Shabar Balti Restaurant Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food is fantastic and the staff always polite and accommodating."
• "everything tasted beautiful 👌🏻 we all thoroughly enjoyed everything, thank you 🙏🏻"
• "Staff were very friendly, food was extremely tasty and portions were very generous."
• "Had an amazing night at the shabar restaurant enjoyed every bit recommend the chefs dishes on the menu had excellent flavouring overall the curry was just beautiful!"
• "All the curries were perfectly made and up to the mark."
• "The food is so tasty and the service is excellent"
• "The food is delicious and definitely worth the wait as it is a busy restaurant."

Cons:

• "Tasteless food, a lot of fried dishes tasted of dirty oil"
• "it was totally saturated with Cayen pepper!!???"
• "All the curry dishes were cold and bland, the rice was all stuck together and dry."
• "the sauce was like pureed sickly sweets it was so sweet and very sickly i couldn't eat it"
• "nan bread looked like it had been sat in the kitchen for weeks"
• "bland and tasted of nothing but coconut"
• "Salmon curry was overdone and fish/ sauce tasteless"

Service

Pros:

• "Staff were very friendly and the meal was also really good value."
• "They treated the birthday to a present and sang happy birthday with us all"
• "Good place with fantastic service and prices."
• "friendly and professional service"
• "The staff are so friendly and polite."
• "Prefect service, they go way behind and treat you like royalty!"
• "Staff are friendly and attentive, food is amazing!"

Cons:

• "We were extremely uncomfortable and could not wait to leave."
• "unhappy with seating waiter passed remark about it not been good enough for us?"
• "The staff were wearing their masks around their necks even when clearing our table."
• "Slow service which was a disappointment, took over an hour from order for the food to arrive."
• "Nice food but service v slow and when food does arrive it's not as piping hot as it could be."
• "the wait for food was a little longer than usual"
• "Booked a booth, unfortunately when we arrived none available!!"

Value

Pros:

• "Great value too"
• "price was good too."
• "The food is not only delicious but extremely well priced."
• "Great food huge portions."
• "Value for money great."
• "Huge portions, very reasonable prices."
• "Really affordable prices."

Cons:

• "How can they justify £4.25 for a glass of coke??"
• "Spent well over £80 never again."
• "£28 down the drain.Never again."
• "Thanks for the 28 pound bill works out at 14 pound per piece of meat a real non bargain."
• "a small glass at £6 which again was cheap stuff"
• "Shocking. Cold. Bland"
• "Waited 1 hour 30 minutes for take away"

Ambiance

Pros:

• "The restaurant itself is very clean and feels just pleasant to be in."
• "An extremely friendly atmosphere that wont fail to keep me coming back for more."
• "great friendly all smiling staff,very helpful,lovely atmosphere"
• "The atmosphere was superb, the food was lovely and the was service great"
• "The atmosphere is lovely and enjoyable."
• "The decor is now a little dated but don't let that put you off"
• "The atmosphere was superb"

Cons:

• "Decor a bit tired."
• "Oh dear oh dear oh dear. A very very tired restaurant with thread bare carpet and table cloths."
• "The restaurant had a very outdated feel about it"
• "Environment is okay does need modernising."
• "Restaurant is dated."
• "Used to be one of our favourite places to eat, sadly the quality of the food has steadily got worse."
• "The tables were so close together, there was certainly no social distancing going on."