Pooja Sweets & Savouries Reviews Summary

Category: Candy store London

Address: 168-170, 168 Upper Tooting Rd, London SW17 7ER, United Kingdom

Phone: +442086724523

Rating: 4.4
based on 154 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "Food quality is good no doubt on that but the service is getting a bit messy."
  • "The selection is great and the taste of most of the sweets is very good."
  • "Always satisfied with this place. The quality is unrivalled."
  • "Probably the best Indian Sweet Shop in the South West London. It’s a family managed business and I was surprised to see and taste some authentic Indian sweets in London!"
  • "This is the best Indian sweets you will ever find at a good value price in Tooting."
  • "Very tasty Indian sweets."
  • "The mithai taste like original mithai from India."

Cons:

  • "The Kalakand is usually very soft but for some reason today the texture is like sweet play dough."
  • "Boondi Laddu was sickly sweet and thick."
  • "Really poor quality. Was looking forward to eating Ras Malahi and the box had swollen up and when opened had gone off before the expiry date."
  • "The food was tasteless and lacked authenticity."
  • "The potato pakora tasted like it was cooked in stale oil and the Punjabi samosa was opened from the bottom with the oil soaked in the filling."
  • "Ordered Gujrella and khoya barfi and mithi. Food was so smelly and tastes very weird khoya is basically milk powder in oil."
  • "The Mootichoor Ladoo was too sticky and it was like sugar syrup was dripping off it."

Customer Service

Pros:

  • "The customer service is just great, the customer attendant helped me choose Indian sweets to choose as gifts as I Have no idea."
  • "Friendly staff, Indian sweets and savories. Including gluten free and low sugar for diabetics."
  • "I love their chilli paneer rolls and samosas and can always trust that their standards are high and staff are committed 100% to good customer service."
  • "Excellent customer service very polite and was able to explain sweets or foods I didn't know also allowed to taste and try very happy good prices will be back again."
  • "The gentleman who served me was absolutely wonderful. Good customer services and smiled all the way."
  • "Very professional fantastic customer service and polite. Love this place highly recommend."
  • "Staff is always polite, especially, Mahira, so polite and courteous and all of them work really hard and deserve the praise."

Cons:

  • "Great store and brilliant collection of sweets but terrible online service if you want to order sweets."
  • "Food is great but the girls serving has got no customer services and mainly no smile. Sound very arrogant."
  • "Reading some of the reviews, seems we are not the first to have encountered the rudness of this server behind the counter!!"
  • "The shop assistant was rude as she doing from favour to me."
  • "Their customer service was really bad and even their boss was acting up saying their staff said the right thing and us customers are rude."
  • "Customer service was non existent. We wanted to try a few items (outside the restaurant) and then order to take away."
  • "Very bad customer service from short skinny lady today."

Pricing and Value

Pros:

  • "Their prices are also reasonable and do not pinch your pocket."
  • "Fairly priced too!"
  • "It provides a number of savoury snacks at very reasonable prices: 3 veggie samosas for 90p, which r extremely moorish."
  • "An Indian store where one may find the snacks which gujaratis prefer... the prices charged are reasonable too."
  • "Still absolutely fantastic. Cost of living crisis? Not here. Still get 3 small samosas for Β£1."
  • "Excellent quality food at affordable prices!"
  • "Food here is amazing and it's really reasonably priced."

Cons:

  • "Nothing is clearly priced which is conspicuous."
  • "I bought a 500g box but when I weighed it myself it weighed 361g!"
  • "Sumilar to what others have said, they are not clear on pricing."
  • "Service can sometimes be poor and also items do not have a price ticket."
  • "The displayed pricing is limited and not consistent, also the staff are not using any clear method to add up orders."
  • "There is no way of seeing the weighing scales in the shop, and there is no itemised billing."
  • "Always check the itemised receipt at this place, I visited this place recently and found they overcharge people."

Hygiene and Quality Control

Pros:

  • "Purely vegetarian, clean interior, friendly staff and not too pricey."
  • "Friendly, knowledgable (about the products) and patient staff; good selection of freshly prepared Indian sweets."
  • "A wide selection of nut and sugar based sweets with no dairy, or meat."

Cons:

  • "Thank you for sharing your feedback. It is very 🀯 the staff using the gloves from the bin."
  • "One of my friend bought puff pastry from Pooja which was stale and had fungus."
  • "I saw the lady scratching her head, face and then using the same hand to take sweets. Management need to take action to improve the hygiene."
  • "One more thing: in the shop owner's kid keeps wondering here and there and eats whatever he feels like - but it gives a sense of having / creating a less hygienic environment."
  • "Also complaints about stale products like laddus and pani puri."
  • "Stake oily raw savouries. This place has changed since Naela the previous manager became I'll."
  • "Most recent order seems like more sugar less milk(powder milk)."

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