Ahmed Bhai's Bry & Dry, Nerul, Navi Mumbai

Ahmed Bhai's Bry & Dry

Hello Foodies!

Today we will be reviewing “Ahmed Bhai’s Bry and Dry” - one of the most popular non-veg serving restaurants in Nerul , Navi Mumbai. We were planning to visit this place since a very long time (4 years) but finally we visited this place on our convocation day! Yeah, our college was in Nerul, yet we never visited it. And the day we are over and done with college we go here. Life is funny, isn’t it?

Shamiana Style Seating

The dirty curtains steals the charm out of this place.

We were very excited to go there as we had heard a lot about Ahmed Bhai’s starters, the ambience, the biryanis and a lot more.

When we entered the restaurant we found that the Shamiana style seating looked very pleasant. But little did we know that on closer inspection, we found the curtains of the Shamiana were very dirty. They looked very filthy and bad with all the stains and everything. Just the sight made us cringe. But we were hungry since morning, so we decided to order quickly, eat and leave. It was about 7.30 pm when we finally sat down to have our lunch. So yes, that’s how hungry we were!

Respect for all Religions.

We also had to request for water 3 times and that’s when we got it. The glasses weren’t washed properly and were gross, so we skipped water and ordered Big Colas instead. Also, while we were ordering the food, the waiter wasn’t noting the order down, so we told him to please note it down but he didn’t listen. He said he will get our order correct. Haha, he did not!

Chicken Cheese kabab

When our starters arrived, now instead of Chicken Cheese kabab the waiter got Chicken Malai kabab and when we told him this wasn’t what we ordered, he told us that it is not an issue and he will get it changed. After sometime he brings the same starter with just cheese grated over it. We tell him about it and he says that Chicken cheese kabab is prepared like that only- we just add cheese over Malai kabab. The kabab was too sweet with sugar and cheese. Good for people who have a sweet tooth, but not what we expected!

Cheese Grated over Chicken Malai Kabab.

Next up was Mutton Seekh Kabab. This was a very good starter, juicy and flavourful but usually seekh is served with green chutney, but they brought the chutney when we were done with the seekh. What a great timing (NOT!) If we ignore it, this dish is surely recommended!

Mutton Seekh Kabab

Then came in the Chicken Crispy starter! The chicken was super crispy and we enjoyed this too. It has lots of flavor and crispy, juicy chicken, some vegetables coated with yummy sauce. It’s the safest dish to order when in dilemma!

Chicken Crispy

Since we were 4 of us and ravenous, and we did not want to wait a lot for the biryanis to come up, we ordered a Shwarma for the mean time. We had heard that they serve some awesome shawarmas here. We wonder who spreads such rumors! This was a very bad shwarma. It had so much garlic flavor to it. Mind you, we love garlic flavor but it was just too over the top. The garlic was so overpowering that we could hardly taste anything else! It was a very bad option.

Shwarma

Weird Taste.. Garlic Flavour was too over powering!

Coming to the Biryanis:

We ordered Chicken Afghani biryani and Chicken Leg Barra biryani. We decided on these two biryanis because we were bored of eating the regular ones. Both tasted very good but both had almost the same taste with a very minor difference. They even looked the same. You can see in the pictures that they look exactly the same and we can’t really distinguish which is which! There wasn’t any artificial color added to the rice of the biryani though. They were so similar in taste that we couldn’t decide which one tasted better.

Chicken Afghani biryani

Chicken Afghani biryani served with Curd and Veggies

Chicken Leg Barra biryani

Overall, we loved some food, we hated some and we disliked some. This was a very confusing place actually because the service sucked big time, we were billed double for the worst shwarma ever, the Chicken cheese kabab was a flop, but we really enjoyed the Seekh without chutney and the two biryanis that tasted the same.

Ambience: 0/ 5

Food: 3 / 5

VFM: 3.5 / 5

Service: 1 / 5

We recommend the Biryani and the Seekh.

Bon Appetit!