text: It is never a good sign when you drive up to a business and the parking lot is empty To be fair it was pm on Super Bowl Sunday but still this is an IndianPakistani restaurant so you would think the typical crowd might be more World Cup and less Big GamennIts an even worse sign when you see vinyl lettering on the window of an Indian restaurant that reads Salon de Fiestas And sure enough walking into Saffron for the first time it does not feel at all like a cozy Indian restaurant It feels like a banquet room Only two booths the rest of the expansive room filled with roundtop banquet tables chairs covered in plastic a little stage in the corner And COMPLETELY EMPTYnnAn Indian restaurant should smell like I do not know Indian food when you walk in This place did not It smelled like an old folks home Or something Something not right And it was dead quiet in there Not even a TV or radio onnnThere was one person visibly working in the entire place a middleaged woman who was helpful enough but not very friendly You think she would be thrilled to see even one person let alone a couple walk in Not so She kind of just gestured toward whatever table we wanted dropped off menus and disappeared Did not ask us for drinks or anythingnnThe menu was typical Indian fare and prices were about average We ordered some of our favorites veggie samosas pakora chicken tikka masala aloo gobi as well as some rice and two kinds of naan At the same time the hostserverwhatever finally took our drink orders Sadly this joint does not serve alcohol I hate it when I cannot order a good Indian beer with my mealnnIt took a long time to get even our drinks water and iced tea out which came with the appetizers The samosas were OK The pakora was weird I am used to pakora being similar to tempeh just vegetables dipped in batter and fried These were more like spongy batter balls with diced veggies inside Maybe they are more authentic I do not know but they suckednnThe entrees were solid Nothing to write home or um on Yelp about kind of weakflavored but decent The naan was good enough nnWe had a Restaurantcom gift certificate to use and when the lady first looked at it she said That is not us She said this because their logo did not print and she thought the missing image graphic was someone elses logo I had to point out to her the NAME AND ADDRESS AND PHONE of her own business She did eventually take the discount off our billnnInterestingly at some point a man and his child walked in during our meal heartily greeted us and I assume he is the owner or manager at least which leads me to believe our hostserver might have been his wife Maybe she was grumpy that she had to work by herself while he was watching the Big Game or something Had he been there when we first arrived we might have felt better But either way we are never going back here which is a shame because it is literally walking distance from our house