Restaurant Review

Restaurant: Curry Garden

Location: 374 Richmond Street

City: London, ON

Hours: 7 Days a week – Buffet 11:30am – 2:30pm, Dinner 5:00 – 11:00pm

Call: 1.519.850.5678

Reviewed By: Kindah Mardam Bey

Sometimes it can be hard to find a great restaurant that serves East Indian cuisine. A place you can go back to continually that has dedicated itself to cultivating the spices and flavours behind each dish. Luckily, you have me to find such a place and tell you all about it. The Curry Garden located on Richmond Street, between Dundas and King Street in London, Ontario has to be one of the county’s best East Indian restaurants.

What first struck me about this privately owned restaurant was how easily it could be missed. Nestled between two other restaurants serving the same cultural cuisine, the Curry Garden has twelve years proving it can be noticed for its extensive menu of fine Indian cuisine, its Tandoori oven cooked meals, its quality and flavourful meals.

The extensive menu provides options for a dinner for one or a dinner for two and also allows the customer to choose on what scale of hot they would prefer the meal to taste like (from mild to very hot). Should you like the required heat from a Vindaloo, you will be assured of the experience. The menu is divided up so you can choose from beef, lamb, chicken, seafood or vegetable dishes. Of course East Indian restaurants have been especially delightful for vegetarians because of the wide selection and the Curry Garden will not disappoint in this regard. Vegetarians can feel they have a bounty of choice. You can eat in, take out, or also have the meals delivered to you.

About 80% of the Curry Garden customers are regulars, which is a huge testament to the quality, service and food of the establishment.

Speaking of which, my highest recommendation for the Curry Garden goes to the Onion Bhaji’s on the appetizers menu. These are the best Onion Bhaji’s I have had and would suggest they and the Samosa be a part of any dining experience at the Curry Garden. I would also recommend the organic Daal as it is exceptional. The buttered chicken is predictably the most popular, but the establishment takes care of the details like grinding their own spices, and using local and fresh vegetables, which makes every dish more spectacular than usual. The Curry Garden’s greatest asset is that it works with the flavour of each dish, which is exceptionally important because before a dishes degree of heat on the palette is decided, it should first tempt the taste buds with the flavours in its most natural state. This restaurant has a keen understanding of how valuable flavour is first.

No matter what you have on the dinner menu or the lunch buffet menu, you know you will be in for a delectable dining experience. Amidst many other East Indian restaurants that look similar on the surface, scratch a little deeper at the Curry Garden and you will discover a hidden jewel in London.

Written by :

Kindah