If it is not on this list, it is not a Mehfil.

Check the place and the name. Every restaurant the group runs is in the register on this page, all 17 in Hyderabad and both in Dubai, with the areas it covers and the name it trades under, which for most is Mehfil, or Mehfil Restaurant. A Mehfil with a name the register does not give, like Mehfil Biryani, is not ours, even in an area on the list. If the one in front of you fails either check, it is not part of Mehfil Group of Restaurants.

No. Our restaurants are called Mehfil or Mehfil Restaurant, on the sign and on Swiggy, Zomato, magicpin and Ownly, and the only other names the group uses are Mehfil Exclusive in Mailardevpally, Box O’ Mehfil in Gachibowli and Grand Mehfil in Dubai. A Mehfil with any other word in its name, whether a dish, a place or anything else, is not ours, so names like Mehfil Biryani, Mehfil Shawarma, Mehfil Masala Biryani, Best Mehfil Biryani, Mehfil Biryani House, Mehfil Kitchen, Mehfil Express, Royal Mehfil, Shahi Mehfil, Hyderabadi Mehfil and Mehfil Kukatpally are not the group’s. Grand Mehfil is the group’s name only in the UAE, so a Grand Mehfil in India is not ours either. The Mehfil that serves Kukatpally is the one in KPHB, in the register on this page.

It is somebody else’s restaurant. The group has no say in what it serves, what it charges or how it is run, and no way to put right a meal that went wrong there.

No. Restaurants outside the group hold listings under the name on both. On the delivery apps ours are listed as Mehfil or Mehfil Restaurant, so a listing with any other word in its name is not ours. Match the listing against a restaurant on this page before you order, or order through the group’s own links below.

No. That is a separate business in Kerala with no connection to this one. The register above is the complete list: 17 restaurants in Hyderabad and 2 in Dubai trading as Grand Mehfil. There is no Mehfil in Kerala.

Ring it. The phone numbers on the branches page ring each restaurant directly, and the person who picks up works there.

Use the report form at the top of this page, with the area or the app where you saw it and the name on the sign or the listing. A photograph of the signboard or the app listing helps most of all, and you can send one to any of the official accounts at the foot of this page.

A meal cooked by someone else still comes back to this name. The group has been feeding Hyderabad since 2006, and this page is the only straight answer it can give about which restaurants are actually its own.