Papadums Indian Cuisine

Review: Papadums Indian Cuisine

Status: Not approved!

Overall score: 6.7/10

In April, the fine members of OCC Saigon laid our review upon Papadums Indian Cuisine - a frustrating visit as the quality of the curry was let down by the lack of organisation in the service.

At first, the OCC were well waited on by the attentive staff, and we felt a warm welcome in the unassuming curry house.

The menu reflected a range of cuisines but the OCC was here for one thing and one thing only... curry.

Overall the curries were good and the poppadoms crispy. The starters had good flavour and were presented nicely. Some curries lacked that spice hit, but most had rich sauces and a good meat to sauce ratio: packed with flavour. The first few beers were deliciously cold.

However, Papadum's service was slow and odd. The rice came out ten minutes after the curries. And the curries came out one by one, not allowing a nice flow to the evening. With a big group, we could only get a little bite before waiting five more minutes for the next curry to come out. We wondered if this is because we are a big group, but a smaller table next to us confirmed a similar experience.

However, when the night was over, the final bill came proving that Papadums is great value for money.

Overall, if Papadums can sort out the delivery of their food from kitchen to table, they would have been certainly approved by us due to the value and quality of the food, and the friendly and welcoming service.

things we loved:

- Great value for the location

- Friendly staff

- Some of the best poppadoms/papadums in the city

- Cold bottles of Huda!

things to improve:

- Speed of service and order of the meal

- All the warm bottles of Huda!

Full scores:

Quality: 7.00

Service:  4.63

Customer Care: 6.38

Value: 7.55

Atmosphere: 7.00

Overall: 6.7