Place Review: Charming Chicken

Well thinking about visiting Amritsar and not thinking about tasting the authentic savory delights will be unjust to your taste buds. Amritsar known to be a hub of scrumptious meals has a never-ending list of delicacies that your taste buds will always want to experience. Though in this list of savors, non-vegetarian dishes are always in the limelight.

Number of shops serving with delicious varieties of non-vegetarian cuisine are scattered all around the city, but a few are there for which you always fall. In this blog, we are going to review one such joint which has been making every foodie fall in love with it since 1958. Charming Chicken, a perfect dining place with a variety in delicious chicken dishes to serve your group is what Amritsar has to offer you.

Basic Information

As already stated above, the restaurant started in 1958 and has been serving the locals as well as tourists with their delicious chicken. The restaurant is located at Majitha Road, just next to the famous Hansraj Kulche Choleya Wala.

It is a small restaurant, but as they say, “Don’t judge a book by its cover”, same goes with this place. Don’t let yourself be fooled by the surroundings, you just need to enter the restaurant and the aroma of rich luscious chicken will make you forget about all. Being a customer myself, I have experienced that the restaurant offers you good services with a warm and cozy ambiance.

The owner is so friendly that you won’t feel like a customer there but an old friend to him.

Interior Architecture

Though it is not much spacious but enough to host around 30-35 guests at one go, but all that should matter to you is the taste of the delicacies that will be served on your table. The place is furnished with ceramic tiles on the walls, with LED, air conditioner and wall mounted as well as ceiling fans.

All facilities are available for the customers accompanying by the helping staff is all that is needed by the customers. At every table, the sanitizer was there so that customers can clean their hands before starting to eat these succulent delicacies. The washrooms are very tidy and are cleaned at every interval that makes the place healthy too.

Meals offered

As the name suggests all the courses offered here will be non-vegetarian dishes with certain accompaniments like Butter Naan, Fried Rice, Rotis, etc which turn the dish into a complete meal in itself.

Here I’m listing down some of the food snacks that are available there to give you a lip-smacking taste:

1. Chicken Tikka
2. Chicken Malai Tikka
3. Tandoori Chicken
4. Chicken Pakoda

But the main courses will even leave you licking your fingers even after you have finished. These are some the famous courses that locals, as well as foreigners, try out on their visit to Amritsar:

1. Butter Chicken
2. Karahi Chicken
3. Chilly Chicken
4. Fish Curry

But as they say, accompaniments make the dish a full-fledged meal. Here are some of the things that you may order with the main courses to fulfill your hunger:

1. Plain & Jeera Rice
2. Butter Naan & Butter Roti
3. Plain Roti
4. Plain Curd
5. Mix Raita/Bundi Raita
6. Soft Drinks
7. Lassi

Rates

The rates are worth the taste that will be offered to you by the restaurant. Even when I visited the place, I found the rates a little above the normal but when the courses were served, but the aroma and the texture had already done made me forget about it.

Most famous dish

Though everything here is worth experiencing but if you want to ask for some of the special dishes here that are Butter Chicken, Tandoori Chicken, and Chicken Malai Tikka. The gravy of the Butter Chicken is packed full of flavor and it is so thick that it is sure that you can’t restrict yourself from licking your fingers again and again. The curry is made with gravy of tomatoes, butter, fresh yogurt and spices making it even tastier than the chicken itself.

Having tried Butter Chicken at many places but none can match the taste of this restaurant. People from and outside India always fall in love with the taste of the delicacies here. Even people living adjacent to the restaurant can’t help themselves from not eating here.

So next time you visit Amritsar do come to this place and review the cuisine here with your own taste buds like a professional reviewer.