Perfect food, service and ambience. Good options specially in vegetarian indian food. Mr.Patel accommodated our request couple of times for Pani-Poori when we informed him in advance. Diwali Thali on Sunday, 19th Oct was great with delicious snacks, main course and dessert.
Overall superb experience!!
Neil Madhvani
★★★a year agoGoogle
Updated review following our visit for dinner in mid-November 2024:
The restaurant has a great ambience and it’s so easy to park right in front as well. We’d previously visited many times for lunch when Safran offered lunch thalis and been delighted by the cuisine and how well it was prepared.
Our visit yesterday with friends was disappointing due to the extremely long wait for our meals. We ordered soon after we arrived, yet our starters came almost 60 mins later, and the main courses about 90 mins later. This was far too long as we had three children with us who were hungry and kept waiting far longer than they should have been. The restaurant was busy but the kitchen should be better prepared to cope with this. I’d also ordered a drink which was forgotten in error and I only received it much later after asking a couple of times.
The food was good (the Dal Tarka and Makhani were spot on!) but overall not outstanding compared to other Indian restaurants we have dined at in Zurich. The Bhindi (Okra) was not soft and could have definitely been cooked for longer to bring out much more flavour. I also felt the Paneer Tikka Tandoori was rather average - the pieces were too big and therefore it was lacking sufficient flavour.
Safran has huge potential to go from good to great and I hope that improvements will be made, especially in service quality, to get to that level.