Akbar's Restaurant Sheffield Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The curry dish was very creamy with balanced spicy profile. The meat was soft and tender. The food was delicious."
• "Daal Chana was perfect."
• "Food is great, very tasty and authentic."
• "Very good and tasty food at reasonable price."
• "For the main dish i ordered the lamb shank curry and garlic nan which was excellent and a great value for the money."
• "Cheese samosa are very appetizing and their mango lassi is one of the best I have tasted."
• "Food was excellent, specially the dhal."

Cons:

• "The most pathetic food don't order dal makhni its just sugar syrup."
• "The food was not great, made in a hurry and lacked taste."
• "The curry itself was oil on a plate undercooked potatoes and a small sprinkling of tomatoes."
• "The paneer pakora was so bland in taste."
• "The food tastes nothing like the the dish it claims to be."
• "The chicken was raw and not cooked properly, on asking the management they just put Currys in microwave and gave it back to us."
• "The onion bahjis were more like onion rings, and the salads were poor and mediocre."

Service

Pros:

• "Ali our waiter was great!"
• "From start you are feeling very welcomed by the great staff at this restaurant."
• "Great food, excellent management and service by staff!"
• "Customer service was also great, our order came on time and on point."
• "Great customer service, very helpful staff, clean and shiny restaurant."
• "One of the staff noticed the table was not stable so they fixed the issue immediately."
• "Customer Service: Excellent."

Cons:

• "All in all a very uncomfortable first and last experience.."
• "Firstly we had to find the table where our family were seated with no escort in a very dark restaurant."
• "The AC wasn't working it was so humid and hot waiters were rude."
• "Service was very rushed."
• "They treated me with disrespect and I felt very unwelcome."
• "Service from staff was very rude could tell staff didn't want our party of people in there restaurant."
• "Service is terrible, staff are very abrupt and not approachable."

Ambience

Pros:

• "Fantastic building. Inside was furnished nice."
• "Nice atmosphere in the restaurant as well :)"
• "A really excellent Indian restaurant just off busy West Street, mid priced and very high quality of food and service."
• "Very nice atmosphere."
• "The atmosphere is lovely."
• "Very spacious, with nice decorations."
• "What a beautiful restaurant with amazing food."

Cons:

• "It is a big venue and got too noisy when it was filling up - we were early."
• "The place needs a refit."
• "Dark and dingy, with no atmosphere."
• "The atmosphere is like a funeral, ideal for certain types of clientele."
• "Always very busy and noisy, loads of music, can't even concentrate to eat, also it's dark."
• "The restaurant had many staff that all looked like they really didn’t want to be there, overall a depressing atmosphere."
• "The ambience was dingy with utter commotion."

Price

Pros:

• "Excellent place for Indian Food, very balanced food, high quality, adequate quantity, very affordable price and value to the money."
• "Prices were very reasonable, many main courses less than £10."
• "Best value for money of you are in leeds area and want to eat authentic Indian food."
• "Four of us ate till we were stuffed for £20 each."
• "Parking: Sheffield Council's Parking right behind the restaurant.. Very Cheap."

Cons:

• "Reason for 4 stars and not 5, is that it's pricey."
• "Over priced dreadful indian food."
• "Prices are starting to get quite high."
• "Very yummy but over priced in my opinion, nearly 9 pounds for korma is mental."
• "£3.75 for a bottle of Cobra! Not worth it."