I think this is a relatively new restaurant and the employees were all generally nice, so I feel bad for giving them a less than stellar review, but my experience there was less than stellar, particularly given the price point.First, drinks. They have a pretty cocktail menu that looked interesting, but I read another review on Yelp that said the drinks were just meh, and I was very tired of overly sweet cocktails (I still wasn't over the overpriced sugared drinks from Jose Andres's Bazaar the week before). So I asked if they have a wine and beer list. The server then rattles off the types of wine they have (i.e. pinot noir, etc.) and the beers they have (which were like three). No further description and I didn't want to be annoying and ask for further detail (i.e. what kind of pinot noir or you know, the price). It's one thing to have very generic descriptions at the neighborhood bar where you know the wine is going to be cheap (in both senses of the word), but how do I know they aren't selling Yellowtail for $13 a glass? I'm not saying they are, but like, how would I know? So I didn't get anything.For food, there were four of us (including one vegetarian) and we got two apps and four entrees. The apps were good (crispy okra sweet potato chat and the kale chat), with the kale chat being very similar to the famous Rasika palak chat. For entrees, we got the butter chicken, vegetable biryani, daal, and paneer tikka. The butter chicken was pretty good, the biryani and daal were good, and the paneer was very forgettable. We were stuffed with this amount of food.But honestly, the entrees seemed overpriced for what they were. We ordered mostly vegetarian, and maybe the meat and fish dishes were more special, but I didn't taste anything that justified charging $5 more per dish than some of the other upscale Indian restaurants in DC. And the service was worse, with common utensils not being offered, difficulty getting the waiters attention, etc.
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