The best samosas ever! There frontier chicken, dals, chicken tikka, shami kabob, kofta, naan, chiapatti, etc., are all very good!!! Their sweets are excellent! Ras mali is to die for, keer, jelabi, chum chum, etc. yummy! Nice atmosphere and very resonable prices. They also have a grocery store attached. So convenient! They deliver, too. read more

This is my favorite South Asian restaurant in the entire city of Chicago. I am very picky about my South Asian food, and have been very disappointed with how bland many Indian restaurants are in the United States. Shan Restaurant is an amazing exception. I was delighted to discover they have curry pakora on the menu. No one ever has that! The samosas are huge and delicious and the food here actually has just a hint of heat. The prices are reasonable and the place is completely unpretentious. The service is OK. But if you have ever eaten in a restaurant in India, you will understand why. read more

Fills the bill, but best to keep these tips in mind -- * Best for take-out -- as the eat-in tables are fairly well monopolized by a tight sort of community -- & it can feel a bit awkward dining there if you don't quite fit in ... * The lamb curry is wonderful but comes with the bones still in the mix ... If you tend to watch movies while you eat as I do, it's best to still leave a night light on so you can see what you're doing with your fork & avoid choking on the smaller bone shards * There is no individual rice option -- so keep in mind the smallest rice is $3.75 but you get great left-over rice ... Most entrees come to $15 with rice even with no bread ... * If you get delivery, each item is priced at a higher "delivery" rate in addition to the delivery fee ... So again, pick-up is best ... However, both of the last times I've picked up there I've been accosted by strange derelicts in that strip mall ... Nothing serious, but if you're intimidatable type, maybe bring a pal along for the pick-up operation... read more

Everything was great, big spicy hot samosas, delicious chicken makhani until... I found a short hair in the chicken, and I have long hair. End of my meal, period. My meal was delivered fairly quick. I really wish I could give them a 4 or 5 stars and keep ordering from here, but health is a big thing for me. Sorry. read more

We were looking forward to eating Pakistani/Indian food. Being Indian I have eaten from the best to the worst in North America. Unfortunately Shan disappointed me. The aloo palak was incredibly hot that I could not eat it. The raita was spicy too. Inedible. The brain masala was just some brain with out of the packet Shan seasoning mix. The biryani and tandoori chicken was ok. Even though the chicken wasn't cooked in a tandoor oven, it was good food coloring. The daal they said was going to be toor dal was moong daal, was not cooked and was slimy and gross. Not ordering from here. Too expensive. read more

Quantity over quality. Food was tasteless and stale. Ordered Chicken makhani which didn't taste anything like it is supposed to. Biryani was dry as bone with too much rice and maybe 2 pieces of meat. read more

Extremely expensive for no reason . The food wasn't delicious at all . Probably few days old. Waiter service was good . Friendly staff. But expensive for the quality of food. Would suggest going to Devon for your full warm meal. Like 3 gulab jaman for 5 doller and that too very old with a pungent smell. Was very disappointed. Will never go again . read more

A nondescript place sharing space with a convenience store, the food here is outstanding for the price. The veggie staples are great, but don't overlook the more challenging dishes: scrumptious cow's feet and sheep's brain are phenomenal. Shan is a hidden gem! read more

What a cool spot. While a little more expensive than the Devon joints, this makes up in accessibility and atmosphere. I can't really attest the food-- I tried Lambs Brains out (which shows you the authenticity of the place) and its not bad. One can tell by the spices in the food that a more traditional dish would have been pretty good. Huge portions. read more

Great spot for Indian food. I love the Chicken Briyani and the spinach and potatoes. They portions are a pretty good size. I wish they had garlic and butter nan added to their menu. They also have a large selection of Indian sweets. Rasmali and the Kheer are my favorite read more

Excellent food! I used to go here atleast weekly once... They have good indian style hot tea and samosa.. Tea will best always, samosa will be oily somtimes. All foods like chenna pulaov, veg pulaov... are fantastic... They wont use chilli powder to make it spicy... Instead they are using indian black pepper thats awesome This is always my best place to relax with tea when i used to go for a walk read more

Shan is the best! I came here after reading a Yelp review saying that Chicago's cabbies had to eat somewhere, and I was not disappointed. True to the reports, this place is cheap *and* authentic. The portions are *huge*, and if I order $20 worth of food, my husband and I eat the leftovers for days. We love sitting in the family dining area and watching whatever the waiters are watching on the LCD tv (recently, it was the South Asian version of The Biggest Loser). After our meal, we usually pick up some goodies from the grocery store section. We've always been able to find a space in the lot, but it usually is a tight squeeze, since there are so many cabs parked there. Shan might not be the best place for a first date, but I'd definitely rather eat there than at the more expensive, Americanized places up on Devon. read more

Best pakistani food in Chicago. And you would not believe it, they have recently started a lunch buffet, all you can eat, on weekdays. Its a great value given that its only $9 for a LOT of food. Their paratha-kabab rolls are also great, and only $3. You must try this place. Its seating area is not as good as some of the expensive places on Devon, but is still better than a lot of desi places, and is presentable. Especially the seating area on the right is much better and has less traffic. Breakfast on weekends, halwa puri and omlette-paratha is great too. I personally go there since its away from the busy Devon Street, and parking is easy and free. read more

I think this is GREAT carryout. The samosas were tasty, the sauces taht came with it were not diluted like other places are and they're cheap!! A buck. Seriously cannot go wrong with that AT all. The chicken makhani was super yummy. Nothing beats India House, but at half the price, it def. does the job. The paratha is amazing. I'm excited to try the other dishes and it's extremely affordable. Don't miss checking it out! mouth watering... read more

Been going here for years. Food is consistently delicious and service is good. Very affordable for the amount they serve. Parking lot can be tight but plenty on the street. read more

The best Pakistani style food in the whole Chicago area you going to be wasting your time going to Devon come over here parking is available and the food is delicious anything on the menu board with circles is the specials. read more

Ordered delivery from here for the first time. Samosas were big and spicy. No rice included with the entrees. Chicken tandoori was spicy and meat didn't taste that great. Limited selection of Indian veggie entrees compared to Hema's. Service was on time. read more

This place is great for lunch in the neighborhood. The portions are huge (two lunches really) and all of the vegetarian dishes are delicious. I could eat their naan all day everyday and be a happy lady. read more

my former review still holds true. in need of an update while the attached market is my indian kitchen savior and i rarely frequent for food anymore being that i moved to the southside. when i initially would stay with caleb when he lived in rogers park i brought him here for the first time and he was delighted... delighted enough to make this his weekly fix for fast indian... now we are living together on the opposite end of the city and it isn't a fast trip anymore. once in a blue moon if i am around the area i'll pop in for a fast fix, take out, or a mango lassi for old times sake. we live so off the beaten path for our indian fix that i have taken to making indian food myself in the kitchen.... with practice i've gotten pretty good now, could even get a second job i think at it, and while caleb practically requires i make at least one indian dish a week with his frequent requests... cue shan for stocking my kitchen with unique spices and items i simply just can't find anywhere near! but i still make the trek every few months to stock up on a unique selection of items including: a huge sack of basmati rice, fenugreek seeds, cumin seeds & grounds, coriander seeds & grounds, cardamom pods, best tikki paste ever, coconut powder, tumeric powder, garam masala, mint and tamarind chutneys, wet tamarind... this is just a SLIVER of the goods they have for THE BEST PRICE I'VE YET SEEN IN THE CITY! and the quantity is enough to last me a year aside from a few basics. read more

This place LOOKS like it should be one of those miraculous hidden gems where the food is awesome and cheap and served on paper plates. However. Every single dish was disappointing. The food is cooked without love or much care. This is a place where the food is just like the tables -- cheap and poorly constructed read more

Pretty good biryani and roti. Pretty cheap . Mutton curry was pretty good.Tea is good too. Pulav and fried rice are not good

Just one of my favorite places in Chicago. You really get to see the old world mixing with the new world. Awesome menu and great old school service. I don't see many women here as it's mainly a eating place for pakistani men. Really wonder food and you can't beat their frozen foods and they can really help out if you run out of household stuff, too. read more

3 years later and still good. Staple indian restaurant I frequent at least 3x a month. :) Can't think of a reason to make a trip to Devon st. when this place exists 2 blocks from my house. read more

I know the difference between naan and pita. They gave me pita bread. I was looking forward to naan because he said naan. I was also disappointed that the chicken wasn't crispy or grilled at all. It did have a good spicy flavor that I liked but it was not dry and crispy. My advice go in to place your order a time or two until you are reasonably sure you are leaving with what you wanted. read more

we were is need of some quality indian food and werent sure where to start. living in chicago for 8 years id have to say i have have indian cuisine on only 2 occassions so i went to yelp. shan had good reviews and was easy to get to. however, the comments about the restaurant itself scared me off so i ordered take out. ended up going with 2 naan, 2 simosas, frontier chicken and chicken curry (split between two people) the food was all very good. the chicken curry was a bit difficult to eat as it had a lot of bones in it. we were unable to find a quality menu online but our to go back had a detailed menu that included the chikcne curry comes with bones - had i known this i would have gone a different route. dont get me wrong the chicken was good, i just wasnt in the mood to pick through it. we placed our order online through shan's site and we were very unsure if it was legit as there was no address or contact numbers anywhere on the page. so we listed a fake phone number and elected to go with cash payment so we didnt have to enter any credit card numbers. when we showed up to pick up the food the guys at the restaurant started laughing and said they thought they were punked. they tried calling the fake number we put in (which was a 773-555-1234) and could not get through to anyone. we passed on a few suggestions for their site and they were quite friendly about it. anyway, the naan was a very large portion and one order should suffice for a person. the samosas was something i had never experienced (not even sure how to explain) - maybe the indian version of a pierogi?? try it out. read more

You MUST try their yogurt. It's the best I've ever tasted anywhere...and I've been to many places around the world. Try it and tell me what you think!! read more

A friend who is a regular took me there last night for dinner. We shared a beef, lamb, and chicken dish along with naan and paratha, it was excellent. Unfortunately, he ordered so I don't remember what the beef and lamb dishes were, but the tandoori chicken was excellent. read more

I'm going to give Shan restaurant 5 stars for the following reasons: consistency, food quality, customer service. I find the staff attentive. I find food very good and consistent. I don't really care for the dining experience/atmosphere but I just order my food to go. I ordered 3 things n paid $25 dollars and I first thought....that's kind of high but once I got home and opened.........I can easily make 3 meals; it's worth it! read more

Been here several more times, trying to take out different stuff each time. It's obvious to me now that they are incapable of making an inferior dish. Every dish is yummy. And I've been eating indian/pak for 30 years, so I know my stuff, even tho I'm a typical euro-american. The only thing to watch out for are the dishes where the meat is not boneless. Taking it home, I can take those big pieces and trim off the good meat and dice it and mix it back in the dish. read more

VERY AUTHENTIC PAKISTANI STYLE CUISINE! : ) The portions are GREAT! and The price is GREAT! Lots of food,cheap price, cant beat it. Just finished my Saturday night dinner. And they delivered in about 30 mins! I ordered Chicken Makhani, Lamb curry, Vegetable Samosas, Rice and Paratha. Like I said the portions are very generous and delivered fast and HOT! Not to mention everything was neatly packaged. I will definitely order again and again! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! Iam a very satisfied customer. Staff is very friendly! P.S. Their Chicken Makhani......SOOO DELICIOUS! read more

not too long ago, i sat on a southbound 151 bus, staring through the window feeling depleted and exhausted. lost in my day dream of getting home, after we passed foster, i noticed a sign that read "100% halal zabiha". i perked up. reason being, indian/pakistani cuisine is one of my all time favourites. mostly because i'm a spice addict and really, no one does spice better than the south asians, but also because as a gluten free wheatard, part of re-learning how to cook for myself involved learning about indian and pakistani food (millet and chick pea flour as well as the myriad of dishes involving lentils are a wheatard's best friend). i scanned the sad little strip mall of windows and realised that Shan Foods perhaps wasn't a crappy chinese restaurant, but possibly a chinese-pakistani restaurant! after discovering usmania chinese on devon, the silk road style of cuisine has become a bit of an obsession for me. either way, if it was pakistani or chinese-pakistani, the prospect of having a pakistani restaurant - period - within 6 blocks from my house got me excited. i came home and told the boyfriend about my possible discovery. we promised each other we'd go check it out. and 3 weeks or so flew by. last week, my friend anthony posted a facebook update about having eaten there. i commented by asking if it was any good. he replied yes, and cheap too. oh man, things are getting good and looking up for food-crazed sunny! tonight, when i got home to find lucy canceled yoga due to her friend going into labour, the boyfriend brought up going for mexican. while i love me some al pastor tacos and guacamole, i was in the mood to cook. however, after realising it was close to 8pm and i'd be cooking for an hour before food would be ready, i threw out, "what about that Shan restaurant down the street?" i was curious to find out if it was chinese-pakistani or just pakistani anyway. so in the miserable rain, we trudged down sheridan to Shan's. i cannot stress how well rewarded we were for that soggy and chilly 6 block walk. turns out, Shan's Foods is mostly pakistani cuisine. we ordered shami kabobs, samosas (for the non-wheatard), masoor dahl, lamb biryani and keema aloo. of course, i had to have a lassi - salty for me, thank you - and we gobbled up just about everything. the food was nicely spiced, the service fast and friendly and the bill was cheap! the bill total was all of 26 smackeroos. also surprising were the grocery aisles stocked with indian curries, various spices, a nice array of lentils and remarkably, ground millet and teff flours! Shan's Foods also happens to carry a fresh selection of injera (ethiopian bread to accompany those amazing curried wat and lentil stews they make, but that's another story) as well as fresh produce staples like red onions, garlic, cilantro, chilies, curry leaves and ginger. i can't tell you how thrilled i am to know i can run there for my last minute cooking needs. also, there is a sweets counter full of halwa, ras malai, galub jamun and barfi, among other things. i was too stuffed to even contemplate sweets after all that food. it's just another reason to return. uh, hello, pakistani gem of uptown? where have you been all my life? actually, that life would only be the two months i've been living in crazy crackhead uptown. and who'da thunk there'd be other perks to crazy crackhead uptown besides cheap rent and proximity to the lake? read more

Delicious and cheap. And they deliver! You don't necessarily need to eat at the restaurant itself, but the food is awesome. The price is right too. read more

I'm writing from my couch in a deep food coma from the chicken makhani. It is literally the best chicken makhani I have ever had. I wish there was more room in my stomach for the rest. I also got the naan and samosas which are also delicious. Love this place and will definitely be a regular! read more

No. Just no. I wanted Indian food so bad while I was in Chicago and was ecstatic that there was such a highly recommended place so close to work. But no. It is inside of a convenience store which is awkwardly not connected to a gas station since it very much resembles a gas station store. I placed my order for butter chicken, rice, a samosa, and naan. My bill was $17. $17. During lunch. Whomever lied to me and said this place is a bargain.... I'm coming for you! I grabbed my food to go since it took about 20-25 minutes to cook. When I got to work, instant disappointment set it. There was grease on EVERYTHING. The samosas soaked through the paper bag they were in and the grease from the butter chicken was way too evident as it formed a think layer around the carry out dish and on top of the dish. The samosas were definitely a highlight of the dish although I only got the minty chutney. They were huge and crispy (despite the drenching in oil). They had chunks of potato inside-- and that's about it but still, they were spicy and tasty. And enough for a meal in itself. Order one! They're massive. The butter chicken was, like I said, covered in greasiness and the chicken was tough. The chicken was oddly stained the color of the sauce which was additionally off putting. The naan was about half an inch thick and incredibly tough. Combined with the tough, greasy chicken, I decided to call it quits and hopefully deter fellow Yelpers to save their $20 and go elsewhere. read more

I use Eat24 a lot to order home deliveries of meals. I placed a delivery order with Shan, and they totally screwed the order up. I asked for Butter Chicken and I got Chicken Biryani instead. I order a vegetable dish for which I requested that it be mildly spicy. It was so spicy that I couldn't eat it. My entire mouth was on fire. Plus I have a digestive sensitivity to spiciness. Hence it was inedible for me. I complained to Eat24 about it and they did remove the charges. But Shan never offered to replace the mistaken items with what I originally ordered. For that reason, I will never have anything to do with this business again. read more

You can't go wrong if you're looking for excellent, flavorful, cheap eats! The atmosphere leaves a little to be desired but if you don't mind a dingy, strip-mall, quick-mart/restaurant filled with cabbys then you will love Shan Foods read more

Still my favorite!! We moved out of the building directly behind Shan over to the Western/Peterson area and they make an exception to deliver to us since we were such good customers. Frontier chicken, basmati rice, yogurt, samosas, always perfect. My favorite are the beef rolls, can't get enough. Thanks to the guys at Shan, always a good job and excellent food!! read more

Good food, unusual location but awesome naan. That is all I need to say.

Had them cater at work, and wow, the samosas were pretty spicy! I hate it when my Indian food has zero spice. Everything from Shan was delicious and spicy - spicy enough to the point it hits your sinuses. They have a wide variety of entrees, so I think this is a great place for catering Indian food. If you're a fan of spice like me, then I recommend checking this place out. I'm laughing at these weaklings rating them 1 star, complaining about how spicy they are lol. read more

I would have given this place 4 stars if it wasn't so spicy! And for some people, spicy is a good thing, so don't let that keep you away. We did ask for everything mild and it was still way spicy for me and just a little bit more than the right amount for my husband. You can't beat the prices though, especially when you see how much you get! The servings are huge! We got Aaloo Mutter Gajar, which was a potato, pea, and carrot mixture, which was pretty spicy but also had a hint of sweet to it. Big huge hunks of potato and carrot! Only 3.99! We also had the Chana Masala which is under their lentil section, chickpeas, ginger, garlic, onion. So yummy! And it didn't seem as spicy as the Aaloo dish. Also 3.99. The thing to know is that these dishes don't come with rice. Which is ok I guess because the price is so cheap and the rice isn't that expensive at 2.99, you get a ton! At least four servings worth! My husband also got the Seikh (chicken) Kabab. He seemed to really like it and said it was super spicy! We have tons of leftovers too! We got carry out, and that is probably what I would suggest, the eat in area looks sort of small. Overall, we will go back for more, we will just space out our visits so we don't kill all our taste buds! read more