Edmonton: Best Indian Buffet

Very disappointing - as least for the main which was to be the highlight of the meal. While the atmosphere is great...it end when we ordered and the main plate arrived. First, we should share we book this retso on Open table and have dined here many imps before from the day it opened, through the years and change of ownership for lunch and dinner. Regretfully once Khazana was sold from the original owner /operators it has never retained the same high quality of food or service. So what went wrong this night -is that we ordered a "whole" chicken to be prepared in Tandoori oven. The server went to great lengths to explain it was not a "whole" - but a whole chicken cut into quarters...speared and then served on a skewer - for the price of $34.00. What came to table later were 7 small pieces of very overdone chicken breast - not tandoori but slightly charged but white - chicken prepared earlier in the day, chilled and then slightly grilled but not Tandoori. In fact this chicken was baked/steamed in volumes and is the base for butter chicken and every other chicken dish which chicken is severed. The wholeTandoori chicken was the reason we choose to dine that evening. having got that off my chest, I will go back to the begging and say we ordered appys - samosas (veggies) and a salad of cheese, veggies, pineapple for 2 that was to be put in the tandoori and served warm. These were very good, albeit the sauce for the samosas was lacking and a true chutney would have been a better and the veggies could have been cooked 2 minutes more as the chunks of onion and green paper were raw. None the less these were good an worthy of ordering. The nann we ordered was bland (the very small piece we received) and pricy (served free any where else). Back to the chicken chunks served...we order a veggie Biryani to go with this that was excellent. Service was spotty and frankly stupid - in that after discussion of the whole chicken tandoori with the server- some other dish arrived. This was compounded when the Owner stopped by and we advised this and he listened but did not offer to remedy this. The 1/2 litre of house red was passable. We feel we were taken advantage of in that the restaurant likely does not have fresh whole chickens or fresh lamb shanks that could be cooked in the tandoor oven. We won't be back for dinner - just about anyplace in the metro serves better food for 1/2 the price.

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