Mirchi Restaurant

1385 W Blaine St, Riverside
(951) 400-2825

Recent Reviews

Nadia S

Best food in town

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Lamb Biryani, Garlic Naan, Chicken Tikka, Chicken Tikka Masala

Keyri Reyes

DO NOT GO TO THIS PLACEEating at this place is a HEALTH HAZARD I DONT understand how the health department hasn’t closed this place down!Place overall was dirty, tables were dirty we let them know and took at least 10 min to get our table cleaned!When the lady took my order she literally made a phone call in the middle of it whilst also having her gloves on and then proceeding to touch food. Service was also awful, lady didn’t take the order right bc she was on the phone the whole time. They gave us rice with a hair on it and mango lassi was super watered down. Our food was prepared with really low quality meat (broken rib scraps with a bunch of fat, btw plate only had 3 pieces, mainly bones)They tried to make it up to us by making another plate and giving us a bit of chicken on the house but nothing can make up for such bad experience!

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Sami Khan (Sambo)

Good food.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 3

Gabriel Dalim (GBD)

Introduction-This is a Pakistani restaurant. But, they serve some Indian dishes also. As an Indian Asian, this is an average restaurant for me.Quality & experience-The food quality is of course good, but the taste of the dishes are so & so. I believe the owner sits as the cashier & she is a good person. If you don't know about the dishes or have a specific desire for a dish or taste, take her help. She'll guide you to enjoy your meal. If you want to try out Indo-Pak food or first timer, this could be an try-out restaurant for you. The place is clean & tidy. Have seperate restroom for men & ladies and they are cleen. Have plenty of sittings.Menu & price-They don't have a menu. So, you won't be able to know the name, how it is prepared, what is/are in it & the price of the dish. Be assure, most (95℅) of the pulaow (basmati rice), biriyani, meat, kabab, veggie, and daal (lentils) dish items price are $12.99 to $15.99 and enough for 2 person. If you have a big appetite, then 1 order is more than enough. Garlic butter Naan is $6.99. Lassi is $3.99. Their serving portion is more than other Indo-Pak restaurants.Buffet-Sunday is the best day to go as they have the buffet for $15.99 per person from 12 pm to 4 pm. Other days of the week are Ala cart (by order only).Business hours-Their regular business hours are from 12pm to 8pm. But I suggest going earlier/ daytime, as the location swarms with homeless people.Location-Located in a nice and quiet part of Riverside close to freeway. Also closed by homeless people's living area. It has a nice view of mountains. Has a lot of free parking & is wheelchair accessible.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chicken and Beef Platter, Chicken Tikka Chicken Karahi, Daal, Chana Pure, Chicken Tikka Masala

Abdul S Hakimi

It’s a Halal food restaurant we enjoyed the atmosphere, and the food was really delicious.We chapli Kaba, Chicken Karahi,Fresh Nanan , Potato spinach.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Kevin T.

I love this place for takeout. Food is excellent and prices are reasonable.I usually order the Lamb Korma and Lamb Biryani. Both are seasoned well and tastes fresh made to order.I wish this place had a better dine-in ambiance. It's almost always empty and does not have a good vibe.

Maria Khan

The food here is authentic and delicious. The quality of the food is great. Person running it is really nice too. We go there most Sundays for their brunch.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chicken Biryani, Chicken Korma, Chana Pure, Chicken Tikka

Jeremy Anderson

Pretty cutty spot but lemme tell u some. That food was so good. Ate it all up. Kinda expensive but not really I’m just kinda cheap. Probably just average for Indian food. Anyways, recommend going for sure.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Abhinav A.

I ordered veggie biryani from them for the first time. I never had such a bad experience eating biryani. i mean i had to throw away basically everything after trying few spoons of it. I felt that the veggies were not cooked and were big chunks of them. It tasted really odd. I wasn't even sure if it really was veggie biryani or some meat biryani or if they just took meat out of some meat biryani. Never gonna try this place again.

Brandon Mestas

I ordered a lamb dish, had about 3 good bites of meat. The rest I had to peel off of the bone(more bone than meat), which once I got it free, was chewy with fat.The wife got a chicken dish and said it was... meh. Neither meal came with rice, bummer.If I had paid $20 at a food truck for this meal I would be good with it. Paying $50 for what I got, just makes me sad.I rolled the dice and got burned, good luck if you choose to make the same choice I did.

Food: 2

mohamed salahuddin

My son wrote a review of this place. We went for a lunch buffet and there were flies on the food, we asked the owner if he could get rid of them, and he said he couldn't because "the door didnt work". The only water there was a shared jug for everybody in the restaurant to use. No bowls for the paya either. I decided to go again today to try it out one more time, since there is a lack of halal food in riverside. When I sat down, the owner confronted me and asked why I came back after complaining about the food. He told me to get out and I said ok. As I was leaving, he came out and tried to fight me in front of his kids. I chose to be the bigger man and not fight. AVOID THIS PLACE AT ALL COSTS

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Lylah Hunt

Disgusting food. Stay away. Way better restaurants in

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Ahmad Nour

I went here for their buffet on Sunday. There were 6 items available. Halawa, tandoori chicken, chicken biryani, nihari, paya, and the garbanzo beans. Every item sucked and wasn’t hot. They didn’t have any bowls for the paya. We asked them for a bowl and they gave us a mini water up. Seriously. A mini water cup. They said they ran out of bowls or don’t give them out because people waste food. There were flies running around the salad and rhaita and if you want water, there’s a shared water jug for everybody in the middle of the restaurant. We told them that there were flies in the salad, and the guy said he can’t do anything about it because their door doesn’t work. Horrible service and disgusting food, and a health hazard. What kind of restaurant is ok with flies running around in their food? Stay away from here. There are plenty of other good Indian restaurants and you should never come here.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Mehak Khan

No hygiene prices are ver high like 5 rated restaurants every dish is 15$ and bad taste they make all goods with ready made Shan masala which is not good for health we need to boycott

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Amien P.

Delicious home style Pakistani food. Look past The outside/inside ambiance and you have flavorful food. We ordered our food mild and it had the right amount of spice. We liked the Haleem, chicken Karachi, and biryani. The chicken tandoori was alright might try the chicken boti and chicken tikka masala next time. 4 stars because the interior could use some sprucing up. We also want to come back to try the Sunday brunch.

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