Kobe Sizzlers — Restaurant in Mumbai

The service is culinary aesthetics are amazing, ambience and service is medicore, and food terrible in this sizzler oriented high priced, high volume restaurant.

If you're going here for the first time, I don't recommend it; the servers cannot confidently recommend dishes leading you to trial and guess to getting something you like. I'm going to focus on the good which can be summarized by being bland and flat out undercooked.

We went here with a family of four and ordered chili cheese toast, vegetarian sizzlers and caramel custard accompanied with iced tea.

The Chili cheese toast came first and while looked nice, had unflavored smashed potato over the bread such was covered with a thin layer of cheese and sparse chillies. Disappointing. It was not spicy and tagged like nothing and you can guess why.

The iced tea came next which I will give kudos looked really nice. It lost that appeal when i tastes it- really sweet. There was excess sugar in it.

Now onto what Kobe prices itself on, the sizzlers. Like the bread, it looked magical and eventful but in a continuing trend, the only flavor was the sauce (in my case beans) that covered the bland white noodles which encompassed over 80℅ of the "sizzler". The noodles tasted like nothing and they weren't even seasoned, they were literally heated and tossed into the sizzler. All the vegetables were raw in it also and they didn't even try to hide it- the most serious offender was the baby corn- uncut and literally drooping when picked up from one end, not to mention it's taste which one would be familiar with had they ever had corn (even the lettuce at the bottom was raw!). The French fries were stale too (wow, there wasn't even one good thing in the sizzler at this point...). I would much rather have them reduce the serving portions (this was made for a dinosaur, not a human) and come up with something that tasted a tad bit better.

Perhaps the only saving grace was the desert which was good, but nothing fascinating.

Overall, I would highly recommend NOT coming here for the evening- overlooking the food, the uncomfortable chairs which forced you to sit in a certain way, lack of music to set the mood, and weak servers made this into a rather unpleasant evening.

(Yes, that photo is hair I found...

What is most upsetting is.. Despite its popularity and reputation.. it lacks on innumerable counts. And I criticise wholeheartedly hoping improvement is an option n result.

It doesn't take Seat Reservations in Advance.. Neither personally nor by phone... seriously no logic! Give a 10min leeway at max before releasing the reservation... But a reservation facility is necessary! And with SrCtzns n Kids in tow, it's stupid to await ur turn for hours. I was with my 85yr old father and was followed by a family with a Specially Enabled Woman!!!

The Toilets are on the Mezzanine of the Restaurant.. an ordeal for my Dad, SrCtzns, Pregnant and Disabled... Sad they have never thought about evolving or maturing but only considered minting money!

Also noticed in last visit, the portions are smaller though rates higher than before, with taste n warmth of service also having dropped. Didn't see much of a difference between the Hokkaido and Chicken in Pepper Sauce Sizzler while the Scotch Broth was average with no taste of meat... Just average!

Mushrooms are not so costly but are not included in the sizzler and you have to pay extra for it nor do u get it as a replacement for a veggie you don't like. That's Unfair!

Hence, I wud only request these people to pls consider the points mentioned... You have a good reputation, maintain it. People loved and still love ur food.. But ur kanjoosi and archaic practices are not...

I'm told that Kobe Sizzlers pioneered the Sizzler as a unique and viable preparation. If this is true, then it has lived up to this immense weight of pioneering responsibility with grace and glory.

I ate my first Sizzler in the winter months of 1985 at Kobe Sizzlers. I ordered a Chicken Shashlik, preceded by Prawn Cocktails; washed down with Iced Tea, all of which I ate, nay, honked, chomped and scrunched with little ceremony of table manners - so delicious was the spread laid in front of me, sizzling with immeasurable delight. The bill was a princely sum of Rs. 27. An identical order placed in 2018 would be closer to Rs. 1500 - if not, then close.

To those reading this, you've not eaten a Sizzler if you've not eaten at Kobe. I've often seen the ubiquitous "Sizzler" in many other menus through Indian. But these are wannabe Sizzlers that don't even warrant mention when spoken in the same breath as Kobe. The only other Sizzler Parlour that comes close is Yoko Sizzlers - again in Bombay.

If eating at Kobe, do consider that they have a vegetarian offering, and it is good. However, no Sizzler is worth its salt unless made with an animal or bird honorably slaughtered to honour your palette; and this is something that Kobe has being doing forever without discernible...