Khyber Restaurant
Rated: Good
based on 14 reviews
145, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Fort, Mumbai
22673227, 22673228, 22673229, 22673584, 22671605, 22673973, 22671942
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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!