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| - It's so disappointing when Yelpers lead you wrong, but this ended up being one of those places. It was our first night in Montreal and we wanted to get some takeout since we'd been driving all day and were led astray by Yelp saying Curry Majal was open until 10:30 (it's not open at all on Tuesday, the night we came in, and only open til 10 week nights). This place was close and well-reviewed so we came here instead. The hostess was fine and took our order, but asked us to pay before getting groceries across the street. So we wait for the man ringing up another tab and then he disappears into the kitchen. He finally comes back and tells us to sit down. We say we just want to pay as instructed so we can pick up some groceries and he tells us to pay when we get the food. A waste of five minutes but we were accommodating and came back 15 minutes later. The man made us tell him everything we ordered again since he hadn't bothered to get the check from the hostess, then turns to me, looks me up and down and says "you don't look like you're from here, where are you from?" As an ethnically ambiguous brown woman I'm used to this bs from white dudes but it's worse from brown ones - you should know how crappy it feels to be singled out and have others think they're entitled to a reading of your family tree while you're just trying get some damn dinner, so don't do it to others. I simply said "New York," which clearly didn't satisfy his curiosity as he frowned giving my white husband the check. To top it off, they forgot our samosas and were completely unapologetic when we had to walk back to wait for them to make them, and the bizarre man took the paper bag they were in and told my husband they were "very hot" and tried to touch the greasy hot bag to my husband's skin to prove it. WTF? Our butter chicken thali was incredibly small for $12 and had been packaged so poorly that most of the sauce spilled out into the bag. The samosas and lamb saag were decent, but given the poor service I would advise others to look elsewhere.
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