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Seriously folks, this has to be the worst Kebab joint in town. Now that Ebneezers is opening in Lan Kwai Fong... go down there and get your fix.

One of the key ingredients of Indian hospitality (which includes Indian restaurants) is offering your guest a glass of water. Apparently the trainers at Tandoor neglected to inform their staff about this basic principle.

We visited this restaurant with a guest, who was hosting the evening and was eager to impress. "Nothing but the best..." was the theme of the evening and apparently even his taxi driver had agreed with him.

We arrived at around 9pm and were all suitably impressed with the decor. Yes, you'll find all the posh fittings in place and rare to find Lladro Ganesh statues worthy of being in a museum.

Unfortunately, we tend to judge a place by the quality of the service over the food. Most Indian restaurants can serve up decent food in Hong Kong, thanks to the thriving Indian community and the ex-colonial's fondness for a "good ruby". The food at the Tandoor was ok. On par with the rest of the places found on or near Hollywood road / SOHO area.

The "lamb chops" were not that special according to our guest, who apparently lives of them... but they were "ok".

The service levels were disappointing. We've probably been spoilt by the gracious hosts that used to manage this establishment where the staff was friendly, made the extra effort to check on you and fix problems as soon as they're brought to their notice.

Water glasses were not refilled, there was no Kulfi and generally we got the feeling that the staff either had an off day, or were adopting the "we're so cool we can be snotty" gimick.

In all fairness, the manager did offer to replace the Kulfi with some other desserts, which we err .. chose not to accept. When a man wants Kulfi, he wants Kulfi!

Overall rating would probably be a 3 out of 5. If it was the only game in town, we'd give it 4.. but there are better places offering value, service and a great dining experience which would make you want to go back...

We only got to the event on Sunday, but from the looks of it and a number of people we spoke to everyone was having a great time. The food was very reasonably priced, the beer was reasonable, the sound was great, the DJ tent was buzzing and the open air and grass made a world of a difference when compared to Harbourfest's sterile concrete environment.

I hope they organisers figure out that they've got a good thing going and repeat this event next year around.

The food at the Harbour lounge is definately bad value for the amount of money you pay AND the fact that within 5 minutes you can be on Lockhart Road where there are several dozen restaurants begging and competing for your business.

The pasta sauces were ummm.. so ordinary and so was the rest of the food. The garlic foccacia's were good, but not good enough to make up for the mediocre food.

They do have TCBY yoghurt for dessert, unfortunately the toppings tasted stale.