My experience of eating here has just solidified the fact that Mother India is without a doubt my favourite roti place in the city.
We stopped into Indian Roti House after a morning spent at Harbourfront. Courteous service goes a long way with me and my dining partner and boy, was it lacking here. I placed my order and was about to pull out my wallet when the gentleman at the counter picked up his ringing cellphone. I waited for him to finish up thinking it wouldn't be long - wrong. It was long enough that he asked me to repeat my order after he got off the phone. This should have been the moment when we walked out but we were hungry and curious about the place having read the positive reviews on Yelp. So ordered placed, and off we go to sit as we were told our order should take about 20 minutes.
Since I was in good company it took a while before I noticed that almost 40 minutes had passed since we ordered. It didn't, however, escape my notice that a group that had come in after us received their order not long after ordering. It's possible that they ordered the daily special and there was tons of the curry in the back, but it's still a crummy feeling seeing people who come in after you eating while you're still waiting.
After about 42 minutes the staff member called out, "What did you order?" which was my cue to blow up but luckily for him he had our mattar paneer behind the counter.
And after all that, it was just meh. The roti was stiff and hard to cut through. The entire thing looked quite deflated because of an uneven distribution of the curry. I did enjoy the flavours of the curry but the whole experience had soured me on the place and I just wanted to get out as quickly as possible. Since the roti was pretty cold it didn't take too long.
Highly unlikely that I'll be back - mostly because I'm not in the area often enough but also because if I have a craving for roti I'll be heading to Mother India.