I don't like to leave negative reviews, but I feel compelled to share my experience at Gaj.I went there with my 3 year old to order for take-out. While I was ordering, the man that took my order kept trying to push me into buying other dishes, while I specified I only wanted butter chicken, a tandoori leg and naan. When I came back to pick-up, I had left my little one with her dad. The first question he asked me was: "did you leave your daughter alone in the car?" I did not appreciate his attitude at all. I took the food and paid 1-2$ extra per item compared to most of the indian restaurants that I have visited. They did not have Thumbs Up or Mirinda, or any other indian soft drink that you usually find in a restaurant like this one. I then proceeded to eating and it was such a big dissapointment! The butter chicken sauce was very watery and had so much sugar that I could barely swallow and was lacking salt completely.It was not flavourful and just didn't taste right. The tandoori leg was undercooked and extremely salty, I couldn't eat it because of that. The naan tasted good, but was paper thin. The gulab jamun that I took for dessert looked right, but inside it was al mushy and tasteless. This was a huge waste of money, time and nerves. Go...
Read moreFirst time we went there and we had a take out. We ordered Palek Paneer, Vegetarian Biryani, and Chicken Jalfrazi. The Palek Paneer was a total miss... a messy mixture of milk and spinach, hardly any spinach at all, it was quite undesirable. The rice Biryani was oily and loaded with overcooked green peas, the rice was not fluffy at all, too much oil, too much peas and other vegetables that were grated that gave the appearance of a slush of rice. The piece of tomato had rotten spots on it, so we can assume to a certain degree of certainty that the vegetables are not washed and carefully sorted. 'The chicken Jalfraizi was the only dish that I somewhat enjoyed, the red sauce was nicely spiced and there was "REAL" white chicken meat, the only negative point is the carrot slices, the dish could very well stand on its own, these carrot strips are just fillers. It was my first time and my last time, for 40.00 $ I expected more quality in the food and...
Read moreHidden gem for Indian snacks! We tried papdi chat and haven’t tasted anything close to it in Montreal yet. I couldn’t resist to ask about recipe and they mentioned that they cook their own papdi to maintain authenticity of India street food. Samosas were really good too!!
I was asking for dabeli and vada pav and it seems that those items don’t have demand. I request ppl to share your food desires with restaurant owners so that they can assess market demand, they don’t have a platform where they can seek this information today. So please make an effort and express!
This business is run by a family and I have to say that it felt like visiting a family more than a restaurant. I absolutely enjoyed my food here and I request my Indian community to come forward to support this restaurant, they can definitely use some encouragement!
PS: I wasn’t paid to write this review. This review is my...
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