Restaurants
Taste of Tandooree
Taste of Tandooree, the new Indian restaurant in Parkdale , has barely been open for a month, and it's already become a pleasing fixture of my week.
Its position on Queen West, just west of Dufferin, makes for an ideal mid-way point in the inevitable segue stumble under the bridge that results from a westward bound bar crawl along Queen.
Until now, Parkdale hasn't had the best selection of late night eating options for the decidedly unsober. Finding yourself there, bleary eyed and empty bellied at 2 a.m usually meant a coin toss between pizza and the convenience store.
Thankfully, Taste of Tandooree has interceded. The neon 'open' sign of this canteen style, unadorned gem stays on until 6 in the morning and it's a welcome sight indeed.
A decently varied but not overwhelming selection of in-house made, traditional Indian food makes up the menu. Limiting the options to pakoras, samosas, curry and naan, as well as a small but enticing dessert menu keeps the deliberation to a minimum and the food turnover high.
We start with a plain lassi ($2) which is refreshing and not overly sweet.
I order the Karahi Gosht ($7.99) which is made with goat and generously ladled with enough sauce to keep our accompanying tandoori and butter naan breads ($1.25 each) well occupied.
As the pistachio kulfi is sold out, I get the gulab jamen ($2.50 for 2 pieces) instead. It turns out to be a fortunate substitution. The dough-like, deep-fried milk balls are loaded with cardamom and have just enough delicious rose scented syrup on top.
They're also accompanied by a generous side of what looks and tastes like a delicious portion of payesh (milky rice dessert).
Getting change from $13 for a very tasty drink, entree and naan combination (that is too much food for me to finish!) means I'm inevitably lured back the next week for more value-for-money eats.
It's not a habit that I'll be in a hurry to break.
Take away is available.
Photos by Jeremy North-Lewis
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Please fix.
Sigh
Just because a place isn't BYMARK doesn't mean that its not good.
meathole.
At least during the restaurant's morning/afternoon hours I find the food to be average and not that great in terms of value. Also every time I've gone the person has either given me the food cold or microwaved it, which is unacceptable in my books.
I'm guessing alcohol absolves all of these sins though.
What more could you want...and as for cold and microwaved...
LETS be honest WHAT PLACE DOESNT DO THAT?
WHat is A FACT though is that ITS CHEAP, TASTE GREATS, ENOUGH PARKING AND OPEN LATE......
AM I MISSIG SOMETHING HERE? LIke the message should be clear by now.....
We had it delivered to our apartment. It literally just came from the freezer. IT WAS FROZEN. WTF? When we called to complain the manager informed us he could get the driver to pick it up, return it to them for them to reheat, and then drive it back...uh so I can wait another 45 mins to have microwaved food? no thanks. He was such a dick too. Terrible customer service. Terrible food. Don't waste your time and money.
The butter chicken tasted terrible. It was like chicken soup...if I wanted chicken soup I could call my grandma.
I hope this place closes ASAP.
I've been dying to do this for such a long time. This will not be a good review. When they first opened they where very nice and there price was low, they would even give me a FREE salad. NOW! I went there a couple of times and I find out that they are over charging me more money, okay so they got some customers, so the price went up okay I understand that.
BUT then! I went there and asked for garlic nann, what do I get... a plane dry piece of bread. It's over priced now, and all they do is microwave the food and give you the smallest portions. I don't understand a couple of months ago I was getting Free saladS well you can kiss that goodbye.
I recommended this place to a friend and they OVER CHARGED her too and she paid for a salad and never got it.
DO NOT GO TO THIS PLACE UNLESS YOU LIKE RUDE CUSTOMER SERVICE, YOUR ORDER TO GET MESSED UP AND TO ONLY HAVE COLD MICROWAVED FOOD.
I NEVER GO HERE ANYMORE!