Shahnai Restaurant

I love coming here. Food is good. For a buffet it's decent. Small selection but when your hungry and wanna try something new , it works.

Mediocre experience for a buffet. Pros: Food was decent. They had an acceptable variety of food such as haleem, chicken tikka masala, a couple different types of rice, etc. Soft drinks were also included with the buffet. I enjoyed the food.Cons: Over the phone, the manager was very friendly, and he told me that the buffet price was $15.99 ($17.31 with tax). But at the restaurant, he charged about $21 total. They added additional fees without telling me. When I questioned the total price, they just said it was the price after tax. But when I showed them that the price increase was way beyond the tax, they said that they added a tip already. And the credit card slip didn't indicate that the tip was already included. Very deceptive and unclear.The bathrooms smelled terrible, like maybe they had a sewage issue. It was not pleasant to eat at the restaurant with that smell.Hopefully they fix their service issues and their bathrooms. Their buffet is one of the more affordable ones in the area, so it would be good to have this as an option, as long as they resolve their issues.

I've been coming here for about 15 years. The food is always excellent and the butter chicken is the best of any restaurant I've tried. (Seriously, try the butter chicken. It's the best.) Also try the Crown Kulfi ice cream. Simply outstanding!

I was really happy to see that they have a buffet since many are still not open. I love buffets. You get exactly what you want in the right portions. There are about fifteen main dishes including two or three beef, four chicken, goat, vegetable caseroles, daal and biryani. The salad and dessert table has about ten items including a great mint raita. The disappointment was that they didn't have unsweetend tea. Of course, the buffet comes with fresh naan serviced quickly. As others may have mentioned, the dinner manager is obsessed with his cell phone to the point of not noticing customers that need service.

It was a decent experience. We weren't sure what to expect but after going to a few different spots serving this type of cuisine, we finally decided to try this place.We were looking for an AYCE place. There's a few Indian type restaurants in this area because were in the Mahatma Ghandi section of town so you had Indian, Afghani, Pakistani, Himalayan, Persian, all within a square mile radius, perhaps even bigger. You just had to choose your spot.The food was interesting. Very subtly spicy. Maybe my taste buds can take heat but not my sweat glands. It kind of just creeps up on you. Lots of different city style dishes but no chicken tuna masala or lamb curries which is my favorite. They did have the tandoori chicken and some fish. There was also goat, at least I assumed it was goat due to it being very bony with not much meat.We were served the naan bread even though that was also a slightly non-traditional not being very fluffy.It all had a nice flavor but I'm still looking for a really good traditional Indian buffet and I know I'll find one eventually. Dinner on a weekend will set you back about $18 which I feel is a little too high but know that lunch is cheaper.I could come back if my arm is twisted but probably not a place high on my list for Indian type cuisines.

TLDR: Very unprofessional and doesn't respect people time.I have a togo order. I come to the restaurant and it is slow time. The owner forgets to put the order in to let the cook know and he told me 5 mins. Thats fine. then he sit down to chit chat with his friends. After 10 minutes of waiting, I see an employee also talking with another customer. I ask her about my order. She returned to the kitchen and came back to tell me to wait for 10 more mins. GOD DAMN! These people are too busy talking to each other to care about customers. Actually there was a customer come after and leave before me which add more salt into my injury :)

Tucked inside a large shopping center, Shania Restaurant is truly a hidden gem.First and foremost, we found out the hard way that Indian restaurants typically don't offer buffet style dinners on the weekends. After calling at least 10 various restaurants, Shahnai was 1 of 2 that offered a dinner time buffet. After researching on yelp, the picture for this place looked pretty good so we decided to give it a try.The dinner buffet (weekday and weekends) is only $10.99, which is very reasonable for their many offerings! The lunch buffet rings in at a whopping $1 cheaper.It was pretty empty when we walked in Saturday night around 6:30, but we weren't deterred by that as our stomachs growled. We went straight to the buffet and were pleasantly greeted by a plethora of Indian items: saag paneer, chicken tikki masala, chickpeas and cauliflower, lo mein (okay this doesn't really fit in), biriyani, goat curry, chicken kebabs, and more. Even though the place was relatively quiet (I heard a warning once that you don't go to a empty buffet cause the food will be old and cold, since there's no incentive for the cook to bring out new fresh foods!), I felt that the food was still fresh and hot.As we sat down, the skies opened up and a basket of naan descended upon us...hallelujah. Unfortunately, the naan didn't appear very fresh as it was cold and some pieces were even a bit tough to chew.No worries though, because as soon as I tasted the saag paneer, everything bad in the world disappeared. The taste of this saag paneer was on point. My favorite saag paneer to date (and I've been on many dates with different saag paneers...) I enjoyed it so much, I went back for seconds, and then thirds. The rest of the meats and curries were pretty darn good too (the lo mein was surprisingly appetizing, the chickpea curry was flavorful, and the chicken kebab was tasty and juicy.)All in all, I would definitely come back here for an Indian craving. Don't pass on this place just because it's tucked deep inside a shopping center in Hillcroft.Bonus round: the buffet offers mango lassi included on the buffet price!

Five stars..3rd class service and food They have served us rotten Bryani and everyone got sick because meet was rotten...and sad is they don't even apologize or anything. Mr Nasser is very cheap business person No customers respect or regard..This place needs to shut down because serving rotten and old food ..they are Five star tutee maker

0 flavor what so eve. felt akward they didn't seem friendly. The food didn't look good either. save your money and go to biryani pot.

I ordered delivery thru Uber Eats.The prices were very reasonable, and more affordable than many other Indian food delivery options. The Saag Paneer was pretty good in flavor, but very slim on paneer, only 4-5 chunks in the entire order. The chicken Korma was terrible; big chunks of chicken that were as much bone as meat, and the sauce had a layer of oil sitting on top that was SO GROSS. And it tasted nothing like korma. The Naan was greasy and tough.