On a recent visit to Lamma it seems that the Deli Lamma has fallen out of favour with the movers and shakers. The Deli seemed to rule the roost for many years and must have done something to upset the crowd?

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one of the reasons maybe?

I reckon this is at least partly down to natural wastage. Many of the old Deli crew have moved on (who knows where), finally ran out of visa renewals or had sprogs.

There's also the random patronage factor - for no good reason, once every few years the pack settles on another bar, only to return again xx years/months in the future in response to the same mysterious, unfathomable urges.

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I think Sputnik might be right. Do you really want to be on candid camera while having dinner with your friends?

We've also stopped visiting the Deli completely - even though I've always liked Prafull and their food - after they suddenly stopped their small advertising banner a few months ago, even after all the free & frequent Lamma-zine stories about the Deli and the free website I built and maintained for them (website unlinked now on Prafull's request.) Well, there are enough other good and OK restaurants in YSW for us to eat out almost every day.

There are several reasons for the Deli's dramatic drop in favour in the last several months, according to the former regulars many of whom moved over to Diesel's, some of them maybe following Diesel's co-owner Joyce after she made the move from the Deli herself? Diesel's is really booming these days and seems THE place to be seen in?

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It's not true that the Deli is empty. On Saturday nights it's full of Filipino teenagers looking for a fight.

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Blimey L-G, talk about taking it bad.

I reckon Marc Anthony has it closer - natural wastage coupled with the herd mentality/movement. Add to the fact that Prafull being shafted by many friends who didn't pay their tabs, called a halt to credit - and no offense to those of us who ran tabs and did bother our ass to pay - and the fact that amazingly, when he tried to expand to HK, many locals took offense - that he didn't care for his customers on Lamma any more and hence took their offended asses elsewhere! Hard to come back from that kind of slight..... even after he had put up with their worthless asses for many a long year..................... would kinda make you not REALLY care that much any more, ya reckon?

So the clientele were insufficiently grateful?

Here was me thinking a restaurant's success depended on quality of food, service and value for money. Shows how little I know about the trade.

Alan moaned



I saw your name up there Alan, for not paying your tab.

Pay your bills, you bum!

Poor service, bad food, warm beer, being charged twice for drinks, a landlord that blames his customers and staff for a lack of success and a spy camera out back.
Deli anyone?

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Praful has been a friend for years, so no offence here but some healthy criticism.

His humour is such that it can be taken as offensive at times. The food is hit and miss and if Praful is not in the kitchen himself the food is awaful. The service is diabolical, if it exists at all and the choice of appropriate music at the time is non existant.

So to sum up my last experience, on a Sunday. I walked in the front door and was insulted, got my own menu, as there was no service. Sat down near the front by the dukebox, got up to order my food at the bar, there was no coffee, 10 mins later asked to turn the blaring disco music down (this is Sunday lunch), sent back the cutlery as it was not clean, my food arrived 30 mins later, which was raw tandori chicken. Got up to pay my bill at the bar as there was no service and vowed never to go back.

Sorry Praf, but you need to know why your patronage has fallen but maybe you see the opportunity to cater for the teens of the island.

I was there with my friends for dinner last Saturday. We go there perhaps once a month as we love Praful's cooking. And we do agree that its only when Praful is cooking, then its worth going.

Service? We never expected much, so its okay for us.

Overall, if Prafull cooks, we still think its good value.

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I haven't been in the place for about 5 years in fact.

My only beef with the Deli is the way that the bit round the back somehow manages to have about 5 flies hovering around each table, despite the fact that Lung Kong right next to it has none. What's with that?

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