Jeera Restaurant at Suncoast Towers Hotel

Monday, December 14th, 2015

Reviewed by Brendon McLean

I will start by saying the food I ate was good. The buffet is authentic and well done. The food is not oily, has a depth of flavour, good quality ingredients and is reflective of typical Durban cuisine. Their crab curry speciality is delicious (order 24 hours before). Service is attentive but chaotic. On all three occasions I ate there I had multiple people ask me the same thing, without result. Getting the wine involved four people asking me if everything was okay, and one trip to bar to fetch the damn bottle myself. But all these points are but a minor detail compared to the fact that they only play one 3 minute elevator music cover song on repeat. If you're there for two hours, you will hear it 40 times. If like me, you're there for three nights, you will hear it 120 times. This makes Jeera the only restaurant I know of more irritating than Vida e Café which played that same damn CD for ten years straight (at least it had ten tracks). Much like my wine, at least five people promised to sort it out, but by the third night they switched to defence stating that Jeera only plays one song on repeat and if I didn't like it I could go elsewhere. Which I did. At the end of the day, the tongue cannot enjoy the moment when the ears are bleeding.