Restaurant Review - Khyber

Khyber is a restaurant in the financial heart of southern Bombay, and was full of business people on the lunch-time when we visited.  It has a large 250 seat restaurant set over a couple of floors, with numerous rooms.  Its décor tries to give a frontier feel, with mock stonework and murals.  There were vast numbers of smartly-dressed waiters.

Achari tikka, which involves pieces of chicken in a mustard marinade then cooked in a tandoor, was perhaps the best dish, fairly tender and with the spices working nicely (3/10).  Prawn tikka in itself had fairly tender prawns, but was lukewarm in temperature, which detracted from the dish (2/10).  A mushroom and pea curry worked quite well, the vegetables properly cooked and the spice mix enjoyable (2/10). Aloo gobi featured potatoes that were fine but cauliflower that was significantly undercooked (1/10). A naan was quite good, the texture just a fraction harder than ideal (3/10) and a romali roti very good, freshly made and enjoyable (4/10). 

The bill was quite fair, at just GBP 18 per person for a substantial lunch and beer.  Yet overall I thought the cooking was rather careless in places for a place that has good reviews in many guides; it was a least priced quite fairly, not going for the same high pricing level that seems common in restaurants in Bombay hotels.