On a Monday evening, we went for a family dinner at Kareem’s. It’s been breakfast meetings for me in recent times. Whenever we go out as a family, it’s mainly to Chinese restaurants or those that serve decent continental cuisines. We took a deviation and explored Indian dishes recently.
The entrance
The restaurant is located within the premises of Srijan corporate park in Salt Lake, Sector 5.
The gorgeous ambiance
The place has a royal feel to it.
The awards they have won
For starters, we ordered chicken nawabi kabab and green salad. We settled on mojito for drinks.
Kabab, salad, and Mojito
We decided on mutton nihari, roomali roti, and chicken dum biriyani for the main course. The biryani was delicious.
Chicken dum biriyani
Except for the kabab, every item was spicy on the higher side. However, we didn’t find the mutton nihari up to the mark since we tasted better nihari elsewhere in the city.
Roomali roti and mutton nihari
We had malai firni for dessert and it was delectable.
Malai firni
The place has good customer service but needs to have a better temperature control system in place. We were literally shivering indoors for a long duration.
Dinner last night
Overall, it was a decent first experience, and I might return for the kababs.
An alumnus of Presidency College (Kolkata), Delhi University, and XIME (Bangalore), Sonia Chatterjee holds two post-graduate degrees in Chemistry and Management and an MFA in creative writing from Writer's Village University. With eight years of experience in the banking sector as a Branch Head, she took a sabbatical from the corporate world to start her blog soniasmusings.com. Her blog consistently featured in the Top Indian Blogs list from 2019 to 2024.
Her articles have been published on various digital platforms such as Women's Web, Youth Ki Awaaz, Tuck's Magazine, and Period Magazine. She was invited as a speaker at the Breaking Barriers, Kolkata 2018 event by the Women's Web, at the Women Writer’s Fest, Kolkata, 2020, and the Crime Writers Festival, Kolkata,2025.
Sonia has written two detective thrillers titled ‘Deal of Death – Introducing Raya Ray’ (2019) and ‘Diary, Deceit, and Death – A Raya Ray Adventure’ (Vishwakarma Publications, 2024) and a non-fiction book on true crime titled ‘The Sanyasi Who Became a King’ (Sristhi Publishers, 2025). Her book ‘Diary, Deceit, and Death’ was shortlisted for the PVLF Awards 2024-25 in the Best Fiction Category.
Sonia lives in Kolkata with her doctor husband and nine-and-a-half-year-old son.
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