New Monga Restaurant

Mark Davidson 18 months ago

Avoid like the bubonic plague. Dirty, dingy and with barely passable food that takes an aeon to prepare. No functioning washroom. Truly horrible.

Malcolm Grant 59 months ago

Whilst it’s not the worst restaurant in existence, it is certainly the worst restaurant I’ve ever eaten at in 20 years of coming to Varanasi.

The floor wasn’t as dirty as the very wobbly tables, and the tables weren’t as dirty as the menus; but considering the menus were at least 2 millimetres thick in grime that doesn’t say a lot for the general standard of hygiene in the dining room.

The single design feature was a 1.5 metre Long fish tank with a rather sad goldfish in it. While the 2 metre long fish tank on the floor behind my chair hinted at former grandeur.

The menu was the standard multi-cuisine fare and the prices seemed ok.

We asked for a mutton dish and after a brief trip to the kitchen the manager(?) informed us that he had no mutton today. He could give us veg, chicken or fish.

I settled for fried chicken and finger chips and my friend asked for chicken korma and rice. We also ordered a spring roll.

We then waited and waited and waited and waited. After 45 minutes of silence and eye avoidance from staff I asked where our meal was and was given the answer ‘soon’. 5 minutes later my chicken and a plate of soft warm(ish) finger chips with lots of pepper appeared and nothing else.

Another 5 minutes passed and the korma and spring roll were put down. Still no rice however. I asked for it and the manager said ‘yes’.

Another couple of minutes and the rice arrived. It was even hot.

The fried chicken was lovely and the chips were passable. The spring roll was quite clearly seasoned liberally with MSG and salt with no other discernible flavour.

The korma was odd and tasted strongly of cumin and something that tasted like coriander but that taste was so mild I couldn’t place it and gave up trying.

About halfway through eating the manager came over and asked if everything was ok. My companion and I both said the food was ok, but the almost 1hr delay to get all of our food was not good. The manager then said ‘There was a problem.’

He didn’t explain the nature of the problem, but as he was about to leave I explained that he should have told us when the problem occurred not a significant period of time after. He seemed not too concerned with this feedback and walked away.

We finished most of our meal and prepared to leave. After I asked for the bill a third time, it arrived written on the back of the bill with which I was presented.

This meant the manager had to turn it over after I read it to show me our bill. It came to 695 and I have him two 500 notes.

He brought the change back and I gave my friend 200, and put the rest in my pocket as I stood up. The manager then said ‘No tip?’ to which I replied ‘No tip.’ He seemed genuinely surprised that the experience wasn’t worthy of more money than the price of the food we ate.

I would only eat here again if they were giving the food away served on 50 rupee notes, and even then, I’d wash the notes before putting them in my wallet.

If you dine here, don’t say you weren’t warned.

Prasoon Singh 59 months ago

Just a so so resturant. Not so good. Just famous for its
Aaloo टिक्की.. U can eat टिक्की outside of the resturant or stairs of the resturant. The restaurant smells horrible & is very very dirty.
Service is too damn slow. They need at least 30minutes for any dish.
The staff are extremely rude & discourteous.
AVOID.