Athidhi Indian Cuisine

Much better than last time I visited. It was nice and neat after remodeling. Plus a verity of food for buffet. I liked the Goat curry. It was a wonderful experience and I am looking forward to go there again.
Good place for lunch, I recommended!

Not worth… The food was really bad and not cooked properly. Management has to concentrate more on the food quality.

We had been there for a buffet and it was decent, but will never go there when there is party beside it. Whole efforts are concentrated towards the party, most of the items we wanted were not served on that day, with 15 people smoking outside it was difficult to walk and there was no parking near by so we were forced to walk off the side walk due to smokers party. The noise was so loud as if we were in discothèque. Finally when we couldn’t order anything due to absence of most the items we walked out without eating and no efforts were made to even placate us. Highly NOT recommended on party day.

The buffet with the old management was really good. The new management should really work hard to get they food taste as it was before. Even though the restaurant looks clean compare to before the food quality and taste was much better with the old management. They need to improve they service and the worst part in today’s buffet was the peanut chutney was smelling bad.

pretty decent Lunch buffet. Been here at least a dozen times so far. The food actually tastes fresh. Service is decent. Place looks clean.

About food at Athidhi:
Awesome biryani.
Naatukodi Koora Jura, goat curry on weekends– damn addictive.
I Call and find out non-​veg menu in advance.
About Sam:
Sam is Not a friendly smiling guy– that’s a HUGE problem (esp. In US). He and his staff must try really hard to smile and greet.
He lacks leadership skills and so his people are dis-​organized, disoriented. When it gets really busy they have no idea what to do (it turns chaotic)
About restaurants (in general)
I always go for a buffet — before 1pm. (When food is fresh)
I Avoid dinners at Indian restaurants (Reason: most of the Indian restaurants serve leftovers for dinner if they can).
If I go for dinner, I Ask — what’s special today? (Never choose something on the menu that I think no one has ever ordered before.)
South Indian food «will be» spicy (no brainer). You MUST know what to eat.
Never eat Sushi at American snack bar. If you eat then don’t complain (just shut up & use restroom)

Pros:
Neat and clean. Food is decent and they refill food fast.
A couple of dishes in buffet are always good. Some are not so good.
Couple of options for desert. Always have mango lassi, love it.
One sea food is there in their buffet.
Cons:
Do not take the used dishes out fast.
Even though you don’t drink beer but still have to pay for it on certain days in the buffet.
Crowed some times

Bad experience. I had ordered vegetable biriyani as we were very hungry. We came back and found out that we were given chicken biriyani. We called restaurant and inforned. they asked us to bring it back. We again drove and there was no apology or complimentaries. We had wasted our fuel and spoiled the sanctity of our home.
Food was average.

Worst experience. It took almost an hour for them to get us food… Never be back to this restaurant…

Worst worst worst food and experience with these restaurant there is no quality at all. I think so these guys are keeping yesterday’s food in the buffet, even though that watermelon also yesterday’s how funny it is. Idly is 3 days back if zero star I’m having here I will give that zero only for this restaurant chicken 65 is very cold every thing is gold, over all worst worst worst worst I don’t want come back again!!!

Horrible staff and owners with bad attitude. I had a birthday party. They changed the chairs at the last moment to basic plus very cunning when doing billing.
Don’t bother to have parties there.

This review is for thursday dinner buffet.
This is not the athidhi it used to be. It looks like they dont have a professional chef.
Their buffet used to be with biriyani and few flavorful curries.
Today buffet was south indian limited variety. Dosa to order for free with buffet.
But here are my experices:
Only one rice variety of yellow rice… nothing special about it.
Dosa was soggy… not restaurant quality
too many chutney’s/pickles … no proper bread to eat it with
One type of poori which was actually chapati… too hard to chew…
vada was most horrible, hard… that too they ran out…
missing biriyani…
potato curry… best of the lot…
No tandoori chicken.
I dont mind paying little more if thats the point… but there are some minimum standards for indian food in bay area.
Food was more like home cooked food.
Service staff was okay…
In summary I regretted going here after a while. Surely will not visit again when so many options around.

This restaurant doesn’t deserve any star. Bad customer service, arrogant staff and management. Check your bill for the items you order or else they will charge you for anything they want and you have to prove you didn’t order. Two unpleasant experiences. First time, we three family went for dinner. one of ordered dosas was delivered at last when almost everyone was done eating and it was cold when told the waiter and requested for replacement. Waiter touched the dosa bare hand, said it was really bad, apologized and took it. After few moments comes the manager and chef and says sir what is the problem we just made it for you and we don’t server the old stuff blah blah… we were shocked.
Second time we went after two years and found that we are overcharged for the items we didn’t order. When we told it to waiter, he called cashier and the cashier said. Well if it is in the bill you ordered it. We asked to call the person who took our order, we were told that he already left for the day. Bottom line, we paid the entire bill and left.

The décor is nothing exciting. The service is fine. There are a few things I loved. I had some naan but it was filled with the paneer cheese. Twas awesome. The other thing that made this great was the ratio of paneer cheese with whatever else you ordered. There was plenty of cheese in my palaak paneer. My friend ordered a sweet curry with the cheese and it was awesome, too. Naan and/​or rice is sold separately from the dish.

You get great food here. So many varieties in the lunch buffet. Any day this restaurant is in the top three restaurants I wish to go…

The food was really bad. Everything seriously cold. On entering was told the kitchen was busy. They had a party in their banquet room. Might be the reason they said that the order would take 20 min. So we were forced to take the buffet! The price for that food was not worth it. Please improve your standards. Never put a negative review to any restaurant. Seriously disappointed!

I’ve tried food from this place many times over the years. I’m a fan of spicy indian food. I love their chilli gobi and chilli chicken. Their biriyani used to be good before they started adding food coloring to it.
I recently hired one of their party/​banquet hall for a birthday party. When we went to book the hall, the hall was really dirty. The owner/​in-​charge guy (Sam) told us that they will clean it up before the parties. Over the next few weeks, we called them 2 – 3 times to discuss the party menu and to give a final count of people. The man in-​charge is very very rude. I don’t know whether its the way he talks in English or whether this is his usual way to deal with customers.
(I’m going to omit the details of the not so pleasant conversation we had about food)
On the day of the party, my husband arrived an hour ahead of the party time to decorate the place. He found the place even more dirty that we originally found it. There were a lot of food particles on the floor. You can imagine our panic seeing this an hour before our guests are supposed to arrive. We complained it to them, and someone came over to tidy up the place. Even after the «clean-​up» the hall was dirty. Bathrooms were stinky, pipes were not working properly. They have speakers installed in the hall but only one of them is working and that too with very low volume. I don’t know the condition of TV and I’m glad I didn’t spend too much time putting together a birthday special video. I’m sure it wouldn’t have worked. Even when we called to inquire about the tv model, none of them had any idea.
After guests arrived, they brought the appetizers. They started eating the spicy chilli chicken and chilli gobi and looked around for water. Guess what… there is no water or the soft drinks I ordered beforehand. 30 minutes later, they brought 1 gallon water in a 5 gallon tank. In the middle of the party, I had to go back and forth to the main restaurant and find the guys and ask them for the soft drinks. They brought stale watered down pepsi in a container. Seriously???
The guy whom they assigned to help out with food/​drinks etc keeps disappearing when you need him. But of course he didn’t forget to ask for a tip at the end of the day. On top of all this, he over counted at least by 5 or 6 guests and asked us to pay for that too. To avoid any scenes, we kept quiet and paid and left.
They don’t charge you for renting the hall but it is also because the hall is dirty, stinky and the people are really hard to work with. If you have an option, please stay away from this restaurant.

Used to be a 5 star place for best biryani. Not anymore. I can’t find too much fault with the workers there. But clearly the best chefs have migrated and there is a problem with their quality of food oflate.
Mostly stale and left overs from lunch biryani. They have best chutney options on their Thursday night buffet. But the pricing model lets you down. 11.99 for dosa buffett.
Although price doesn’t sound too bad at the outset they have plenty of other options on the same Buffett like variety rice vada pongal etc that goes waste and shows up stale on next Customer’s order.
They can cut down on all extras and put it back to 8.99 to revive buzzing fresh food business.
Sometimes the attitude is really bad. I have reported bad biryani which was cold and got a comment «maybe the food here is not suiting your taste buds». That ticked me off the most since I made no fuss and even was tipping on top of a bad biryani. Huge let down.

Worst mutton biriyani! Made of hydrogenated oil. Your fingers and mouth can taste the crap they use to make their Biriyani and you need to wash your hands multiple times with soap to get rid of the grease.
To add to the horrible Food they serve the chicken Biriyani which we brought home as take out was spoilt. I can’t imagine what kind of a restaurant serves spoilt food. Please save your health for something more tasty and not crap they serve as food.

We went for Monday lunch buffet. Place was empty.
Ambiance: Usual & Clean
Menu: Buffet had big list of items. 4 veg appetizer, 4 veg curries & 2 deserts. Only downside was that all the curries were very unusual (most of it I haven’t even heard before), limiting the options.
Taste: Very good & spicy (I liked it :))
Server: Only 1 server/​cashier/​cleaner.
Price: 13 $. About right price for this type of buffet.
Also tried their filtered coffee on my way out. Liked it.
Will visit again