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| - As far as Indian/Pakistani fare is concerned, Sahara puts together a damn good buffet for both lunch and dinner (at $12 and $16, respectively). They have probably the worst location known to man, tucked away in the back corner of a strip mall that is made entirely of restaurants, but you can still see it from Hwy 10, which is good, I suppose. Their food is fantastic - they have a large assortment of cold salads (potato, chickpea, garden salad) and I think on any given night they have at least 10 different types of curries and other entree dishes. Their naan bread is fantastic and they also have unlimited quantities of papadums, which are also delicious. They've got a dessert section of the buffet for those of you who like sweets, but I tend to shy away from them.
The one thing that this place lacks is service. I know it's a buffet, and you're not supposed to expect fantastic service at a buffet, but the fact that you're getting your own food means that the servers have less to do than at most joints, so the LEAST they should be able to do is get your drinks right and in a timely manner. My mother asked for tea one time and it took 10 minutes for them to get it to her and when they did, it wasn't right because they had no tea bag! Isn't tea a staple of the Indian culture? how can they mess that up? Last time we went, my Mom ordered hot water with lemon and the woman brought her hot tap water! I then clarified and asked her to bring boiling water, like the kind they'd use for tea, and that again took about 10 minutes.
This place would easily be 4-stars, or perhaps my favorite indian buffet in the west end if they had better service, but it's bad enough that I'd doc it a star.
Nonetheless, go for the food and know that your service is going to suck and you'll walk away happy.
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