EASTERN FOOD BAZAAR

In September last year I visited the Eastern Food Bazaar in Darling Street Cape Town.
I was utterly disappointed in the quality of the food and the service, and of course wrote a scathing review on the place.

10 months later, I received not one, but two similar emails regarding the review.
I thought I would post one of them here.

But before I do that….

I will soon be cooking at Don Pedros in Woodstock, and one of my specialities in indeed Indian, and especially North Indian cooking.
I am laying my cock on the block here people, but I can promise you, although the fare will not be as cheap as at EFB, it will be as close as you can get to the real thing.
And it will be far cheaper than Bukhara!

Here is the mail from Estelle, unedited.
And so I went online to read the article about the Eastern Food Bazaar, I was not surprised to see that there is somebody else out there that shares my critique of the EFB. I remember about 2 years ago when it opened. All my colleagues were raving about this place that sold this amazing roti and curry for a steal. So off I went to try this place, and boy was I flipping disappointed. Ordered lamb curry with roti. Went through the same flipping process. Stood in the food queue and didn’t know what the bloody hell was going on. Only as I was nearing the counter did I happen to hear some people behind me tell someone else that they should first go pay for their food and then join the queue which I was already in. Why the hell does nobody tell you there what the procedure is? So off I go to pay for the food cos I now really want to see what all the hype is about. So I get told the same story about the roti not being part of the meal and that I can get it if I pay extra and so on. So now I’m already starting to trip(I’m actually swearing in my mind at this point, but I don’t think he would’ve understood me). Anyway, I pay and head back to join the food queue. So I get the roti and the WATER curry with my roti…the spices are not even cooked through, you can still taste the raw spices…the meat was NOT LAMB, but BEEF, and so I argue with this dude about the quality of the meat and he still has the cheek to tell me, NO IT’S THE VERY BEST OF OUR LAMB! At this point I want to tell him don’t talk K>K cos I cook with lamb most of the time and this meat is chewy and the curry is watery. No apologies, just take it or leave it, but you are not getting your money back…AND SO I STILL DON’T KNOW WHAT THE HYPE IS ABOUT AS I HAVE VOWED NEVER EVER TO GO BACK TO THE E F B, COS THEIR FOOD TASTE LIKE CRAP! AND DON’T FORGET THAT THEIR SERVICE SUCKS TOO. Clearly the people that still go there either have not had the same experience or they themselves don’t know what good food tastes like…Do they know that lamb comes from a lamb, that mutton comes from a sheep, and that beef comes from a bull/steer(like in a male cow)? I actually get heartburn when I see my colleagues eating that yellowlike rice that is supposed to be breyani!

Regards,
Estelle

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