Khyber Cafe Reviews Summary

Category: Restaurant Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Address: 169 West Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE15 6PQ, United Kingdom

Phone: +441912386778

Rating: 4.1
based on 118 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "The food was so yummy and everything was just really nicely organised."
  • "Food was very nice as always however staff don't have the best manners."
  • "Good place. A bit noisy but very tasty food compensates for all chatter noise."
  • "The Nan, Kabab, karaye, Milkshake I don't know what to say I wish a sentence could explain how delicious everything was."
  • "Food is really good, very polite and helpful."
  • "The chicken biryani was delicious, defo recommend."
  • "Sheek kebabs (10/10, our favorite)"

Cons:

  • "Waste of money as it’s not nowhere near Authentic Pakistan/Indian food."
  • "The pizza was a let down the base was under cooked and lacked in flavour due to too much cheese."
  • "Garlic Keema naan... the keema was bland and appeared uncooked."
  • "The food was flavourless and over priced."
  • "Afghani dishes were not authentic."
  • "But the worst item was the Chicken Pakoras - basically small strips of chicken fried with spice marinate... these are not pakoras!! And charged £6 for them as a starter... so over £1.00 a pakora!!"
  • "The food was uncooked and the stuff is unexperienced."

Service

Pros:

  • "An excellent restaurant with a prayer room upstairs, helpful and attentive staff."
  • "We were promptly seated, and they took our order in a timely manner as well."
  • "Staff are friendly."
  • "Service was good. Staff were nice and restaurant was clean."
  • "Service was on point staff was very friendly."
  • "Staff were attentive and our special requests where met."
  • "Service was great."

Cons:

  • "Spoke to manager..he didnt offer any discount or apologise."
  • "Menu stated gluten free options available. Waitress didn't know what I was talking about."
  • "No check backs on food, took a while to order drinks."
  • "The service was extremely slow and lacked in hospitality."
  • "Worst customer service."
  • "Service very poor from the start, staff who took our order not paying attention had to repeat twice to make sure she knew our order."
  • "Service quite poor, not many staff here at all."

Ambience

Pros:

  • "The restaurant is veey chic in its decor and classy, very clean and modern but also comfortable."
  • "Decor was really nice."
  • "It is spacious, clean, tidy, nicely decorated."
  • "Interior decor is really nice, staff are very friendly and do go out of their way to make you feel comfortable."
  • "I was pleasantly surprised to see the open plan seating arrangement."
  • "Nice, warm and welcoming restaurant."
  • "Traditional desi items as well as pasta, BBQ, pizza, desserts and ice-cream!!"

Cons:

  • "Imagine you are eating your food with family. And in the middle of having food, someone comes and rudely says ‘we’r closed!"
  • "It was freezing cold inside, and the dim lighting just added to the misery."
  • "This place seems so dead it may as well be closed."
  • "Atmosphere dead too."

Value

Pros:

  • "Decent on price."
  • "People are nice and friendly. Definitely worth the money."
  • "Great Food, Great Service, Reasonably Priced."

Cons:

  • "The prices are very high for the portions of food you receive."
  • "This was really expensive for the poor customer service and food quality."
  • "Expect to spend a lot of money; these guys are charging London restaurant prices for average quality food in a cheap run-down area such as the West Road."
  • "Very bad place, I recommend you to all don’t waste your money to this place."

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