The Raj - Time Square

This restaurant is highly overpriced and disappointing. The portion sizes are smaller than any other Indian restaurant I've been to, while the price is much higher. The taste certainly did not make up for it. I had the butter chicken and my friend had chicken korma, and we were both disappointed as it did not taste the way it should. I spoke to the manager and she said that it is just "the way we do it here". So if overpriced, poor tasting food is what you are looking for, this is your place. The only good thing about our experience was the naan. I will not be returning and will not recommend to anyone.

Terrible service. Food arrives before starters. Brought visitors from India. We are very embarrassed. Will not recommend at all.

We booked a table here for 4 people on the 16th of February before going to the Bryan Ferry concert. TALK ABOUT POOR PLANNING!!!! We arrived at 7pm and only received our food at 8:15pm, 15 minutes before we needed to leave for the concert. They had 4 waiters on a night where they knew they would be busy because of the concert. The kitchen was overwhelmed with orders, so why was this not planned for??????? If you know its going to be a busy night surely you up your staff. While waiting for our food about 5 families walked out due to the poor service!!! After all this they brought the incorrect order and they served us plain curry with no rice or naan etc.

Ashok is a restaurant with authentic Indian Cuisine. We were a group of 12 and had to merge tables so that we can fit in. The service was very slow becasue there was only one waiter service a group of Guests. Although it was slow, the waiter was very friendly and professional.The food was great and tasty with authentic Indian spices

We thought we’d have a good Divali lunch here. A quick look at the menu and we find way overpriced dishes. Terrible cutlery. We were given squashed tissue serviettes and had to ask for napkins. Dirty salt and pepper cellars. The papadums weren’t crisp. Wine Rice’s we’re comparable and the selection decent. Breyani from R150 to R200. Mains about R170. Too late to leave. If you want to charge high prices, please ensure that the service and crockery etc is of high standard.

We were a group of 7 people for dinner. There were only 2 other tables, of one couple each. Service was slow - there was only one waiter, but as he was serving a total of 11 people, I expected better. He was also quite surly and unfriendly. His responses to our questions were abrupt.Prices are exorbitant and not worth it. The food was excellent, but definitely not worth almost R200 for a lamb dish! Especially as there are many excellent, reasonably priced Indian restaurants in Pretoria.Some of our party ate using their hands, and no finger bowls were offered or brought.On asking for the bill, we were informed that they were offline and we had to pay cash. No option to EFT or pay via Zapper was given. For a bill of R1898, this was an inconvenience for us all. He told us we could withdraw cash at the ATM downstairs, and had no answer for us when we complained about withdrawal fees.I would not recommend this place to anyone, and I most definitely will not be back to support this overpriced restaurant.

I recently attended the media opening night of Ashoka in Time Square Casino. Ashoka is a newly opened authentic Indian restaurant in the recently constructed and absolutely stunning Time Square Casino. Having not yet been to Time Square in Menlyn, I was very keen to finally be visiting it. The engineer in me, was in awe of the amazing structural steelwork at this recently opened Sun International Casino. Love the look of this modern designed building that very uniquely boasts the complex engineering. The foodie in me however, was looking forward to trying the Indian cuisine at Ashoka.On our arrival at Ashoka we were treated to rose water welcome drinks outside on the warm and heater toasty balcony. We were also offered authentic henna artwork – I opted for the Ashoka 24 spoke wheel henna tatoo on my hand. After the arrivals, we were seated at tables inside. The restaurant is beautifully decorated and has a traditional Indian theme to it. I was fortunate to be seated at a table where everyone was happy to have all our meals placed in the centre of table so that we could each share and taste a little of everything; the best way to taste a vast variety of food. The starter platters at Ashoka included chicken Malai tikka, lamb sheekh kebab, cocktail chicken samoosas, as well as some vegetarian options such as mixed vegetable tikka, paneer tikka and cocktail Punjabi samoosas. I loved the chicken Malai tikka and the Punjabi samoosas – so very flavourful. For the main we shared each of the options between our table seating. This included the butter chicken, lamb Roganjosh and the vegetarian option which was Dhal Makhni and Muttar mushroom. This was served with traditional butter naan cooked in a tandoori oven and basmati rice. All the meal options were delicious however, my absolute favourite was the butter chicken. It was incredible. The chicken was tender, beautifully cooked and absolutely flavourful; a most impressive butter chicken indeed! The naan bread too, was remarkable. For dessert we were treated to carrot Halwa samoosas with coconut ice cream. I loved this dessert! The samoosas were sweet and tasty perfectly accompanied by the genuine tasting and delicious coconut ice cream – a very refreshingly unique dessert (I have yet to see this available in any other South African based Indian restaurant). Ashoka also stocks a wide range of wine and craft beer. I enjoyed a glass or two of the Annandale Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 – a delicious and smooth Cabernet Sauvignon – perfect for a chilly winter’s evening.I had a great time visiting Ashoka in Time Square Casino. The food was lovely, the setting was stunning and the service was wonderful! Ashoka has certainly raised the standard for good authentic Indian cuisine in Gauteng. I look forward to returning to Ashoka again soon to try some of my personal Indian favourites such as Madras and Korma and of course let’s not forget that fantastic Butter Chicken!

I had lunch at this restaurant over the weekend- 4 Adults, 2 kids.The restaurant is good and clean. The food is well prepared but very pricey for such small potions. Average price for five cubes of lamb or prawns is R188-R200. I was glad to see that Game was offered on the menu(eg Springbok).The waiters are very slow and inattentive, requested for finger bowls on arrival which was not received.I don't think this restaurant can handle large groups of people.

We had dinner there last night and besides shocking service the food was o-kay-ish . Oily naan...extremely small portions of food. Paid R88 for 3 cubes of chicken starter. Main dish a fish curry. About R190 ...3 pieces of fish in a bowl of sauce...Rice extra cost of R28....really?? We did not even get our food together. My husbands dish arrived 15 min. After mine. Don't waist your time to go there.

After Dynamo on a Saturday night, and the other restaurants were full. We had to wait 5 or 10 minutes for a table, but that was fine. Once we were seated, the service was really slow, and the waiters were inattentive. Our menus didn’t come, then there was nobody to take drinks orders, then the drinks took forever, then there was nobody to take a food order.But when the food came, they hit it out of the park! The dhall gosh (hot), and the lamb briyani (hot) are winners. We even ordered take aways.Fix the service, and you’ll be onto something here!