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Rated: Good
based on 13 reviews
Khyber Restaurant
145, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Fort, Mumbai
22673227, 22673228, 22673229, 22673584, 22671605, 22673973, 22671942
| Locality | Fort |
|---|---|
| Landmark | Near Rhythm House |
| Place Type | Restaurant |
| Food Type | North Indian, North West Frontier |
| Timings | 12:30 PM to 4:00 PM, 7:30 PM to Midnight |
| Price |
 Very Expensive
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first reviewed by mgm_bvp
- User Reviews (13)
Aug 20, 2008
Good Ambience
Nice ambience and decor... gives you the privacy if u have come to have a quite dinner....
Good food and heavier on the pocket..
May 30, 2008
Amazing Decor
The place is huge and is subdivided into many small sub sections. Just love the way they have done up the restaurant. One of the most amazing interiors I have seen.
The food and service was fine. Though the taste was quite different.
Only problem is you don't get proper network inside so don't go if you're expecting an imp call.
Apr 28, 2008
Good food, Very good ambience...
There are quite a few restaurants in Mumbai with great ambiance, so it's difficult to get impressed with the ambiance of a new place...But the look and feel of this place is really good - traditional and yet stylish at the same time...
The food itself was pretty good...Since we were just two of us and we weren't very hungry, we didn't order a lot - just one "chicken kalmi kebab" for starters and one "vegetable malai kofta" with naans for the main course...but everything we ordered turned out to be just right...Oh ya, we split a bottle of red wine and it complimented the food pretty well...
One thing about the food here is that is that even though its very flavourful none of the tastes stand out in your mouth..Its all light and mellow...Creamy, but not greasy...So don't expect punjabi dhaba type of "spicy" north indian food here...
No wonder then this place is frequented so much by foreigners...In fact the manager even told us that their clientele is usually 80% foreigners! So expectedly this place is pricey...Just the food without the wine cost us 1.2k, and we didn't eat a lot!
So if you are looking for north Indian food but something a little subtle and don't mind spending a bit, you can give this place a try...
Mar 30, 2008
Give it a miss
Khyber was pretty empty for a Saturday night. Given the experience I had there, I'm not surprised now. We were made to wait for 5-10 minutes while the chaps prepared a dirty looking table. The white bedsheet they spread out on the table was not particularly clean.
The ambience was not spectacular either. When you can hear loud club music playing from Red Light next door you pretty much forget about the ambience. So, here we were eating overpriced Mughlai food, sitting amidst faux fountains and stone structures listening to "... I wanna fuck you, you already know!" Seriously!
The vegetarian starters were decent. We ordered Honey Mustard Paneer Tikka and Pudina Gobhi. The Virgin Colada Mocktail was particularly good. I ended up having two of them. (After my recent trip to Goa, I had promised myself to stay away from booze for the next fifteen days!) That's where the good part ended. The main course was atrocious. We ordered Paneer Korma and Murg Makhani - both bad. The Pudina Parathas were soaked in oil.
Four of us ended up footing a bill of three grand. And we had to remind the chap to bring us some saunf-cheeni. Khyber was pretty sad actually.
Mar 05, 2008
Not quite the best yet...........
We thought our guests from Pakistan would be comfortable at this old established eatery particularly since there was a child coming along.
I made a booking for Monday night, but within five minutes I had to cancel it. When I called to cancel, I was kept on hold while the phone attendant began talking to another client happily discussing his dinner menu without so much as a by your leave. I hung up.
However, we still persisted with our quest for the best and came to Khyber the following night.
Our guests were quite taken in by the ambience and when we were shown to our table on the first level, I asked for a better place. The Captain obliged and we managed to get seated in the "Hussein" room as I call it.
Unsure of what to ask for, the guests asked the steward to describe / recommend the dishes on the menu .Unfortunately, the steward couldn't quite manage it and we had to take over.
We ordered the drinks and found that the waiter had forgotten our order. Luckily he remembered our guests' and we had to remind him about our solitary soda .
Then came the dinner : Reshmi tikka which was overcooked and chewy, Seekh kabab which was soft and succulent, chicken rahra which they forgot to bring, mutton rahra which was great as usual, paneer tikka masala which was fantastic and the naans which were also great.
My gulab jamuns looked distincly mismatched with one small and soft one sharing dish space with one large and hard centered one. But our guests were happy with their kulfis and particularly loved the kewra essence in the falooda.
But, I must say that Khyber is really very over priced particularly since the food is not distinctive or unique. The tables are very close and you can almost reach out to the next table and eat off that! Besides, the seating along the wall is distinctly unfomfortable with the back rest so far back that unless you have a pot belly between you and the table, you literally have to stretch out or lean forward while eating.
I also feel that the bannisterless staircase makes my heart stop when I have a child along or even an older person because you never know when you actually need to hold on to something and find that there is nothing there!
But Khyber as a dining experience is worth it - at least once, though our dinner guest swore never to go again. When asked why, he pointed to the exterior and said that the building looked dangerously close to falling with the ac's and windows stuck on, the electric wiring and cabling crawling all over the walls and a general look of dilapidation!