Al Romansiah Restaurant | الرومانسية جبل عُمر

Honest review,
After reading peoples comments and me personally trying it.

Pros :
*The mandi was good, good quality and good quantity of rice.
And the meat is yummy, the meat quantity is as same as any other mandi restaurant around the globe would serve.

People complaining about more fat and full of bones and less meat well this is what mandi is all about.
The mixture of rice, meat, tomato sauce and fat. When it goes in your mouth and blends it’s a different level of taste.
I would suggest people of india and pakistan or those people who eat spicy food to not try it until you understand what mandi is.

Cons:
*It was over priced
expensive. I payed around 500 riyal for 3 people ( mandi, water, laban, salad, tomato sauce, soup )

*The rice was warm but the meat was cold.
I couldn’t enjoy the fat as it was not that hot.

*Communication problem at the counter
The management should hire a person who speaks english and his job should be to wander around near sales counter with “MAY I HELP YOU” written on his shirt. Who can help people order.

* the management charged such a high amount and there was no free soup nor tomato source. Without which mandi is not mandi.
Then i had to go all the way down, stand in line and selected tomato sauce and the stand in collection counter and went back up again and found out that they gave me chicken soup. Which i buyed for 30 riyals
I mixed the soup with rice but wasn’t getting that vibe so again i had to clean my hands, go down and show him tomato sauce’s picture on phone from internet and then again stand at collection line and move back up. And during my these 2 trips up and down my food which was not warm now was cold.

i would like to request the management plz don’t separate the traditional soup and tomato sauce from mandi, give it complementary along with mandi.
Coz majority of the people who tried your mandi could not enjoy as what i read from the reviews.
Apart from it
I really liked the mandi.

One of the best mandi restaurants in Saudi. This branch surprise with big and fast service with same quality. Still more than what described 👌

amazing experience . we lived there for 8 days and every day we tried new dish and each and every dish was delicious and full of flavour. Highly recommended all the dishes especially mutton mandi, bukhari chicken rice

The rice portion was generous; however, the meat was minimal, mostly bones. I expected more meat since the plate looked substantial. Will I return? Maybe, but I'll suggest adding more meat, not just bones! Also, the price seemed high, considering there was no salad or yogurt included; I had to buy them separately.

The food tastes normal. There is nothing special about it. The food didn't suite me and caused me stomach problems.

Food was delicious with generous portions. The meat was cooked beautifully & was very tender.

All food served here is very traditional Saudi food. The place has two main halls, one for men, I am assuming with proper serving tables (i am really not sure 😅) and another hall for families, which consists of multiple private rooms for complete privacy (the one we got was floor seating, i am not sure if there is ones with tables available). We ordered mandi and kebab as two main courses and multiple starters and side dishes. I want to praise the kebab the most, it was deliciously spiced, bbqed to perfection, and the meat was not full of fat (usually full fat makes you bloated, but this one was amazingly healthy). I think it is becoming a tradition to visit Al Romansiah restaurant while in Saudi 😃

We've eaten at this place twice. We love it. The rice and chicken are so tasty and homey. We order the more flavourful bukhari and mahgoot. Both really nice, not chilli spicy but flavour spicy. You can get chilli on the side. 1 is enough for 2 of us.