Shalimar — Restaurant in Havant

Having looked at previous reviews and listening to friends who highly recommended the Shalimar we thought we would give it a go. I don't know if it was an off night or something but let's say the service was certainly not as expected... they hadn't taken our booking correctly so weren't expecting us when we arrived? Just prior to the starters arriving one of the waiters told us that one of the starters was now no longer available, meaning one of our party decided to miss out to prevent further delay. When it was time for our mains to come out 4 out of the 5 meals arrived but the 5th one took another 10 mins to appear; and if being honest the food wasn't as good as we were hoping for either, we have certainly had better; the service was pretty shoddy to say the least too. After spending 2hrs 10mins over a starter and main, we decided to opt out of looking at the desert menu as we didn't want to sit at an empty table any longer with little customer service or attention, this included waiting to be served for drinks! The final disappointing event was the after dinner mints were even soggy, clearly having been left out, probably taken from another table... If this is a common 5 star review restaurant I only hope this isn't the beginning of the end.. Buck up Shalimar, really...

Excellent curry house, the Curry’s are really nice and tasty. I have been to quite a few curry houses and have to say this one does the second best naans I have ever had. They are nice and crispy but also a little bit fluffy and not too doughy. Staff are really friendly and pleasant. It’s similarly priced to most curry houses, however it’s actually worth the value for money unlike other curry houses which serve dodgy and usually tasteless curries. One thing to note is it gets very busy on a Friday and Saturday night so I highly recommend booking a table at least a week if you want to be eating 7-7:30. I have had one disappointing experience where we booked a table for 8pm and when we arrived the queue was out the door with several people still waiting to be seated, this shouldn’t be the case if you have booked... Regardless of the one bad experience it’s a lovely place to go with families, as a couple and they also cater for larger party groups. There is parking outside along the road, however on the busy Friday and Saturday nights it can be tricky to find places to park but The Falcon Pub always has a couple of...

Came here with my partner and her parents. We pre booked and sat in a lovely little booth. The restaurant itself was lovely inside. The owners have spared no expense and it shows. My in-laws have had a takeaway from this restaurant before and they weren’t particularly impressed. As our preferred restaurant was fully booked we decided to give Shalimar a chance. Sometimes a restaurant can be better when eating in. Going by the reviews it appears to be the case here. The poppadoms where still hot and very nice. The dips that came with it were also lovely. Especially the lime pickle and mango chutney. Our mains were all lovely. We had a chicken biriani, lamb jalfrezi, chicken tikka masala, chicken tikka jalfrezi, keema nans, onion bhajis and each ordered pilau rice. Everything was delicious but we had a rice missing. We made do as we didn’t really miss it and thought it would probably have been missed by the waiter. That wasn’t the case and it was included in our bill. The only reason I gave 4 stars was for that and nothing...