The Indian Harvest Restaurant

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Hextraordinary13

I had been coming to Indian Harvest for nearly 20 years now -- well-before the move to the now newer location by Binnys. VERY disappointed from recent visits. EVERYTHING seems to now have cinnamon in it and I can only handle cinnamon in small doses. You walk in and the entire place stinks of cinnamon. Its like going to your grandmothers house during the holidays and she has every cinnamon holiday candle lit. Not ever dish needs to have cinnamon in it. Theyve managed to completely RUIN their Butter Chicken and Baingan Barta with this new cinnamon trend. Whoever is in the kitchen doing this needs to be fired and they need to get whoever was their chef *before* back in the kitchen. I havent been here in over a year because of this issue. I have complained several times about the cinnamon in everything now and it has not changed. Its a shame too, seeing as I love the kadhi chicken kebab. Not happy either that you guys changed the size of this appetizer. You also have in your pics on this review an image of the kadhi chicken kebab in its *original* size -- not the smaller version. Its almost like youre taunting me with the beautiful memory of the dish I LOVED. But now, you made it MUCH smaller but charge the same price. In fact, I think you may have increased the price! You should offer it as appetizer-size and entree-size because its an awesome dish. Since I have made it very clear that the food was better BEFORE 2016, the management needs to assess what has changed since 2016. If its a new chef -- then they need to be taught how to *properly* make the dishes the way they were before 2016 -- or outright fired. Until this cinnamon-in-everything issue is remedied *AND* the issue with the kadhi chicken kebab addressed, I will absolutely *not* be back. Its unfortunate that youve lost a customer of nearly 20 yrs -- and if you pay attention to what I have said in this review -- management will know *exactly* what customer this is.

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Mike Brennan

Skimpy on amount of chicken in dishes, service could be better, they take more time than they say for pick ups, and theyre too pricey compared to their competition. There are other places that are better - try masala, theyre worth the trip in Warrenville and its only 5 more minutes away. Story: I ordered food for pick up and arrived when they said theyd be done, but they were late. Having a fussy baby with me, I told the hostess Id be in my car waiting. My car was in the first slot and they had a clear window looking right at me (6 away). After another 15 minutes of waiting, I came back inside to find whats taking so long. Turns out the hostess had my order ten minutes ago but waited for me to come in rather than taking it out to me (it was prepaid and I was literally 6away, but for me to come in, I couldnt leave a baby in the car and had to unpack everything. Contrastingly, I went to Masala. Everything was ready when I got there. I told the host (the smiling owner) my wife has pregnancy cravings for their one special slushy drink with tapioca balls. He said congratulations, and have me the drink for free, and said he hoped we came back again soon. They know how to run a business the right way at Masala, and their food is just better, more of it, and less expensive. BTW - the cook is awesome and creates special dishes for me.

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A Private User

This is exactly the type of restaurant I really love - small & family owned, not a chain. My friend & I went here for the first time last night. I really loved it. If you want fast food slop go somewhere else - like Fridays. This is a Restaurant! The decor is asian inspired. The tables have real tableclothes. The atmosphere is quiet & relaxed. You dont have to shout over loud music or loud dinning reverberations. If you want a quiet, leisurely, relaxed dinning experience this is the place to go. We had meat samosas for appetizer. There are two in an order. My friend & I each had one and they were delicious!. They were served with three sauces. Once sauce was raspberry. One was very salty & had onions in it. The third sauce was some sort of green cream sauce, also very good. There is a nice wine list. They also serve mixed drinks. For dinner I ordered Tandoori Chicken. I thought it was a little dry but very good with some of the three sauces on it. I was also warned in advance that there was a 30 minute cooking time. My friend ordered chicken in a curry sauce with coconut milk & cilantro. It was to die for! We also had garlic naan & basmati rice. There was a lot of food. Nothing we ordered was too hot or spicy. Everything was very flavorful. I am already planning my next visit.

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Russ Nelson

Such an absolutely unfortunate experience. Visited with a party of three for a friends birthday. My friends received their food, but my food did not arrive with it. There was no comment on the third dish. After having to seek out a waitress was told that they were working on it and would be out shortly. My friends finished their meal and still, no meal for me. I had to again seek out a waitress, since no one ever came to visit our table to check on us and told her to cancel the order and bring the check. She brought the check and said my food would be right out and still had the food on the check. I requested that the order be cancelled (again) and she asked if she should take it off the bill. Uhh...yes, Im not going to pay for food that I didnt even get. She returned, having taken it off the bill and brought the food in take out style calling it a "gift from the management!" Seriously! I get that mistakes occur, but the mistakes were compounded by the lack of interest in making them right or even delivering any form of apology. To think that actually making my order free of charge was a gift from the manager and not reparations for the fact I didnt get to enjoy a birthday meal with my friend is not an apology.

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Queen Amanda

i have been going here for a cpl yrs now, sometimes multiple xs a week. including bringing them NEW CUSTOMERS on the REGULAR. tonight i realize i have a carryout groupon about to expire tonight, i use their online order option to place this order, as to Im in a CAR DRIVING OVER AN HR TO GET THIS FOOD. my fiancé walks in to get the food (which i added $30extra too) only to be told that bc we used THEIR PROVIDED ONLINE ORDERING OPTION we were unable to use our groupon. he said the "fine print" stated the restrictions. NOW THERE WAS NOT ONE LINE OF TEXT LOCATED VIA GROUPON NOR THEIR WEB PAGE INDICATING THAT YOU HAD TO PHONE WITH YOUR VOICE TO PLACE THE ORDER, FOR THEM TO HONOR YOUR GROUPON. JUST STATED FOR CARRYOUT ONLY. we will NEVER RETURN TO THIS PLACE AGIAN. such a shame too bc were recently engaged and were prepared to ask them to cater our engagement party as well as our wedding... to treat such loyal customers this way is distasteful. SHAME ON THE MAN WITH THE GREY HAIR

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