Shere Khan's Star City — Restaurant in Birmingham

Please Note: This is a GENUINE REVIEW, NOT FAKE REVIEW that they may have asked their mates to post! I ordered a large delivery today. The Chips were NOT chips, as stated in their Menu, as Oriental Fish and Chips, but frozen fries and the so-called Oriental Fish was a joke! It was small, dry and tasteless. I got NO salad or Garnish which I had ordered. When I phoned to complain they said they had run out of chips and sent fries instead! They would not let me speak to the Manager and the person on the phone sounded like he had escaped from the local immigration deportation centre! The Oriental fish (supposedly Cod) was LESS THAN HALF the size of a normal Cod that a typical Chip Shop sells and charges less than half the price these criminals charged! This fish they cooked for me must have been some tapped and mutated dwarf Cod they probably caught themselves from a local polluted pond or something! Me and my Family now go hungry after paying nearly £40 for this pile of rubbish! The Paneer was burnt to a crisp and inedible! The Seekh Kebabs were tasteless. The Chops were okay. I was disgusted by the poor quality of the food! Bland, Tasteless, NOT FRESH but reheated garbage! I was so annoyed and my family were upset with this. Total Rip Off...save yourself a lot of money and go to the local Chip Shop. I hardly ever write reviews but these lot don't have a clue about what customers expect for paying a premium price. Let me give them a few tips; Firstly, attend the local ESOL Course so you can speak proper English and communicate properly with those who pay your salaries. Secondly, use locally sourced fresh ingredients instead of reheating frozen rubbish. Thirdly, stop going fishing at local ponds to save money and buy fresh, normal sea fish. Normal Fish is better than tapped, dwarf mutated fish that you fish for at your ponds. Next, the customer should be respected when they legitimately complain because people like me have better things to do with their precious time than complain. You have upset me and my family, we have been disrespected and karma comes back to the perpetrators. The name of your restaurant should be changed to 'Bland Khans' and the headline should read, frozen pond life for mugs! Thank you taking the time to...

Absolutely shocking experience at Shere Khan!

I made it painfully clear to the waiter that the curry needed to be mild — no chilli, nothing spicy, not even a hint. I explained it twice. He nodded like he completely understood.

Food arrives and… It was like someone had tipped an entire bag of chillies straight into the pot.

We weren’t expecting fireworks. We just wanted dinner. Instead, both me and my mum were sat there, mouths burning, fanning our faces, downing water like we’d just completed a food challenge on YouTube. Our toddler couldn’t eat any of it. Every dish had heat. It was honestly ridiculous.

When the waiter came over and asked how everything was, we told him:

“It’s really spicy. We’ll eat what we can because we’re starving, but we won’t be coming back.”

He LAUGHED. Actually laughed — like we’d told a joke. We’d just spent over £50 on food we couldn’t eat, and he found it funny.

And then — the toilets. Oh. My. God.

Ladies’ toilets looked like something out of a horror film. Toilet paper everywhere, floor soaked, and to top it off… a spider just casually chilling on the floor like it pays rent. No lota, no hose, nothing. Just vibes and chaos. I’ve seen cleaner facilities at motorway service stations — and that’s saying something.

Between the burning curry, the laughing waiter, and the toilets that looked like they’d given up on life, this place was the definition of “never again.”

Instead of fixing anything, he offered raita as if a spoonful of yoghurt was going to undo a crime against our tastebuds. We had to ask for salad — which normally comes anyway — and then he implied we’d need to pay for it. We enjoyed the salad more than the actual food. Imagine going to a restaurant and the highlight of the meal is the lettuce.

For the price, the service, and the attitude we got, we’d have been better off going to Subway or grabbing a Tesco Meal Deal.

Left hungry. Food poisoning. Out of pocket. Feeling completely...

Shere Khan's Star City......... more like Tiger King's Shigellosis Factory, where food is prepared with Shigella dysenteriae or bad strains of E. Coli bacteria relaxing in it. Some of the food and drink seemed enjoyable taste-wise but as soon as I finished my meal, I rapidly felt very ill at the table, getting dizzy, drowsy and nauseated. It must be that lamb briyani that one of my pals said had a questionable taste and disagreeable smell but it also looked like the staff added a lot of spices to try and cover those up. I only tried a tiny portion of the briyani, about 1/4 of a spoon. But my body's immunity reacted adversely to the point where I was bound to throw up over the table. Had to scarper to the Shere Khan Star's lavatory, to vomit a bit of saliva in the toilet to try and clear the sickness caused by that bad lamb briyani.

About ten hours later, I started experiencing, repeated, gut-wrenching discomfort in my abdomen as aùwas coming back down the Welsh mountains, followed by a nasty earthquake in men's toilets in the car park facility. Then at around midnight when me and the lads were in a different restaurant in Manchester, the horrible remains of that rotten lamb briyani caused two aftershocks of dysentery accompanied with more gastrointestinal discomfort. The bad bacteria from the lamb briyani interrupted my meal twice with two more secret trips to the loo.

I sure won't be eating in Shere Khan's Star City again. Seems like the kitchen staff want their customers to eat "past the use-by-date", old, stale food with Shigella bacteria playing "hide and seek" in the spices so that we can have a gut-wrenching diarrhoea experience. I also suspect there was cross-contamination with how they store the lamb, i.e. cooked lamb together with rotten raw lamb where germs spread from, hence the foul smell of lamb briyani.

At least the drinks and chapatti were good and delivered...