We are inside Singapore's most iconic hotel, set in a beautiful garden. The venue of what is probably the most expensive Indian restaurant in the world's most expensive city is very well appointed. Some dishes are excellently interpreted (some, not all), including palak paneer and...aloo ghobi). But otherwise the restaurant does not live up to the standards of the prestigious hotel.
Service was slow and extremely careless (2 children and an adult didn't touch food and no waiter or dining manager noticed). No one helped us with the request for less spicy food for some, nor during dinner did they ask us if everything was to our liking (which it was not). Everyone was pushy in selling us tasting menus and expensive wines instead of the choice we had already made (we are Europeans, and we are familiar with the wines on the scarce and overpriced wine list - full of champagne to satisfy the exhibitionism of another type of clientele). Our requests for rice and naan were only met when the dishes were already cold.
Dinner is consumed with a noisy background of rude international guests conversing loudly. Nothing to do, service, quality, temperature of the food: it is all to be reviewed. Last but not least, the bill: out of this world for a dinner that at 1/4 the price elsewhere would have earned at least the privilege of not being abandoned by the staff for the whole dinner.More