Shalimar Grill and Banquet in Scarborough

50 Danforth Rd, Scarborough, ON M1L 3W4, Canada

★★★★☆
(487 reviews)
Categories: Pakistani restaurant Banquet hall Family restaurant Indian restaurant Takeout restaurant
Website
shalimargrill.ca
Address
50 Danforth Rd, Scarborough, ON M1L 3W4, Canada
Plus Code
MPWF+4F Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Time Zone
America/Toronto

Business Hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
12–7 PM
Wednesday
12–7 PM
Thursday
12–7 PM
Friday
12–7 PM
Saturday
12–7 PM
Sunday
12–7 PM

Services

Service options
Delivery Takeaway Dine-in
Accessibility
Wheelchair-accessible entrance
Offerings
Halal food Late-night food Small plates
Dining options
Breakfast Brunch Lunch Dinner Catering Dessert
Amenities
Toilets
Atmosphere
Casual
Crowd
Groups
Planning
Accepts reservations
Payments
Credit cards NFC mobile payments

Photos

Reviews

3.8
★★★★☆
487 reviews

Most Mentioned

biryani (35) breakfast buffet (25) naan (25) spicy (14) party (9) to go (8) paya (7) BBQ (7) brunch (5) payment (5)
5 stars
238
4 stars
92
3 stars
68
2 stars
21
1 stars
68
★★★★★
March 8, 2024

Shalimar Grill's chicken biryani is an absolute delight for the senses. The aroma of fragrant spices immediately whisks you away to the streets of South Asia. Each bite is a perfect harmony of tender chicken and perfectly cooked rice, infused with layers of flavor that dance on your palate. It's a culinary masterpiece that keeps you coming back for more. Highly recommended for anyone craving an authentic and delicious biryani experience!

September 30, 2023

This is the worst place ever.. I called minimum 10 times for my daughter's birthday party. Every time they say "come after 12 pm any day". I went there 3 times in 2 weeks and every single door was closed. I again called and asked if their restaurant is open! This is the worst customer service ever! They don't even care for anything. I have the worst experience of my life with this restaurant. If you're not open, why did you hang the sign "we're open"....

June 13, 2023

Me and my friend were too hungry and this restaurant was close to us. So we decided to take our lunch at this one. Firstly restaurant was clean and staff was friendly and professional. But the issue was with the food. We tried their two lunch specials that was Butter Chicken with Garlic Naan and Chicken Biriyani. Both of them were WORST!!!!!! Butter Chicken, it was not made with butter ig. It was made with tomato sauce however the color looks good tho taste was awful. The garlic naan which doesn’t have any garlic flavour and was not that soft. Chicken biriyani, the chicken was not too good, not bad, like its okay but the biriyani rice was smelling bad. We complained and the staff did apologised but didn’t end up with a solution. They offered “A free drinks” instead of replacing the food which was too funny. I wouldn’t RECOMMEND anyone to go this place.

February 16, 2023

FOOD IS LITERALLY NO WHERE NEAR STANDARDS, IT WAS SO BAD EXPERIENCE. THEY MICROWAVED AND GAVE US STALED FOOD. WE LEFT THE RESTAURANT WITHOUT EATING AND HAD TO PAY FOR FOOD TOO. DON NOT WASTE YOUR TIME COMING HERE.

★★★★
August 31, 2019

Food is fresh and good value for money. Ordered the combo for two which included chicken biryani, karahi chicken, two chicken kebabs and 2 naans. We ordered an extra naan and we still had leftover biryani! Like the service and quality. Came with a salad too and some lovely mint raita.

★★★★
May 11, 2019

Nice & clean place. Delicious south asian food. Friendly staff.

★★★★★
March 18, 2019

One of the best Pakistani resturents. Great tasting food and the best naan in the GTA. Don't forget to try their Kulfi. Strongly recommended.

September 26, 2018

We went to try biryani here with my friends. Clean and quite place. But to be honest didn’t like the food at all. The quality of the food is too low. We tried sheek kebab, butter chicken, naan, Halim and birayni. Normally all the places do halim with cube beefs or chicken so we ordered, supposed to see there was no beef than we asked the staff they saying it’s mixed and blended with halim. Trust me that halim was the worst halim I tried ever in my life. But the presentation of the food is nice. Price is reasonable. Only thing I am giving 1 star as food taste was noting was excepted. That’s all matters.

★★★★★
Local Guide
May 23, 2024

Great fresh food served daily !

December 23, 2023

Drove by the place on Wed night, seems it was closed. Go to other places nearby, this one doesnt seem like it can function at all. Avoid this one. Years ago when this place was Tabaq Restaurant it was really nice but now it has gone downhill after being sold several times.

★★
December 23, 2023

Worst ever Tandoori Chicken Leg !! Seems he has given me fried one. Chicken was not even fresh. Absolutely not recommended at all.

★★★★★
December 23, 2023

Food was exactly the way I asked for and fast without compromising quality . Excellent job .Thank you staff I will be back

Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Every single time I try to order, they say its catering only today, call back tomorrow. They tell me the same the next day. When I ask why they keep doing this, they laugh and hang up. Dishonest liars!

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Sekh kabab is not fresh and jucy at all. Price are expensive, food is spicy, biryani is not fresh stale. Very less customer hardly 1 or 2, that is why atomsphere is good.

December 23, 2023

This place is close on weekends

★★★★★
December 23, 2022

Today I went to have breakfast with my friends I had an awsome experience very delicious food and best service I would recommend anybody specially to those who wants good food in a friendly environment with great service. The owner him self was looking after customers and was greeting warmly.

Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Came here to attend a banquet party. Right when I walked in there was a really odd smell in the room!!! The food is also not up to par and the washrooms are horrible!!! Not a place to hold a banquet party! A would not recommend at all!!

Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Butter chicken is actually ketchup sauce in chicken. Biryani has zero taste like absolutely no taste.. you cannot taste a single ingredient not even salt. Naan is a store bought naan! Highly disappointed.

★★★★★
December 23, 2022

Delicious food and attentive staff, plus the hygiene was taken care of. Keep it up!

★★★★★
December 23, 2022

Customer service was very good, food was delivered quick and tasted delicious. Clean restaurant, would recommend.

★★
December 23, 2022

Do not order boneless chicken. It s as good as chicken with bones. You ll find visible fragments of bones. The quality of the food is decent. 3/10 would recommend it.

Local Guide
December 23, 2022

They have bad customer service and there food doesnt taste good. I ordered some Naans over the phone the other day and went to get it. But they said they did not get the order even though I called them. They made me wait there for a long time. I would never go there again. I also would suggest you to not go as well.

★★★★★
December 23, 2022

The biryani was excellent. Its a good place. The person was really polite. Thank you!

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2021

Ok

December 23, 2021

The food is not upto standard. Kabab meat was rubbery and old. Customer service was bad also.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2021

Good Pakistani food!

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2021

Please update the hours or if you are open or closed on Google. We came here to find the restaurant was closed...please update! Thank you!

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2021

Very expensive.

★★★★★
December 23, 2021

Hygiene was taken care of very well and food was delicious, as well as good customer service. Definitely would recommend.

★★★★
December 23, 2021

This place is great. The food looks and tastes delicious

★★★★★
December 23, 2021

Simply the best

December 23, 2021

Rice of this restaurant is nice, but why I should buy only for rice while I pay for Biryani? On September 2, 2021 around 1 pm, I buy one chicken and one veal biryani for $19.04. While I open at home, I just get very very small 2 pieces of chicken equivalent to quarter of a chicken thigh. In case of veal, a small piece of meat and a small bone. Is it worthy for $19.04? While I ask them that I found you provide pop with chicken biryani, then the provide me one. But 2 days ago while I bought chicken biryani while I dont know about pop, they never give me that one. Another annoying thing to me the wait period for around 20 minutes. Should customer wait for 20 minutes for a simple rice? I tell them that I called four times to do order by phone to save time. They check their phone and find my call. Their excuse is people ask them too much question over phone so they dont like to receive call. NEVER WOULD GO THEIR AGAIN.

★★★★★
December 23, 2021

The biryani is lip smacking it reminds you of traditional flavours from back home. Also the palak chicken and karahi has to be tried

December 23, 2021

Even if I get zero I wish I could put that for this silly restaurant taste is so bitter then any restaurant in the whole gta I ordered Brian masala which tasted like bitter gourd n spent 14 $ price is never issue for me if the food is worth paying trust me please guys dont visit this restaurant dont waste ur time n money also ur weekend will be wasted

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2021

Not the best quality but tastes good and prices are low as well.

★★★
December 23, 2021

I know the food is good but it s annoying when the hours don t match. It says they open at 12 but they clearly aren t

★★★★★
December 23, 2020

Always delicious.

★★★★★
December 23, 2020

A wonderful and spiritually uplifting place to visit

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Average breakfast, service is really slow,usually empty

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

I have eaten at a number of Indian restaurants and the food here was excellent. My wife lived in Pakistan for a number of years. The best we have ever eaten.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Excellent taste of food. They have the best chicken biryani. Customer service is amazing and owner is very friendly. 5/5.

Local Guide
December 23, 2020

New employees are highly unprofessional, some one put me on hold for 10 minutes over a phone call and didnt respond. Way to go.

★★★★★
December 23, 2020

Its nice food . I ordering chicken tikka and naan. its very good taste .especially naan I love it.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

The best chicken tandoori and seekh kebabs in the town. Very reasonable price and amazing service by Salman. Will visit this restaurent again. Highly recommended.

★★★★★
December 23, 2020

Food was tasty and I would love to go there again as well

★★★★★
December 23, 2020

Today I visit my friend I eat food.its amazing day by day taste change and good service.....thanks all staff for good service

★★★★★
December 23, 2020

one of the best places ive ever went to. the food was great and spicy .didnt have to wait that long and room was very well decorated.would take someone with me next time.

★★★★★
December 23, 2020

Try magaz masala, it s great

★★★★★
December 23, 2020

It was an amazing place full of great food and spicy food I would definitely come here lots of more times 10 out of 10

★★★★★
December 23, 2020

Today we went for lunch, food was tasty specialy spicy chicken karhai . Good costumer service, owner was nice,welcoming costumers .

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

The sunday brunch was excellent with choices of nehari, paya, channe, aloo, and halwa. They also served puri, but their naans were very tasty. They also had sweet lassi, and it was delicious.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

best breakfast buffet

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Weekend breakfast buffet deal is awesome

★★★★
December 23, 2020

Amazing Halwa Puri Breakfast Good Service Friendly environment BBQ Dark Chicken Is amazing Crispy Fresh Nana with BBQ is Yummy !!! Had great experience hosting my Daughters Birthday party Feb 15 All our guest Loved the food & Sweet Lassi

Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Smell in biryani

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Food is excellent but place to sit is very congested

★★★★
December 23, 2020

Great diverse range of South Asian food to share with friends for lunch.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Today I went shalimar along with friends for breakfast buffet. Environment is okay for Indian/South Asian peoples. In there buffet there is no chicken items which was pretty surprising because many people don t eat beef. Lassi was sweet and tasty. Had to call waiters couple of times to place an order of poori/ naan which was annoying. Apart from this others were good. Foods were tasty.

Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Very poor quality. Breakfast buffet has only few item, no refills, asked 2-3 times for nun/luchi. The server completely ignored it & kept us waiting. Definitely a horrible experience for a foodie. Not recommended.

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Average weekend breakfast buffet. Best was Paaya and Lassi.

★★★★★
December 23, 2020

Great desi breakfast buffet. Service was great.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

A typical desi food restaurant.

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Chichk Kabab is tasty! Veal Birani tastes average...

★★★★★
December 23, 2020

Amazing food and price is reasonable, Nice place

Local Guide
December 23, 2020

They sell Bone Biryani not Veal Biryani. Three visits and bad experiences in a row. GOODBYE!

★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Not that good

December 23, 2020

Never trust this restaurant with party orders. Big time cheats. Overpriced, no customer generosity and most importantly give you stale food in party order. Have experienced this with mutton biryani order. I was ashamed in front of my guests. Next day when we called the incharge to inquire about same, he merely said he will ask his cook and update us. But the incharge if this restaurant never called or apologized. We also kept the biryani food as it is for them to check. I was disgusted that how inconsiderate these people are. They have no customer values and most importantly number 1 cheaters because they charge high price for not so quality food. Please google other options for asian cuisine nearby same area which are reasonably priced for good food( atleast not STALE)

★★
December 23, 2020

They used to have really good chicken wings here. But recently they have been giving us stale tasteless wings that feel weeks old. Maybe its due to staff reductions or whatever but we ordered it again on different days and gave it some more chances but it remains very very stale. Will not be going back

Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Just tried the chicken biryani - not a pleasant experience at all. Old rice used... microwaved ...stale taste. Will not recommend anyone.

Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Never had such bad food. The kebab was raw and the biriyani had no taste. Really really bad!

Local Guide
December 23, 2020

For saltless & zero taste biriyani.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Best murgh chanay n naan ever ate.. just reduce the rate of extra naans plz

Local Guide
December 23, 2020

I would give it -1 star if possible. Terrible service! The server was very rude. Never brought up the menu and assumed that we were there for their breakfast platter. Brought 2 of them but we only wanted 1. We accepted 1 but when we were paying the bill, he was extremely rude saying that we returned one of his breakfast platter (which we never even ordered in the first place!!!) We further had to wait for 30 mins to get cutlery. Highly disappointed

December 23, 2020

Today I went there They give us microwave food and i recomend my friends to go there with me. but today I went with my friends and I am very disappointed with the food they give and I am really disappointed today

★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Food was average but not fhF

December 23, 2020

Garbage stay home!

December 23, 2020

This place is a biggest repoff and con artist I ordered one paya plate and 2 nan First he charged me $19.47 And when I yelled at him about the price he dropped to dollars and still charge me $17.13 . This was not dead but it is a horrible way of dealing with the customer

December 23, 2020

I urge anyone planning to hold a banquet event here to take their business elsewhere. Management is full of completely unprofessional, dishonest, and immoral people. The front desk representative (Raheem T. according to the name on the receipt) has no customer service skills. You will not get any fair treatment here. In January 2020, I had booked a wedding-related party for early July 2020. I put down the requested down payment of $500 plus tax. There was no contract provided but simply a receipt (considering they are a small business, I assumed they probably just worked on an honour system). In July, as other venues held events with a limit of up to 30% of the venue s capacity, Shalimar advised me that they will not honour the agreed upon date for my event nor would they allow the event to take place at an alternate date in July with a reduced number of guests. I accepted their rationale for not wanting to risk getting fined. I asked Raheem, who originally accepted my down payment, to at least reimburse half of it as neither of us anticipated the pandemic. There was no logical reason to keep my down payment in its entirety if no service was actually provided. Raheem says that though there is no written contract, it is standard practice that down payments are non-refundable. I held no event, and they refused to work with us to hold a smaller event (which at the time was permitted under provincial guidelines) and so keeping my down payment with no service provided in exchange is outright theft. I asked him to speak to management as I was willing to even accept a 30% refund simply on principal. I have since called Shalimar multiple times and each time the response is simply that they will review the matter with management and get back to me. Please do not consider Shalimar if you are planning to do a banquet event as these shady, disgusting human beings should not be doing business if they cannot even practice some basic business ethics and civility.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

The best paya in town.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Naans are amazing here. Good food good service.

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

very good food

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Good foods compare to low price.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Neat and clean space, spicy food though.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Amaaaazing taste and surprisingly well customer service . Their Haleem is the best .

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

great

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

In Pak cousin

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Delicious spicy food. If you like spicy food this is a great place to try.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Amazing food and great service!

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Good place for having traditional breakfast. It is worth the money to pay for because the taste is really good.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Good food, my kids love their Haleem and Kabab. Though their Haleem was much delicious in the past now it is little ok.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

The quantity of food was really good for a family of 4. Ambience is also nice

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Little bit spicy but still delicious

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Went there and i ordered chicken Bryani it s really Delicious! Hard to find good indian food in Toronto thats reasonably priced but this place hit the spot. Very friendly and attentive service. Outstanding flavour.

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Excellent food and superb staff,would recommended

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

This resturant is a must try! The food was fresh and so delicious! Service was very friendly and welcoming. Almost everything was tasty. My favs are behari boti, chany, Bar-B-Q, til naan and nashta. Kheer was good too. And clean washroom

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Excellent food and good prices. I loved their food.

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

The food is flavourful, tasty, and delicious. I love their food. The price is also good. I ve ordered naan, chana, and bihari boti and it was amazing. I recommend everyone to go there and try the delicious food.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

My family and I went for this breakfast buffet for the first time to entertain my dad with some good Pakistani style breakfast. We were all blown away with the authentic taste of nihari and paya, and the Chana was out of this world. The service was quick, environment was clean, and price is very reasonable. We will surely be visiting them again soon.

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Artifact on Hamilton number one restaurant

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Great food. Excellent service.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Break fast is amazing love it

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Delicious food cooperative staff

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

The Food is always fresh...Thats rare in Pakistan cuisine here in Canada.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Very good food. I loved the bbq and biryani here. They have buffet option

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Its a family place, clean and the food its really tasty and fresh !!

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

This place seriously have the best FOOD EVER!!!

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Only got their daal (lentils) from here, and was very tasty.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Halal food, good food

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Love this place

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

We visit this restaurant quite often

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Awesome food at good price. Weekend Breakfast menu is amazing and serves till 2pm. Ive liked whatever Ive eaten there so far.

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Had a date here. It was very friendly. Food was great. Was a buffet brunch. Washroom were not very clean.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Its sooper dooper..always the best...

★★★
December 23, 2019

Not bad place to eat but sometimes biryani good sometimes not.

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Ok food

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Excellent customer service and pretty decent food!

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Yummy Food and Great Service.

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Umsam food

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Tried breakfast buffet all you can eat... Naan, nihari, paaya, poori, chickpeas and potatoe curry , sooji Halwa, pickle .... Omg everything is mouth watering yummy ... Good service of the lady/owner. Tea was also very good and was served hot with nice cups.... Enjoyed every bit of it.... Keep it up guys...

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Best chicken kabobs I have ever tasted...thank you so much

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

This place has an authentic taste of Pakistani cuisine. Prices are fair. A must visit place for Indian/Pakistani cuisine craving. Also their all you can eat breakfast buffet on weekends is a delight.

★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Formerly Tabaq; this place is clean but pls offer half platter of bbq, the large is too big to share when 2 people are dining.

★★★
December 23, 2019

-Meat platter was not bad. -Biryani was good, authentic flavours. -Server was friendly and attentive. -Menus are way too big in physical size. -Nothing really stood out. Basic food. -I would visit again, but not as a first choice.

★★★★
December 23, 2019

I just tried biriyani its good

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Prices are affordable and very good.Thank you so much Khurram and M khalid bhattl. You guys are very friendly, very professional of cooking, places is very clean, delicious food. Pilavl tavugu Türklerin ho una gidece ini dü ünüyorum.

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Great food

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Amazing place..tasty food !

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Good food and reasonable prices.

Local Guide
December 23, 2019

The food was okay but the service was a bit off.

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Arrange and food booth were fabolous

December 23, 2019

The restaurant all food is delicious and the chef is excellent work . We are the regular customer and the owner well know to us as we have visited several times but now days the new girl in front the reception she doesn t know customer service and how to understand the customer needs because their business depends on the customer satisfaction and good service. When we order food we asked some items that girl instantly reply no no she should refer in the kitchen or the chef then reply to the customer. I hardly say the restaurant is amazing other than any restaurant in that area.but they should avoid to hire like that person to job. POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE RESTAURANT

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

The food is full of spices, the rest of the things are good, may be a best place for spicy food lovers.

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Very nice restaurant and good food with excellent service.

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Tried several items there its amazing. Resturant is very clean, good service.

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Food is very delicious... tried almost all dishes. Good service, staff is friendly. Restaurant is neat and clean.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

good place for family party

★★★★
December 23, 2019

Good place to go food is fairly delicious

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Delicious food, reasonably priced, good service. We would visit again!

★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Service is not that great. Small size of party hall. Food is ok.

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

We enjoyed your food and hospitality. Wishing you all the best.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Awesome food. , neat ambience, Sheekh kebabs are a must try. I used to have similar kebabs in Dubai at Ravi restaurant and Lal Qila restaurant before I moved to Toronto, I found similar taste at this place. Great taste, ambience and good on price.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Go try it.. you wont regret..