Ruchi Restaurant is a relatively new place in Millennium Station's food court. It is a quick walk from Aon Center, using the basement-level pedway.
Samosas were large and the veggie filling was tasty, but they were pretty greasy. They came with the traditional red tamarind and green coconut cilantro chutnies; the red was very thin and runny, the green likewise should have been thicker but the green had good flavour.
The biryani was tasty and came with two containers - the brown sauce was too thick to be a sambar, and the white seemed to be too runny to be a raita. They were generous with the chicken chunks, they were tasty an there was no bone fragments nor gristle. The rice was very good, seemed fresh and was well-spiced. I tried both sauces with the chicken chunks and preferred the brown flavourful one, and dumped the leftovers of the brown over the rice after I had finished the chicken, THAT was very tasty!
Overall, the food was OK or better, and I can still feel the warmth of the spice level deep inside me an hour after finishing. I will probably have heartburn from the greasy samosas, but that is an acceptable risk when you know that they are deep fried to begin with.
I will return in another month or two and see how they are acclimating to the downtown lunch scene. They seemed to cut some corners (watered-down sauces, no takeaway menus (just TV's or a few menus taped to walls), but I enjoyed the food.
They do have possible customer service issues to work thru - they handed me a bag and I walked out, assuming that it was the whole order. I checked outside the restaurant, and saw they didn't include the biryani, so I went back and was told that it takes a couple minutes to pack it up. The delay is fine, especially since the biryani seemed fresh, but it should have all been packed together.
Looking forward to trying them again!
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