Barkaas — Restaurant in Bengaluru

With dearth of options for Arabic Cuisine in Bangalore, there are few places that serve the Mandi. When I heard about this new place in town, closer to home serving authentic Arabic Cuisine & most importantly the Mandi, I was curious to try them immediately with a bunch of foodies.

What I loved immediately about Barkaas is the ambience, which for a change is decked up to match the cuisine. Comfortable family style floor seating, the Moroccan lamps with hexagon elements that screens Arabia subtly.

We started off with the house Favourite & our favourite shawarma. A Very Plain Looking Shawarma. But What This Beauty Engulfs Is Something That You Can Never Guess. One Of The Most Delicious Chicken Shawarma In A Quiet Unassuming Package Of Kuboos Bread, Mindblowing.

We did try the Mutton Shorba, which looked more like a nice meaty paaya Soup, Spicy & Delicious. I Requested For A Portion Of Pita Bread, Dipped & Ate The Soup Almost Like A Meal.

Delicious Smoky Mutton Burra Kebab Is Something That You Must Try here. The Meat Was Literally Falling Off The Bone, Such Delicate Flavours & Smoky Meat, Absolutely Delicious.

The Arabian Style Fish was another delicious one, A Whole Basa Fish Fillet Deep Fried In A Light Crumb & Some Arabian Spices, was delicious.

The Delicious Zafrani Chicken Kebab Was Stuffed To The Core With Minced Lamb & Chicken Mix, Absolutely Fabulous Idea & Wonderfully Executed & Tasted Divine.

The Shish Tawook @ Here Was A Very Smoky Beautifully Cooked Meat.

Finally the star of the show, the Massive Arabian Mixed Mandi comes with their Signature Meats From Their Lebanese Grill, Turkish Grill, Arabian Style Mutton Juicy, Arabian Spiced Fish, & Chicken Steak. While the meats were delicious, the Mandi rice itself was decent, and I was a little disappointed with the flavour in the rice. I would have expected a little more flavour.

The dessert options were plenty, & we tried the Kunafa & Kaddu Ki Kheer, Busy tasted delicious, with my few extra points going to the kheer, which was absolutely fabulous.

This place is a must visit as much as for the food as much for the ambience, do visit with...

After seeing a lot of positive reviews about this restaurant. I got a chance to visit this restaurant with my family and friends.

It was crowded due to weekend. I got seated after waiting for arnd half an hour.

We have started with Mutton shorba, Lamb chops, prawn butterfly and chicken tikka. Mutton shorba taste was good we got the nalli pieces as a part of the soup. Chicken tikka was soft and tasty too. Lamb chops was also fine but the meat portion was less than expected. Prawn butterfly was good but it had more onions, tomato than the prawns. Then we moved to main course with Arabian mix mandi rice. It has flavoured rice along with chicken BBQ pieces, Chicken Al faham pieces , one big piece and three small mutton pieces. The flavoured rice was good with cashews and deep fried onions added extra taste! The spiceness was medium so the kids was happy to eat it without any issue. The quantity was good enough for 4 people. Fish and chicken portions quantity was good and tastier. But the mutton portion was very less comparatively with more of bony pieces, it could have been better. Then we have ordered Single chicken BBQ Mandi rice and single prawn mandi rice. It took bit more time to serve it. Chicken BBQ mandi rice had nominal quantity of BBQ chicken leg piece and good amount of rice. Prawn mandi rice had less quantity of prawn and good amount of rice. Taste of chicken bbq and prawn was good.

Then we have finished with dessert like lassi and sunrise orange.

meat portion in starters is less and felt the items bit over priced. Mutton portion in arabian mix mandi rice was less and it could have been increased. Staff was courteous and kind, but the time to serve is way too long even for the dessert like lassi and orange juice.

Overall we had decent experience at...

Finally found my place to try out authentic arabian cuisine....

I see a clear difference in the taste, quality compared to other places where I tried this cuisine..Located next to Innovative Multiplex, This is surely a new option to try for those who got bored of Andhra cuisine restaurants in this area..

Been with a couple of friends & hence tried various items in the menu..

Don't miss original Shawarma, Arabian fish, mix mandi, pita bread with hummus....

Mutton Shorbah : Meaty Flavour in every sip of it.. Woww

Original Shawarma - Have it here, You wont go back anywhere to try this dish.. The bread is so soft & you can feel the freshness in every bite. #MustTry

Arabian Fish : Never seen anyone serving such a big single slice of fish.. The spices around it made the dish , Super Yumm.. Loved the dip along with it.

Pita Bread with Hummus : Best Pita Bread... Bread is so soft n one can eat it just alone itself.

Zafrani Kebab : Stuffed Chicken Kebab is juicy & flavourful..

Falafel with hummus : Not a big fan of falafel, But i really enjoyed it here..

Arabian Mix Mandi : The Big daddy of Mandi options which are available here.

It got Arabian Fish, Mutton Juicy, Lebanese Grill Chicken,Lebanese Grill, Chicken Steak as the Meat on the rice. Fish being my favourite part of it, didnt try much of other meats.. Love the sides along with it.. Enjoyed it with the rice.

Kaddu ka Kheer : More like a homemade version of Kheer.. Absolute delight.. Everyone loved it.

Kunafa : Made with mozarella cheese & Hummus , it was decent.

As they have vast seating area, I would definitely recommend this place for team lunches or get togethers with the advantage of space & for those who like to try out authentic...