Silk Lounge - Indian Restaurant — Restaurant in Vancouver

FIRST REAL REVIEW (and I hope the restaurant is listening). If you put a restaurant in a sketch part of town, and expect people to come, you better deliver. Unfortunately this was not the case. I went on a Friday night and it wasn't that busy. At the door you are greeted by their bouncer, okay....he explains to you the interior decorations which are nice (albiet don't look too close as it was very poorly put together), and seats you at your table. You are given paper print out copies of their menu as they "ran" out of actual menus. Wait staff are very poorly trained, and understaffed. Their beer taps were "broken" that night so I had to settle for over-priced wine ($15-$19/9oz of $15/bottle wine). From the time it took to get the attention of the waitress to receiving the wine - 25 min solid. Saw man at table next to me just walk up to the bar and order his drink instead (are we at a club here?). The menu was disjointed. This is not a Indian/French fusion restaurant (ex. Vij's). With exception to a curry pasta dish (Italian/Indian btw), you can either select from their Indian entrees, or French entrees. Why?? Do you think this concept hasn't been tried before and failed miserably? It is just weird! Please just stick to one type of cuisine and stay focused! I ordered a chicken curry and a spinach goat curry. They were about $22/entree. What arrived after 45 min was two drumsticks in yellow curry sauce, plus 5 cubes of lamb in a green spinach sauce. My $6 suarghum roti came as one piece about the size of a soft shell taco. Do you realize that this is free and unlimited at Vij's? My basmati rice didn't come after 5 min of waiting so I had to stand up to flag the attention of the waitress (who had blinders on), and ask for it. The curries were decent but nothing to write home about. The chicken curry tasted too much of paprika. Spinach curry lacked depth. You can get this quality or better at any Indian restaurant for about $12/entree with much more food. Highly recommended everyone reading this to try Agra in Burnaby. They brought a live band in halfway through. Took four of them 1hr to setup their speakers and keyboard. Good thing I was almost done by the time they started as the music was bad and the volume literally drowned out all conversation the the room which was more like a high ceiling cave.

So to the owner I say this: hire a restaurant manager with experience running a FOH team, so your wait staff don't look like chickens running with their heads cut off. Stop hiring family, friends with no experience. I saw your story on FB about your father, and using organic ingredients. It's a good story and I support your cause, but you still have to deliver the goods. Stop skimping on portions. Stick to an Indian menu as that's what people are coming for! Do this fast before Mia Stainsby or Alexandra Gill shows up. While my review may not count for much, their reviews will...

Vancouver downtown has its share of North Indian food restaurants for a long time . They come and go, because of many factors like service, staff and taste. Silk Lounge I gas town is new has a very authentic North Indian taste, very original , organic tasting food. You will only notice this if you have travelled to India and had authentic North Indian food at your friends moms house and as well as at a fancy wedding reception.

Silk has a decent staff and the owner Gary is a old school Indian chef with an amazing eye for service and authentic tasting food. Their whole motto of ‘farm to kitchen’ food is just what gastown needed. Organic veggies grown locally, freshly made paneer locally at the restaurant itself, fresh wheat Roti’s made are simple delicious. So much more that I can’t mention them all on here as this particularly new 5 month old restaurant will eventually get well known with time. The ambience certainly reminds a bit like a lot of London’s Indian lounges as well as the Buddha Bar Franchise.

Silk could certainly improve as well as none of the Indian restaurant downtown are perfect as such. Some lack in service staff, some lack in food and some are just stupid expensive but are in a convenient location. To each his own, but my two cents would be silk needs more of their presence known as it’s 100 meters away to the right from the main “action”. Close to the strip club No.5 orange but decently far away for a good family gathering. They need a better bar service and menu, also being organic and all still need better vegetarian options.

Also make sure you are okay with prices $$$. The prices are not for everyone specially if you live in gastown or just “crave curry” randomly. You are better off eating at some cheaper take out Indian place in Granville that serves canned curry mix with canned...

Review for “Tiffinbox by Silk”

If you’re considering ordering from Tiffinbox by Silk, let me save you from a mistake you’ll regret. I signed up for their so-called “2-day trial plan” to test out the quality of their meals, and after today’s experience, I wouldn’t touch their food again even if it was the last tiffin on Earth.

The delivery arrived in the morning, stone cold packaging — not even remotely resembling freshly prepared food. I assumed perhaps it’s meant to be refrigerated and reheated later, so I put it away for dinner. Big mistake.

When I finally microwaved the meal and sat down to eat, I was served 5 limp chapatis, a sad excuse for dal makhani (or whatever tragic rendition they were going for), a gatte ki sabji, some rice, and a side of cabbage-carrot posing as salad.

The very first bite told me everything I needed to know: the dal was spoilt. Not stale — spoilt. The kind of off-putting, sour, gag-inducing taste that no amount of microwave heat could hide. Thinking maybe it was just the dal, I tried the gatte ki sabji. Same story: spoiled beyond redemption. Every box carried the same nauseating stench of food that had long given up on life.

I ended up throwing away the entire meal. Imagine paying for food only to dump it straight into the bin. That’s Tiffinbox by Silk for you.

This is not just bad cooking — this is a complete disregard for hygiene, freshness, and customer trust. If this is the quality they serve on a trial plan (which is supposed to impress you), I shudder to think what paying customers receive.

Save yourself the disappointment and the risk to your stomach. Don’t even bother with their “1-day trial.” The only thing you’ll taste is regret.

⭐ 0/5 — because negative stars...