Shalimar
Austin, TX 78753
Phone: (512) 719-3700
- Price:
- $
- Hours:
- Sun-Thu 11:15pm-11pm, Fri-Sat 11:15am-11:30pm
Editorial Review for Shalimar – by Citysearch Editors
In Short
Salmon booths with cutout wood backs and a lonely cuckoo clock marking the time clash with the Pakistani and Indian menu. The clientele is mostly Indian and Pakistani folks, some of whom actually pay attention to the cricket match on the TV. Beef samosas are deep-fried and stuffed with ground beef and onions; cool mint chutney counteracts the chilies. A bakery counter is filled with multicolored burfis made from milk, sugar and nuts.
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Insider Tips
The ExtrasOne corner of the restaurant is a little shop selling spices (fresh cardamom, caraway seed, betel nut), packaged sweets, and imported cigarettes (Dunhills).
Save MoneyWeekdays, there's a lunch buffet from 11:30am to 3pm for around $7.
What to DrinkShalimar doesn't have a liquor license, but you can quench your thirst and your sweet tooth with a mango shake or some sugar cane juice, fresh-squeezed while you wait.
User Reviews for Shalimar
07/10/2008 Posted by holly76
I went to this restaurant once and I think I wouldnt wanna go there again...Their buffet was aweful, I ordered chicken katakat and my husband took buffet because I hated buffet items just by looking at them (greasy, stale) All the time that I was eating my food, One waitress kept a strict eye on me so that I do not take anything from my husband's plate...In the end, when I couldnt eat that 4 year old chicken salan, I told that waitress to give me a to-go-box...she brought a to-go box with an attitude and said that she would put my food in it because that poor lady thought that I would steal away there stale unhiegenic food...that was humiliating to the level that I wont go there again...Please Shalimar people, I am not interested in your single dish and would not steal away your buffet food for sure...Have some life!!!
Pros: none
Cons: unprofessional staff, stale food, far from authentic taste
06/07/2008 Posted by LZFox
I LOVE Indian food but this was too greasy to enjoy. the food wasn't bad but wasn't worth the trek up north and the guilt afterwards about injesting that much oil. There was virtually no service at all. Just seat yourself and buss your own table. Paid the guy at the front between his phone call conversation. Really was like we were invisible. Wasn't very clean. Not having any service is better than bad service though. A great meal can make up for poor service. This wasn't a great meal.
Pros: ummmm....wasn't terriable
Cons: location, food, atmoshphere, service
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