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Indian Restaurants
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259 Host / King West
259 Host is the fourth Host restaurant in the Toronto area but unlike the other three the kitchen here adds a bit more creative flare to traditional Indian dishes. Witness...
309 Dhaba / King West
Dhaba (also known as 309 Dhaba) is an Indian restaurant on King West. The second floor restaurant offers a tasting menu, prix fixe and a la carte. They also feature...
5th Element / Queen West
5th Element is a contemporary Indian restaurant on Queen West serving up Bombay calamari fritters, chicken tikka and prawn pakoras....
786 Halal / Little India
786 Halal is a Pakistani restaurant in Little India that features a lunch and dinner buffet....
A1 Sweets & Restaurant / Scarborough
A1 Sweets & Restaurant makes me inevitably think of steak sauce but there's certainly none of that at this vegetarian restaurant. A1 Sweets & Restaurant on McNicoll Avenue in Scarborough...
Agra Fine Indian Cuisine / North York
Buffets can be scary, depending on the restaurant. I usually opt for ordering from the menu because of this, but a friend recommended the one at Agra Fine Indian Cuisine...
Ali's Tandoori Curry House / Beaches
Ali's Tandoori Curry House is a quaint Indian restaurant in the Beaches offering both take out and dine-in service....
Amaya Express / Bayview and Leaside
Amaya Express is the quick serve and take out sibling to Bayview's all-the-rage Amaya the Indian Room. There's a second location at 3305 Yonge Street. ...
Amaya Express (Leslieville) / Leslieville
Amaya Express has a number of locations in Toronto including this one on Queen East in Leslieville. On the menu are all the usual Amaya favourites including butter chicken, thali...
Amaya the Indian Room / Bayview and Leaside
Since Amaya The Indian Room opened quietly two weeks ago, word has been spreading: this is no ordinary Indian restaurant. Not surprising, considering its founders: Lynn Stimpson and Derek Valleau....
Amaya's Bread Bar / Yonge & Eglinton
From the same people who brought us the excellent Amaya the Indian Room comes the Bread Bar, the home of more fresh, inventive Indian eats. Photo from Amaya's Bread Bar web...
Apalla / West Queen West
Apalla has taken over the space formerly home to Indus Junction. Not much has changed with the decor but the menu has been updated and includes offerings like lamb, chicken...
Aravind / Danforth
Aravind has been winning over Danforth locals and food critics from around the city since it debuted in early 2011. The Indian restaurant cooks up authentic dishes many of which...
Aroma Indian Cuisine / King West
Aroma is one of a handful of Indian restaurants on King West near John that offers a lunch time AYCE buffet as well as white tableclothed dinner service - mostly...
Babu (Scarborough) / Scarborough
Babu in Scarborough is one of two Babu restaurants specializing in Eelam and Indian food. The shop is open until 12 a.m. each day for those late-night dosai cravings, and...
Babur / Queen West
Babur serves up Indian food on Queen West. The best bet is to go for their weekend lunch buffets. ...
Banjara / Bloorcourt
Banjara has been a welcome addition to an otherwise non-descript strip on Bloor west of Christie Pitts. Located in something of a mini strip-mall (ok, there's Banjara and one other...
Bar-Be-Que Hut / Little India
Bar-Be-Que Hut serves the (self-proclaimed) best Indian food in town. I don't think many would agree with this claim but that hasn't stopped this Little India restaurant from continuing to...
Bhavna's Food / Parkdale
Bhavna's Food is a cheap, take-out restaurant in Parkdale that serves up vegetarian Indian food....
Biryani House (Wellesley) / Yonge & Wellesley
Biryani House is a Yonge and Wellesley staple that doesn't look like much from the outside, but don't judge a book by its cover. It's a romantic date-worthy space with...
Bombay Bhel / Yonge & Eglinton
Indian food and me have never got along very well. Certain spices can knock me out like a bad 'specialty' coffee (and I don't get sick days as a freelancer),...
Bombay Bhel (Yonge) / North York
Bombay Bhel is a casual Indian restaurant at Yonge and Sheppard offering authentic Indian cuisine including its famous samosas, naan, and lots from the Tandoor....
Bombay Chowpatty / Little India
Bombay Chowpatty is a new fast food option in Little India that is open late and serves samosa burgers, masala fries and a variety of lassis and desserts....
Bombay Masala / Eglinton West
Bombay Masala is an Indian restaurant on Eglinton. They offer a lunch buffet and are popular for take-out. ...
Bombay On The Lake / Etobicoke
Bombay On The Lake is an Indian restaurant offering vegetable, lamb, and chicken curries, Tandoori dishes and more....
Bombay Palace / King East
In the mood for some takeout Indian last night we decided to order from Bombay Palace. It had been ages since I ate anything cooked up in their kitchen, but...
Butter Chicken Factory / Cabbagetown
The Butter Chicken Factory is a relatively new addition to Cabbagetown which cooks up a lot more than just its namesake butter chicken. While that dish definitely impresses, there's also...
Canbe Foods / Scarborough
Canbe Foods is a spot for Indian cuisine, though from the outside it looks more like a place that prepares boxed lunches. Aesthetics aside, you can count on typical Sri...
Capital Sweet and Samosa / East York
Capital Sweet and Samosa isn't the only place on Overlea Boulevard to pick up fresh samosa but it might be the cheapest. Three veggie samosas here can be had for...
Chef of India / Yonge & St. Clair
Chef of India has taken over from the short-lived Jaaadu on Yonge St. South of St. Clair....
Chutney's / Etobicoke
Chutney's is an Etobicoke restaurant offering traditional Indian cuisine for dine-in, take-out, and delivery....
Curry Kitchen / Yonge & Dundas
Curry Kitchen has taken over the space formerly home to Smokin Bones. Instead of ribs and chicken, the menu features cheap curry dishes, all made with Halal certified meat....
Curry Twist / Junction
Located in the Junction, Curry Twist is contemporary restaurants serving Northern Indian and Moghlai cuisine. ...
Debu's Nouvelle Indian Cuisine / Mount Pleasant
Debu's Nouvelle Indian Cuisine is the latest outpost for much-loved local chef Debu Saha. His Biryani House days are now behind him as he's settled uptown where he's in cut...
Dosa City / Mississauga
Dosa City has been open for a little over a year yet it confidently touts itself as "the best dosa place in town." The dosas are served with sambar and...
Dosa Darbar / Etobicoke
Dosa Darbar is a relatively small dosa place on Albion located fairly close to Madras Dosa Hut. The restaurant is a good option for those on-the-go who'd like to pop...
Earth Indian Restaurant & Wine Bar / North York
Earth Indian Restaurant is a welcoming new addition to the otherwise Korean-and-Persian oriented restaurant scene at Yonge and Finch. Already famous for its sumptuous $ 9.99 Lunch-Buffet, Earth Indian Restaurant...
Everest Indian / Etobicoke
Everest Indian on Lake Shore may not be as sleek as the like-named Everest Indian(ish) restaurant on Queen, but it does offer a whole roster of authentic Indian flavours. The...
Famous Tikka / East York
Famous Tikka is a popular take out spot on O'Connor Drive that makes tasty kabob, samosas and chicken biryani....
Ghareeb Nawaz / Scarborough
Ghareeb Nawaz is known for its Biryani. Located on Danforth East, the Halal spot also offers kabobs, boti rolls, and more, at prices that certainly won't break the bank....
Guatama / Little India
Guatama is a new Indian restaurant in Little India. They offer lunch ($10.99) and dinner ($13.99) AYCE buffets as well as take-out, delivery and a la carte options. On the...
High Park Spicy House / Junction
High Park Spicy House in the Junction cooks up a range of Northern Indian dishes including lots of vegetarian options. Eat in or take-out. ...
Hopper Hut / Scarborough
The Hopper Hut, a joint serving fantastic Sri Lankan out in Scarborough, inspired me to hop on the next RT. Located at Ellesmere and Kennedy and hidden at the back of...
India Kitchen (Danforth) / Danforth
India Kitchen is a casual Indian restaurant that recently opened on the Danforth....
India Palace / Queen West
India Palace is one of the many Indian restaurants along Queen between University and John streets....
India's Taste / Markham
India's Taste is a sprawling Indian restaurant with an all-day buffet and main dishes a la carte. Though its interior colours remind me a little of Swiss Chalet, the chicken...
Indian Biryani House / Yonge & Dundas
Indian Biryani House is a cheap and tasty take-out spot on Dundas east of University Avenue. For such a small place there's a surprisingly extensive menu including offerings like goat...
Indian Hut / Church Wellesley Village
The Indian Hut, on Church St. just south of Bloor, cooks up Indian classics like butter chicken and aloo gobi. The big draw though is their reasonably priced lunch and...
Indian Kiss / Junction
Indian Kiss must believe there's some gap to be filled in the Indian restaurant landscape in the Junction to have the courage to open in a mini strip mall off...
Indian Kitchen / Annex
The Indian Kitchen has surfaced where Nataraj once stood on Bloor St. in the Annex. Like its predecessor, it has an AYCE lunch buffet ($9.99)....
Indian Rice Factory / Annex
Toronto's oldest and finest Indian restaurant serving classic cuisine, fabulous wine and sake list....
Indus Tavern / Eglinton West
Indus Tavern delivers a delicious array of Indian food to your door. Let your fingers do the walking with butter chicken or vegetarian selections just a few clicks away with...
Iqbal Kebab & Sweet Centre / East York
Iqbal Kebab & Sweets Centre on Thorncliffe is found right nextdoor to Iqbal Halal Foods Supermarket. Here, there are plenty of tables to indulge in their namesake kebabs as well...
Jaipur Grille / Yonge & Eglinton
Earlier this year, I had the joy of meeting Saraswathi Vasudevan, a compassionate and sage yoga teacher who flew direct from India to offer her wisdom to a small group...
Jodhpore Club / Baldwin Village
Jodhpore Club in Baldwin Village cooks up Goan specialities like Beef Vindaloo and Fish Curry as well as favourites like Tandoori Chicken. ...
Kamasutra Indian Restaurant / Bayview and Leaside
Kamasutra Indian Restaurant was the original destination for Indian food on Bayview, long before Amaya the Indian Kitchen arrived. ...
Karaikudi / Scarborough
Karaikudi is an Indian restaurant with plenty of seating--5,500-square-feet-worth, to be more precise. The restaurant offers a weekday lunch buffet for $9.99, as well as a regulr menu of dosa,...
King Palace / Yonge & Bloor
A favourite among Toronto taxi drivers, King Palace serves up good and cheap Pakistani and Indian food. Here's hoping the encroaching condo development doesn't shut 'em down. ...
Krishna / Cabbagetown
Krishna is a take-out only restaurant in Cabbagetown specializing in cheap Sri Lankan and South Indian food. ...
La Sani Grill / Scarborough
La Sani Grill offers Pakistani cuisine such as butter chicken, naan, and kabobs. A glass wall to the kitchen lets you watch your food as it's being prepared....
Lahore Grill & Fast Food / Little India
Lahore Grill & Fast Food is a fast food restaurant that specializes in Pakistani cuisine, with a little bit of Canadiana thrown in for good measure. All meats here are...
Lahore Kitchen / Etobicoke
Lahore Kitchen offers Pakistani cuisine in a super-casual environment. Yes, plastic chairs, a standing fan, and a little TV in the corner. Still, what it lacks in décor Lahore Kitchen...
Lahore Tikka House / Little India
I want to say something nice about the Lahore Tikka House so here it is. They have great bathrooms. Who would have thought? This unassuming spot on Gerrard Street East...
Little India / Queen West
Little India restaurant (not to be confused with the Little India neighbourhood on Gerrard Street East), is one of the many Indian restaurants that dot the south side of Queen...
Madras Dosa Hut / Etobicoke
Madras Dosa Hut is a dosa mecca. With two locations - one on Albion Road and the other in Mississauga, they are best known for offering unlimited dosas for $8.99....
Madras Masala / Bloorcourt
Madras Masala is located right next to Banjara on Bloor Street. The restaurant specializes in South Indian cuisine including 20 types of dosas. ...
Madras Palace / Scarborough
Madras Palace is an Indian restaurant owned by Santha and Chiral Purushotham. Specializing in south Indian cuisine, the restaurant's menu includes a variety of dosa, six types of biriyani,...
Maroli / Koreatown
Maroli has been around for a while so it's about time we gave it a featured review on this site. A Koreatown favourite, it's known for its annual Malabari Food...
Matahari Bar & Grill / Baldwin Village
Matahari Bar & Grill in Baldwin Village features a mix of Malay, Chinese, Peranakan (nyonya) and Indian cooking. ...
Mela Indian Restaurant / Avenue and Lawrence
Mela caters to the crowd that surrounds its Avenue Rd location, offering Indian cuisine that won't inflame Canadian taste buds and contemporary decor. Ordering from one of the surrounding North...
Moti Mahal / Little India
Moti Mahal is a longtime favourite in Little India. The ambiance screams fast food and the food is cheap enough to make it work. While there are seemingly endless options...
Mt Everest Restaurant / Annex
Mt. Everest Restaurant features Nepalese and Indian cuisine. The extensive menu includes dishes like Aloo Gobi and Chicken Tikka Masala. Lots of vegetarian options available....
Nashtah Tandoori Grill / Financial District
Nashtah Tandoori Grill is welcome find in the food court on the mezzanine of First Canadian Place in the Financial District. In a neighbourhood where ubiquitous fast food chains rule...
New Haandi 2000 / Little India
New Haandi 2000 is a rather unremarkable spot in Little India. They have cheap lunch and dinner buffets but there are better options available in the area....
North of Bombay / Junction
Located in the Junction, North of Bombay serves classic North Indian cuisine. ...
Pak Restaurant / Scarborough
Pak Restaurant is a Halal restaurant in Scarborough offering Indian and Pakistani cuisine. Pak has a daily (weekday) lunch buffet and a regular menu of kebabs, biryani, masala and more....
Patna Kabab House / Scarborough
Patna Kabab House offers more than just kababs. Specialty dishes on its menu include biryani, ribs, curry, and more, plus plenty of authentic dessert items....
Peacock Express / North York
Peacock Express is an Indian restaurant serving thali dishes, curry combos, and apps....
Queen's Arms Maharani / Etobicoke
Being voted the best Indian restaurant in Etobicoke by the Etobicoke Guardian might not sound like much, but the Maharani dining lounge at the Queen's Arms is a magnificent culinary...
Rajput's Bistro / Koreatown
Rajput's Bistro bills itself as Toronto oldest curry house. They have two locations - this one in Koreatown - and a newer one on Dupont....
Rangoli / Yonge & St. Clair
Rangoli is a white tablecloth-lined Indian restaurant serving both North and Southern Indian cuisine. They have plenty of seafood and vegetarian options....
Rashnaa / Cabbagetown
Rashnaa is a South Indian and Sri Lankan restaurant in Cabbagetown that makes a lot of good food, but nothing quite as popular its masala thosai (dosa). For a light...
Real Taste of India / Beaches
Real Taste of India is just east of Coxwell on the eastern edge of the Beaches. ...
Regency Restaurant / Little India
Regency Restaurant looks like many of the dining options in Little India. They have an extensive menu of typical Indian favourites ranging from veggie pakoras to mutton vindaloo....
Roti Cuisine of India / Annex
Roti Cuisine of India is a new addition to the Annex serving up a long list of vegetarian and meat rotis. Prices start at around $7. For Toronto roti fans,...
Royal Paan / Etobicoke
Royal Paan has a number of locations in the Toronto area including this one in Rexdale. They're famous for their falooda but also serve up paan, lassi and other classic...
Samosa King / Scarborough
Samosa King has probably the best-priced samosas around, offering its crispy vegetarian samosas for five for $1.00. And despite what you would think, they're pretty decently sized. The Finch and...
Samosa Sweet Factory / Etobicoke
Samosa Sweet Factory totes the health factor of its samosas, noting that they are made with oil that is trans-fat free. Much of the samosa sales are wholesale and completed...
Saravanaa Bhavan / Mississauga
On weekends, families flock to Saravanaa Bhavan for its weekend vegetarian buffet. On other days, people still drop in, usually for dosas. The dosas here are as a dosa...
Savera / St. Clair West
Savera is a popular Indian restaurant on St. Clair offering an authentic menu including dishes such as butter chicken, malai kofta, and garlic naan....
Segar / Bayview and Leaside
Segar on Bayview serves lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch. On the menu? A delicious mix of Southeast Asian far including superbly spiced mussels, grilled piri piri prawns and an interesting...
Shaheen Tikka & Kabab House / Don Mills
Shaheen Tikka & Kabab House is the self-proclaimed home of Halal Pakistani and Indian Cuisine. They offer a Larohi style breakfast, lunch buffet (weekdays only) and a large menu of...
Shala-Mar Restaurant / Roncesvalles Village
When you think "eastern" food on Roncesvalles, you'd be forgiven if your culinary map included a vast white space just past the Balkans with "here there be tygers" scrawled...
Sher-E-Punjab / Danforth
Sher-E-Punjab on the Danforth serves a mix of mainly northern Indian dishes like Tandoori Chicken, Matar Paneer and Aloo Gobi....
Shirin Mahal / East York
Shirin Mahal is a traditional Pakastani bakery offering treats such as samosas, khatais, tikka turnovers, and various types of patties. The Shirin Mahal on Thorncliffee is one of three in...
Siddhartha / Little India
The place was cozy, candlelit, with a bold colour scheme that warmed the stark white paper on linen covered tables - most of them taken. It wasn't our first...
Simba Grill / East York
Simba Grill is a no-frills restaurant on the Danforth that cooks up some surprisingly good East African food including tasty BBQ short ribs, samosa and fish dishes....
South Indian Dosa Mahal / Bloordale Village
When I lived at Bloor and Lansdowne, South Indian Dosa Mahal was my haven of wholesomeness in what is often an entirely unwholesome neighbourhood. Granted, Bloordale is on the up:...
Spicy Grill / Kensington Market
Spicy Grill has taken over from the short-lived Debu's on Augusta Avenue in Kensington Market. While Kensington doesn't really need another Indian restaurant (the serviceable Indian Waterfalls and Tapas is...
Sultan of Samosas / East York
Sultan of Samosas is an East York destination for samosa. The tiny triangle pastries are lighter and smaller than traditional ones, but the selection and freshness can't be beat. ...
Suski Biryani House / Yonge & Bloor
Suski Biryani House, known to most of us as simply the Biryani House used to be in Roy Square before it was forced to move to Hayden Street. Despite the...
Sweet India / Mississauga
Sweet India on Airport Road in Mississauga has had a few years to perfect its offerings. About 27 years, to be a little more precise. Best are their crunchy vegetarian...
Tandoori House / North York
Tandoori House is an Indian restaurant at Yonge and Sheppard offering a lunch buffet seven days a week....
Tandoori Village / East York
Tandoori Village is a fairly new arrival to this plaza on Overlea, but its owner assures me that, "If you like spicy, this will be very good." All of Tandoor's...
The 5 Spices / Little India
5 Spices is a relative newcomer to Little India, specializing in Hakka cuisine - a meld of Chinese and Indian flavours....
The Copper Chimney / North York
The Copper Chimney is nearly empty as we walk through its homely glass paned door. Decorated with the modest trappings of a 70's era family restaurant, the place likely won't...
The Famous Indian Cuisine / Little India
The Famous Indian Cuisine in Little India specializes in tandoori dishes and Mogulai cuisine, the latter being the cooking style used in Delhi and Punjab....
The Host / Yorkville
Indian cuisine, like Chinese, French, Thai and Italian, is no longer fare eaten occasionally. It is definitely food that is part of the everyday - at least in my...
Trimurti / Queen West
Trimurti, On Queen west of John has an extensive menu of moderately priced Indian specialties. They also offer a lunch buffet seven days a week. ...
Udupi Palace / Little India
Finding ourselves in Little India, a friend and I make a b-line for Udupi Palace, a South Indian vegetarian restaurant on the north side of Gerrard amidst a sea of...
Utsav Indian Cuisine / Yorkville
Utsav Indian Cuisine may be easy to miss with its below-level locale, but the kitchen here cooks up some of the best Indian food in the area including favourities like...
VEDA Fine Indian Takeout / Yonge & Bloor
In less than one year, VEDA has managed to start a trend in fashionable Yorkville that is quickly spreading beyond the district. What is it? Fine Indian Takeout. Sitting...
Waterfalls Indian Tapas / Kensington Market
Waterfalls has stuck to its chef's roots and re-branded itself as Indian Tapas. It might be a tough sell with popular tapas-ish spots Supermarket and Torito across the street, but...
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