The Colonial Neutral Bay

I really like The Colonial; it serves excellent Indian food without being overly extravagant in its praises, especially when they offer special discounts from time to time. I believe the main dishes are well-prepared; although some of the more unique items on the menu weren't quite to my personal taste. When we placed our order, we ended up getting a lot more food than we expected, but the waiting staff did a great job of helping us manage it all.

We made our reservation through OpenTable, but when we arrived, we were informed that they had no record of our booking. I'm not sure what went wrong, but it's clear that they need to verify their OpenTable reservations, as there was no record of ours!

The food was excellent; we chose some house specialties and were very pleased. The service could have been quicker, but we weren't in a rush.

Eat was okay! service can be improved on good ambiente

My wife and I have been here a number of times. Being a Saturday this time, the restaurant was very busy, too busy in fact because of the significant takeaway business. As a result the serving of the food to restaurant patrons was very slow and we noted others complaining. The food continues to be excellent. The only complaint in that regard is that there is insufficient chicken in the butter chicken dish relative to the very tasty sauce. Annoyingly yet again was the waitress taking the dirty cutlery from the entree plates and placing them on the main course plates not just our table but others as well. Should at least be asked whether one would like clean cutlery. Yet again the tap water served continues to be disappointingly room temperature because the bottles sit on a counter but they happily provide glasses of ice when requested. Notwithstanding what we regard as deficiencies, the restaurant continues to be our favourite Indian restaurant because of the quality of the food and availability of vegetarian dishes in particular the eggplant but disappointingly no more the pumpkin.