Food Well Worth The Wait - Royal India Bistro in Alexandria Louisiana

 In 1971 the American singer / songwriter Carly Simon released the hit song Anticipation. If you're not familiar with that one the chorus went like this:

Anticipation, anticipation
Is makin' me late
Is keepin' me waitin'

I'm sure that you are probably wondering what a hit song from the early seventies has to do with a restaurant review? In the case of my experience dining at the Royal India Bistro here in Alexandria the words sung by the great Carly Simon have a two prong meaning. 

One the one hand  the waiting and anticipation refers to the face that, until tonight, I hadn't enjoyed any Indian cuisine since I left  California five and and half years ago. One the other hand, my meal took an insane amount of time to reach my table after I ordered it.

At this point I have to be blunt and say that I would have honestly walked out on this one if I hadn't been craving Indian food so bad that I was willing to wait about 45 minutes to get it. Sadly I have become accustomed to having to wait a very frustrating amount of time for things like fast food since our family moved here to Central Louisiana. Unfortunately nobody in this part of the country is in any kind of a hurry.

Now that I have gotten that out of the way, when it came to the food it was a different story entirely. Tonight I ordered The Chef's Special Chicken Curry and a side of the Pesto Naan and it was nothing short of delicious. I tore through that plate of chicken curry and rice like a man who had been eating nothing but coconuts on some deserted island for the last half decade. I only put my fork down long enough to stuff my face with the naan. My diet soda only served as a lubricant to get one bite down so I get another shoveled in. 

I'm not normally prone to such an eating orgy, but the food was just that good.

So, to break it down, my experience at Royal India Bistro grades out like this:

The Food - Grade A

The Service - Grade D 

I'm going to eat here again, that's a given, so lets see if the service is better next time. I'm actually going to cut the place a break because of the quality of the food. It was truly worth the wait.

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