horrible experience. shere-e-punjab located in media, p.a. is the kind of restaurant that puts off people from trying indian cuisine a second time.
even for those of us with a life-long passion for indian cuisine and ever ready to eat any kind of curry without complaint, shere-e-punjab food leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
our recent meal at shere-e-punjab was a chronicle of one disaster following another.
right from the moment we sat down, we hit one rough spot after another. of course, we are no strangers to bad indian restaurants.
but usually even at the worst indian restaurants we visit, at least one item - maybe it's the tandoori chicken or alu baigan or the humble masala chai - is nice.
shere-e-punjab, however, belongs to that unfortunate category of indian restaurants that has absolutely no reason for existence. not a single item we had at this so-called indian restaurant was even passable let alone tasty.
chicken biryani was an utter travesty of a dish. lacking any flavor or adequate rice, it was enough to drive an indian to despair. plain and simple, it was just partially cooked chicken. that too, just 2 small pieces.
naan is our favorite indian bread and we usually gravitate to it when we dine out. the naan we had at shere-e-punjab should easily count among the worst naans we've had in over four decades. it was really over-cooked.
but the booby prize for the worst dishes at shere-e-punjab were shared by chicken makhani and palak paneer.
although the menu describes chicken makhani as "boneless tandoori chicken cooked in creamy tomato sauce and butter". it was a bland, bad-tasting under-spiced mess.
palak paneer was equally pitiful. the paneer (cheese) was way too hard and the overall effect was of chewing on a rubber at the end of a pencil.
when we placed our order, we had requested that we'd like everything hot and spicy. but what landed on our table was extra mild.
was the chef on some kind of strike or protest? when we asked the female mgr. she stated - "just add some green chutney and it'll be ok!.
kulfi is a sweet dish from west bengal in the eastern part of india. one of our favorite sweets, we've had it countless times to great delight.
but what appeared on our table was a little mass of white custard pudding in a little plastic container smaller than a golf ball. it was a vile, sour-tasting liquid that had as much resemblance to milk as mud has to caviar.
forget palatable.
much of the food at shere-e-punjab is barely tasteful. watch out for your cholestrol level- everything is filled with butter. our meal at shere-e-punjab in media, p.a. was misery of an order that we'd seldom experienced at a dining table. - yeah, it sucked that bad.
don't fall for the dark ambient room, its a ploy so you don't know what you are getting on your plate. hope this review was helpful.
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