Yana B.
Yelp
We came to Saffire to celebrate my Mother's birthday on a Wednesday evening. The bar was busy, but the dining room only had one other table occupy when we were seated. The hostess and our server were very nice and friendly, but unfortunately the good part stopped there. Overall the service is EXTREMELY slow. The drinks took about 15-20 minutes to arrive, the appetizers about another half hour and the mains about the same after the apps. The desserts took even longer. A couple who was seated right after us waited an hour and 10 minutes to get any food at all (they were livid!). The food was beyond mediocre. It lacked any of that strong spiced flavour Indian dishes should have. I want to bring the owner's attention (if you will be reading this at all) to the Shrimp Chatpatta appetizer - what chef ever put it together and thought it was a finished dish that desereves to be a menu item??!! It is 5 pieces of small dry shrimp with an absolutely tasteless dry sauce that looked like brown toothpaste on top of the shrimp. We also ordered Papri Chaat which usually my favourite Indian appetizer, but here it was terrible - again, no flavour. Plain yogurt, crackers and flavourless chickpeas, no seasoning at all. The Amritsari Fish was really good, but it is just fried fish pieces, so hard to mess that up. My goat in Saffire Fire Sauce was mostly bones and it was not as spicy as the waitress was warning me it will be. The best dish was Goat Tikka Masala. The Vindaloo goat was mostly potato, barely any meat and , once again, lacked flavour. The desserts were absoltuly atrocious. The carrot pudding was just little chunks of carrots mixed with a little bit of chopped nuts and maybe a little sugar, that is it. I have had this dessert at other places and it is not what it is supposed to be! The rice pudding was horrid - boiled rice in some milk with a tiny bit of sugar. Both tasted more like baby breakfast food, not desserts. Overall, like others have mentioned, I don't think the place will last more than 6 months with this quility of food.