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| - I travel for work sometimes and had almost two weeks in the sea of Indian restaurants that is Brampton, Ontario. After a week of hunting for something else half-decent, Yelp took me to the Golden Stool!
The first night I came here, it was 40 minutes before closing, the ambience was a dark restaurant blasting African dance music videos on the TV above the sparsely-provisioned bar, the food took 30 minutes to get out even though I was the only one of the few people left in the place (one party other than me) who hadn't finished eating long ago, an employee's kid was making a racket trying to dive headfirst off the barstool, and I feared the worst.
Then the food came. It made up for everything! The combo of beef skewers, maple ginger salmon, and (substituted) stewed goat was incredible! The chef came out and I told him it was the best meal I'd had the entire trip, and he proudly said he owned the place. Everyone working was good people.
I don't usually go to places twice when traveling, but I went back here the night before I left, much earlier on a Friday night. The music was lower and tasteful (Erika Badu or similar), a football game was on TV but not too loud, the kid was there but hadn't been given the same dose of speed. The food still took a while, but I was expecting that now.
It was similarly empty, though, so please help remedy that so it's still here when I come back! :)
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