Royal Shalimar Birmingham Reviews Summary

Category: Buffet restaurant Birmingham

Address: 238 Highgate Rd, Sparkbrook, Birmingham B12 8EA, United Kingdom

Phone: +441217713888

Rating: 3.7
based on 206 reviews.

Atmosphere & Decor

Pros:

  • "Most beautiful restaurant I've been to in all of England!"
  • "The decor is this place is just amazing and so is the welcoming into the venue."
  • "The place is stunning and gives Dubai vibes as soon as you enter."
  • "Luxurious decor, great food, great service, warm atmosphere and stunning private rooms for private parties."
  • "The restaurant had a beautiful ambiance that made me feel like I was dining in a royal palace."
  • "One of my best experience with beautiful, elegant and rich look ambience."
  • "This place has most beautiful ambience and the atmosphere is just so charming and welcoming."

Cons:

  • "Overall it was set at high expectations with bad a disappointing delivery."
  • "So the first complaint arose before even entering. The place looks closed and deserted and you don't feel like you should be there."
  • "Upon entering the place felt eerie and deserted."
  • "I glimpsed through the double doors of the dining area and noticed the place was dead and there was no atmosphere."
  • "The same place I went to, very cold dark empty place and the oily food was a joke."
  • "The decor wasn't the best and lacked in variety."
  • "Parking lot was disgusting, it was an abandoned building and felt like it was going to collapse."

Service & Staff

Pros:

  • "Very polite, well mannered conscientious staff. Always at hand if we needed anything."
  • "Delicious Mocktails, Great Live Music and Very Attentive staff."
  • "Very welcoming staff and excellent experience."
  • "The staff was friendly, attentive, and always ready to assist."
  • "Staff looks properly trained as per the fine dining."
  • "Staff were all very courteous and polite."
  • "Staff members were keen to help and always at hand."

Cons:

  • "Really bad service from start to finish head waiter and manager did not have a clue I could not understand a word they was saying."
  • "It looks like staff are tired of serving customers, asking us to leave the restaurant in very rude behaviour."
  • "Staff is half asleep like they don’t want to work."
  • "Rude staff, wanted to complain about it to the manager but when encountered him, then found out why the staff is so rude."
  • "The workers were quite rude and Nasty to the children."
  • "I would not recommend anyone going here the workers do not respect the customers."
  • "Very unprofessional management.. very long queues for entry, there is no sitting area and no proper rules for entry."

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "The food is so amazingly cooked and fresh I would honestly rate the food 10 out of 10 especially the achari fish my favourite."
  • "Certain starters were nice and tasty like the chappali kebabs, fish pakora and chicken pakora."
  • "The starters had that authentic desi taste..and the Butt Lamb karahi was simply gorgeous!"
  • "The food itself is a knockout. Cooked to perfection and presented in a very elegant way."
  • "The food was varied with so many options and had a lovely Italian section which was led by a Palestinian couple."
  • "Every dish we ordered was more or less impeccable with a decent level of spice."
  • "The food is absolutely delicious, from the biryaani, the curry dishes and the gourmet burger."

Cons:

  • "Most of the food is really spicy."
  • "The noodles were hard the wings were tasteless roti and nans was rock hard even the lamb chops had a nasty after taste."
  • "Ridiculously Expensive, Food quality was below average."
  • "Food was tasteless, paya had visible hairs on them."
  • "The main dishes were far too spicy and very salty."
  • "Food was bland, tasteless and very oily."
  • "The food was cold and tasteless covered in that much spice the meat could of been anything literally!"

Entertainment & Music

Pros:

  • "There was live music playing, really good entertainment."
  • "The live music was a wonderful addition. We even joined in the singing."
  • "They had the live music, which was the cherry on the cake."
  • "Live music is present too. Makes the atmosphere perfect."
  • "Live music was the Best part!!"
  • "Visited on a Sunday evening where they had live music which was the cherry on the cake they even sang a song for my partner."

Cons:

  • "They had a live music but almost felt like a tribute night or a karaoke, which didnt fit in with the setting of the restaurant."
  • "And more thing live music was doing headaches."
  • "Not to mention the live performance which is equivalent to an uncle at a family wedding trying hard to sing. Was so loud and ear piercing, felt like a poor karaoke performance, totally does not suit what they are trying to achieve."

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