Lahore Karahi Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Always delicious and fresh."
• "Chicken Biryani was good!"
• "Everything tasted so mouthwatering and delicious it was a food heaven."
• "The food is always 10/10 here, mixed grills, kebab rolls, biryani, the lot!"
• "THE FOOD IS INCREDIBLE."
• "The food was absolutely smashing, and the atmosphere wonderful."
• "Every dish was on point ..flavours were better than home cooking."

Cons:

• "Butter naan had no butter and tasted like store bought from Sainsbury."
• "A biryani that was just rice, a mixed grill that was small and sad, soggy samosas."
• "The food was oily, with lots of sauce and barely any meat."
• "The food quality is decent, but the pre-prepared nature and microwaving process left me questioning the overall value."
• "The biriyani was okay, nothing amazing."
• "The food was good, we ordered a variety of starters and mains to share between 3 of us and it was more than enough to completely fill us up."
• "Worst Indian/Pakistani/Asian food I’ve ever had. Throughly inedible."

Service

Pros:

• "The staff was attentive, dedicated to customers, helpful and polite."
• "Rizwan who has great customer service."
• "The staff are efficent and respond to issues very quickly."
• "Staff were friendly and attentive."
• "The service provided was consistently exceptional EVERYTIME but particularly during my aunt's wedding where they catered delicious food."
• "Staff helpful and love how well they managed the waiting customers."
• "Nadia was amazing. Professional, friendly, relatable and always one step ahead."

Cons:

• "The service wasn’t the most friendly and made us feel as though we were the ones who were inconveniencing the restaurant despite having a reservation!"
• "Customer service was appalling."
• "Service is slow, lazy and not attentive."
• "Staff is extremely rude and unprofessional."
• "Poor service with no self respect."
• "Staff are unhelpful with any delivery services."
• "Service is awful, we waited forever over an hour for our tea, which in the end came in take away cups."

Ambiance

Pros:

• "Place is good and comfortable."
• "The atmosphere was noisy, but had a happy buzz."
• "Great atmosphere, well cooked fresh and tasty food."
• "The place was air conditioned so that was a plus."
• "The food was absolutely smashing, and the atmosphere wonderful."
• "The whole atmosphere is great."
• "The atmosphere is always lively and fun."

Cons:

• "The place doesn't look special from outside."
• "Didn't enjoy the atmosphere, as it was really busy and super loud on a Thursday evening."
• "When crowded, it is VERY noisy."
• "A very loud party next to us made it a bit harder to hear one’s thought."
• "Anyway overall place was way too noisy and crowded, toilets broken, no baby change and very very slow service."
• "Finally the noise in there is beyond oppressive with conversation barely possible."
• "It does feel a little crammed in and not really much room to breathe."

Value

Pros:

• "Prices are reasonable, similar to any other place on the high street."
• "£1 charge to BYOB which is great for a celebration or meet up with friends."
• "Their corkage scheme here of £2 per head flat rate is also outrageously good value because the food is also reasonably priced."
• "The price was reasonable and the food was a 7 out of 10."
• "All for very good value."
• "Very reasonably priced."
• "Great value for money."

Cons:

• "I found a big stone in the biriyani."
• "I won't be coming back as I have just binned £8 worth Bombay aalu in bin."
• "Huge red flag - food hygiene rating of 2. Found out after got an upset stomach."
• "For the prices paid it wasn't great."
• "I thought the pricing was a bit expensive for some items, such as rice or vegetarian side dishes."
• "Very overpriced for something below average."
• "Slightly expensive (UK inflation remember)"