My Haveli review
DESCRIPTION: I have eaten there many times over the years. I highly recommend arriving there at 1130 sharp (right when they open) this ensures that you will have all buffet items untouched and piping hot. I recommend the lunch buffet versus ordering off the menu. Lunch buffet is around $8.50 where dinner menu is more expensive and could be a bit confusing what to order. At the lunch buffet it's all there and it is incredible. When I go there I prepare for it days in advance by fasting and then sitting at their table starting off with their wonderful diced vegetable salad and also lettuce topped with their whipped yogurt. I also have plenty of naan bread there with small cups of mint sauce and whipped yogurt standing by for dipping. The food selections on the buffet are usually constant however, occasionally butter chicken replaces the goat and the bean dishes (which are superb) are different and the rice pudding is replaced by goolob jamins, which are a form of artwork in their own right. If you are not sure what goolobs are, imagine a large glass punch bowl filled with what looks like golden brown hushpuppies floating in a delicate, thin syrup. Goolobs however, have a mysterious delicate texture that words cannot describe. The other items on the buffet, eggplant dish, saat pinar with hidden cheese blocks, rice, tandoor chicken(sometimes dry, sometimes juicy),goat(sometimes tough, sometimes tender)I joke and say ah, they must of caught an old goat today. They also have a paper thin lentil cracker, sometimes as big as 7 inches round that is delicious. All of those items I enjoy very much. When it comes down to the service, the waiters don't come by your table much, they come and fill your water occasionally and I tell them how much I am enjoying the lunch. A friend told me the waiters give you space and a not rushed approach as a courtesy and thats also why you always have ask for your check.
DATE: 2005-12-21
FOODRATING : 10
SERVICERATING : 8
AMBIANCERATING : 10
OVERALLRATING : 10
RECOMMENDED DISHES : Lunch buffet