We entered Barbeque Nation, Kalyani Nagar for an early lunch at around 12:30 pm. Within 30-45 minutes the place was packed to the brim. Hardly surprising, given how expensive it has become to dine out these days - a glass of beer, non-vegetarian BBQs {including fish and prawns}, main course, biryani and desserts would cost way more ordered off an a la carte menu at a comparative restaurant than the Rs.620/- odd we paid for our meal here. {I'd visited the restaurant on a Saturday. Prices vary for weekdays and dinner.}
For those unaware with the restaurant's concept, it's an unlimited bbq buffet with some theatrics involving a live grill on your table on which skewers of cooked meat / vegggies are placed along with some marinades and sauces on the side which you can dab on the skewers of your choice. There are also salads, curries, rice dishes and desserts for good measure on the buffet.We'd gone to check out the Persian food festival and here's what I thought of it.
The starters list sure was exhaustive, amongst which I loved the pistachio prawns, chilly surprise tangdi, cajun spicy potatoes, lebanese mushrooms, falafal with hummus and shish paneer. Yes, you read that right - I preferred more veggie starters than the non-vegetarian ones mainly because of tasteless basa as their fish of choice and dry and stringy chicken breast meat used in the jujeh kebabs which didn't do anything for the dishes. The mutton seekh was alright but need more flavour; the chefs seemed to have taken the 'Persian' theme seriously to a point where the prawns, mutton seekh and chicken kebabs all appeared to have the same mild marination which worked great for prawns because of their inherent mild flavour but not so much for the meats. Shame, because when they did go for full flavour the result was the delightful melt-in-the-mouth tangdi kebabs and tangy mushrooms. The cajun spiced potatoes were fried potato discs topped with a slightly spicy sauce - not too bad.
With such a barrage of starters, salads are reduced to palate cleansners or at best, accompaniments, and the curries generally become kind of obligatory. I duly avoided those and went straight for the mutton dum biryani, which looked dry at first, but was actually extremely tasty with well flavoured rice and good chunks of mutton. The western desserts were strictly average so I just stuck to gulab jamuns with vanilla icecream and falooda, both of which provided a satisfactory end to a rather heavy meal.
{P.S. - By the time you read this review the Persian food fest would've been over and dishes on a buffet rotate anyway. The point I was trying to make with the above description was about the quality, taste and variety of the food here on offer which I believe is consistent.}
Despite such a massive crowd, the service never faltered and neither was there any skimping on relatively expensive starters like prawns and mutton seekh kebab, a feat that not many restaurants can boast of on a busy weekend. Well done!
Guessing, Barbeque Nation, with it's good {not great} food at reasonable prices will continue to be massively popular.
For those unaware with the restaurant's concept, it's an unlimited bbq buffet with some theatrics involving a live grill on your table on which skewers of cooked meat / vegggies are placed along with some marinades and sauces on the side which you can dab on the skewers of your choice. There are also salads, curries, rice dishes and desserts for good measure on the buffet.We'd gone to check out the Persian food festival and here's what I thought of it.
The starters list sure was exhaustive, amongst which I loved the pistachio prawns, chilly surprise tangdi, cajun spicy potatoes, lebanese mushrooms, falafal with hummus and shish paneer. Yes, you read that right - I preferred more veggie starters than the non-vegetarian ones mainly because of tasteless basa as their fish of choice and dry and stringy chicken breast meat used in the jujeh kebabs which didn't do anything for the dishes. The mutton seekh was alright but need more flavour; the chefs seemed to have taken the 'Persian' theme seriously to a point where the prawns, mutton seekh and chicken kebabs all appeared to have the same mild marination which worked great for prawns because of their inherent mild flavour but not so much for the meats. Shame, because when they did go for full flavour the result was the delightful melt-in-the-mouth tangdi kebabs and tangy mushrooms. The cajun spiced potatoes were fried potato discs topped with a slightly spicy sauce - not too bad.
With such a barrage of starters, salads are reduced to palate cleansners or at best, accompaniments, and the curries generally become kind of obligatory. I duly avoided those and went straight for the mutton dum biryani, which looked dry at first, but was actually extremely tasty with well flavoured rice and good chunks of mutton. The western desserts were strictly average so I just stuck to gulab jamuns with vanilla icecream and falooda, both of which provided a satisfactory end to a rather heavy meal.
{P.S. - By the time you read this review the Persian food fest would've been over and dishes on a buffet rotate anyway. The point I was trying to make with the above description was about the quality, taste and variety of the food here on offer which I believe is consistent.}
Despite such a massive crowd, the service never faltered and neither was there any skimping on relatively expensive starters like prawns and mutton seekh kebab, a feat that not many restaurants can boast of on a busy weekend. Well done!
Guessing, Barbeque Nation, with it's good {not great} food at reasonable prices will continue to be massively popular.
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