50+ Years
Of Timeless Taste
Slow Dum Cooked
Fresh Every Single Day
The Authentic Recipe
Unchanged Since 1976
6 Branches
Across Salem
Thousands Served
Every Week
Premium Ingredients
Nothing Less, Ever
Authentic · Dum Cooked · Since 1976
Authentic Dum Biryani crafted with premium ingredients and timeless tradition.
Six Kitchens · One Legend
Every Sheriff kitchen tells the same story in its own accent. Pick yours — the menu, gallery and map below follow instantly.
Where it all began · Mohammedpura, Salem
Before the six kitchens, before the queues down the road, there was a thalluvandi. One push-cart in Mohammedpura, one copper handi of biryani, and one man who refused to cook it any way but right. The crowds came — and grew — until he was asked to move on. So he rented the little shop just around the corner, lit the fire again, and laid hot, flaky parottas beside the dum. That corner has never emptied since. Fifty years on, one cart has become six branches feeding thousands across Salem — and every plate still traces home to here, where the legend was lit and the fire has never once gone cold.
Open Daily
11:00 AM – 11:30 PM
Reserve
0427 233 0427Since 1976
Same fire, same family.
Wood-Fired
Never gas, never frozen.
Sealed Dum
Opened at your table.
Fifty Years, One Method
The Handi
The MasalaThe Fire
The Feast
The Char
The TableWhat is dum?
Dum means breath — and that is exactly what the biryani does. Marinated meat and half-cooked aged basmati are layered in a heavy handi, the lid is sealed shut with dough, and the pot is left to breathe over a low wood fire. Nothing escapes. Every wisp of saffron, ghee and smoke folds back into the rice.
The Sheriff way
Since 1976, nothing about our method has changed. The masala is still stone-ground every morning. The chicken and mutton still arrive fresh at dawn, never frozen. The fire is still real wood, tended by hands that have done this for decades. Shortcuts exist — we simply refuse them.
Why Salem swears by it
Ask anyone in Salem where biryani lives and they will point you to a Sheriff handi. Fifty years, six kitchens, thousands of plates a day — and every single one opened at the table the way the first one was: steam first, silence after, and then the only review that matters. A second helping.
Through the Lens
Straight from our kitchens — spin the orb, tap a tile: films play with sound, photos open full-screen.
Step Inside
The Sheriff Difference
One family. One fire. For fifty years we’ve refused to swap the wood for gas, the stone for a packet, or patience for speed — and Salem has never let us stop.
Real Wood Fire
Every handi breathes over burning wood — never gas, never a shortcut.
Hand-Pounded Masala
Stone-ground fresh every dawn — you can smell it before you taste it.
Aged Basmati
Long-grain rice, rested to cook fluffy, fragrant and separate.
Sealed Dum
The lid is shut with dough, so only the aroma is allowed to escape.
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Real Guest Reviews
Every word below is a real review left by a real guest — nothing written by us.
Had a great experience overall. The service and the food was very tasty, the food was freshly prepared.
Suba Rangaswamy
Google review · Sherif Biriyani Elite
I visited this hotel for past 4 years, here the food taste and service was excellent. They never compromise the food taste till now.
nhema Latha
Google review · Salem
Order in Bulk
Weddings, offices, big families — Sheriff cooks for a crowd. Tell us the headcount and the date; the handi does the rest.
Bulk Dum Biryani
Whole sealed handis — chicken, mutton, or veg — cooked to your headcount and sent out hot.
Grills & Starters
Al Faham, tandoori, chilli chicken and 65 — the crowd-pleasers, by the tray.
Custom Party Menus
Weddings, offices, get-togethers — give us the date and the numbers, we plan the fire.
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