Modern Handi Indian Cuisine — Restaurant in Vancouver

This was my first time at this restaurant, and the food was quite well except the tandoori platter as it was super dry and not fresh. There was one piece that you can see in the picture that was WE HAVE NO IDEA how old but it tasted just like flour not even meat. Except that 8/10 overall. That’s the only positive thing I can say about it.

Now, let’s talk about the service. If you want good service, forget about this place. Our server, the guy I marked with a red circle in the photos, was absolutely terrible. He had no manners or etiquette at all. As someone who works in customer service, I saw so many problems with him.

He didn’t even smile back or acknowledge me when I smiled at him to come to our table. He was constantly discouraging us from taking some of the items from the menu, even though we had already made sure we knew what we were ordering. Every time we ordered something even before we could finish our sentence , he would say, “It’s going to take a lot of time.”

When we asked for some extra naan bread, my wife had to remind him that we were willing to wait because of his constant bickering about the long wait. He also gave my friend such a bothering look like no reply like “Sure/okay/nod” when he asked for some extra naan, it really disturbed us.

During serving us the food, he literally asked us, “Are you guys from India or something?” That’s a completely offensive way of asking someone about their origin. When I replied that we were from Bangladesh, he started commenting about our political situation, which we were completely not interested in talking about. We were there just to have a good time.

And finally, the moment we finished our food, he came to us right away and asked us if we could pay the bill. Mind you, we were still chewing our food. I got really offended and had to ask him if they were closing. His reply was, “Yes, we are closed now, and the kitchen is closed as well. It’s 9:30 already.” You can clearly see that other people (who came after us) were still eating their food, and nobody was being bothered to leave soon. And I also want to mention this, we were all very nice to him from the start, we were smiling, saying thank you every-time he came around & nothing was done from our side that would make him mad.

Honestly, I will never ever step in this restaurant again. I would like to bring the attention to the management. If he is your employee, please terminate him immediately or train...

My wife & me (both vegetarians) visited Modern Handi Restaurant yesterday for lunch. It is a typical North Indian Restaurant serving the standard Punjabi Style Food. It seems the general perception of people all over the world is that North Indian Food represents Indian Cuisine. Unfortunately I beg to differ with this view as there are vast varieties of South Indian , Gujerati , dishes also -which most often get ignored. I am further not a great fan of North Indian Foods as the only so called vegetables they cook always are Paneer & Channa dishes all in gravy form . They are total novices at cooking vegetables (Cauliflower, Cabbage, Brinjal, Beetroot, Beans & others) in a dry manner with no gravy but with "Real Spice"!

Inspite of my reservations regarding North Indian food, we found this small little restaurant tucked away on Denman Street & had their Veg Thali's for lunch. These consisted of the usual " Dal Makhani, either a Shahi Paneer or Palak Paneer,Butter Naan , Plain Basmati Rice with some peas , a Papad, Gulab jamoon Sweet & a cabbage salad .(Not the usual cut onions & slices of carrots) No Raita or Yoghurt was included (seems to be a trend in Vancouver North Indian Restaurants not to include Yoghurt or Raita in their Thali's) & we therefore ordered their mixed raita as extra. (Indian Thali's the world over always serve nice spicy Raita with their meal -but not in Vancouver). We further requested the dishes to be made " extra spicy" but they were "mild " when we tasted. However the quality of the food, the quantity & the "presentation" was very good ! Further The Owners were most pleasing & very friendly to our requests.

The restaurant was largely empty when we had our meal. It is well decorated , clean yet simple with soft Indian music & the best thing was their Unisex Toilet which had flower vases, paintings & was spotlessly clean !

The Owners need to be commended for maintaining the restaurant elegantly.

We will visit this restaurant again in the...

This place exceeded all our expectations! I was looking for a lunch spot where we could be in and out within an hour near Stanley Park as we were hungry after an aquarium visit, and Modern Handi delivered on that hope.

I've been eating homecooked Indian food my whole life and while different parts of India make the same dish different ways, I definitely felt like the flavors I tasted were authentic and not watered down. I ordered spicy and yes, I can confirm that it was extremely spicy.

We got the thalis, which I feel were a great value. We each tried a different one - I got the lamb curry non-veg one, another person got the butter chicken non-veg one, and another got the channa masala veg one. Every component was amazing - I loved the papadum, the naan had a great texture, the curry and the dal both had amazing flavor profiles, and even the tandoori chicken was good! I'm a harsh critic of tandoori chicken because it's almost always dry due to improper preparation at restaurant scale, but it was shockingly moist here. I'm not a gulab jamun fan (and would've preferred a choice on the dessert), but I did take a bite of it and it was much better than I've normally had of this sickeningly sweet dessert.

I would definitely come back here and recommend it to others. The people I dined with were not well-versed in Indian food but very...