Jess W.
Yelp
3.5 stars but I am rounding down because I can't justify giving this place 4 stars.
When I walked into this restaurant, I was immediately enamoured by the beautiful décor. We made a reservation for nine people and I loved the setup of the long table that we were assigned--so much so that I had to take a picture of it before I took my seat. Also, I noticed that the restaurant had a strong smoky smell; thankfully, it was a beautiful day outside so the doors of the restaurant were open to air out the smoke.
The waiter was kind enough to explain the menu for us as it was our first time at this restaurant. We decided in the end to order and communally share all the dishes--which I highly recommend, even if you don't normally share you food with other people, DO IT, trust me, you won't regret it!! Also, the restaurant is willing to split the bill for you so it was easy for us to pay separately.
When placing our order, the waiter was pretty pushy about wanting us to order the kabobs. We told him "no" but he kept insisting us to order. In the end, we did order it because we became a party of ten people. However, for $17.95 for 8 pieces is a bit steep. If only the overall service was as attentive as the waiter's pushiness for us to order the kabob, we wouldn't need to be waving throughout our meal to get our waters refilled. Nonetheless, I did like that we had our plates changed between our starters and mains.
We had the mango chicken salad, which was alright, nothing special. We also had an assort of curries dishes that we ordered, each had a unique flavour. We especially loved the fish curry as it had an added coconut flavour which helped offset the fishiness taste. We ordered a lot of naan to go with our curry, which was meeeeh, as I love it when restaurants finish their naan with some butter/oil on the top.
When it came time for us to pay, we found that we were charged $2.50 for "open food." When asked what "open food" was, we were notified that the charge is for the "lime" that we added to our water. We called for the manager to speak with us and he explained that anytime you want extra anything, like "onions," they charge that in the "open food" fee. He said the waiter should have explained it to us when we asked for lime--well, the waiter did NOT tell us, probably because he was so busy trying to recommend the kabobs. The manager was kind enough to take the $2.50 charge off our bill.
The aftermath of our indian experience at Khau Gully resulted in some members of our dinner party making a couple trips to be bathroom. I don't know if this is a good sign...
Would I return? Probably not.