Persis Biryani Indian Grill North Charlotte

We ate a LEAST once a week, often twice. Almost always the buffet. The restaurant was always packed, everyone was always so attentive and the food was the best in Charlotte. We drove there almost an hour, instead of eating with a nearby Indian restaurant. Once kovid they started closed for some time and we are deeply sad, they did not return the buffet. So many other restaurants have so confusing why they?t. We haven't been back since, but before it was our favorite restaurant to go along with our friends and family. Please bring back the weekend lunch buffet!

Went for dinner there and were utterly disappointed with the food. Among appetizers, Chicken 65 and Fish was not great, only gobi manchurian was ok. They are supposed to be Biryani specialist per name but even that was also below average. Best part was their Garlic naan. This used to be on of our favorite restaurant prior to covid, but probably their management/chef may be changed.

We ordered takeout. The tandoori chicken was good. The hot is really hot. I would probably go with mild next time. I was expecting the heat level to be off like some other Indian restaurants so I ordered hot expecting mild. My fault on that one. My husband got the chicken tikka masala. He liked that dish as well. We will return when in that area of Charlotte.

Persi's is no longer any good. We ordered garlic and butter naan, Malai kofta and gutti vankaya curry. The naans were undercooked. The kofta was raw and the paneer inside the kofta was raw too. It felt like we were eating wet dough. Gutti vankaya means there has to be masala stuffed inside the eggplant but there was no masala in this curry. The chef just mixed tomato sauce with onions so this is just eggplant tomato curry. Nobody from Andhra will ever call this curry gutti vankaya curry.

For Saturday we decided to have lunch at Persis Biryani Indian Grill. We went around 12:00pm for the lunch and the restaurant was empty. We were greeted by our server and by reading the menu we asked for the food recommendations. For lunch we decided to order Medhu Vada, Paneer Tikka Masala, Lacha Paratha, Persis Chicken Biryani and for drink we ordered Sweet Lassi. The service was good and we got our order in 10-15 mins. The lassi was good. The disappointment was paneer tikka masala. The gravy was thick and there were no edible masala. The biryani we ordered was recommended by the server that this is the best biryani of the restaurant but it was also okay. The food can be made better.