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| - Part of our Indian restaurant ventures, my family and I decided to try out Avani on a Friday night. One word of advice - make sure you make a reservation, as they get pretty busy on Friday nights from our observation.
Here's my breakdown of the review:
1) Ambiance, seating area, service (minus one instance) - excellent.
2) I am taking one star off because the host at the front of the house was very rude. I had made reservations for 7:15PM, but however due to traffic and the weather, we were 15 minutes late. I had called on my way there, and I informed them that we will be late, and is it okay.. The person whom I spoke to on the phone said its fine, and it shouldn't be a problem.
However when we arrived there, the host at the front said that he canceled our reservation because we were 15 minutes late. I told him that I spoke to someone on the phone and they said its fine. I even mentioned my name and telephone #. He just simply ignored it. He then told us we'd have to wait another 20 minutes for a table to be ready, and told us to sit at the bar. This was very unacceptable.
3) Here comes the fun part, the food. Just a heads up, my family and I are vegetarians, and once again we do not know how the meat dishes are. Here's what we ordered:
Manchurian vegetables, Dal Masar Ki, Baingan Patlala (a great dish by the way), Saffron rice, Tandoor rotis, Methi naan.
The food was excellent and it was mouth watering. The spices were just correct, and it suited our pallet pretty well. The food tasted better than the over hyped Chef Sanjeev Kapoor's Khazana in Brampton. My favourite dish was the Baingan Patiala. The Chinese eggplant was cooked perfectly fine in the gravy, and I even liked the raisins in it too. Normally I don't like raisins in food, but this was an exception. The Dal Masar Ki was tasty as well. I liked how they used the red chili as compared to the green chili. The red chili is not as spicy as the green one. The texture was perfect and the portions were great.
Overall, we would definitely come back here, and shall recommend this restaurant to others.
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