Small Potatoes Make The Steak Look Bigger

Mughals Hyderabadi Biryani Restaurant (72 Race Course Road), despite being named as such and also having a dedicated portion of the menu with Hyderabadi cuisine, does not serve just biryani but a smattering of other commonly encountered Indian cuisine as well. I came here mostly for their biryani because I had heard mention that it was pretty good.




We made a couple of orders of the biryanis which were served with what appeared to be a diluted form of raita and some nuttish tasting curry which was mildly spicy. The egg option came about because I was always curious what kind of difference or flavors came about when a dum briyani is cooked with eggs since the method of cooking is suppose to impart the taste of the ingredient into the rice. And also, I like eggs in most of the ways that they are done. Unfortunately, there wasn't any eggy flavors involved, but mashing the hard boiled yolk to mix with the rice made it pretty good.

The mutton biryani wasn't exactly what I had in mind of what it could have been, mainly because, the flavor of the meat didn't really seep onto the rice. The lean meat wasn't as moist, but the flavor of the meat retained within itself. In comparison with a couple of places nearby, I would have to say that the alternative down at Mustard and the goat variant at Swaadhisht does a better job of infusing the biryani with the meat juices. I am guessing it is probably because of the higher fat content of the meat used over in the two latter locations. Which I personally prefer. The irony of it is, they have a better tasting raita over there as well.

In the cases of both the egg and mutton biryani, the basmati rice was a little dry (that's what the gravies are for) , quite strongly scented with spices and felt to me to be a little heavy on the cloves.


The side of Kadai paneer didn't come quite like the menu described, which gave me the impression that it would be stir fried, dry and with dried fruits. This tasted like a cashew nut curry which wasn't bad at all with that nice soft chunks of tau kwa textured cottage cheese. It was the shreds of ginger that got to me.


We ordered both their Irani and masala tea just to see what were the differences between them. The menu described the former tea to contain bits of biscuits and the server claimed that the latter tea was just more spicy than the first. Having tried it ourselves, I have to conclude that they tasted exactly the same.

Prices are pretty affordable here, I had realised after getting the bill that there was no GST nor service charge implemented.