Lamb Chettinad

My wife and me didn’t go to work on Tuesday as we had some important work to attend to. After we had finished whatever we had to, we decided to go to an Indian restaurant for lunch. I wanted to go to a place, which we hadn’t been to and that’s tough considering we have been to most of them in central jersey. As we were driving around on oak tree road, we came across this restaurant called M. Ambience was awesome and hence I wanted to check it out. It was 11:45 in the morning and these guys weren’t open as of yet. They let us in though because they were opening at 12. So the guy turns up with the menu and it looked pretty exotic. I decided to have the salted fresh limejuice which had some cool name on the menu and my wife decided to have something which I don’t remember but tasted great. Anyway, we order an appetizer and then got to the entrée finally. I decided on the lamb chettinad and my wife being a vegetarian decided to have dosa. That’s when the waiter opened his mouth and warned us that the dosa was just dosa. You wouldn’t be getting anything else with it. No chutney and no sambhar. So, I asked the guy as to how she would be eating the dosa and he said that I could order for sambhar and so I asked him where the sambhar was. He pointed me onto another exotic long name, which basically meant plain sambhar at the end of the day. Check this out, dosa was 5$ and sambhar was 10$. Fucking joke right? So my wife says no need sambhar and I say fuck it. Get the sambhar. Then the waiter turns to me and asks me what I want with the chettinad. Till that point I was under the safe assumption that the chettinad came with some form of rice just like most other normal restaurants. Apparently, rice was not at all involved with the dish. I had to order for white rice. The lamb Chettinad was 16$ and the white rice was 10$. Which fucking place does this to you? The food was so so and we are never going back there cos it is a rip off and they know it too.
Now if I put the name of the restaurant, anyone reading this blog would never go there. This is exactly how restaurants lose business and credibility. By acting cute and trying to do different shit and charging for basic shit which is free in other places. This is oak tree road for Christ’s sake and you are catering to middle class Indian crowds and you cannot try and be different with us guys. We exactly know the maximum bang possible for the minimum buck spent.