Haji Ali — Restaurant in Bidhannagar

Dangerous and borderline lethal. This restaurant routinely serves beyond-spoiled meat with a very obvious smell poorly camouflaged by the flavours of spices . One can only imagine the hygiene standards maintained inside the kitchen. It has been 6 months since the first event, and I have "accidentally" ordered a 2nd time from this restaurant which made me recall the first event too. This time it was a keema naan, with bits of spoiled which is easy to miss in a hurry, or if you're having it with a dal or curry. First time, 6 months ago, it was way worse. We had ordered a plate of kebab from this very outlet and just upon receiving the package I felt, a smell that can be described as a mixture of tandoor spices and rotten carcass. I had never experienced this before, so i couldn't really tell it was from the food itself. Upon opening the package, the smell got worse, except when you close in, the smell disappears. Those of you who aren't familiar with this, rotten smell from meat is more prominently from a certain distance from the source, which kinda confuses the brain into thinking that the smell must be coming from somewhere else. After a tiny, extremely sour bite of rotten chicken heated, cooked, and spiced enough to camouflage the quality, my survival instinct kicked in and I deliberately threw up to eliminate the toxin from the body. Upon contacting the customer service, Swiggy as usual, taking no heed to the urgency of situation, simply refunded me the amount. Save your children and elderly members of the family. Stay away from...

Was good and simple, now seems a bit down.

The Biriyani was testy but barely warm, now who doesn't love pipeing hot chicken Biriyani. The tandoori chicken masala was simple delicious.

I was a bit worried about the 'rotten meat' issue, but I guess I am greedy 😉, but to me the food never felt or tested bad. Also the staff seems to be a little disinterested or I would say unhappy. Probably the very next day is 'Eid al-Fitr' and they are stuck in work. It felt bad...

All in all I would rate it 2 star in 5 star, where 5 is the highest.

Thanks...

Totally disappointed by cheating from the restaurant Haji Ali. They sent stale/rotten chicken biryani. It had a foul smell and tasted sour. Looks like a day old chicken mixed with rice and hence entire biryani was soiled.

Please find photos attached. We threw the rice away but captured the photos for your reference here.

Also, contacted Haji Ali, but seems like they have no shame left!

Will never ever again order from then and perhaps Swiggy as well!

Pathetic, utterly disgusting and...