Asian Kitchen restaurant, Sky Grill at Sheraton’s Four Points hotel

We had been planning to dine at one of the restaurants of Sheraton’s Four Points hotel in Vashi, Navi Mumbai, on my husband’s birthday. He awaited the opening of Sky Grill after noticing the continuous ads promoting the launch. So on his birthday, we planned to be at the Sky Grill for dinner. However, we reached at around 10.45 pm, when the open air restaurant was about to close. They had this board on the entrance displaying the vegetarian (Rs 650*) and non-vegetarian (Rs 750*) barbeque menu for the day and were about to close. They said they will close soon, but we can definitely dine and that they would be serving on the table. However, we were not impressed by the ambience of the Sky Grill (resembled a very ordinary seating and buffet-type setting) and decided to opt for the hotels’ other restaurant Asian Kitchen.

Here’s the review of Asian Kitchen:

The menu: Asian Kitchen has quite an elaborate menu including Japanese, Thai and Singaporean cuisine as well. We opted for some veg kebab starters and were thoroughly disappointed. The six tiny pieces did not taste fresh at all and were kinda sticky in the mouth. The pickled fat noodles were not a good choice either. The attendant had advised us to order something else if we wish since these would be ‘very sour’ and all. Nevertheless, they were not. The mocktail was nice. The desserts looked impressive and we opted for a Japanese one (I cannot remember the name for obvious reasons), again a wrong decision. I suppose it cost Rs 250 and we wasted some pieces finding it difficult to gulp down. Not because of the preparation (Japanese desserts are quite interesting), but it tasted as if it was prepared a couple of days ago and just micro waved giving it a super dry and sticky consistency while eating. All in all, either the food at Four Points’ Asian Kitchen is really unpalatable or perhaps we happened to order the three things that Asian Kitchen is not good at. The latter however could be the height of coincidence!

The staff: Very co-operative. And yes, fun loving too – the young guys had no idea that the guests can hear them as they laughed and screamed and used swear words in their small cabin or something just attached to the dining area! Looks like the hotel’s management isn’t trained well.

The washrooms: Neat and nice.

My rating: It is tough to give four points to this restaurant of Four Points. I would settle at 2 out of 5.

Will I dine at Asian Kitchen again? Never! Unless they go for a complete revamp of the preparations.