Épices de L'Inde

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4.5

A few weeks ago I went with a colleague & friend of mine to have lunch at this place, which is the successor of a previous Indian restaurant called Garam Massala. The latter no longer exists at that address & that phone number (actually, I was told by the new owners that the previous owners moved to another city). Therefore, the Garam Massala reviews, if any, no longer hold.

We both ordered one of the lunch specials (soup, main dish & dessert of the day). We first had soup Mulligatawny, sweetly spiced & tasty. Then the main dish was Korma lamb (korma is a slightly spiced curry cooked in yoghurt & cream with raisins). That was served with a mixture of cooked vegetables, white rice, a slice of nan (an warm soft tasty Indian bread), & a mixed salad (lettuce, tomato & cucumber slices, green pepper pieces, in a house vinaigrette). Both the soup an the lamb dish were delicious. Then the waiter (from Morocco, although the chef Sayed is from India) brought us the dessert, called Gulab jamon: a ball of cooked dough in a sweet sauce. Both my friend an I were disappointed with the dough taste, kind of stale, but the waiter told us that this was the normal taste of Gulab. We discarded half of it. Maybe we were on a bad day, for the chef changes desserts daily.

The price was very reasonable: 25 Canadian dollars for both of us, for food only. Actually, this new restaurant does not serve alcohol, & advertises "Apportez votre vin" (bring your own wine).

NB.- When I returned there at night to inquire about the previous restaurant Garam Massala, I was offered some of the new dessert Sayed had just prepared (& of his own making, like all the dishes served), called Suji ka Halawa, a semolina prepared with milk, raisins & cardamom. Delicious!