Omar Khayam

Well this all started with a bit of a dilemma here, our favourite curry provider in northfield happens to be take away only so we thought we’d venture onto the high street and try Omar’s after receiving a pretty good takeaway from them previously.
Why did we wait so long?
The décor insode is flush with blue and purple soft lighting and drapes, the waiters were very polite and straight on hand to help with your every need. The menu, well, we’d promised it was a quick bite but starters, mains sides and a forced down desert argued with that one (doggie bags for the left over mains were a life saver!).
A range of unusual chefs specials suitable for both veggies and meat eaters alongside the standard brummie curry choices (dopiaza, rogan josh, tikka, bhuna etc…) meant we needed an extra 10 minutes to narrow it down from one of everything on the menu to what we actually wanted!
As a sample menu example my choices consisted of:
poppadums with mango chutney, mint yoghurt, lime pickle and tomato chilli
mixed tikka starter for one
Keema meatball curry with extra green chillies (just wow!)
garlic pilau rice
cheese and chilli naan
and a pistachio kulfi to finish (only because we could, there was no room left at this point!)
Cobra and Tiger beers were readily available alongside a small selection of spirits. A repeat trip may well be needed to sample the mango lassi here (I’m sure there will be no complaints if the rest of the experience is as good as this vist was)