Lavanya

I hope people read this review before walking into this store. My husband went in and pretty much got robbed. A shawl that most of Jackson Heights is selling for 5 to 10 dollars they sold it to him for 85 dollars. I traveled have traveled through the world and okown many many shawls. This is one of the worst quality ones. They sold it to him saying it’s good quality. I opened it up to find it unevenly cut. As well as the ends are not even stitched up. I live in virginia so I called them to see what their return policy is… they were horrible. No phone manners, no customer service skills, they hung up on me twice and said that they can careless and I can do whatever I can. Well obviously I guess the only thing I can do is suck up the huge lost and vent on here. They got him good. They really know how to up charge people that don’t know how to bargain. Sad. I’m not even going to start taking about the bangles. They were cute but again outrageous price.

Wonderful service, all three ladies were attentive and voted for the outfit they liked the most, and mentioned when something fit really well and looked great. Ended up being more than I wanted to spend ($ 175) but it is a beautiful dress with thin pants, and I love it!

I was looking for a sari for my friend’s wedding and started at India Palace across the street where the customer service was HORRIBLE. The ladies there didn’t want to spend the time to help me find something I liked and that was within my price point. So we came to Lavanya and the women there were extremely nice and patient, and they had a better selection than India Palace. My friends who’d bought at India Palace regretted not looking in Lavanya first. The prices were ok (I paid $ 160 for a custom sari after I bought the material on sale), but again they were very nice and had the tailor come to the store to take my measurements. The only downside is that since I bought the material and it was packaged up, they refused to take it all out of the bag before I paid; I would’ve liked to have seen the full effect before I committed. I haven’t picked up the sari yet but I will report back…

If I could do no stars I would, go here of you want to be treated like a criminal. My mom bought a $ 950 sari cash! The lady took forever when she was writing up the receipt. My mom wanted to take a picture to show a friend and this is AFTER we paid and the lady snatched the sari away Bc they were supposed to send it out to have the blouse made. We paid it’s our property we can take as many pix of our property as we want. They lady came to take the measurements and she’s like it’s $ 5 for the measurements. Did we not just spend almost a thousand dollars here? Where the hell is customer service? After we pick up our blouse we are never coming here again. Real Indians like good service when we are spending that kind of money, maybe that attitude is okay for people who don’t know better but I can spend the same money some where else.

Beautiful stuff — and I’m really picky. I bought a salwaar khameez and a saree burnt a hole in my pocket but I needed it for a friend’s wedding. Should definitely go here for traditional indian clothing — just awesome.

My sister paid $ 75 for a plain Salwar Kameez outfit with some thread work on it for my 2 year old niece from Lavanya, and the female associate did not lower price. My niece wore it once and the color from threads on the shirt leaked everywhere. She contacted the store and the lady associate said she was not going to do anything about it because it was good price and hung up on my sister. Apparently their quality is NOT good, and customer service is horrible. I would avoid this place! If anyone would like to see pics of the suit you can email me at
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I had no clue when I came in. I had first gone to the highly rated Indian sari place, but they don’t have lenghas. So I went across the street to this place and wow. Yes, expensive. But I feel like I got a lengha that is beautiful, well made and I didn’t even have to get it tailored. The sales person was great, and we negotiated and paid cash… So we netted out $ 150 below the list price. Great.

They do have a large selection of saris, however, the saleswoman was incredibly pushy and didn’t seem to understand what I was looking for. When I told her I did not want a sari with red and green, she would show me red/​green saris and tell me they weren’t red/​green. I know my colors, lady, and I know red and green look like. After rejecting the saris she showed me she told me I had no sense of style because I wasn’t Hindu! I was completely taken aback and ended up going to another shop, Vishal Saree Palace, around the corner and purchased a beautiful sari made of 100 percent silk from Jaipur.

I came here with my fiancée to find a couple outfits for our wedding. After scoping all the stores in the area, Lavanya proved to have a pretty good selection. Unfortunately, that’s all the store has going for it. It’s a bit on the pricey side, and the service? Well, awful. We were treated rudely during our initial visit and then again when we came to pick up the altered blouses. They still didn’t fit right — we had to wait around a couple hours while they fixed them again, after they tried to convince us that crooked blouses were the new hotness. In the end, my bride will look beautiful as always, but we will never go back there again. Ever.

After reading horrible reviews of Indian stores in Jackson Heoghts, I was prepared for the worst and was pleasantly surprised with the very good treatment we received from Suman at Lavanya.
I went there to get a wedding dress, but that was all I knew. I didn’t know whether I wanted a sari or a lehenga, what color or even price range. Unlike the rude lady at the highly rated Indian Sari Palace, who told us we should first decide on color, dress and budget before «wasting her time», Suman was very patient.
She was educated, polite, pleasant, knowledgeable and patient. She first showed me a few saris and then lehengas, quickly understanding what colors and style I preferred. We (me, my fiancée and his parents) spent two hours there and left with a beautiful and reasonably priced lehenga, which they managed to get adjusted for the next day, since we were coming from Boston for the weekend only.
We visited many other stores and found less expensive and more expensive options, none of which was as nice as my lehenga. We did buy my mother in law’s sari at another store, Karishma, and it was cheaper than what someone else showed her at Lavanya. But for my bridal lehenga, no place compared to Lavanya. Everyone was friendly, patient and did not try to push anything on us (well, maybe the lady who was showing my mom in law some saris was trying to push somem older styles to her, but nothing too bad… :)
I would come back in a heart beat! And, actually, we did, the next day, for my jewelry (beautiful!) and my fiancée’s suit (though he ended up not getting anything as didn’t have much time and he did not want to make a buying decision in a rush.