Thank you, Rajini, our waitress, for good service. You were very attentive to ensuring we enjoyed our meal, and showed good humour! Complimentary Poppodoms were soon delivered to our table on our arrival. Helpful recommendations were made about complementary dishes for the table. The dishes were plentiful and good value. The rice unfortunately was not very hot. Notwithstanding this, we shall return.

The food was what you would expect from a typical Indian restaurant. However it was the service which was the major letdown. When the waiters phone starts ringing out loud as he is bringing drinks you know their standards can’t be very good! Overall I would not recommend going here!

I dropped into this restaurant with a friend who lives in the area. He recommended the food, which he normally orders for pick up. We were both surprised at the poor service, which immediately put us off our meals. The waiter was dismissive and rude. It was no surprise the place was nearly empty.

We both ordered a main each with a side to share. We enjoyed the food but the overall experience was let down by the service. I would not go back to this restaurant.

The restaurant has very nice decor and the food is very good.
We were a table of 4 and we had an appetizer, a main course, and dessert plus tea and it was only $35/head.
The staff were very pleasant.
We all enjoyed the food and the atmosphere and we would go back again.

Last nite our family visited Chaahat for the first time it was my Dads birthday, my dads friend told us about the place.

It was almost full on a Sunday nite HELLO!!

And we were about to leave but were approached by the staff and said if we wanted a table we might have to wait for a while and it was worth a wait, it was nice and warm inside, the furniture was amazing looks like custom made from India?

Lets get to the best part FOOOOOOOOOOOD, First we were given complimentary poppadoms and then we had Paneer Chilly Bombay style beautiful spicy the way we wanted and Malai Tikka just melted in the mouth just amazing, for mains we had Chicken Tikka Masala, Lamb Kadhi, Mushroom Masala all medium to hot and the beautiful Garlic Naans with Raita, mixed pickles and they gave us complimentary onion salad just like you get that in India……

The service was very good as well.

Over all experience was great, Thanks Ian and Sharon for the recommendation and thanks to the team at Chaahat keep up the good work. And we will be back soon.

This restaurant has a rating of five stars, I wonder why? The food we had was abysmal. We ordered a tandoori platter and the moment it arrived on our table we knew there was something awfully wrong.
The presentation, the taste, the freshness of the meat was as bad as it gets.

We eat a lot of Indian food and have never come across such a bad experience in Auckland. We chose Chaahat from these reviews and thought it pertinent to warn others – don’t go there!

The service was fine, and perhaps the curries are also fine but we were not inclined to try our luck (or waste our money). The starter should be an indication of the standard to come, and due to this we left. We didn’t want to cause too much fuss, so left peacefully but did advise the hosts. This however did not warrant any refund of the meal – something we expected out of due respect.

Fantastic food – impeccable service… ALWAYS !
Highly recommended.
Anup

Hi !

Excellent food, Nice Ambience and great customer service. Staff is great. Recommend people to try at least once.

Cheers

Have never sat in and dined – just been a loyal takeaway customer. Very good standard of food and cleanliness. They do excellent vegetarian dishes as well.

The best Tandoori Chicken I have had in Auckland ever.Give it a go and see for yourselves.