The Ancient Barbeque

Every time there is a new restaurant nearby I always find time to try it. Recently I went to The Ancient Barbeque in H-27/1A sector 63.  This restaurant serves a preset buffet menu which comprises of assorted kebabs, a wide range of main course menu and desserts, along with complementary beverages.

Ambience

The ambience is pleasant however all such restaurants offering a buffet menu such as barbeque nation, legends grill tend to have similar appearance making it quite monotonous and boring.

The idea of the open kitchen is nice and makes place interesting

I would give it

 

 

 

 

Food

The starters included all u can eat servings of amritsari fish, chicken hari mirch tikka, chilli grilled prawns, salsa potatoes and paneer and mutton tikka. Food was average at best. Some of the dishes like the paneer tikka and the prawns were good but all the other dishes were sub par. Amritsari fish was bland and the fish was too thinly sliced making it real tough to bite.

The chicken hari mirch was bland and tasteless and so was the mutton tikka. The only saving grace during the entire entrée was the salsa potatoes which was beautiful and tasty.

For starters

 

 

 

Main course

We started the main course with fish and chicken salad, lemon rice noodles along with chicken in schezwan sauce and chilli soya chicken. The Indian section consisted of mutton rogan josh, chicken tikka masala and Tandoori roti.

The main course was sub par again. There were a few glimpses of tasty food with a delicious lemon rice and chicken schezwan sauce, but the other dishes fell flat. They were mostly one dimensional, bland and lacked any taste.

The Tandoori roti was tough and burnt at places, the salad a little too salty for my taste and the Indian curries failed to provide anything new.

 

For the main course

 

Desserts

For desserts we had nutty brownie, mango cake and strawberry cake. The desserts were far better than the other courses, the brownie was beautifully balanced with the slight salty crunch of the nuts and the sweet chocolate and the mango cake had a delightful flavour.

For desserts

 

 

Overall the food was disappointing

I would give it

 

                                                      

 

 

 Service

The service was not up to the mark, the waiters looked lost and slightly pushy. The manager and the chef were a little too excited to know how their food was, which was quite disturbing, after a point.

My verdict don’t go, not something anyone will enjoy after spending almost Rs. 600 on the buffet.