Akbars in Birmingham

Upon arriving, wait for table was only 5 minutes. Nice atmosphere in the restaurant good ambience. We had a very attentive and informative server. We ordered 2 handis one was butter chicken and one was karahi gosht. Both were delicious especially the butter chicken and was made spicy as we requested it. 😋 Enjoyed the butter naan which was soft and buttery. Alongside our meal we ordered mango lassi jug which was also nice.The only negative was the table we sat on the decor needed a revamp, paint needed refreshing and seats were torn a little.Overall I would definitely recommend this place to others and would eat there again.

I loved the ambience, the staff was so quick and friendly. 4 star cuz I had bigger expectations when it comes to taste and the hype Akbar has ( as i was specially visiting from Australia and friends here recommended me), but weren't met and didn't appease my taste buds to that level. Lamb chops & chicken karahi were the only items menu I found palatable. Naan was good too and so was the presentation lovely.

An amazing place, the owners have really taken care with customer service and food is amazing. I would recommend the place superb food.

We went there as a group of 30. I think Akbars has changed drastically over two years time. Waiters were rude and looked angry most of the time. Only one waitress showed bit of happy emotions. One waiter even started showing attitude to my young colleague. Akbar is definitely not the way it used to be. Not sure if they were intimated by such big group but I was not impressed at all. Akbar has definitely lost their touch over the time or we had bad luck on that day.

Seekh Kebabs were disaster, they were so thick and bit undercooked.Chickens wings were sooo small and not worth the money.Lamb chops and chicken tikka were OK.Mains Lamb karahi was OK too.Gave us all stomachache the next day.Don’t get desserts. We tried Rasmalai, gulab jamun and Kulfi all were failures.

-Ambience is good although filthy toilets- food is below standard- lamb chops with full of spicy coated corn? flour (who does that 🙄)- lamb shank was served cold straight from fridge on top of a hot metal bowl- grill prawns were good (hence 1 star)- staff very friendly and good customer serviceOverall: not worth going for food

A great place to eat, the service is fast and the staff very polite, the menu is extensive also.I tried the mixed sea food the first night with mushroom rice. taste amazing but too much rice, order rice as a side dish, this is much more manageable.Second night, Dover sole with coconut rice, this was even better.I would definitely return to this place.

Absolutely rubbish customer service, 45 mins wait before getting seated then we found the table ‘wobble’ food presentation one of the worst ever seen 0/10 taste of kebabs was 9/10 however the curry we had 0/10 the chef’s made it even worse by throwing in full length green chilli!! Next the atmosphere 3/10 and here come Akbar special the toilets 0/10 wet floor broken tiles price of the food very expensive Unfortunately I strongly advise anyone visiting this place to think twice. We complaint to members of staff who just ignore us , they were that much busy that you can tell staff were over worked and needed a break.

Food is sub-par, like a maccies at 2am it will suffice. Waited over an hour to be seated on a weekday. Service was mediocre at best, the table we were seated on wobbled.Mens' WC were disgusting, no loo roll, broken toilets, filthy wash basin.Go spend your hard earnt money elsewhere!

Not the best service and food.The place needs a lot of improvement. The people at the reception is horrible. We were asked to wait as it was a direct walk-in, later we discovered he didn’t note down our name in the list. Wasted more than 15 minutes for their negligence. The service was horrible, they don’t bring sufficient cutlery and need to ask again and again.Food was bland. The buttery chicken was not buttery, the lamp curry was too watery. The only good part was Chicken tikka curry and family nan.Over all I won’t recommend to any food lovers.