Sitar Indian Restaurant

11/13/09

Amazing!

by CSMobileUser2 at Citysearch

I'm sitting here in the restaurant right now and WOW, was the food amazing!!! My wife and I are visiting Nashville for only one day and we are so happy to have found this place. Plenty of space, very busy, lots of variety, incredible food. A must taste while you're in town. Try a Mango Lassi!

04/28/09

buffet

by CSMobileUser at Citysearch

great lunch buffet! i stuff myself to the point of bursting. i take a doo doo 20 minutes after eating. every time.

04/07/09

Example: great place for good bread

by mikep at Citysearch

Visiting Nashville for a day after 12 years of living in Chicago (we used to live in Nashville)we decided to visit Sitar which we had gone to once in our life before. The usher had no smiles for us when came in. After sitting down and after being served the standard appetizer we asked the usher who was passing by if he knew a particular address and he said with a rude "No"; upon which I asked him for the white pages to which he said RUDELY we don't have any. I asked him again that he did not have a phone book and he begrudingly said the had yellow pages in front and gave us venomous stares.

We sat there steaming for a few mins and then walked out.

SAME AS THE OTHER REVIEWERS....SERVICE IS HORRIBLE AND PARKING LOT POSTAGE SIZE

• Pros: none
• Cons: horrible ,postage stamp size parking lot

10/29/08

OK. Some good menu items, some not.

by george49 at Citysearch

The Chicken Tandoori is special because of the flavor...charcoal. No other Indian restaurants in town that I know of use charcoal to cook their Tandoori. The cuts of chicken seem a bit sub-standard though. Not the best quality chicken or cuts. Other food there is ok. The relishes are great. A constant irritant is the phone, which is set to ring loud, and it rings often. It is such an irritant that customers often stop talking and take notice when it happens. You can almost feel the atmosphere vaporize from the room everytime the phone rings, and it often rings on and on before answered. What are they thinking? Such a simple thing to fix. The waiters need to learn that Americans (especially in the south) prefer a friendlier approach. The wait staff seems genuinely unhappy and unappreciative. The convenient location make it an easy place to drop in.

• Pros: Tandoori cooked with charcoal
• Cons: Loud phone rings constantly. Unfriendly waiters

09/21/08

Worst Food ever

by Romal at Citysearch

Never ever, I have had food that tasted so bad. The curries were watery and to top it off we found a dead c--- r---- in our naan. I obviously got food poisioning. When I called them to report the issue, the owner said OKAY. No apologies. I don't recommend this restaurant to anyone. If you do visit. eat at your own risk!!!

• Pros: None
• Cons: None

09/04/08

Worst Customer Service

by HaHi at Citysearch

It one of the worst experience we have, we called them to reserve tables for 15 members. We reach the resturant for lunch buffet at 2:25 PM, they close by 3:00 PM its sunday. By 2:45 itself those guys come and force us to take the food we need from buffet they said they are closing.. We have four kids, exactly at 3:00 they switch off the A/C and fans , we told to switch on the Fans, again after 15 mins they switched off again.

Food is also not good. Veg,briynani is good. No variety.

I never recommend for anyone.

08/21/08

Only been once, would go again to test if bad experience was just a once off.

by nzsteve at Citysearch

Sitar was an interesting experience. I placed an order for takeout over the phone, and was hung up on before a name was requested. Upon getting to the restaurant and paying for the food, the gruff guy working the till points behind us. I was a bit confused as I'm accustomed to having someone bring me my food directly from the kitchen or the person working the till to reach down and grab the food from a somewhat hidden, temporary, food storage area. Well it turns out he was pointing at our order, which was sitting on the table in the waiting room, next to other random people. When I pay for food, I expect to not need to worry about it possibly having been used as an ash-tray.

So in short, trained monkeys would make a better service team.

Now for the food. Well it was ok, but not really anything exciting. When I say ok I mean I would go again if I did not have another Indian restaurant to chose from, maybe. I'm from New Zealand and have spent the last few years in Australia. There is plenty of Indian immigrants in both of these countries and thus a good selection of Indian restaurants have popped up. Of my thirty or so Indian restaurant experiences, I've only had Indian food worse than what I received from Sitar once. I'm pretty sure that this other unnamed restaurant in Australia thought that Tandoori is just red food colouring.

• Pros: Take away order ready quickly
• Cons: Terrbile service

07/17/08

Not recommended

by ChineseFoodRocks at Citysearch

I had my lunch buffet there. The food is lousy and choice is limited. The vegitable biryany is soggy, rice are sticked together, mango yogurt is like jello (not liquid), no fruit, only one vegitable salad, and no desert!!!!

I would recommend Cusine of India, which is near by, than this restaurant.

03/24/08

Awful hospitality...no courtesy

by cheergu at Citysearch

As visitors to Nashville, we found the parking situation throughout the city extremely frustrating. We were doing a geocache (high-tech treasure hunting with a GPS - check it out on the internet as this review will not let me type the website) 50 yards from the restaurant. There was no other parking, so we parked there for the 10 minutes it took to find the cache. Much to our surprise, upon our return my car was gone. It seems the restaurant owners called the tow company immediately after we parked and left the park. They did not take into consideration that the restaurant was CLOSED and we had out-of-town license plates. I am proud to say that in Kansas, as a visitor you will receive a polite notice on your car should you park in an incorrect place. (Assuming you have not parked in a handicapped spot or fire lane.) The employees of the Sitar restaurant should be ashamed for not only giving two visitors to your city a poor opinion of its citizens, but more importantly sitting watch of their precious lot because of a mere dispute with the medical center next door. Please keep this in mind when you choose your next dining location. I would not encourage this sort of rude, inconsiderate behavior!

02/03/08

Enjoyable

by hellonashville at Citysearch

When my friend and I arrived a bit after 5pm on a friday night (they had just reopened for dinner time) we were seated right away and the server even let us choose any table we wanted (I thought that was nice). Server was very friendly and answered questions I had about the menu. Food was good but the rice looked and tasted a bit old. Since I am a slow eater and the restaurant was filling up and we were sitting on a 4 people table, we were never rushed or anything. The check arrived without us asking for it and I was wondering what if I wanted dessert? Also, we wanted to split the check but that was fine.