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| - I don't even know where to begin, this restaurant was way below my expectations, especially for a place on king street west nevertheless.
Since it was tiff, most of the "good" restaurants were busy except this...wonder why. From the outside it seemed as if it was closed, and since my friend and I were running behind schedule to watch a tiff movie we decided a buffet would be fast and quick!
The interior of the restaurant was hard to tell because it was so dark! I understand how some restaurants like to try the romantic dim light style and ambience but seriously it was so dark and even flash photography wouldn't work well on food pics. I felt like I was eating at O'Nori! Least there you know what to expect. Even the buffet section was dimly lighted.
The buffet included some options however most of the food didn't look fresh at all and wasn't even warm. It's like they just left it out from the fried and forgot to turn on the hot plates or whatever.
Some of the appetizers included salad, pickled vegetables, chat papri, springrolls, potato fries, broccoli pakora, and naan. The main dishes included vegetable biryani, Hakka noodles, rice, chicken with spinach, butter chicken, lamb curry, tandoori chicken, vegetable curry, spinach with planner, and some other random dishes. As for dessert there was only ice cream, kheer, and rash malai. I think they had other stuff but it seriously didn't look appetizing.
Firstly, I think this place is wayyyyy overpriced for the quality of food they provide. I understand its on King Steet West and all, but other Indian restaurants on the road does not charge that much especially for mediocre food.
I don't understand why there would be sprinrolls and not samosas at an indian restaurant. just a bit odd. Then the broccoli pakora, didn't have broccoli it seems like spinach light battered and fried. Chat papri was probably the best dish, but like common you can't mess that up. Naan was naan, can't really complain about that. The vegetable biryani was okay, I didn't think it was bad nor was it spicy or too flavourful. The "hakka noodles" was basically Mr. Noddles in some curry spices, which was just blah. Vegetable curry was bland, and paneer with spinach, well I honestly could not find any paneer. The most disappointing were the meat dishes, there was barely any meat, the better chicken just was sauce and few pieces of meat, the taste wasn't bad but average compared to butter chicken in other restaurants, the chicken with spinach wasn't good at all, I actually disliked the taste. The tandoori chicken was sooooo dry and not fresh, it looked like it was cooked a while ago! It was hard to chew and had no taste not even salt. Lamb curry dish was the best tasting, however I wish there was more meat in the buffet tray, it was like going fishing for meat within the curry sauce. The dessert was again below par, the kheer was not sweet and tasteless, and the rash malai was better and sweeter. I didn't try the ice cream.
The good news is, I didn't sick from eating the food! However, its a bit sad that the food quality itself is so bad at this place when it has so much potential. They need to revamp their dishes, add more flavour and spices. Also they need to increase the lighting inside because its very for the eyes to be constantly squinting to see what we are eating.
I would't bother buying a groupon for this place because its not worth it and please do not ever pay full price, my bill for a crappy buffet came to $24 (without tips)... customer service was good and friendly. Someone kept asking us 4-5 times how we are liking the food, we kept saying it was okay but I hope they read my detail review. Also we were the only two people at the restaurant on a Friday evening at 5:30pm...when we left around 6:30 there were 3-4 more people, which is good but a bit sad.
I wish I could have personally told the manager how I felt about the food, but since I was running late I wasn't able to! I hope they change up the dishes a bit and maybe I will come back but for now, I still haven't found a great Indian restaurant in downtown Toronto!
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