Diwana Bhel Poori House

Reposting my review as my previous review has 4 starts by mistake. This place does not deserve even one star! I went there for the buffet during lunch time. The service was horrible. The staff are uncivilised villagers from god knows where! Ten minutes into my meal I noticed that half the dishes on the buffet were empty. On asking the waiters if they would be refilled he replied that he "did not know"!!! I walked upto a guy that I thought was the manager (behond the counter) who later turned out to be the cashier to ask the same and he said they were clearing the buffet so "it was time to leave". They should not have seated us if they did not intend to serve us all the dishes in the buffet. The last time I checked you could have multiple servings at a buffet. Before I left I told the cashier that I would write a terrible review and he said that was fine and I should send him a copy!!! After our meal which was anyway incomplete as the buffet was half empty, we had to wait for 15 minutes and ask for our bill thrice. There are far better Indian restaurants in London and I would not waste time and money here again. The food was nothing great. The chapattis (Indian flat breads) were quite clearly from a packet. Clearly this place is run by a bunch a incompetent ... Well I was going to type apes but I think apes could do better .

I went there for the buffet during lunch time. The service was horrible. The staff are sone uncivilised villagers from god knows where! Ten minutes into my meal I noticed that half the dishes on the buffet were empty. On asking the waiters if it would be refilled he replies that he "did not know"!!! I walked upto a guy that I thought was the manager who later it turned out was the cashier to ask the same and he said they were clearing the buffet so "it was time to leave". They should not have seated us if they did not intend to serve up all the dishes in the buffet. The last time I checked you could have multiple servings at a buffet. Before I left I told the cashier that I would write a terrible review and he said that was fine and I should send him a copy. After our meal which was anyway incomplete as the buffet was half empty we had to wait 15 minutes and ask thrice for our bill. There are far better Indian restaurants in London a I would not waste time and and money here again. The food was nothing great. The chapattis (Indian flat breads) were quite clearly from a packet. Clearly this place is run by a bunch a incompetent ... Well I was going to type apes but I think apes could do better .

Aghast with disbelief at reports of indifferent service. THE indispensable vegetarian nosh-spot as far as we are concerned. Food SO good and personnel seemed to appreciate being treated like human beings. We definitely and systematically call in as often as possible (from the south of France that's not very often) for some seriously fragrant and heart-warming chomp. Thanks to all involved, gBass.

went dewani's has it was an early haunt of my parent oh my god have the standards dropped staff were rude to my partner when we asked to move to a better table the waiter just pointed to his head his temple area and said don't you understand No!!! Our table seemed miniature in comparison to the four chair chair booth like alice in wonderland sitting at the white rabbits table in his house. The food was very dub-standard actually appalling. My partner and I had the special thalis though the portions were generous the chapattis though plenty were half cooked raw dough in parts. The dal tasteless over cooked slush. Everything was of a poor quality! The supposed manager after the waiters tried for a few minutes trying to work out who the manager was apologised half heartedly explain they were short of room to accommodate two people to a four persons table called the rude waiter he started shouting and refused to apologise. We intend never to go back and will tell as many of our friends never to go.

The food was okie but their service was so so so horrible. The man dressed in blue shirt was so rude. They have included service charge in the bill, but they are hopeless in that department. I WILLL NEVER GO THERE AGAIN. Def recommended Ravi Shankar.

this is my favorite restaurant in london, i go every week for the buffet. the food is amazing!

Although I have always loved the food here I won't be visiting again. The staff are unbelievably rude and some dishonest. When visiting with a party the person paying asked for the bill, she had her card ready to pay. The waiter came over with machine holding a piece of paper which he held on to but and told us the amount, when asked bt the person paying was tip included he said no so friend when prompted to add tip on did so, at which time I intervened and asked for paper he was holding at first he refused but in the end gave it to me, it was the bill with the amount but service included. When challenged he said not tip as he would not get it, I said cancel transaction take service charge off and we would pay tip in cash. He pressed button saying cancelled and started to reinsert card, he had not cancelled original transaction at all and we would have paid twice for whole meal let alone service twice, do not trust these guys!

Can I give minus??? Staff is disgusting, very rude, uncivil and disrespectful...we went with out 18 months to this restaurant and the staff told us they can not accommodate us without checking as we has small baby on the stroller with us ...and they were not at all sorry for their behavior.....will not recommend to anyone.....

I've been going here for several years. Very good and quite cheap vegetarian food, especially the buffet. The service might not be the most friendly, but the equality of food makes up for that. Having spent a few months in the south of India recently, I was interested to see how this place compared and I was pleasantly pleased.

Fantastic food and very good value too. We've been eating here since the 70s and have often taken friends along. They've always loved it too. The lunchtime buffet is excellent - varied, tasy and beautifully presented. I only wish they carried on after 2,30. A la carte at other times is very good too.