i had heard much about this place and how i should check it out if i ever travel to srinagar, because of how great they are if you're looking for a good traditional kashmiri restaurant. apparently it's been run for over a century. and to be honest, i'm a food fanatic. it doesn't matter if i'm at laduree in paris or karim's at chandnichowk, i savour the experience equally because of the unique experience they offer. but this place, oh, god, this place. let me begin with how tasteless the mutton was. i was surprised that they haven't even perfected the way they should be cooking mutton. we ordered mutton rogan josh and tabak maaz. i would have gone for wazwan but i wanted to try this place first and see if i should ever return, and i know, i shouldn't. the mutton felt like it was boiled and dipped into a very random gravy and the tabak maaz had honestly no flavour that'l it's supposed to have. it literally felt like a saltless boiled pieces of mutton crisped from the outside. now you can imagine how bad that tastes. i was still ready to let things go and call it a day when the waiter after us having paid an enormous bill for shitty food tbh, kind of started asking for more tip because he wasn't satisfied with the amount we paid. to remind you, we already paid service tax and we wanted to be courteous so we decided to pay him some.
i've travelled around the world and had food in places, but this place is carrying on just in the name of its establishment and it feels like they've given up caring on how food should taste or how customer service works. i believe the waiters need to be trained first in they shouldn't bully a customer into paying them more. it makes the whole experience soiled. i just wanted to get out of this place as soon as i was done with the food because of how the waiter started to kind of act.
please save yourself and don't ruin your meal and your penny and rather go to some better restaurants here. i'm going to to that myself for the rest of my stay.