Tipu Sultan

This restaurant is managed by the same people behind Shere Khan's at Star City. Though the ambiance here is more upscale, the food falls short compared to their sister restaurant. The desserts, in particular, are disappointing--my tiramisu lacked depth and had a gross refrigerator taste. The service is average at best. It takes forever for anyone to take your order, and there is zero follow up throughout the meal.
If you're looking for great social media pictures, Tipu Sultan fits the bill. However, for truly fresh food with complex flavors, Shere Khan's is where it's at.

Has to be one of the best in Birmingham parking is a little terrible so we had to park down the road. Food is good great service.

With an extremely busy Saturday night, we were very well greeted and cared for. The food was superb. Especially the Seekh kabab starter was amazing!

Would definitely go again.. great ambiance!
Great experience!

As I entered the parking lot the presentation was really impressive, it certainly looked the business on the outside with 2 huge lion figures on either side of the door.

Inside is a very pretty waiting area just an ear shout from the dining area, I had asked at the front desk if I could have a booth (which was short notice) the staff were happy to help and in a few minutes I was escorted to my new table.

The scenery is very engaging inside, lots of interesting quality and effort has been put into the presentation.

Their cocktails are really nice indeed, I would recommend the Royal Blue which is a succulent mixed fruit dream.

The food overall was delicious and particular were the king prawns I ordered, it had a lot more sauce than what I would have liked. I love lamb when it's freshly prepared and the main course was no disappointment, I also had the chicken and tried the fish too.

For dessert I ordered Movenpic Ice Cream, they have a vast selection of flavours, around 15 varieties including my favourite Italian classic.

Prices are fair for the experience and the experience was a memorable one!

This restaurant is very popular and meets the standards you expect, definitely would recommend visiting, if anyone has complained about this place then they must be living in la-la-land as I'm in food heaven!

For my 30th Birthday celebrations, I wanted to do a range of things... Starting off with cocktails at the Prince Of Wales and finishing with a film screening at the Mockingbird Theatre, I thought it would be nice to have a meal in the mix with some of my nearest and dearest at somewhere I had always wanted to visit, but hadn't had a chance to yet.

Tipu ended up being a brilliant choice! I had seen it being built several years previously and always wanted to give it a visit. With it's ridiculous over the top decoration and it's tagline of being a "Majestic dining experience", I knew it would be a fun night.

My partner (Dan G) booked it all for 20 of us to go down on a Friday night and confirmed with the venue a few times due to changing numbers. They weren't fazed at all by this and seemed to take in all the new info and make the requirement amendments to our booking. We got down there for 7:30 and the majority of the party had already made it along.

Weirdly, there was space laid out for 18 (rather than 20), but as we had a couple of last minute dropouts this was perfect. The menu is extensive, but not as pricey as you might think. We opted for a chef's starter platter to share (£16) and was presented by a huge array of meat based dishes from their starter menu. For mains, I had the lamb shank (£10) which was cooked to perfection! The starters are priced from around £4 (you have to pay for poppadoms, but only 65p) and the mains start at a very reasonable £6.

The weirdest thing about this venue is that they have no license to sell alcohol, or for it to be consumed on the premises. Not a problem if you are having a chilled night out, but strange for the option not to be there. They do offer a range of milkshakes, lassi's and other non-alcoholic drinks to choose from though; so you won't feel hard done by.

The food was fantastic and the bill for the whole table was £320 (about £15 each). You could have a basic curry, rice and naan for two and come away with change from £20 if you wanted, but the food feels superior to this. They were even geared up for people to take leftovers home (as the portions were huge) and didn't even blink an eyelid when we asked. I would definitely recommend a visit to the Sultan. Great food, reasonably priced and good service. I will be back.

I've driven past Tipu Sultan on almost a weekly basis for ages and even witnessed them bringing in some of the quite frankly ridiculous chandeliers before it opened so it's been on my radar for a while.

Nestled between Balsall Heath and Moseley on Alcester Road Tipu offers a 'majestic dining experience'. Something I had to try, even just for a laugh.

We descended upon them en mass for part of Vicky's 30th celebrations and even though we were quite a large group (18 in the end) the staff did an excellent job, getting everything right even if we were being a bit loud in our celebrations.

I shared a mixed platter with the birthday girl to start, each piece was tender and perfectly spiced with the green chicken really stealing the show (I can't remember what it was called... sorry). Then for my main course I went for a lamb dish which was a perfectly spiced and stuffed full of tender chunks of lamb. We also shared a couple of naans, however my eyes were much bigger than my belly and I was eventually defeated. I hate seeing food go to waste but fortunately the great staff were on hand to package up some doggy bags for us. I'd say a good 60% of people I saw leaving the restaurant were carrying their leftovers with them!

Fantastic food, great service and at a great price. I'll definitely be back. Although be warned, if you're used to knocking back a few beers with your curry then you'll have to do it before or after if you're eating here. They don't have a licence to sell or for alcohol to be consumed on the premises. But that's only a minor thing really as there are plenty of good drinking establishments in very close proximity.

Attended 8/6/15

Very busy for a Monday night; quite a lot of families. Splendid décor and seating.

I knew about the no alcohol situation before going, so this wasn't an issue. Given that the clientèle were predominantly Muslims, then it was obvious to respect this rule. In fact, I think that there we were (i.e. my wife and I) the only white customers. So, I think that that speaks for itself.

I was with two Muslim friends, and my wife decided to join my usual quarterly meet. One friend had brought his young 8 yo son.

We all had starters, and shared a piece each. I had the Desi Murgh Tikka which was lovely and spicy. I'd like to have tried the meat platter, as I wanted to try the "green" chicken. My wife had mughlai tikka.

I won't bore you with a breakdown of the costs, but the prices were pretty standard: £4-£5 starter, and £7-£8 for a main. The final bill came to £88, but this also included a meal for my friends young son (who decided not to eat) and a jug of mango lassie; so it went home in a doggy bag. As has been reported previously, quite a lot of people were leaving with similar bags.

The keema naan was very different to that which I had elsewhere, and are made in-house; I can recommend these.

I found the waiters a bit stiff, and not very engaging.

Mains:

I had - DESI CHILLI HANDI CHICKEN

Wife had - PALAK MURGH

This is where it fell down a bit. We are used to good size chunks of chicken, but these came in the form of very small bits, and not all breast; bits of thigh meat. I don't mind thigh meat, but not to the taste of my wife.

We both decided it's not a place to which we would likely return.

I suppose you get very used to your favourite restaurant, and it is difficult not to compare.

Final comment - it was a very noisy environment.

Okay this place was recommended to me by a very good family friend of ours. after few weeks of recommendation I visit to this place with my girlfriend to try it out. Was impressed by the decor and that is what the family friend was VERY VERY IMPRESSED by.. , but I am more interested to know how the food is.

So here I go,, very good parking space for a starters, very impressive entrace, good receptionist, will take you to the waiting area and ask your name to put down for waiting lists, amazingly assistant manager or LORD of the waiters will take you to your designated seatings, which are very impressive as I mentioned earlier the decor is good, but not very practice in my opinion.
So here I was, ordered our first ever order at TIPU SULTAN, we ordered 4 different dishes, lamb biryani, sultani lamb, fish cury and pilau rice with popa dums and king prawns for starter.

Popa doms with traditional sauces didn't impress me as it is common in any indian subcontinental restaurant. The king prawns were really yummy like smooth buttery cream.

After finishing our popa doms and king prawns, we waited for bit longer than usual for our main course,,, but when it arrived it we just wanted to get started and see how it tasted, I started with pilau rice and fish curry, which was not bad at all.
then I tucked into lamb biryani and lamb curry, which tasted different but I wasnt feeling it different from any OTHER restaurant in birmingham.
Anyway we ate half of the food and got half left over, so we decided to get it packed and take it home, WASTE IS NOT GOOD.

as we went home, i felt really bad in the stomach,,, and 30 minutes or so felt so bad that I threw up all the food, I don't what it was, but my stomach couldn't hold that food in... but I was okay the next morning, no diarrhea or anything like that....


But yeah, in short, I wouldn't recommend this place to anyone for second time.. for the first time yeah good experience, but I am sure when you try it, that is IF you try it, you will see what I mean from this review.

So good luck who ever wants to try this place, just because their DECOR is fancy,, doesn't mean they have AWESOME food...
its just another asian food place I guess, nothing special

Well, thankfully I was warned that they don't serve alcohol, or even let you bring your own, so I had a sneaky beer at home before heading out to this restaurant.
I was part of a large group of people out for Vickys birthday and was had a nice corner of the building, although sadly we were sat on two tables. Most of the tables are in booths, which I think is really nice and feels more like a private dining experience. Infact you can't go in without noticing how amazing the decor is! Chandeliers a-plenty and much wood carving-everything on a large and grand scale, which ofcourse adds to the whole dining experience.
I thought the service was efficient for such a large party and infact I felt very welcome there. The ambiance was relaxed and happy so I'm guessing others felt the same.
Food: many of the starters are really spicy despite not having a chilli sign next to them...unlike the mains which did, but were not hot at all hmmm... I had lamb kebab to start and then a chicken balti and naan. Not very exciting, but a good benchmark I find when trying out somewhere new. My bill came to £12. -amazing how cheap it ca be when you don't drink!;)
I had a lovely evening and I think everyone else did too-many people even took home the rest of their meals to finish off at home!
I would give this place 4 stars if it served booze though!;)

Went there with my friends for a surprise birthday, there was about 16 of us and we were all looked after very well. We had our assigned waiter for the night and he took all of our order successfully and kept us updated on how long the wait would be etc..
They were very accommodating and helped surprise our friend when she arrived and let us bring our own birthday cake in etc.
They have loads of mocktails on the menu which are all great.
We ordered shared rice & different nanns for the table and I had tandoori wings for my starter then Peshwari chicken for my main. I enjoyed my meal, but with there being so many of us there and ordering so much food I got to try a bit of everything. When I next go back I'd order the lamb biryani as I loved it when I tried it.
The decor inside is beautiful and I would recommend it to anyone who wanted to try it out.