Why is Indian food so bad in Toronto?
#76
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Re: Why is Indian food so bad in Toronto?
#77
Re: Why is Indian food so bad in Toronto?
You'd want to be taking someone who values the food more than the furnishings.
#78
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Re: Why is Indian food so bad in Toronto?
I'll give you some feedback next week,
#79
Re: Why is Indian food so bad in Toronto?
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.
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.
#80
Re: Why is Indian food so bad in Toronto?
Great curries in Scarborough Morningside and Shepard :@)
#82
Re: Why is Indian food so bad in Toronto?
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.
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.
#83
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Re: Why is Indian food so bad in Toronto?
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.
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.
Never went in one of course, pesky foreign food.
#84
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Re: Why is Indian food so bad in Toronto?
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
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
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
#85
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Re: Why is Indian food so bad in Toronto?
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.
#86
Re: Why is Indian food so bad in Toronto?
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.
#87
Re: Why is Indian food so bad in Toronto?
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.
#90
Re: Why is Indian food so bad in Toronto?
I ended up with poutine crisps from PC over the weekend. They were not good!