Urgent note to Sapphire waiters:
If you cannot smile at diners, get out of the restaurant business.
Get out. Comprende.
Hey grouchy desi, yes we mean you, the tall, dark, balding (??) black -suited waiter/partner in a surly-mood at Sapphire NYC, if you find it so painfully hard to smile at your paying customers then go find another vocation. Maybe, try the horse carriages around the perimeter of Central Park. 
When you charge $14.95 for a buffet lunch that other NYC Indian restaurants provide for better and at lesser cost, then the least you can do is offer a welcoming smile, even if it’s a phony smile. Comprende, schmuck.
Slip Betwixt the Cup and the Lip
Located on Broadway close to Columbus Circle, Central Park and the Lincoln Plaza movie theater, Sapphire had long been on our agenda but we’d invariably linger on in Central Park till it was way too late.
This time we went early and were at Sapphire just after noon.
By golly, the place was already crowded. Not a bad sign, we thought.
Alas, life is a series of slips betwixt the cup and the lip.
Hellishly Bad Non-Vegetarian Fare
If Sapphire proved anything at all, it’s that crowds at a restaurant are no guarantee of quality and lamebrained creations from harebrained chefs are rife in Manhattan Indian restaurants.
Tandoori Chicken was hellishly bad.
With absolutely zero or little marination, it was the worst Tandoori Chicken we’ve had in our life.
Beyond palatable and nearly inedible, Sapphire’s Tandoori Chicken was a grotesque perversion of the real thing.
We cursed everyone we could think of – Sapphire’s chef, the waiters, NYC Mayor Bloomberg and even Obama that life should be so unfair as to offer us such hideously under-seasoned, under-sexed Tandoori Chicken.
Chicken Tikka Masala, a boring, badly-prepared fixture at most NYC Indian restaurants, was a mediocre offering here too.
Set in a thick, flavorless gravy, the chicken pieces had such a forlorn look and such a forbidding bland taste that we forsook it quickly.
Lamb Vindaloo was hellishly hot.
It is true that Vindaloo is cooked in a hot sauce but the problem here was that chilies had been recklessly flung into the cauldron to the utter absence of other spices in proportion resulting in an awful time for us.
Stay away from this impostor
Vegetaian Stuff – Mixed Bag
Never let it be said that Sapphire’s kitchen is found wanting only with meat dishes. These clowns are equal-opportunity offenders.
Alu Gobi, with the humongous Gobi pieces, was a bland, tasteless monstrosity. Continue reading »
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