Marhaba Restaurant (Olaya) — Restaurant in Municipality of Olaya

If you’re in the mood for some delicious, mouth-watering South Asian cuisine, don’t worry desi fam! I’ve got just the right place for you. Marhaba Restaurant has been around for 36 years now, as said by the manager. And in a continuously changing environment the place has managed to strive and provide consistently good dishes over the years.

We were invited to try their lunch buffet, which is reasonably priced, the place itself is well decorated, seatings are comfortable and the tables, plates and silverware were very clean. Their selection of Bread(Naan) was really good, one of the best I’ve had. They had a lot of options available for Salads as well for those who love salads. The Chicken Tawa, Fish Special, Mutton Karahi, Chicken Roghan Josh, Mutton Karahi, Vegetable Fried Rice, Chicken Tikka, Mushroom soup all were some of my absolute favorites. That’s not all though, they had more! I wasn’t able to try all of them but that won’t be the case the next time I visit, I’ll make sure of it!

For desserts they had the Creme Caramel, Kheer and Loki Halwa. The Loki Halwa and Kheer were really good, wasn’t a big fan of the Creme Caramel myself but my family ended up liking it.

The staff was super friendly and helpful and even served us some of the dishes straight on our table, the manager came and checked up ok us and asked us how we felt about the food. They really care about their customers! That’s always...

From the exterior , it looked grotty,and the interior was no different. The place needs a face-lift and a make over internally. The prices were similar to other Asian/ Pakistani/ Indian restaurants. Apparently there is a buffet at lunch time, on the weekend. The atmosphere here was...well there wasnt one. There was poor dim lighting; this was probably to stop the customers from actually seeing what they were eating. The ceiling had a nice big hole; what was it that they were trying to achieve here? We had poppadoms as starters with yoghurt sauce. Had a mixed grill platter. Both were not nice at all. The meat had a weird taste; not enjoyable at all. The platter was very small for the price charged. The butter naan was nice. The karai was more of a stew; its quite obvious that the chef doesn't know what a karai is, or maybe he thinks the customers are ignorant of this. The karai had the same weird taste as the grill platter; it was also full of bones and fat. After the meal, we ordered the keer (Rice pudding); this was the right consistency and quite sweet. The tea ( dhood putti) was extremely poor tasting. There was nothing of the meal, besides the keer, that was enjoyable. I'm surprised that no one has complained of the poor quality of food here. Weird. Recommended? Forget it! Go home , you deserve a better home cooked meal from your wife / husband than this poor...

So guys let's start with starter..

They served fresh papar with pickle and mint chatni and most special and delicious mango chatni which is most favorite of our dear admin Mohsin Jalali 😍

After introduction they offered us to place an order so we ordered following 👇🏻

Brain masala Butter chicken Peshawari mutton karhai Chicken Tikka Fish Tikka Mutton/chicken Seekh kabab Prawn biryani Butter Naan Gulab jamun Kheer Gajar Halwa Mint mojito Saudi champagne

Brain masala was very scrumptious we all loved it which make this dish on top of the list.

Butter chicken is also good in taste with extra topping of butter which enhanced the taste of butter chicken.

Peshawari karhai were something really new to me and great in taste but we recommend them to served in proper karhai to enhance more taste of karhai overall great in taste.

Fish Tikka is perfectly marinated in proper desi spiciness which give you perfect desi Tikka flavor btw our guests Sumbi felt too much spicy 😂 if you're not at all spicy lover then tell them to make less spicy food. Other dishes were also appetizing.

Especially their Butter Nan and Gulab Jamans are to die for. We have not had better naans in all of Riyadh.

Management/Owners were humble Happy to Listen and they took prompt actions on our recommendations. And we have Special surprise for Very...