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| - Ok, so I'd been coming here for years and years, and then I stopped. I don't remember why this stopped being my go-to for Indian on Jean Talon, but I think it had something to do with trying Mahli Sweets, Chand Palace, Punjab Palace, Halal 786 - I broadened my horizons and didn't look back to my undergraduate haunt. Until now.
Bombay Mahal is the one place in town that two of my favourite people feel like regulars. They walk in and get hugged and feel at home, so when they wanted to celebrate a big birthday there I was dropping everything, changing plans to spend it with them, all the while wondering what my experience would be all these years later.
We had a lovely time, I'll say that. It was about what I expected, tasty but it's honestly not my favourite. The chicken korma was delicious, the naan was excellent, the chana samosa were good though not quite hot, and the sag paneer and butter chicken were kind of flavourless. The stairs to the bathroom were slippery and I slipped pretty hard, so that was a bummer, and the slightly moldy smell down there was not ideal. The thali is ~$10 which is cheap, but almost twice as much as other bigger, and in my opinion better, thali's nearby.
But yes, it's relatively inexpensive, BYO, and the staff are super friendly and funny and dear. I think there are better things to order than I did and lots of reasons to go back, but keep adventuring in the area if you're interested in discovering exceptional Indian food in Montreal.
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