This place is tucked away in the bowels of Hillsborough, NJ. Located in Kingsbridge center near the public library/municipal offices.
This center isn't much of a happening place, most of the businesses seem to be closed or doing little business.
Decided to try the Lunch Buffet in this place. There was one other diner in the house when I popped in. The fella waiting on tables wanted to sell me his mango lassi and I declined. The buffet had about 5 vegetarian dishes and 2 chicken dishes and a lamb curry.
As appetizers they had some pakoras and bhajjis - which was quite a disgrace, they were oily and not fresh at all.
The red chicken a.k.a Tandoor chicken - was quite a disaster. It was leathery and a few hours old with no flavor or life in it. There were 2 rice dishes - biriyani offerings. They tasted similar one had chicken in it and the other had no chicken in it ! The biriyani dishes were prepared recently (inside of 3 hours !) I assumed and thus tasted much better. The rice was fluffy and the chicken was not dry.
Next the Lamb korma dish, I could tell that this dish was in and out of the freezer a couple of times and thawed more than once. The mutter chicken, which is chicken in butter and cream also had a similar tale to tell, had definitely made a few trips in and out of the cold storage. It was bland and heavy just the kind you would see in any middling/bad indian restaurant serving a lunch buffet.
The vegetable dishes did not fare much better except the cauliflower dish, which tasted like it was cooked the same day. The naan breads were ok, nothing out of the ordinary there.
For dessert there was the customary indian lunch buffet rice pudding and another dish called a 'fruit custard' that tasted like chunks of apple and grapes in sweetened cream.
Overall I was pretty disappointed, definitely would not go back again unless something changes.
--Caneatahorse.
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