Apna Tandoori Hut — Restaurant in Lethbridge

I arrived at Apna Tandoori House at about 6:45 p.m., after the usual supper rush, and found that I was the only customer in the place. I was pleased by the atmosphere and decor, although there were several large plastic figures of Sikh people which looked very cheap and did detract from the appearance of the restaurant. Upon entering I was greeted by the host, who may have been the owner and appeared to be the only front end person in the place. He very casually indicated a booth for me, gave me a menu, and asked if I wanted anything to drink and went off to get my beverage, returning shortly with my drink. He then retired to a booth in the back corner where he had some friends visiting. That was the last I saw of him. Within 30 minutes I had decided that this was just about the worst service I had ever seen in a restaurant of any kind and was considering leaving to seek my meal elsewhere. Just about at that time a young lady entered through the front door and proceeded directly through to the back of the restaurant, returning to the front about 5 minutes later as the server. She took my food order and returned to the back. After a while, at least 15 to 20 minutes, she appeared out front again and began doing things with dishes and trays at a counter along the back wall. After several more minutes she returned to the back and came back out with my meal which she served to me. She was pleasant and polite, but was far from amazing as a server. Her service, while substantially better than the host's was still far from outstanding. It was still one of poorest service performances I have encountered. I had ordered Lamb Korma, Peas Pilau, and Naans. The lamb was truly excellent, and the naans were quite nice as well. The peas pilau was disappointing. I have eaten in many Indian restaurants in a number of cities, and peas pilau has always, without exception, been saffron rice with peas. This time it was very plain and rather damp basmati rice with no seasoning and with some peas tossed it. They really need to work on that. I am no chef, but am a fairly competent cook and often prepare Indian curries at home. I freely admit that my korma does not come close to Apna's, and their naans are better than mine, but my basmati rice, with or without saffron or peas, is much better than theirs. Quite surprising and very disappointing. In conclusion, the service ranged from terrible to merely poor, the korma was outstanding and the naans were quite good. The rice was very poor. In short, I will not be returning, and I do not recommend Apna Tandoori...

We’re big fans of Indian food and so were excited to try the new restaurant for a Xmas Eve take away. Service was friendly and quick, the restaurant was nicely laid out and welcoming. The menu was a bit restricted (no Dansak, for instance), but it was nice to see a pseudo Peshwari naan (coconut naan) on the menu.

Unfortunately, the food was less good: The coconut chicken we had tasted sour/off, and was in-edible — we threw it all away. The butter chicken was a bit better, but still quite bland. The coconut rice was neither coconutty nor sweet, and the coconut naan was over cooked and rather tasteless; it was almost impossible to tell the difference between the garlic naan and the coconut naan (the latter was slightly more moist).

The bhajis were not crisp — rather stogy and mushy and had little flavour or spice to them; because this was a take out, however, they may have become less crispy from condensation from being in a plastic container.

In particular, we were very disappointed with the flavours of the curries. We know (and expect) that curry dishes always taste different depending on the cook’s take on the dish — and curry in India itself is very different from that in the West — but neither of the curries we ordered tasted anything like we’ve had before (and we eat curry a lot).

We’re glad to read that others have had good experiences with their food and are pleased to hear that our experience wasn’t shared by others, but the food we had was extremely disappointing — the coconut chicken from the Apna Tandoori Hut restaurant is the only curry I’ve ever had in 40 years that I’ve never been able to eat. We will stick to one of the other...

I don’t usually write a review but this restaurant made me to write one. It was my first time to visit this specific place for lunch and I never had Indian food test this way and this BAD 😡, I will never comeback to this specific place and am even angry because they really degraded the test of Indian food. I had Lamb briani and the meat tests older and the rice tests blend, older and metallic . I told the restaurant owner that (the test of food is a bit different and not what expected ) but the owner just walked away without saying a word. I was warned by few friends not to go to this restaurant but I did it any way , I guess it was a bad decision. I regret spending my hard earned money for such. The mango juice was full of sugar and not natural at all. I tried so many Indian foods in Lethbridge at different Indian restaurants before but this was bad experience. I don’t recommend this place to anyone . Overall ambience was good as they decorated with colourful fabric/design. And it’s tidy.

The restaurant owner or the chief should visit other Indian restaurants in town and test their food and see the...