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Restavracija Shambala

Restaurant Asian restaurant Thai restaurant

One of the Top rated Asian restaurants in Ljubljana


Address

Križevniška ulica 12, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Website

www.shambala.si

Contact

+386 31 843 833

Price rating

$$$ $

Rating on Google Maps

4.50 (597 reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Thursday: 12 to 10 pm
  • Friday: 12 to 10 pm
  • Saturday: 12 to 10 pm
  • Sunday: Closed
  • Monday: 12 to 9 pm
  • Tuesday: 12 to 9 pm
  • Wednesday: 12 to 9 pm

Featured Reviews


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  • 2/5 Adrian D. 2 years ago on Google
    This place is a crime against Thai cuisine. Keep away from here if you don't want to waste your money and time. I have been to Thailand several times and I am a big fan of pad Thai, and I can assure these are not pad Thai at all, and probably the worst I ever had. It was closer to a insipid noodle soup. The Vietnamese rolls were also quite insipid and very small (the menu states 4 rolls but it is 2 cut in half) I only add one star because they provide free water to drink and the person that served us was quite nice.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Primoz B. 1 year ago on Google
    An excellent restaurant with Asian cuisine. Very good ambience. Professional waiters who know how to advise when choosing food. Good house wine. The price is ok. I recommend.
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Le T. 2 years ago on Google
    Went for lunch yesterday. Had scalops with thai basil pesto and grilled black tiger prawns. Good but average . For mains we had mussels in coconut milk and pad thai . I had mussels there before and they are to die for. Absolutely fantastic and one of my favourite dishes. Pad thai was also very good. We had good red merlot wine with it. This restaurant also has one of the best gardens in the city. The only thing we were not happy about was that there was only one waiter for all the tables- and there were quite a lot of us. He was very helpful and nice and I can not say that we waited very long for the service but still another pair of hands would come handy. But definitely worth a visit.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Boštjan O. 1 year ago on Google
    First of all I would like to leave the waiters out of this. There were only 2 for 8+ tables, totally understaffed and probably working long shifts. We sat outside. We were moved inside because of rain. We got our starters servered without cutlery. "Best we can do is spoon or sticks because all cutlery was outside". ?!? Waited just for napkins for 30+ minutes. It was probably 35C inside, no AC, proper tropical experience. Starters tastless, even the tuna, which the waiter asured the portions were bigger as before but we got 5 small bites for 16€ Mains terrible as well. Steaks that were ordered rare came medium, mediums came well done -. Oh and the roof started leaking mid starters. Price: almost 400€ for 6 (out of that was 50€ for wine). Tasteless food with no cutlery in tropical conditions in what should have been an upscale place? Never again.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Carolyn A. 1 year ago on Google
    Lovely fine Asian fusion - beautiful garden, great staff, excellent food. Enjoyed every moment here.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Tanja F. 1 year ago on Google
    It was my first time visit to Shambala. It's a small cozy resturant hidden near Ljubljana river waterfront. Appetizer was Barbecued Black Tiger shrimps with mango and chili sauce, amazing! For the main course we decided on miso marinated black cod filllet with pinneaple and snow peas and lemongrass marinated chicken fillet. Cod dish was the best dish I ever had jucy and perfectly cooked, chicken was a bit dry but also delicious. Dessert was ok, but not as special as we assumed it would be. We had Chocolate souffle with mango ice cream and Passion fruit ice cream with almond cream and coconut foam. Souffle was average and passion fruit ice cream was good but verry verry sour! Service was amazing friendly and fast. The one issue we had was the "missing" wine list or any drink menu. Drink price is only revealed when you get the bill.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Marco S. 7 months ago on Google
    Great place in the city centre on probably the best street in Ljubljana. The place has a very intimate and lilovely atmosphere. The summer garden is amazing. Staff is super courteous and fast. Excellent chef producing excellent food. It has a good value for money.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 M B. 9 months ago on Google
    Solid upscale Thai food option in Ljubljana. We started with Tom Yum soup and Indonesian salad. Both delicious. For entrees, we had the red curry with chicken and Prawns with Singaporean sauce. Both were well spiced and solid. What I didn't like was the fact that the prawns had the shells on. An upscale restaurant should clean the shrimp so patrons are not forced to dig out shrimp from their saucy dish and peel them- it was very messy. They did provide wet napkins for cleanup but this should not have been necessary. I understand the shrimp shells help with the flavor of the dish- but there are ways to use the shells after they have been removed from the prawns They had a few craft beers on the menu and the wine options were decent. I STRONGLY recommend getting reservations. While I sat there, the staff turned away no less than a dozen potential patrons - even though there were many empty seats. Solid 4 stars.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Martin R. 11 months ago on Google
    It was really nice with the fancy atmosphere. The food was good and we ate the special week fish menu. They've got 3 Micheline recommendations or. nominations so they are
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Marko �. 1 year ago on Google
    Excellent service and ambient in the center of Ljubljana. We ate main dishes: - “Moulard” duck breasts with sour mango sauce and pan-seared sweet potatoes, broccoli and almonds - Lemongrass grilled beef steak with snow peas and taro potatoes We also ordered desserts: - Chocolate souffle with mango ice cream - Passion fruit ice cream with almond cream & coconut foam
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 M M. 2 years ago on Google
    Can’t believe what they pass as Thai / Asian food here, Ljubljana surely deserves better. This restaurant is all style and no substance. Would’ve given 1 star but deserves 2 because staff was nice, although over attentive at times. Will definitely not be back.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 Lenа 1 year ago on Google
    three stars only for a good waiter. the food was tasteless. main course waited 40 minutes. despite the hunger, I could not eat either salad or padtai. the restaurant itself is nice.

  • 5/5 Nadia 3 years ago on Google
    Great ambience, well trained staff, delicious food! The tables outside have a really nice setting in the summer, but the atmosphere inside is very pleasant as well. Food never disappoints and they have big choice of vegan dishes. Prices match the quality.

  • 4/5 Blaž U. 2 years ago on Google
    Good food, cozy garden and polite staff (after 25 minutes wait for menus) - First they tottaly forgot about us; + after that staff was polite and professional; + we ate "Teden restavracij" fish and meat menu ... Overall taste of everything was good, especially first apetiser and main meat dish ... The rest was average; +- atmosphere is nice, but don"t go there in hot summer days cuz it can get really hot. So, Shambala offers some interesting combination of Asian and European cuisine but don't expect too much there ...

  • 1/5 Emetrix B. 2 years ago on Google
    Interesting that a restaurant does not serve food when you arrive at 20:45 (without reservation but 2 persons) for a quick dinner. The staff was “friendly” enough to inform us that the kitchen will be able to produce only starters since in “45 minutes” it will be late and we will have to finish our meal and pay and leave. Oh and it was Saturday evening and no wonder the place was almost empty… Being in the same industry I know that it is hard to do business under all this circumstances, however some restaurants refuse to do business in the first place and I am sure that they can hardly afford such “service”

  • 5/5 Timothy F. 9 months ago on Google
    Nice ambience, great service. Sampled a number of dishes, summer rolls were good with the dips, on their own, nothing special. Tempura is not authentic enough... Thick batter, almost doughnut like. Lemon grass halibut and chicken were nice, however chicken not free range. House wine very good.

  • 4/5 diana m. 8 months ago on Google
    The food tastes great. Pleasant ambience, really wonderful terrace. The service was friendly, but we waited an hour and a half for the food. In the end they apologized to us profusely - maybe with such a crowd they would have told us right away that it would be necessary to wait for food so long. It disturbed us, it is a good thing that I was in good company and this time was still well used.

  • 2/5 jernej o. 7 months ago on Google
    My food was okay. Not great. The portion was a bit small for me. For the price tag I would expect a bit more. Others were not very happy with their food as well, unfortunately. The atmosphere is nice. The major factor for only 3 stars though is the waiting time. We waited for ages, alltogether more than 3 hours for the whole service. I would expect the waiter to come and tell us beforehand if they were understaffed or something. All in all this restaurant has a lot of potential, the food looked delicious, although the flavour could be improved (at least on most of the stuff we got today). If the wait times are improved, Id consider coming again and giving it another go.(and if the prices were a bit less perhaps)

  • 4/5 Ziga L. 2 years ago on Google
    Very tasteful fusion of Asian food, highly recommended it. Good wine selection and very helpful and professional service.

  • 5/5 Khalid A. 3 months ago on Google New
    It’s rare that I give 5 stars and this restaurant deserves more the food is full of flavors


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Amenities


  • Parking
    • ✓️ Difficult to find a space
  • Payments
    • ✓️ Debit cards
    • ✓️ Credit cards
    • ✓️ NFC mobile payments
  • Offerings
    • ✓️ Beer
    • ✓️ Wine
    • ✓️ Coffee
    • ✓️ Alcohol
    • ✓️ Spirits
    • ✓️ Cocktails
    • ✓️ Small plates
    • ✓️ Late-night food
  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible seating
    • ✗ Wheelchair-accessible car park
  • Dining options
    • ✓️ Lunch
    • ✓️ Brunch
    • ✓️ Dinner
    • ✓️ Dessert
    • ✓️ Seating
  • Service options
    • ✓️ Dine-in
    • ✓️ Delivery
    • ✓️ Takeaway
    • ✓️ Outdoor seating

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