Pista House — Restaurant in Santa Clara

Newly opened branch of Pista House Milipitas. Similar to the main branch, haleem is available here all year long. We have been here to taste Gongura Chicken Biryani. Once we were in the restaurant we saw most plates on every table was thali platter. So, we were tempted to give it a try but were uncertain of the taste as there were as many left overs on every table. To our surprise, it was appetizing. Every dish in thali was flavorful. It was served with two biryani scoops, couple of naan, fish curry, chicken curry, mutton curry, dal, chicken 65 & kabab, pinepapple halwa, plain rice and curd. Anything on the platter can be refilled on request. Absolutely worth every penny($14.99 during weekends and $12.99 during weekdays). If you have a great appetite you can order platter without any hesitation. We observed that there is lot of food wastage while ordering platter, hope it will be addressed by the management. Ambience also is not upto Milipitas branch and I think they are still working on improving it. Make use of cash as mode of payment for 10% additional discount. Gongura Chicken biryani is mild yet yummy. Must try. Hope they keep up the taste and quality. Update: On my recent visit we had non veg platter and potlam biryani. Potlam Biryani is a must try. They are keeping their standards intact as of now :)...

Pathetic biryani and pathetic customer experience. Visited this place on 5 Nov 2022. Took forever to place an order. Placed order for Vijayawada chicken biryani and spicy. What was served was the most pathetic chicken biryani ever. 0 spice, uncooked and hard chicken pieces and salt less than required. Customer service: Asked for the WiFi password for the Pista guest wifi as my data network was weak. The guy at reception took my phone, entered something for password and then smiled at me wickedly saying it is not getting connected. I said if the password is correct, why will it not connect to which he just smiled in a wicked way and said its just not connecting. I went back and asked my brother to get wifi password from the same guy. He went and got the wifi connected in 1st try, meaning the guy knew the password, just didnt want to put in for me. Very weird. Not...

Yummy non veg buffet which had 2 briyanis (chicken and mutton), 3 curries (butter chicken, spicy chicken curry, fish curry) and 3 appetizers (tandoori chicken, hariyali chicken, chicken fry). Both the briyanis were tasty. Spicy chicken curry was the best among the curries. Tandoori chicken with mint chutney was good, chicken fry was a bit too hard, and hariyali chicken had more added color. Guessing the menu would vary every week.

Best part is that they had a live counter for Aapam. It was really good with the chicken curry / coconut milk. When compared with non veg, the veg items in the buffet didn't really taste that good.

For take out, once tried Mutton dum briyani and was pretty good. Nice...