I have spilled my the contents of my plate because another patron who was paying their bill backed into me.
One major problem: The buffet never has enough naan. No, scratch that. The buffet never has ANY naan. It drives me CRAZY! And when you tell the waiter, he just grunts at you.
The butter chicken is ok, kind of sloppy and thin. As for "40 item" buffet? Ha! I would say there are maybe 5 or 6 indian dishes and the rest is cold salads. One thing that also bugs me is that their dessert options suck. You either get watered down custard or, on a good day, bland rice pudding.
So after getting your food, you take your naanless plate to sit at the table the waiter has "instructed" you to sit at and you find your seat has a gaping hole and the table is lit by a weird dangling blue light which makes your food appear highly unappetizing. Sometimes the waiter will come and wordlessly pour your water or, when he's feeling particularly energetic, remove your dirty plates. There seems to be a shortage of staff here, which is not a good sign. Either they pay their employees crap or treat them like crap. Either way, the lack of employees equates to lack of service.
Oh and one more thing. If you have the misfortune of having to use the washroom when you are dining here, I would suggest holding it. The washroom is dingy and looks like a place crack addicts would go to shoot up.
All in all, it's a bad dining experience.
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If this is Langley's Best Butter Chicken, Then I Feel Sorry For Langley
I have to admit, I was incredibly disappointed. I read some reviews that the butter chicken was incredible, so being the butter chicken addict I am, I could not WAIT to head over to Langley and try some. One day I happened to be in the neighbourhood and went to Ashoka to order some butter chicken and I have to tell you... it was not THAT good. I'm not saying it was terrible or anything, just that it was incredibly mediocre. It had a very acidic flavour and was not smooth and buttery tasting at ALL. Even the blah buffet Mehfil (Scott Road and 96th) has way better butter chicken than Ashoka. By the way, if you want a decent butter chicken for a good price, try Tasty Sweets (80th on Scott Road). Unfortuntely, I will never go to Ashoka's again. Not until they change their butter chicken recipe. Their prices are also kind of steep, compared to other similar restaurants.
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