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New India offers buffet and menu service featuring East Indian cuisine.
Good AYCE, in a large space, and talked up by a couple of friends. Went there with spouse and a friend to try it out. The service is OK, but the Hispanic waiter is more of a bouncer to mind the beer bellies, for whom everyone is a "badi" - ready buddy. Efficient, but not polite. The young Oriental waitress is very eager to help. I hope they have more wait staff for busier times - we went on a Tuesday evening, and the place hardly had five-six other tables occupied the whole time we were there.
The less said about the owner the better - he has no qualms about being the only buffet place I know of that slaps on a forced gratuity, especially if an Entertainment Book coupon is used, and he is not the kind of guy you want to try and reason with. The customer definitely does not come first here, and I think the Entertainment Book people should run a check on participants' billing policies and customer-friendliness, just so that crooks like this one are left out of the book going forward.
The food is OK - nothing worth writing home about - there are better, and cheaper buffets right in downtown Vancouver, as well as in other parts of the metro area, that serve much more appetising food. Some of the dishes were excessively oily.
Will not go there again, even with another coupon/promotion going on.
Great value for the selection that you get. They regularly bring out fresh top ups. My wife and I love the butter chicken here. For beer drinkers the jugs are excellent value with good selection. If you want to grab Indian and are looking to try out different dishes, we would definitely recommend this place. Enjoy!
Watch Out!! 2 things to be careful about. 1. When paying, remember to request for receipt/bill. If you don't ask, they don't give so this means they only give you the visa receipt. This means, they may not claim the income to CRA. 2. When using Entertainment coupon, check the bill before tipping- they may add the tip for you. This happened to me and they didn't tell me they did and when I asked about it, they said it's industry standard to do that. Well, that was my first and I've been using Entertainment coupons for awhile already. I can see them adding tip if we come as a big group of 6 or more, but we were less than that.
Food is good but don't feel good that they aren't that honest.
I dined at this restaurant on a Wednesday afternoon. It is well located on West Broadway and has a great view of the Vancouver skyline to the north.
The food selections were varied and included a number of both meat and vegetable dishes. I found the latter much better than the former which lacked spiciness and taste. The vegetarian dishes included a wonderful cole slaw, an excellent kachumber salad, tasty potato salad which was seasoned just right and a purely delightful tomato and onion salad. The naan bread was also very good.
There were also two tasty drinks available: peach nectar and mango lemonade. Both were lovely.
Overall, I enjoyed this buffet and partook mainly of the vegetable offerings. If you keep that factor in mind and opt less for the butter chicken and other meat dishes, you will enjoy it, too!
I might add, in closing, the price was very reasonable.
First off, I get the feeling this Indian Buffet is not run by people of East Indian heritage: I never saw a single Indian person working there and secondly, the music they have playing is not exactly authentic. It's clean and inexpensive and the service is OK(but outstanding, compared to a lot of other Indian restaurants). The butter chicken (which is the benchmark for me of how I rate Indian restaurants) is mediocre: very mild, not nearly enough spice, but it has some interesting subtle flavours to it. The rest of the stuff is pretty good, but again, a little bland. I like that they offer free juice and chai. It's a good place to grab a casual bite for lunch.
The food here is pretty good, considering it is All You Can Eat for less than $10. I do not see why the other reviewers say this place is terrible. This place is very casual, and lets you choose where to sit, and best of all, choose what you want to eat! They have excellent curry, and probably the best selection you will come across in Vancouver. I would definitely come back.
Went to this place a couple of weeks ago before heading downtown to enjoy some olympic festivities. All I can say is the food is terrible. Everything seem to have a spiciness to it, but bland flavor. All the curries were bland, tandoori chicken was dry, the naan bread wasn't very good either. the best part was the pasta and potato salads. I usually go to Saffron in burnaby. Love that place, especially with the fresh naan brought to your table.
If you are looking for bland food that sits there all day, then this is your place.
Discovered this place a few years back. Great view of downtown. Its a big restaurant so never a wait in line. We've only gone there for the buffet. Service is ok, but not great as others have noted. Mind you, with buffet style you're pretty much on your own, but they can sometimes forget to come by and refresh your drinks.
The buffet selection is decent with all the popular Indian dishes such as Butter chicken, Tandoori Chicken, Kaali Daal (black lentils), Naan (leavened Indian flatbread) etc..In addition the buffet includes the salad bar, and deserts (jello, rice pudding, fruit etc)
Pricing has gone up abit over the last couple years. I think the buffet is close to $20/person with tip included..which I guess isn't bad considering.
Free parking underground after 6pm which is an added bonus as street parking can be hard to find on busy nights in the city.
I'm quite saddened by how poor of a rating this place is recieving! Firstly, no matter how busy the 2 servers that are always there ( A guy who I think is from Elsalvador? and a young lady from Europe maybe?) are amazing! they are constantly cleaning, serving, clearing plates from tables and asking how the food is. I realize its an AYCE but these kids are incredible. As soon as we're sat they ask if you have questions offer drinks and bring you a jug of water to your already set table. The view from this place is awesome, you can see across the water to Harbour Center, and all the way over to what I believe to be Burnaby. The food is fresh, hot, abundant and delicious. I'm a stickler for good naan, and man do they deliver! Their salads are fresh and the tomatoe salad can only be described as delicious. The variety is nice. The only thing I'm not so keen on is the price for the dinner, lunch at 12$ is a better deal, take a late lunch here and have a light salad for supper and its money well spent, in my opinion. The cooks who restock the food will ask how you like it , or at least smile and say hello.
Definatly a must try if you have a hankering for some quick but great indian food. The only suggestion I have is to take transit or be prepared to hoof it a bit as parking around there can be difficult, expensive or just plain old non existant. But the long walk is needed after overstuffing oneself on some Indian soul food!
$11.95 for lunch, and an entertainment coupon prompted us to try out the Buffet. It's in a busy location, with good window tables, and the restaurant looks inviting. We were seated promptly, and a jug of water was put on the table. The food was pretty good, butter chicken, chicken curry, a beef dish that didn't look too appetising, so we gave that a miss, samosas, chickpeas, lentils and a soy curry, plus a good variety of salads and sweets. Not outstanding by any means, but filling, and there was something there to please everyone's taste. There really isn't any service, you help yourself to food, and go up to the bar to get your bill and pay. There were a couple of annoying things though - The restaurant doesn't stamp your parking voucher from the underground parkade so that was another $6.00, and they automatically add a 10% tip to your bill if you use the coupon. Now, I don't mind tipping for good service, but to be forced to tip for no service really soured the experience. Restaurants take note - if you don't like it when customers use the Entertainment coupon, Don't advertise in the book!!!! Would we go back? Probably not.
Tried out the restaurant last week for lunch and have to admit that I was attracted to trying it because of the price. Well, you do get what you pay for - in terms of quality of the food, the food wasn't too flavorful and not memorable in the least. You get enough variety to choose from that your tastebuds won't get offended long enough but once was enough.
The buffet offers salads, plenty of vegetarian dishes, mostly chicken dishes, desserts, fruits (!), juice, watered down chai and coffee. In general the food was passable.
Service was quick, courteous but nothing out of the ordinary. Very casual that I can't say it was as professional as I would've liked, but what do you expect for a dirt-cheap buffet?
Once was enough - no major complaints but would recommend Maurya just down the street or Saravaana Bhavan instead.
I've been to this restaurant five times now to get the $5 lunch box. It's butter chicken on rice with your choice of potato and cauliflower,chick peas, lentils and a couple of other choices.
You also get two pieces of naan bread and veggies. This is a very popular lunch special as there were eight people there when I ordered. the service was fast and friendly and they offer you an ice water whilst you wait.
The lunch special starts at 11:30 and last I think for a couple of house.
The chicken is not that spicy(hot) and they use to give more of it six months ago. And they also gave more of every thing else. But they value is still there.
I will be going back there for the box lunch when I'm in the area.
my husband and i went to the new india buffet on victoria day and we were very very happy the service is great, very energetic, and made you fell important, the food not spice at all taste and hot i really like the salads and the butter chicken i really recomend this place if you are hungry looking for good food, in a nice place with a short bullet.........
Decent food for ayce .Our server was very attentive to our needs and made our experience enjoyable. Butter chicken was on the sweet side, lamb curry was tasteless but the beef keema was outstanding. Quite a selection of veg. food and their chai tea was good. Enjoy the view of False Creek and grease up on ayce indian buffet.Can't beat all that for $12 on a beautiful Sunday .Don't forget to wash it all down with a bottle of Tiger Beer or two as it will help with the digestion.Worth a try!
I just visited Vancouver for the first time, and a friend of mine invited me to that restaurant. The food and ambiance was good but the service was probably one of the worst I've ever had. Their waiters and staff need to attend some kind of service training. It's unbelievable how they treat their customer. Very unfriendly and rude. I will never recommend this to anyone, and I will never go back to this restaurant again.
Food: there are 40 diff't food selection if you include the chutneys, fruit, jello etc. overall the food selection and taste was good. i enjoy that i can have salad and fruit to balance out the meal. they had this egg curry which we thought was unique. i didnt find the naan greasy as some reviewers had posted, but i do agree it's a little burnt. my b/f didnt particularly enjoy the chili chicken as he thought the taste was a bit off...either not marinated enough or frozen for too long... some dishes ran low for a bit and was not refilled until the end of our meal.
Service: for the most part it really is self serve, but the waiter greeted and seated us promptly. he was attentive, filling our water jug, clearing away our plates and checking up on us at least 3X during our seated period. you do have to pay upfront (we learned this by reading reviews and watching the other patrons)
Value: dinner was $14.95 and we used our entertainment book coupon saving $11. i think dinner buffet on broadway for this price is good value. we left stuffed!
Ambiance: spacious and clean. very casual feel. TVs in various areas. there were a few larger tables which they can accommodate due to their large seating area.
Overall: i thought this place was pretty solid. as others have mentioned, the lunch is prob the best deal since it's pretty much the same selection at the lunch price.
Went here last week with Mrs. Dragon for dinner on a Saturday night. Arrived about 8pm and the place wasn't too busy, about half full. We were seated promptly and headed for the buffet. There were the assorted salds which we skipped and headed for the main items. I took the cauliflower, butter chicken, curry lamb, rice, tandoori chicken, samosas and naan bread. All were pretty tasty. The butter chicken was good as well as the curry lamb was tender as it should be. Everything was not overly spicy and the buffet table was always re-filled. The only thing i could complain about was that the naan bread was kind of burnt. Service was ok, basically what you expect from an AYCE buffet. View was nice as you can see the lights of the city. I would imagine on a nice summer night eating out on the patio would be great. Value was good in my opinion but prices have increased a dollar or two in the last while though still very affordable. Overall I would definitely recommend this restaurant for a nice simple indian dinner.
It's winter and you want to take your special someone out for a romantic Indian buffet. Where would you go that has the most variety of food, good tasting curry ,and great view of the heart of Vancouver? New India.
As soon as you walk into the building, you can smell the spice. At winter time, they have their famous lamb curry. However, their buffet is still a little expansive. Their customer service is infamous across the city.
Came for a going-away dinner for a friend (it was his favorite pig-out place).
The food is pretty good for a buffet, but not remarkable. The naan and the butter chicken are solid, the lamb curry, curried vegetables and chili chicken are okay.
The room is clean and bright, and service is pretty much as you'd expect from a buffet (self serve, with bussers coming by to pick up your dirty plates).
First of all, they raised their prices for dinner buffet, which is why I gave them a 2 for value. Although I understand that it isn't easy to make money off buffets, my indian friend says indian food is cheap to make (especially veg curries). Their website says it's $13.95 for dinner, but my total for 2 came to $35 (no drinks).
I admit, some curries were very tasty, but the fav butter chicken was not your normal chicken breast chunks in butter curry. Instead, I can only assume, they used their left-over tandoori chicken as the meat was red in color.
I had 1 1/2 small plates of food and was literally stuffed until midnight - uncomfortably stuffed. Yes, my fault for eating until I was that full, but thinking back, it wasn't that much food. Not sure what it was.
However, I did like that fact that they had a wide selection and they also offered fruits as an option. Maybe that's their trick to meet the advertised 40-item buffet menu.
Service was pretty non-existent. They sat us and basically left us alone. We bussed our own dishes and even walked up our to get our bill.
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