Chaat Bhavan Fremont

Yesterday, I did go for lunch with my husband and we ordered garlic paneer chilli with stuffed kulcha, bhel thali with chaas and parantha. Thali items were all cold except for the parantha in it. The taste of thali was all bland with no salt and spices. Garlic chilli paneer pieces were so big for a bite (ice cube shaped) and also it was cold inside. Kulcha, parantha and chaas were the only items I liked. Chaat Bhavan used to have good quality and tasty food couple of years ago but now the quality, taste is really gone down.

Service was very slow despite the restaurant not being too crowded, and the waiters were just talking to each other instead of even giving us the menu first thing. I got the house thali, as well as methi chaman paneer with pesto naan (a monthly special). The pesto naan was pretty good but the paneer which gave me high expectations let me down due to the small paneer pieces. Thali was decent as well. I do think the food could’ve been heated more as it was just warm and not hot enough.

We had lunch here today. We were in a time crunch and informed that to our server upfront. He made recommendations for what would arrive quick. Service was great. Good came quickly and was fresh and yummy. Even though everything was served quickly, didn’t feel they compromised on the quality. I accidentally forgot my handbag under the chair and only realized it after a while when I had left. Called the restaurant and they had stowed it away safely. I was only able to come back after 3 hours to collect the bag- all my stuff in the bag- cash/ wallet/ cards were intact. Really appreciated that .

I gave a better rating before to this restaurant, however, dropping it since they need to improve their services. There are vegan items added to the menu which is the reason we went to the restaurant. The waiter informed us that the vegan rice items are cooked with butter. So we ordered paratha which was excessively salty. We talked with the manager and he apologized. They corrected that the vegan items are indeed vegan. They were willing to make those for us and offered a new vegan dessert too. Appreciate that. Would advise any one vegan to ask about each item. For example, they bring dairy based raita for a vegan paratha order. They do need to train their waiters better. I am hoping they will improve their service. The restaurant is too crowded with tables packed too close.

We were attended by Pushpa and she was great in explaining things very well. She also gave us recommendations and all the food items were very good.