Chinar On The Island

Review from Beginning of 2020 Have visited Chinar on the Island restaurant multiple times for variety of occasions: from regular lunch or dinner to birthday parties to celebratory dinners. I have to say today 's visit was VERY disappointing. We came to celebrate my Grandmother 's birthday. Here is the breakdown of how the establishment works:1. Upon entering through double doors you will see the place where the hostess is supposed to be. We never saw a hostess here. Usually one of the waiters will notice someone entered and will either point to the table or just tell you to sit wherever you like. 2. Upon sitting down you usually will get your menues quick. 3. Ordering: depends on the day of...

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Booked a banquet for a special occasion. For the per-person price paid, there was certainly a shortage of food. I thought it might have been just me as I was hosting/dancing and just didn’t get a chance to eat, but the following day most of the guests were complaining that the first time in their lives they left the Russian restaurant literally hungry. The manager was trying to convince us that our company were super big eaters, that is why nothing was left on the plates. How nice! Most of the people didn 't even taste more than two dishes out of eight main courses on the menu, because everything else was eaten immediately being served in a very small amount. Personally I ate two slices of s...

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Never again!This restaurant is known for very delicious food, and we decided to make a banquet for 25 people to celebrate our wedding anniversary. It was a disaster, even though the food was delicious as usual! There was just not enough of it compared to other times we were here. The amount of food served was half of the expected! Two menu dishes were not served at all... I cannot imagine people in a restaurant sitting at empty tables with empty plates and waiting for the dessert for an hour! Half the guests left without eating the cake, because there were not enough clean plates to set the table for dessert timely.We feel our guests were dishonored, and we are very disappointed by extremely...

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Beyond disappointed.My family has been frequenting Chinar since the original owners first had it, almost 20 years ago. The food was always delicious and many parties were hosted there. I've taken plenty of my American friends here, introducing them to delicious food. Including my husband. My husband and I have been ordering take out from Chinar for the past few years. We decided to make reservations there over a month ago to celebrate my father's birthday, which is for tomorrow. Party of 10. No one calls me to confirm the reservation. I call Chinar multiple times to confirm, no answer. We drive by and the place is bordered up! So the place suddenly shuts down, doesn't inform guests who have...

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I was invited as a guest to a wedding anniversary. This restaurant had a very unprofessional level of service. The plates were served in blue rubber gloves! The Pandemic is over and this is not the presentation you’d want to see in a five-star restaurant. In a five-star restaurant you do not expect dirty forks and knives falling from writers’ hands making the floor dirty, greasy, and slippery. I was also expecting that wine and other liquor would be poured, or at least offered, to the guests. I felt like we came to a self-service Chinese buffet rather than a 5 star restaurant. Utensils were also wrapped inside napkins like in a lunch room rather than nicely decorated.If you really want to en...

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