Apni Havelly Restaurant & Banquet Hall

The food was great we went on a weeknight for my birthday and ordered multiple curries and the meat platter. My favourite were the onion naan and butter chicken. And to top it off with a mango milkshake and kulfi for dessert. I believe there is also more selection on weekends when there is the buffet!

i bought some take out. one of their daily special. food quantity was good, however we checked the buffet prices and they were outrages, buffet quality did not look good either.

I love Indian food and when I find a tasty buffet it’s a family favourite place that gets my loyalty and plenty of advertising, on the house. Unfortunately this ‘Devs Haveli’ doesn’t even come close to making my list.
What a crappy experience. I don’t recall (before now) ever seriously considering just getting up and leaving before really starting my meal. I persevered with my poor children who couldn’t even stomach the plain rice, which was hard and crusty.
Speaking of crusty… no, the staff were polite enough, it was the food that was drowned in oil and crusted on the surface. I stood there unbelieving as I watched a man walk around the buffet stirring the measly amount of food to decrustify everything.
The potatoes looked like they were more than a day old. A couple meat dishes (I assume they were meat) truly resembled canned dog food. The item labelled as butter chicken was clearly not so I asked if they would serve any and was advised it would be out in a half hour. What came was yesterday’s leftover tandoori chicken in a poor curdled cream disguise. Unbelievable!
On to the service which was highly lacking simply due to the clear inexperience of every person on the payroll. My husband’s $ 2 diet coke actually made us laugh as it came in a small white wine glass which held about 3 or 4 man sips. I joked that he should have asked for 2 more upon being served. To top that he didn’t get to request a refill, and none was offered, as we were essentially forgotten.
I’d like to cover all the reasons we have for never returning again, but really, I’m not that cruel. It is what it is, try it if you will, but if you read this and go…
I told you so.