The Rajput - Full Menu

My boyfriend and I went for a meal here on Friday night First impressions were okay nice building and small cosy restaurant. We had made a booking using tasteca... read more My boyfriend and I went for a meal here on Friday night First impressions were okay nice building and small cosy restaurant. We had made a booking using tastecard (a discount card for certain restaurants) which was going to get us on our food. We ordered some poppadoms and a pickle tray from the waiter and he spilt the pickle tray all over my cardigan, handbag, the table cloth and the floor. As you can imagine, I was fairly disgruntled by this but let it slide as the waiter was polite and got me a damp napkin to help clean my clothes and bag. Our meals came and they were very average, with a LOT of salad! I ordered a monkfish main course for which consisted of a small, rubbery piece of monfish drowned in a sea of lettuce hardly worth the price! My boyfriend ordered the meat thali, which came with some sort of chicken, the texture and taste of which could only be compared to plastic.By the end of our meal I was less than impressed and we asked for the bill. When the waiter brought the bill over, it had come to for starters, mains and sides, plus a beer and a large glass of house red. I showed the waiter my tastecard and he gave me a puzzled look. I had booked the restaurant on a friday night because it specifically states on the tastecard website when you can use your tastecard at each applicable restaurant for deals or off. The only day which was invalid would be a Saturday, as stated on the website. The waiter presented me with a laminated sheet of paper which said "We do not accept tastecards on Fridays or Saturdays". I explained that the tastecard website does not state anywhere that the deal is not applicable on Fridays, and that when I booked the table earlier in the week, I had asked if we could use our tastecard and the man on the other end of the phone had said it wasn't a problem.However, the waiter insisted that he was the manager and nobody should take bookings except for him. He didn't believe me about the tastecard website saying I could book on a Friday, so I had to physically show him the web page on my phone. He would not back down, and this caused quite a stir in the restaurant as the other customers table of two and table of four) started to look over to find out what the commotion was about. I stressed to him that the tastecard booking confusion was nothing to do with me, and that it was between his restaurant and tastecard, yet he still would not back down. I am a student and I could not afford to pay for a meal which I had anticipated would cost me In the end I said to him there was no way I would pay the full amount and said the best I could do would be for him to deduct the most expensive item from the tastecard menu from our starters and mains. I managed to whittle it down to but not without a fight.Needless to say we won't be gracing the Rajput with our custom again, nor passing on a good comment about them.

Place is closed, not book. dad's birthday meal was up and was quickly found somewhere else, which turned out to be great. read more Place is closed, not book. dad's birthday meal was up and was quickly found somewhere else, which turned out to be great.