Gandhi Saint Pierre

Visited on our first evening in Saint Germain, as we do like to enjoy and Indian wherever we are staying. Friendly welcome from staff, seated inside thru to the left at the window, also nice seating area as you enter and an area outside. We ordered a bottle of white wine not cheap (compared to back home at €25 (but we found most places we visited were the same ordered onion bhajee and mixed pakora starters to share, with chutneys, then a poulet (chicken tandoori, and a poulet tikka dish with rice , naan bread and a chapati, all our food was freshly prepared, well presented and very tasty, we always enjoy seeing how different countries prepare and present their food, especially onion bhajees, we over the years have had some wonderful shapes and sizes but normally just a variation of the standard shape with the crusty pieces to bite off : also naan breads, always different : we thoroughly enjoyed our visit and food, our luvly server gave prompt friendly chatty service, the restaurant started to fill up as we dined always a good sign , Wow we cannot understand the bad reviews here on T A . I personally always wonder if these reviews are deliberately posted to keep the restaurants star ratings low. But we thoroughly enjoyed our evening here, just a pity we didn't manage a return visit before we had to return home. Highly recommend a visit here if you enjoy Indian food. : :

We have lived for years near Saint Germaine and the Gandhi Saint Pierre was always a favorite restaurant but it closed about two years ago and just recently re-opened. The new new version bears no comparison with the old one. We booked for 8pm and arrived on time. We ordered but did not receive our starters until after 9pm because continuous preference was given to take-out orders. When the starters did arrive, the samosas were obviously taken from a freezer and reheated but remained cold inside. The main dishes were very small, very bland and were served tepid. The two naans that we ordered never arrived. Easily the worst dining experience in my memory.

Their priority is obviously take-out. Service dreadful. Samosas still icy inside. Naan bread never arrived. All dishes without flavour and tepid. Meat scarce in all dishes....maybe because we all ordered lamb based curries, lamb hard to find. Having asked for one plate to be heated up in microwave two long hairs found in returned plate. This is no joke. It was a birthday celebration with son and girlfriend out from Paris. A catastrophe all round. Never again! Avoid at all cost. I argued about bill...got 18Euro knocked off. BFD. Total scandal.

I visited this Indian restaurant with my husband and friends and we were very impressed. The food was delicious, the staff friendly and accommodating and the atmosphere was happy and laid back. A small restaurant with big character. We will return.

We were overcharged over a bottle of wine. I won't go into the detail as it was only around 10 euros but it was the principle. It became clear that they clearly don't appreciate any customer feedback or criticism and for the sake of just 10 euros they were reluctant to admit fault. When we said we would not return (and would they be prepared to lose our custom for the sake of this paltry sum? they practically admitted that they did not care about repeat custom as they get enough customers who come just the once. The food was in any case bland (inadequate spicing and mediocre at best so we would not have returned anyway. All I'd say to anyone who has no been here before (or any tourists looking to come here once only is don't bother. To others who come here regularly, fine keep coming as you clearly get better treatment and have been lucky enough not to have got into any disputes so far. But, honestly do you think this is good Indian food?