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Why is Indian food so bad in Toronto?

Old Jun 10th 2015, 12:33 am
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Originally Posted by dbd33
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Thanks for the heads up about this place. I was looking for somewhere to take the missus for her birthday on Saturday. Is it worth the two hour round trip? If the food tastes as good as the menu sounds it'll be pretty good if you ask me.
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Originally Posted by Mr Bean
Thanks for the heads up about this place. I was looking for somewhere to take the missus for her birthday on Saturday. Is it worth the two hour round trip? If the food tastes as good as the menu sounds it'll be pretty good if you ask me.
I like it very much. It's not grand though, one step up from a hole in the wall; friendly bustling atmosphere, vinyl tableclothes, constant stream of drivers running in and taking food out. About $50 for two including a couple of Kingfishers.

You'd want to be taking someone who values the food more than the furnishings.
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Old Jun 10th 2015, 12:49 am
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Originally Posted by dbd33
You'd want to be taking someone who values the food more than the furnishings.
In that case, it's sold. We were at our local across the pond eight times a week some weeks. Nothing flash about that gaff. Just a real treat on the grub front.

I'll give you some feedback next week,
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Not sure if I've mentioned this place before- DBD's hole in the wall reference sparked my memory- there's a seriously good lunch place on Hayden Street, at the Yonge Street end, next door but two to Kitchen Stuff Plus. They do a Thali there which is great, if you upgrade to double meat you get two meat dishes, they have a daily special (Fridays is vindaloo day) then you can go with the regular butter chicken etc.

It's called Biriani House but I've never had a biri there!

Good big portions and the double meat is a shade over ten bucks.
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Great curries in Scarborough Morningside and Shepard :@)
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Old Jun 12th 2015, 1:44 am
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Originally Posted by scot47
The Indian (Anglo-Indian ?) restaurant in Britain is a recent phenomenon. Unheard of in my parent's time !
Really? How old are your parents then?
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Originally Posted by bats
Really? How old are your parents then?
Err, I think he's right. I'm a mere 65 and I'm fairly certain that there were no Indian restaurants in Newcastle in the early sixties.

The first Chinese resto was the Lusan, next to the Green Market. It opened in 1961. I think that was the very first ethnic variant dining place.
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Err, I think he's right. I'm a mere 65 and I'm fairly certain that there were no Indian restaurants in Newcastle in the early sixties.

The first Chinese resto was the Lusan, next to the Green Market. It opened in 1961. I think that was the very first ethnic variant dining place.
Ah, well I was thinking that his parents might be our age, and I remember Indian restaurants in the 1960s. Which doesn't seem so recent to me. 50 years or so.
Never went in one of course, pesky foreign food.
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Originally Posted by MikeUK
Head out to Brampton

Best place we found was ... Dhaba express... McLaughlin road (not the other one)

...........Goat vindaloo and there version of Aloo gobi...

Dhaba Express
10725 McLaughlin Rd
Brampton, ON L7A 3E5
Canada

+1 905-450-4646

Best Punjabi Food Restaurants in Toronto | Indian Cuisine Brampton
+1

The interior consists of a counter and a display fridge so don't go there for the ambience.

The Karahi Chicken was on the spicyness pain threshold for me. She told me it was spicy but of course I didn't believe her and 'upgraded' from the curry. Finally some flavour. Only missing the Cobra
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Originally Posted by bats
Ah, well I was thinking that his parents might be our age, and I remember Indian restaurants in the 1960s. Which doesn't seem so recent to me. 50 years or so.
Never went in one of course, pesky foreign food.
There have been several waves of Indian restaurants in the UK. From Victorian times give or take there have been a smallish number of restaurants run by Indians associated with British imperial rule (it was not uncommon for returning British bureaucrats to bring their Indian chefs back with them). There was a second, larger, wave in the 60s of restaurants run by Indians who came to Britain as part of overseas recruitment drives by the government (the same drives that bought in people from the West Indies). The final, and more recent, wave is almost entirely Bangladeshi. I'm not sure how that got started but it was given a huge boost by the (now closed) highly skilled migrant visa programme that allowed restaurants to hire chefs directly from overseas.
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On the topic of cradles and their bland palates I noticed over the weekend that Presidents Choice seems to have dropped all of the zany flavours of crisps they'd launched- General Tao chicken, Mexican chili, curry, etc etc. Every flavour seemed to be based on grilled fast food: burgers, hot dogs, buffalo wings- or variations on the usual cheese/ bbq/ salt.
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On the topic of cradles and their bland palates I noticed over the weekend that Presidents Choice seems to have dropped all of the zany flavours of crisps they'd launched- General Tao chicken, Mexican chili, curry, etc etc. Every flavour seemed to be based on grilled fast food: burgers, hot dogs, buffalo wings- or variations on the usual cheese/ bbq/ salt.
I saw "Pulled Pork Poutine" crisps for sales in Sobeys.
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Old Jun 29th 2015, 5:02 pm
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Originally Posted by JamesM
I saw "Pulled Pork Poutine" crisps for sales in Sobeys.
That's interesting- I always think PC is ahead of the curve, maybe Sobeys are just moving into the "crazy flavour" area after PC has realised they don't sell.
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I saw "Pulled Pork Poutine" crisps for sales in Sobeys.
Now, that sounds revolting.
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Old Jun 29th 2015, 10:33 pm
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I ended up with poutine crisps from PC over the weekend. They were not good!
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