REALLY wanted to love this place in our soon to be new neighbourhood. We had been talking about going for some time and I am so disappointed to have been let down!
We walked in and were seated fairly quickly. The table I thought was dirty but it was the table UNDER the glass that was filthy and I also noted that there was food splattered all over our booth chairs. The place smelled great though and I thought, just a quick meal, it will be fine. I even drank water tonight to keep things simple. Service was spotty at best. We were a long time sitting without ordering.
To start we were brought some crunchy chick pea chips 'on the house'. Very thoughtful but tasteless.
Our order consisted of curry chicken and I wanted something very hot and spicy so the server told me I should get the vindaloo. He also told me that the shrimp dish I was looking at consisted of very small shrimp and the prawn order which was more expensive had bigger shrimp. I asked if they were fresh or frozen and he told me FRESH so I ordered the prawn vindaloo. We ordered jasmine rice on the side as well as Naan bread.
Let me tell you, the Naan bread kept me from going out hungry. It was sooo good and warm, buttery.
The rice was cold and the beeping of the microwave in the kitchen did not give me confidence about how the rice had once been heated or any of our other food for that matter.
The chicken curry had a nice flavour to it and the chicken was well prepared. Hubby had ordered it mild but it came out spicier than my vindaloo and I had specifically asked for mine to be so hot it burned my mouth. Sigh.... I would not get the vindaloo again and I am warning you all that the shrimp did not taste fresh and were so grossly overcooked I had to tell the server, politely of course. They were like flavourless rubber. He advised me that he would tell the chef and that next time he would tell him to make them "softer" for me...
Oh boy.
I did not really get a Taste of India tonight.
If you are going to order from here, stick to the chicken dishes and get it to go.
Huge menu, small portions.