Mike R
08.03.2025
To be clear it is 5 years since we last visited and we have experienced two superb meals back then. Finding ourselves in Bradford for an event we were keen to go back to Jinnah for another traditional Pakistani meal.
Busy during Ramadan and a party was on as well but we were ushered to our seats by 'uncle'. orders taken speedily but 'uncle' had to come back and double check the berbal order 5 times before it was finalised. I know we appeared to be an older white couple, we were asked for our preference of spice level for the main meal. I was happy with medium but my wife has lost much of her spice tolerance and requested a mild butter chicken for the main meal. This resulted in some amusement and jokey smirks.
The lamb chop starter was excellent...and you can judge a lot about a Pakistani restaurant from its lamb chops!! The chicken Pakoras also very good.
Sadly, from here it was all downhill. My chicken Keema was very average compared to the excellent versions I have enjoyed here many years ago. The quality of the chicken was not great, flavour a bit bland to be honest. Not a great example of one of my favourite dishes. Pilau very average indeed. However, my wife's 'mild' butter chicken was much hotter than my medium keema. For her it was inedible, and the chicken was also poor quality. We asked uncle why it was so hot when we ordered very mild. His laugh and patronising response was not encouraging. He whisked it away to produce another and told my wife 'try this we hope you enjoy this one'. It was the same chicken and all that had been done was the addition of a sweet korma or dhansak sauce to the dish. It was sweet but just as hot. He laughed as he left.
I ate my meal, my wife did not but we asked for it to be boxed for our son who is happy with very spicy meals. We got the packing boxes thrown at us and were left for 15 minutes before just packing it up ourselves and leaving. Rude does not cover it.
We know that 'uncle' just assumed we were two old white duffers who probably cant tell a good curry from a bad one. However he was wrong. My wife's father was born and grew up in Jhelum. We eat proper home cooked Pakistani food week in week out and both my wife and I can cook better traditional Pakistani food than we had today. Yes we left angry, mostly we left hungry, and no we will never return. Shocking service, poor food, nothing traditional or authentic about this restaurant, food or service. 'Uncle' absolutely let his family down.
samantha wild
23.02.2025
Starters were amazing, drinks were good, staff very friendly
Main course.....could have been better, mains were brought out at different times so other members of our table had nearly finished before I even got mine.
armaan Feroz
19.02.2025
Felt like pakistan soon as I walked in and food was a 10/10 and tea was 10/10
Aviator Alex Live
13.02.2025
i got food poisioning from this establishment i was on the toilet for weeks do not reccomend!
Ali Irfan
10.02.2025
Had there seakh kabab which were really (extreme ) hard, served with salad and raita which were not fresh and changed its taste.
Really a waste of money and food yesterday.
Not recommended at all in terms of taste, yes the atmosphere and sitting is good.
Rest the food quality are worse, recommend to improve the quality.
Adam Jasat
09.02.2025
Excellent service
Hafeez Siddiq
09.02.2025
Coming from a chef that works in fine dining the food I had was abysmal, the dynamite chicken came out cold and tasted like a Marie rose prawn cocktail sauce rather than a dynamite sauce. Next was the parmasean chicken which was again hard to eat, the breading was incorrect so everything became mush and the amount of cheese dumped on top was laughable. A friend of mine ordered the lamb steak which came out lukewarm, had a rubbery texture and overall the plate of veg was blatantly hotholded and kinda looked like a sad pensioners meal. The waiters seriously need to be trained under the silver service to understand how to do their jobs correctly. Overall you can never truly judge a book by it's cover, desptie the classic Bentley proudly baring the resturants name on its licence plate parked directly outside the lavish extremely decorated resturant the contents of their food was so so 1/10 go to somewhere else it's Bradford bro.. .
FIDA MOHAYUDDIN
08.02.2025
Visited Jinnah with the Hijra Team. Loved every minute of it. Excellent customer service. Food was delicious, nice and fresh.
Abid Hussain
04.02.2023
Fantastic food and service.
khalil qamar
08.02.2025
Lovely food. Fast service.
Yasir Adnan Qureshi
08.02.2025
Amazing food good service
Slowspokes CC Preston
08.02.2025
Amazing venue for Preston's premier cycling club Slowspokes ... Great food and hosts
Ashley Blackshaw
08.02.2025
Very friendly and food was delicious
Rob S
08.02.2025
Absolutely delicious, definitely will come back with family!
Haseeb Azam
02.02.2025
The Staff are very professional. Very polite and Wellcomes you on your arrival
Zahra Shafiq
29.01.2025
Fantastic fresh food, ordered the tawa so it has a bit of everything. Starters-Chops, ribs, fish pakora were excellent.
Had an item missing but told the waiter and they quickly brought
Mocktail was OK, mainly 7up and syrup no fruit
ahmed rashid
28.01.2025
We booked the marquee for a birthday party. The team was accommodating, welcoming and the service flawless. I cannot recommend them enough. The food was amazing - bursting with flavour.
Already planning the next birthday party in April.
For those of you worried about the marquee - it’s lovely and warm inside.
Worth every penny.
Ayla x
26.01.2025
I have been going here for years and never have I had a bad experience. Credit where credit is due. Authentic quality food and exceptional customer service.
Waqas Alam
30.08.2017
Staff was very helpful .. very polite n friendly not like others.. food was very nice ... will go again...
Ambreen Qayum
22.01.2025
Lovely food! I had Lamb Handi as the main and Chicken wings for starters.
Friendly and welcoming staff in particular Qasim and Amar. Amar's service was exceptional. Would visit again.
