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The prices are higher than a lot of other Indian restaurants, but the quality of ingredients and complexity of flavours would be worth the extra in their own, and when you add the beautiful decor with wood walls and brick red fabric chairs, the prices are reasonable.
Our favourite go to dishes are the Amaya Prawns: juicy jumbo shrimp in a green mango curry sauce with peppers, the flavours are so complex it's difficult to tell what spices are in the sauce but it's so delicious, we order naan to wipe up every last drop of the sauce.
We also ordered pakoras and samosas for the table but the prawns were the hands down winner.
The lamb lollipops are perfectly tender having been marinated before grilled, served with an incredibly tasty mint and fenugreek sauce that is a perfect complement for the lamb.
Butter chicken is a bit sweet unless you order it spicy but is very tasty with a great creamy sauce to spoon over the basmati rice.
The Punjabi chicken is the spiciest dish we ordered, but again there is complexity of flavours as well as heat.
Our friends had the Malai Cod, the fish was grilled perfectly and served with a coconut curry sauce, and the Lobster Butter Masala - the lobster was surprisingly sweet and tender in a sauce that I could only describe as a more complex and refined butter chicken sauce for grown ups. A lot of naan was used to get every last drop of that sauce.
No room for dessert but a few of us had Mango Lassi, a sweet and cooling way to soothe the palate after the spice, which certainly is not overwhelming at Amaya but it builds up all the same.
Anyone who judges Amaya based on their Express locations is missing out on the true gem of the Amaya family, the Indian room on Bayview is at a whole other level in quality and service.
So full, because it's hard to stop eating even when you are full. Must nap now.
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