My brother recommended this place to me, and I’m so glad he did. We visited on 10 August 2025 with both of our families for the breakfast buffet. The food was fresh, delicious & had a great variety of traditional dishes to start the day.The selection of traditional dishes was fantastic everything tasted fresh and delicious. I like Halwa Puree, Haleem, Nihari, Payee and Desi Tea.
There is a car park right in front of the building (don't forget to register your plate inside)
To get to the buffet, you need to enter through the back door rather than the main street entrance.
It was excellent value at around £14.95 for adults and £9.95 for children. Thank you for ur service :)
Abdul Shahar★★★★★
Great food, great quality and value. Good range of choice for a buffet. Always glad to come here
Hong Lee★★★★★
We have been going to the Aagrah chain of Kashmiri restaurants in Yorkshire and enjoying their consistently fantastic food since the mid 1980s, shortly after they opened their first restaurant in Shipley in 1977.
Our current favourite is the buffet lunch at the Shipley Aagrah, which is fantastic value for just £13.95. There is an a large carte restaurant downstairs, which opens in the evening from 5pm to 11pm. The buffet restaurant is on the first floor with a buffet lunch for £13.95 (Wed to Sat 10am to 3pm) and an evening buffet for £23.95 (every day 5pm to 11pm). There is also a large private dinning room on the first floor.
Entry to the buffet restaurant for lunch is up the ramp around the side of the restaurant with an alternative entrance at the front in the evenings when the ground floor a la carte restaurant is also open. There are a small number of parking spaces in front of the restaurant, with 3 disabled spaces, and diners are required to enter their car registration numbers into a screen at the entrance of the restaurant for free parking, to avoid paying a parking penalty fee. On street parking near the restaurant is very limited during the day.
There is a reduced choice for the lunch buffet compared to the evening buffet, however, there's still plenty of choice for us. There a refrigerated display for salads & sauces to accompany papadoms and a good selection of 4-5 starters with a couple of vegetarian options. There are usually 3-4 meat curry and a couple of vegetarian curries for main courses with pilau rice, nans and other breads as accompliments. There's a small selection of deserts available, however, ice creams aren't included for the lunch buffet and are only served for the evening buffet.
Bottles of free tap water are provided to diners. Alcoholic drinks, soft drinks and hot beverages can also be ordered. One aspect I like is that free hot sweet Indian cha is available in an urn for diners to help themselves to.
As I have been going to the Aagrah restaurants for so many years I know most of the long serving staff who always greet me with a warm smile and handshake. They are always very helpful, attentive and hospitable.
We enjoy going to the Aagrah and keep on going back as the standard of their food is so consistently good and the quality of their cooking is so authentic with each different curry having its own distinct flavour and taste - alot of the smaller Indian restaurants only use 2 types of base sauces for all their dishes, which is why their curries taste very similar to each other.
Youmna Rizvi★★★★☆
Great Ambiance. Service was a little slow. Not many dishes but good choice of menu. Meat dishes were outstanding except Haleem.
Andrew n Paula Merritt★★★★★
We’ve dined at the Shipley Aagrah many many times over the years, we’ve always enjoyed great food and service in the a la carte restaurant and more recently we’ve discovered the delicious delights of the grill & carvery buffet, the wide selection of starters, mains and desserts lets you have a little bit of everything so you can quite literally eat until you are fit to burst, and for the last few years we’ve chosen to eat our Christmas lunch there too and it is for the most recent visit that this review is based on.
The restaurant has recently reconfigured the layout of the grill & carvery, the kitchen has been moved which has opened up a considerable area for additional dining and we were initially concerned this extra capacity may lead to it being more congested at the self serve buffet but the opposite seems to be the case, throughout our meal there was a steady flow of diners loading up their plates (ourselves included) but the staff kept all the dishes well topped up and the whole thing just seems to work better.
The food was exceptionally good, considering the volume produced it was all perfectly cooked and variety enough to suit all palettes, there was even a curried turkey offering so we left very full and contented with all our choices, the photos really don’t do justice to that but give you an idea.
Just on a final note, the restaurant is no longer licensed so if you do want an alcoholic drink with your meal then you can bring your own but any soft drinks must be purchased in house.
So thank you Aagrah for another wonderful Christmas meal and we will look forward to seeing you next year and many times in-between I’m sure.
Francesca Brooke-fenton★★★★★
The buffet was excellent. All the food was delicious and such high quality. Chicken wings and lamb chops highly recommend. We went for my husband birthday and the team brought a cake out put happy birthday music on.
Every table was happy and loud. Brilliant place, can't wait to go again
Hamid Khan★★★★★
Amazing food and service. The lamb chops were so juicy and tender also the mains were amazing we had Karahi chicken and it was full of flavour and the right amount of spice also Nan bread was soft and puffy. Waiter were very fast and made sure everything was perfect for us. Will definitely be back
lynda spencer★★★★☆
Easy to get a table as only a couple in but i suppose most people must go upstairs to the buffet. Food was good as always, service very good, waiter was very attentive and we didn't wait long at all for food.
Leon Das★★★☆☆
This restaurant is not as good as other Aagrah’s I’ve been too. We had the buffet and it was a very limited selection, I didn’t see any dal or veg side dishes. The dishes that were there were tasty as I would expect from this chain. But some things weren’t fresh they had been out a while like the chicken wings and the lamb chops weren’t as charred and grilled as I’d expect it’s like they had been stewed so were melt in the mouth but not how I usually like them. They did cook us a fresh naan.
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