Pearl of Asia

This restaurant has gone downhill, and fast. Not sure if they have changed hands or what but they need to hire some waiters that know what they are doing.
Last night I went to Pearl of Asia with a friend. We had been travelling back from holiday all day and were tired and hungry. There were only 2 couples in the restaurant when we arrived. The waiter promptly seated us, offered us poppadoms, and took our wine order. This was the extent of the service we received. After over 30 minutes, and even a direct request to our waiter to please take our order, he still had not done so. He never even came over to see if we were ok or made any eye contact whatsoever. Meanwhile, he darted back and forth through the length of the restaurant trying to look busy but not actually doing anything.
Eventually I got up, walked over to him, and said «I’m sorry but we would like the bill for what we have eaten/​drunk, we are leaving». He said ok and seemed to understand but then he disappeared again. A few minutes later we walked out (which is something I never do).
He came after us and begged us to come back in, saying something like there is only 1 person handling the entire restaurant (by this time that only consisted of our table and 1 other couple who looked like they were still eating poppadums too). The manager finally came over to us and tried to get us to sit down saying our food would be up soon. I wonder how that is possible seeing as they never took our order!
This is by far the worst experience I have ever had at a restaurant anywhere in the world. Needless to say, they have lost my business (including takeaways which amounts to about 1 per week). There is no shortage of Indian restaurants in Woodham. We ended up going over to the Elachi for a fabulous meal after the fiasco at Pearl of Asia and will most likely go there in the future.

I bought a takeaway here just the once. It will be the last time. This town is well served by Indian Restaurants and this is not the one for me. I have the usual Brit favourite, Chicken Tikka Massala. and it tasted like detergent. That is the only way I could describe it. Could do so much better.