It takes a lot of courage to write a review for a restaurant where you didn't have a really good time and yet you have to be cautious with your words and control your emotions! So after waiting for about a week from my visit, I have gathered the guts to write because after all, it is our duty for the sake of humanity, to guide them about a good or bad place, especially where food is involved, since food is further linked to your health, your precious time with loved ones and of course money!
Royal Buffet Hub is one and only Buffet restaurant in Sunny Enclave and I guess in major portion of greater mohali which covers the Kharar Chandigarh road belt. Also, there's no other fine dining restaurant better than this one (when i say better than this one , that doesnt mean this one is the best), Gopals, KFC, Subway cannot be included in fine dining restaurants! Also, Royal Buffet Hub has a party club in parallel, due to which it draws a lot of attention from the residents of Kharar and Greater Mohali.
Considering the ambience, because of a party hall beside the restaurant, there is a continuous noise and nuisance coming from the banquet and there's no privacy for both party guests and the restaurant diners. The interiors are average, with a few tables here and there and an interesting ceiling with lights and chandeliers, half of which are out of order.
My review is on the basis of the a`la carte food, since I thought it would be a big risk to eat a buffet here, as this place already looked average, I wanted to try their a'la carte, because that's where the restaurant gives out its best quality. So I planned to order one starter from each section , a common kind of soup and later Indian main course with some common not so special dishes so that I could judge better.
To begin with, the service....well, the service was quite slow even for the buffet eaters, and sadly, when starters were brought out from the kitchen they went to the party first and then the luke warm remanents of starters were served to the buffet eaters. When we wanted to place our order, all the servers were quite aloof and uninterested too. Our order was...potato jackets, paneer lollipop and sweet corn soup....we somehow preferred to place the rest of order later by sampling at least two starters first. And then came the surprise when the waiter told us that they can't make potato jackets. Well, the name is quite different, but I don't think anything with potato in it would be so hard to make and moreover, I haven't asked for fish in summer, its just potatoes! which are available anywhere everywhere! Still, we gave it a pass and stuck to just one starter. If they are not ready to serve the food they have mentioned on the menu, then please remove those items from the menu, don't mislead the customers.
The soup was blackened with black pepper, in fact, it was pepper soup with a little sweet corn in it! It was almost like the soup you get in winters at the soup counters outside small food joints! It was a good tonic for bad throat though!
Then came the paneer lollipop! Pictures attached! I wonder why it was named as paneer lollipop, all it had was potatoes stuffed in it with a little trace of crushed paneer, and fried in some stale oil. These fried bullets were covered in Manchurian sauce and topped with raw julienne of onions! The whole arrangement tasted like aloo tikki at some chat street, the only difference was in place of sweet tamarind sauce, there was salt-less manchurian sauce. And not to forget, to give it the shape of lollipop, these bullets were stabbed with toothpicks at their ends!
Uptill this point, our taste-buds were completely numb and it was hard to bear any more bad food! We cancelled our plan to order any more food here and moved to a more trusted restaurant.
A foodie seeking good quality of food would rather starve than going to this place.
Royal Buffet Hub is one and only Buffet restaurant in Sunny Enclave and I guess in major portion of greater mohali which covers the Kharar Chandigarh road belt. Also, there's no other fine dining restaurant better than this one (when i say better than this one , that doesnt mean this one is the best), Gopals, KFC, Subway cannot be included in fine dining restaurants! Also, Royal Buffet Hub has a party club in parallel, due to which it draws a lot of attention from the residents of Kharar and Greater Mohali.
Considering the ambience, because of a party hall beside the restaurant, there is a continuous noise and nuisance coming from the banquet and there's no privacy for both party guests and the restaurant diners. The interiors are average, with a few tables here and there and an interesting ceiling with lights and chandeliers, half of which are out of order.
My review is on the basis of the a`la carte food, since I thought it would be a big risk to eat a buffet here, as this place already looked average, I wanted to try their a'la carte, because that's where the restaurant gives out its best quality. So I planned to order one starter from each section , a common kind of soup and later Indian main course with some common not so special dishes so that I could judge better.
To begin with, the service....well, the service was quite slow even for the buffet eaters, and sadly, when starters were brought out from the kitchen they went to the party first and then the luke warm remanents of starters were served to the buffet eaters. When we wanted to place our order, all the servers were quite aloof and uninterested too. Our order was...potato jackets, paneer lollipop and sweet corn soup....we somehow preferred to place the rest of order later by sampling at least two starters first. And then came the surprise when the waiter told us that they can't make potato jackets. Well, the name is quite different, but I don't think anything with potato in it would be so hard to make and moreover, I haven't asked for fish in summer, its just potatoes! which are available anywhere everywhere! Still, we gave it a pass and stuck to just one starter. If they are not ready to serve the food they have mentioned on the menu, then please remove those items from the menu, don't mislead the customers.
The soup was blackened with black pepper, in fact, it was pepper soup with a little sweet corn in it! It was almost like the soup you get in winters at the soup counters outside small food joints! It was a good tonic for bad throat though!
Then came the paneer lollipop! Pictures attached! I wonder why it was named as paneer lollipop, all it had was potatoes stuffed in it with a little trace of crushed paneer, and fried in some stale oil. These fried bullets were covered in Manchurian sauce and topped with raw julienne of onions! The whole arrangement tasted like aloo tikki at some chat street, the only difference was in place of sweet tamarind sauce, there was salt-less manchurian sauce. And not to forget, to give it the shape of lollipop, these bullets were stabbed with toothpicks at their ends!
Uptill this point, our taste-buds were completely numb and it was hard to bear any more bad food! We cancelled our plan to order any more food here and moved to a more trusted restaurant.
A foodie seeking good quality of food would rather starve than going to this place.