Sujatha's Indian restaurant in Fremont
RA...@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu
neral attitude of getting away with it which is very bad! Canned veggies, fresh
ones not properly peeled. Overcooked etc. Why go on? Just want to let the cogn
oscenti know that this place is worth avoiding
rajagopalan..Oh! for a well-cooked kootu or avial, not available in the land of
the free!
Alan Louie
University avenue in Berkeley. Boy were we dissapointed! I had a lamb curry
that came with nothing (I had to order rice separately) and my wife had
lamb biryani, which had old rice at best, and was generally old anyway. Since
we were among the first people in the restaurant (6:30 pm on Friday), this
place is probably hurting and hopefully will disappear without further ado.
Review of other good Indian restaurants in the Fremont area would be greatly
appreciated. By the way, Sujatha was expensive too.
Alan Louie
Dole Packaged Food Co.
Sr. Scientist
... We make pineapple better.
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Lyle Scheer
> I completely agree with the disgust for Sujatha's Indian restaurant
I saved this post to ba.food a while ago, but have not yet had the opportunity
to try it.
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Subject: Taste of India
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Hi Netters,
I thought I would let you know about my favorite Indian restaurant. Taste
of India is a family run, informal and inxpensive "hole-in-the-wall" that
serves the best Chhole Bhatura, Chaat and Lamb/Chicken Curry in the Bay
Area. They sweets and snack items (such as hot mix) are great too!
Taste of India is located in Fremont. To get there, take 880 to Mowry
East. Make a right on Farwell Street( First traffic light off the
freeway). Taste of India will be on your left approx. 50 yards after the
right turn. It's located across the street from Sujatha's Cafe, which
should be avoided at all costs.
GS
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As it says, it's right across the street from the place you're complaining so
much about, and the poster seems to share your disgust with Sujatha's while
writing a glowing report on Taste of India.
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Leon Traister
>I recently went to this place and must say was totally disgusted.
>There is a general attitude of getting away with it which is very
>bad! Canned veggies, fresh ones not properly peeled. Overcooked etc.
>Why go on? Just want to let the cognoscenti know that this place is
>worth avoiding
If this Sujatha's is related to the one in Sunnyvale, then just about
the only thing to go there for would be the Bombay specialities
(Masala Dosas and Idli-Sambar). These they do quite well in
Sunnyvale. The buffet of generic Indian cuisine looked far less
appealing.
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Ram Ramakrishnan
/ hpindda:ba.food / lm...@uts.amdahl.com (Leon Traister) / 9:22 am Jul 2, 1992 /
> >bad! Canned veggies, fresh ones not properly peeled. Overcooked etc.
> >worth avoiding
>
> the only thing to go there for would be the Bombay specialities
> (Masala Dosas and Idli-Sambar). These they do quite well in
> Sunnyvale. The buffet of generic Indian cuisine looked far less
> appealing.
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> <Usual Disclaimer> "The best is the enemy of the good" - Voltaire
>
> Leon Traister (lm...@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com)
Dosas, Idlis and Sambar are the best-known examples of South-Indian
cuisine, so if you had to associate them with a city, it would be
Madras, not Bombay.
Unfortunately, while there are several restaurants in the Bay area that
do a decent job on various other forms of Indian cuisine, there really
hasn't been a single place where the South Indian food passed muster.
Until now.
Check out "Swagat" in Milpitas, on Abel just south of Hwy 237. Not too far
from the Fremont folks who'd asked about Indian restaurants there. Not only
do they make good Dosais and Idlis (I won't say excellent, because I've
been to too many Udipi resaurants in India, and my mom makes the best ones,
anyway), their mint chutney is awesome and their sambar is pretty good.
Above all, they list "Avial" on their menu, and make it pretty well. [Yes,
raja@slacvm, I mean that. I'm an Avial fanatic too, and this is the first
restaurant outside India I've seen that listed it on its menu]. For those
of you who don't know what it is, Avial is a mixed-vegetable dish made with
coconut and cucumbers... highly recommended.
Oh, one more thing. The service at Swagat is excellent. I was there with a
group of nine last Thursday whooping it up, but the waiter kept his cool,
was really patient and accommodating, and executed faultlessly.
On the subject of service, Fremont, and South Indian restaurants..: avoid
a place in northern Fremont/Union City called "Savera", like the plague.
Such unbelievably horrendous rotten god-awful service that a dozen wild
horses won't drag me there again. Took 15 minutes to be seated, 45 minutes
to get our menus, an hour and fifteen minutes before the lone waiter (who
doubled as the cook, we later found out) took our orders, and 2 hours (I
kid you not) before our mediocre food arrived. 'Nuff said.
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other wives, and I guess she just didn't pass muster.
Woody: Well, maybe she couldn't reach it...
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food and service were good -- and it's cheap! Don't expect much in the
way of atmosphere, though: It's a pretty down-to-earth restaurant-in-a-
strip-mall kind of place.
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Arun Kumar
Leon Traister (lm...@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com) writes
>the only thing to go there for would be the Bombay specialities
^^^^^^
>(Masala Dosas and Idli-Sambar). These they do quite well in
Masala Dosas and Idli-Sambar are hardly Bombay specialities. They
are South Indian snacks originating from Madras, Bangalore, etc.
Leon Traister
Oops, sorry, a slip of the brain.
Leon T.
David Altekruse
>On the subject of service, Fremont, and South Indian restaurants..: avoid
>a place in northern Fremont called "Savera", like the plague.
>Such unbelievably horrendous rotten god-awful service that a dozen wild
>horses won't drag me there again. Took 15 minutes to be seated, 45 minutes
>to get our menus, an hour and fifteen minutes before the lone waiter (who
>doubled as the cook, we later found out) took our orders, and 2 hours (I
>kid you not) before our mediocre food arrived. 'Nuff said.
Since "Savera" is located about four blocks from my house, I've been there
maybe a dozen times in the past year or so. Only once did I have bad service,
and even then it wasn't nearly as awful as Ram experienced. Normally they
have 2-3 waiters plus the kitchen help. Clearly Ram went on a night when
all the waiters were sick, quit, etc. They should have just hung a "closed"
sign on the door that night.
As far as the quality of food of "Savera", I suspect no one could enjoy food
after the horrible service Ram describes no matter how good it was. I am not
an expert, but I have eaten at a number of other Indian restaurants in the Bay
area and I personally like the food at "Savera" better than at most other
places. I'd be very interested in knowing what others think of it.
David Altekruse, d...@ampex.com
Ihtisham Kabir
is slow, specially on weekend nights when they are really
busy. Their Tandoori food is usually good and plentiful.
Their curries and rice dishes are not that good.
- Ihtisham
Bharat P. Savel
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yeah! right. and if you can find
one in this century, let me know. now that you mentioned it, my cousin
in fremont, did a kick ass kootu sometime back. as good as mom's too.
on the other hand, i don't know if you are new to the bay area (like
me), but i have noticed that sujatha gets rave reviews OUTSIDE the bay
area. sujatha is the most overrated rest. in CA. it has terrible bhel
puri (gujju style they claim), and terrible every other thing. they
screwed big in North Indian as well as So. ind.
verdict: two-thumbs down!!!
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Venu Nayar
>RA...@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
>>rajagopalan..Oh! for a well-cooked kootu or avial, not available in the land of
>> the free!
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> yeah! right. and if you can find
>one in this century, let me know. now that you mentioned it, my cousin
>in fremont, did a kick ass kootu sometime back. as good as mom's too.
If you do freak out on avial, there is a small place over in Milpitas which
makes pretty awesome avial. It is at the corner of 237 and Abel, in a
complex called Abel Plaza. The place is called Swagat. You may be pleasantly
surprised. And it is pretty cheap too. ;-).
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