Lunch buffet review:
Being that this was a South Indian Restaurant I was hopeful that it would be vegetarian/vegan friendly. Not really. For the price of $16.99 it is far to expensive if you're not eating the meat too.
I came at 1 pm (in an attempt to avoid the lunch rush) and it was absolutely dead. The buffet was picked over, and it was clear absolutely no new food was going to be brought out.
I'm not sure why they are open til 2:30 for lunch then.
This is what I can remember was at the buffet, I may have missed one or two items.
Salad bar:
lettuce and cucumbers
cold chickpea salad
old pink watermelon slices (not edible)
cantaloupe cubes
Chutney's and dips:
coconut (watery and bland)
tomato
mint
tamarind
and a few others
Hot items:
Indian rice with peas - almost gone, only a tiny bit left and no new rice brought out
Masala dosas - gone, had to ask for fresh ones
Naan bread - few pieces left
Idly - gone
papadams - a few left
Sambar soup
Beef curry
Butter Chicken
Okra curry
Potato curry
Chickpea Curry
Dessert:
jello
flan
something that looked like bread/french toast in cream
For the price, especially since most of it was not fresh and not refilled after the rush I did not see any value. And what's up with not bringing out any new rice? A little hard to eat curry with no rice.
The curries are very spicy, which is to be expected but all the veggie curries have pretty much the same flavor. Nothing really stood out. Even the masala dosas were rather bland and the coconut chutney was pretty sad. Just watery and plain.
If you like Indian buffets you may like it. But I don't see any reason to come back for my needs. I'll be on the hunt for a better vegan friendly Indian buffet. The receipt said they had a Sunday veg buffet and I asked about it and the server said they don't do it anymore.
Sad Calgary. Vegetarian Indian food can be good, but it seems to be losing out for meat based curries and is left as an after thought. Boo.