Student Biryani

I hope and wish the owner/​management is reading this review!! I’m sorry you all are running a very bad show! Poor management, chaotic ordering and beyond dirty bathroom!!! You are giving this legendary name and a very bad image!
So on a Saturday night me and my husband walk in to try their food. order is chaotically taken by two different ladies who really had no knowledge about their own menu! I ordered a deal 5 with Malia tikkah and she said we don’t keep that!!! I literally had to to show her the hand menu in order to for her to place my order! Second we ordered a haleem combo!
While I was waiting for the food I used their restrooms which were dirty/​filthy beyond disgust! Thankfully I just went in them to wash my hand pre-​food! :-/​
Our number was soon called and we went up to collect the food. Even dine-​ins are given in togo packing with disposable plates to eat. There was again confusion and the staff literally began to feel the food from the bags to verify if it was our order?!! It all seemed quite chaotic and badly run!
Tables were dirty and we had to call the lady to clean it up for us! For me that just breaks the deal!
The Malia tikkah tasted pretty good but the paratha was pretty average!! The haleem lacked flavor and salt!! I wasn’t quite excited with the flavoring of the food! Their zardas and firni are pretty good! I have tried their biryani before at a friends place and wasn’t quite impressed!! Its got too much of masala in it where as the actual Student locations in Karachi don’t put so much masala on their biryanis, I have had student biryani at least ²⁰⁄₃₀ times in Karachi so I know what I’m talking about!!!
Lastly owners on a Saturday night pls keep adults behind the counters and not high school going kids!! This place has potential but lots needs to be corrected and workerd upon!

Went there on Saturday evening and there were a lot of families enjoying their food there. We ordered chicken biryani, chicken chargha, Bihari boti, boneless chicken tikka, beef kabab and malayi tikka, salad and chutney. Biryani was good but wasn’t the best in town. Malayi tikka and Bihar boti were ok but if you want some amazing bihari boti and malayi tikka then Café De Khan is the best place to go. Chicken boneless tikka was really good and beef kabab were ok too. Chicken chargha was amazing. It tasted just like the chargha we used to eat in Pakistan. Overall it was a good family experience and I will come back to try more stuff.

There’s not much to say about this place. We went in to check it out as this is supposed to be a really popular chain from Pakistan. The service was really bad. The girl at the counter had no knowledge of customer service. She was rude and arrogant. After we placed and paid for our order we were informed it was going to be ½ hr because they were going to cook per order. This is fine at least we knew we were getting a fresh bat h but a little heads up before payment would’ve been nice. The food was mediocre combined with the bad service they are lucky I’m still giving them a 2 rating!

I dunno maybe I’m not a biriyani type of guy but still if I just break down my experience as a whole wasn’t really good. The music was annoyingly loud in this place and every thing looked kinda dirty and I almost left immediately but a co worker told me this was good food so I just accepted my surroundings and didn’t judge a book by its cover, I usually don’t anyways. So biriyani is basically a seasoned rice with a different types of meat mixed in with it, I chose the boneless chicken. About 10 mins later and with a small headache developing from the noise my food was finally ready, the portion size was good, lots of rice with chunks of chicken hidden underneath. But the rice was kinda dry in quite a unappealing way like I was already desperate for water because of just the spices (I’m just a white dude so I can’t handle spices well, don’t judge) but having this dry rice wasn’t helping either. The flavors were not overly appealing in anything, at least the chicken itself was pretty moist but really nothing special. The coriander yogurt mixture offered me a bit of relief and was pretty good except it was way watery. Meh… I could imagine that finding a better place for this type of food would change my overall impression of it but I’m not feeling inspired to look much after this experience.

I’ve never had the student biryani from pakistan i was taken here by friends who raved about the biryani. I found it to be acceptable, nothing extraordinary but not bad either the customer service is a little slow but they are generally polite.

tasteless and overpriced biryani. these guys think stealing a name from a well established business in Pakistan and copy-​cating them will earn them name? no, they earn shame from me and my family.
we ordered 5 biryanis to go so i was first hoping they will give us in 5 individual containers. instead they gave us 5 equivalent in a tray. when i brought it over to someone’s house we were all shocked to see how less biryani they gave us and very less chicken.
besides the quantity, there is no taste at all. sorry sir but you have a lot to work on.

For a restaurant and brand that stems from Karachi, it’s filthy and run down atmosphere sure lives up to what you’d find in cheap unsanitary restaurants there.
Although food was at par with other places, I recon its probably the dirtiest food establishment in Mississauga. All the tables there weren’t cleaned and had leftovers all over, under and around it. The floors seemed as if they werent mopped all weekend. When we asked to have our table cleaned (and I am not lying) the lady behind the counter handed us 3 moistened paper napkins to clean it ourselves.
Our table by the window had dead bugs laying all around it and we were visited by a few ants. I feel this place needs to be reported to the city in its current state, especially the kitchen as God only knows what goes on in the back.

My wife ordered take out from here this past weekend, We called in our order at 8 advising we will pick it up for 8:45 and food was not ready till close to 9:30. Another gentlemen order food around 7 and he left shortly before myself frustrated as he had people at home waiting to eat. Common complaints amongst other Unilocalers as well.
Food was OK, My wife really liked how moist her chicken sandwich was but that was only because of extra mayo. I got the haleem and chicken biryani. Haleem was very spicy and biryani lacked flavor.
Again like other’s, went in with high expectations which were not met. Just too many other South Asian options in the area (same plaza even) that are better.
Wife wants to try it again, not sure if I want to go back, not worth it for the price

This here is restaurant which uses a legendary name. This is kind of franchise now, which reminds my dad and father-​in-​law about their Student days. This name is famous as the first owner started this business selling Biryani on a roadside in a Pakistani city to students and then it grew from there.
I came here with the family so we ordered a bunch of stuff to try. Although they have quiet a bit of seating the design frame of the restaurant is more of a take out location. The food is packed as a take out order but they do give you disposable plates and cutlery if you want to dine in. The restaurant was clean and their was plenty of parking.
After looking into the menu, we decide to order Chicken Biryani (offcourse), Chicken Karahi, two types of kabab and some naans. The food was very fresh and hot but the service was extremely slow in bring the food out. The chicken biryani was very good but even the mild was very spicy and could cause a heartburn. The other stuff were average but hot and freshly cooked!
For my Muslim brother and sisters — they are halal meat!

Apparently this place is very popular as its this companies first Canadian location. They are known in Pakistan and the UAE for their Biryani. As I walked in there with this high expectancy I was kinda sorta let down as I did not find the food to be all that great. Perhaps the style isn’t to my liking or I just went on an off day. Nevertheless I will probably go back another day and update this review.

Their fried chicken is bland with no spices and oozing with oil making KFC look healthy in comparison.
Chicken Biryani is decent, but price is a bit high, but only by a few dollars.

Student Biryani,
Your Haleem is excellent, Nihari is good but please change the name Student Biryani cause your biryani is not close to actual Student Biryani from Karachi.

After a long time I wanted to give it a second try. So I went today and I should say I am pretty disappointed. I read other reviews on Unilocal and thought may be they are better now. But not to my liking.
Things that I didn’t like in Biryani:
A big Potato in my Chicken Biryani I am not talking baby potato here a baseball ball sized one.
Bland, no flavour on the chicken.
Price — it’s too much for the quality. By the way you can get way better Biryani from Tandoori Flame which is far more fancier place and charges the same for Biryani.
I feel the food is westernized and far from the authentic taste you would expect from a place like this.
I would go here again only when every one else is closed.

I ordered the Beef Bihari kabob −2.5÷5 (not much flavor)

Loved the. Biryani. Tried it the first time. It tastes as good as the original one in Karachi ! Will go there again when in the mood of having good biryani.
The price of $ 7.50 per plate ain’t bad considering that it is a huge serving.

Not sure if they changed things but I ordered a chicken biryani spicy for 7.50 plus taxes. Which is roughly the average now a days for biryani. And yes the raitaa was included. I actually really liked the biryani. It tasted different than the typical biryani you find at SS or KK. I would recommend biryani lovers to give this place a try

Had high hopes for this place, since «Student Biryani» is a well-​known spot in Karachi. This place didn’t live up… Interior design was nice (credit where it is due), but we went there for the name and taste, not looks. Over priced and mediocre taste at best. Better Biryanis elsewhere already. If owners are reading, please get the actual recipe that made the brand popular in Pakistan. Not some homemade dish.

A fan of spicy Indian foods, I accompanied my friends to this newly opened restaurant in Mississauga. I was told that this restaurant was kind of a «legend» in its native country, Pakistan where the founder started selling biryani in a push cart near a school or college and was flocked by students; hence the name «Students».
The restaurant is decorated simply, the furniture is «run of the mill» and not very clean for a restaurant that just opened. The prices are a bit high when compared to nearby eateries serving the same kind of food but their biryani is to die for. We ordered the chicken and lamb biryani, the chicken biryani was good but their lamb biryani was out of the world. Having visited several Indian and Pakistan joints in the USA and across Canada, I have never eaten such delicious biryani in my life. Would recommend that patrons stick to the medium spice as the spicy biryani could burn you… when they say spicy… they really mean it. Medium spice is what I would recommend going for unless you have the palate to handle spice or are on a Kamikaze mission.
The owner, came around personally to ask if everything was up to our satisfaction and requested our feedback. I mentioned that the food was good and commented that:
1. The price was a bit steep when compared to other restaurants offering the same kind of food.
2. Rice was flavorful in both, chicken and lamb biryani but the lamb biryani was way better.
He explained that most of the places we were comparing the price with were take-​out joints whereas his was a full service restaurant; hence a slightly higher price.
For the difference in taste between chicken and lamb, he explained that the spices are actually cooked in the meat for lamb, making the dis more flavorful whereas chicken is added when the spices are almost done.
I would recommend the lamb biryani, have enjoyed better chicken biryani at other places. Gave a 4star rating as the place was not as clean as I expected it to be despite the fact that the restaurant opened only a couple of mopnths ago.
Definitely worth checking out.