Saffron - Burlingame

Kevin Oh

It’s 5AM right now and I am so angry I ate at this place because I am sick to my stomach. Ordered the garlic naan and butter chicken, both of which were delicious, but the chicken was significantly undercooked, and I didn’t notice until the last piece when the food got colder and I stopped using their in-house hot sauce (which was good but VERY spicy). I flagged this to them at the end that they need to cook their chicken more when they serve this, the waiter just looks at it and goes “oh, OK”, shows it to another colleague, and that’s it. I wasn’t expecting a discount or free meal but I was expecting someone to explain or apologize. Nothing. Pics may be hard to see but chicken was essentially pink when you cut it. Please be careful if you choose to eat here.

Ashvini B Patil

We visited this restaurant for dinner, the taste is awesome, more expensive. If you really want to have good food in San Mateo and don’t care for the money just visit this restaurant.

Bahul Jain

Overpriced, and not as flavorful as I would have expected. The ambience was good and the service was great too. Among drinks the mango-ginger-tito was fabulous, probably the best item I had on their menu. But, everything from there went pretty much downhill. The Bombay sliders were good, not great, very mild flavor, no spice. The tamarind chutney was tangy enough but the mint chutney was neither minty enough or spicy enough. They also gave us gunpowder and ghee as a spice mix to apply in the buns, but it didn't really add much value to the dish. Two tiny sliders for 18 dollars - - not worth it. We ordered the Bollywood dosa and asked them to apply the ghost pepper chutney spread inside the dosa, but there wasn't any inside when the dish was given to us. So they got it in a separate bowl on the side. That chutney was very hot and spicy as advertised and a saving grace for the dish, because without that the dish was just a pretty ordinary masala dosa. Again can't justify paying 18 dollars for it. The gali aloo paratha was perhaps the biggest disappointment of all the dishes. I'm not sure what style of aloo paratha that was but, it was nothing close to how actual aloo Parathas are supposed to be or how they are supposed to taste. No spice, very mild flavoring, low salt. The Parathas were too thick and soft from outside, the filling was very bland and it felt like the masala from masala dosa was repurposed as the filling for the aloo paratha. I have good things to say about the Jafrani kofta curry. The cottage cheese kofta itself was cooked to perfection, and curry was creamy, sweet and had a great flavor profile. The dal tadka was again quite unsatisfactory. The whole appeal of dal is that it's a comforting savory soup like dish that makes your day when it goes down your throat. No salt, no spice, no onion, no garlic, no ginger, no asafoetida. It felt more like a dish sick people are given in hospitals because they can't digest any spices. 18 dollars for that??!! Hell no! Having said all the above, I will come to this place again to try the allepy vegetable curry, the genovese dosa, and the desserts.

Ashish Verma

Loved the dishes and cocktails are great.