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| - Jaipur Express is a takeout location next to Rabbas grocery. It opened up this past summer 2010. (they have a sit down restaurant location in Markham)
I had first tried this downtown location's food at one of the cultural events in the summer time at Harbourfront Centre. I ordered then a meal combo of channa masala (chick pea) curry, rice, butter chicken and pita. Not impressed by the taste to tell you frankly. So I wrote this place off and wasn't going to try it again.
Today though I was craving some Indian food and convinced my fiancee let's give this place another shot.I called them up in advance for pickup. I ordered a dinner for two special. $19.95 you get raita, 2 naan, 2 samosas, 1 meat dish, 1 vegetable dish, and 1 dessert. Not bad. Walking inside the place has some bar stools in the front portion of the restaurant where one or a small group of 4 can have a quick meal if you wanted, but the place is sparsely decorated so it's not a place where one would want to take a date. :)For our vegetable dish option we got the alo gobi (cauliflower) and the meat dish retry of the butter chicken.We were greeted with very friendly service. As we were waiting for a samosa to finish cooking we talked with the restaurant owner and had an interesting conversation about love and cuisine . but anyways that another story all together.. lol .
We briskly walked back in the cold wintry weather and brought the food home. Immediately we laid everything out on the table, cracked out the plates, serving spoons and tried it all out. Started with the chicken samosas, a little bit on the greasy side as they fell out of the from the bottom paper bag! :o haha no need to reach from the top. Wow these samosas were good, tasted like lumpia shanghai (a Filipino spring roll with meat) but in triangular form. Came with tamarind sauce on the side. Nice touch.Alo gobi had a nice flavour, same with the butter chicken it was filled with large fresh chucks of chicken cooked in the sauce. Not too creamy not too sweet either. The naan, looks like the presidents choice brand I've had before. I'm serious. This was not made fresh from a clay oven.. here at least. :pThe rice, had a nice touch shaved carrot . Different and done proper. Moist not over done.Containers I wished were foam to retain a little more heat.
Overall a good experience, not culinary perfection but I didn't have those high expectations going in. It actually was a lot better than I imagined and a lot better when I tried it from the summer time at Harbourfront.Not a bad choice if I needed to grab some Indian food around the area.
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