Khayyam Restaurant (Birmingham) — Restaurant in Birmingham

Visited this restaurant on Saturday 28th September and I was very disappointed with food and the entertainment. The kebab koobideh was too salty, however, it wasn’t as worse as ordering a mix vegetables grill and receive 6 grilled mushrooms with a slice of lime. When I asked doesn’t this come with rice, waitress told me no, but I will ask if I can bring you rice or salad. She did bring me portion of rice but charged me £3.50 for it. So imagine paying £11.49 for 6 mushrooms and slice of lime. That’s extortion and absolutely ridiculous.

To add to the extortion price, you have to pay almost 20% service charge on top of spending minimum of £15 per person. So that’s £17.50 for 6 mushrooms (with no seasoning, just plain grilled mushrooms) and a slice of lime.

The entertainment is normally good and the music is good as well, however, on this particular night, majority of the music was sad songs as if it was a national broken heart day.

I understand that they have suffered financial loss due to covid, however, this was the case for many restaurants and instead of keeping the prices as it was before the pandemic, people are forced to pay COMPULSORY 20% service charge regardless if they liked their food and entertainment or not.

I have been to many fine dining restaurants such as The Savoy, The Maze Grill, Hakkasan, Claridges and many more restaurants and the service charge was voluntary not compulsory and it was 10% of the bill not 20%.

As much as I like to support small businesses and Persian business owners, however, I will not be returning...

I attended this restaurant yesterday evening along with a group of 10 friends. Walking into this place I’ve never seen anything like this in Birmingham as I’ve ate in numerous places. This place is much needed of refurbishment and restrooms were dirty too! But we went ahead to be seated for dinner which we got there for 8pm and everyone had arrived by 8.30pm, the seating was also very cramped and additional table had to be added which was uneven ! We ordered and waited until it was 9.45pm i asked I the waitress she’s advised a further 15 mins entertainment is available until dinner arrives ! Watch the belly dancing! Finally it was 10.10pm dinner was served, I had ordered salmon along with another friend I went ahead to trying the salmon it had a awful smell I didn’t touch any of the food ! I was horrified when the waitress I called over and she said there’s nothing wrong with it why can’t you eat it ! I said no this is not acceptable but she’s refused by saying well order something else but by this time it was too late 10.45pm ! She’s refused to refund and I ended up only with a glass of red which I paid £26 which was absolutely ridiculous! I would not recommend this restaurant to anyone who has acquired tastes and knows what good food tastes like! This certainly is...

I've been in Khayam a few times so far just because of their entertainment( live music and belly dancing). Food quality has been always bad. Strangely, they always make school boy mistakes in the bill. If you are drunk or for any other reasons you don't check your bill, you will pay some extra quids. In addition to that they charge you for service charge in the bill. The other side of the persian restaurant is their fast food shop which is separated by a door. That door is usually open and you can smell the quite old burning oil of the French fries. I do not recommend Khayam. I will not try it again. There are many other persian restaurants around, which much better quality food which don’t rob you off...