Shaan Curry House
I credit my discovery of Shaan curry house to a noon-hour punctured tire on Merivale Road. It’s rare one celebrates a flat, but my lunch at Shaan gave me such a lift that the 40-minute wait for a guy called [read more]
Ishina
Ishina, the original, run by the Chhatwal family, is a somewhat dolled-up utilitarian room in an industrial park in Bells Corners. I stumbled upon its daily lunch buffet (offered weekdays) two years ago and became an instant fan. Since then, [read more]
Little India Cafe
The Little India Café is an Ottawa West institution. For nearly two decades, chef Ram Chander and his family have been running this snug, nonstop-bustling 30-seater, serving delicious and familiar Indian food. The office crowd has long flocked to its [read more]
Aahar
If this is your local curry house, you’re lucky. You might also know about it. For those from away, it has a challenging location – just off Carling Avenue in a converted corner store beside an empty and endlessly for-lease [read more]
Bombay Bollywood: CLOSED
UPDATE: CLOSED, RIP. I’m generally not on hugging terms with a restaurateur, but Bombay Bollywood’s Mariam is a hugger. She also calls everyone — and I do mean everyone — sweetie. Sometimes honey. Sometimes both in the same breath. As [read more]
Ishina
I received a dear letter about this place a few months ago, which I filed and forgot about. But two weeks ago, while shopping for school/college supplies with the boys, I was detoured around a disabled tractor-trailer and found myself [read more]
Coconut Lagoon
I have no memory of any butter chicken on the Coconut Lagoon menu four years ago, back when this south Indian restaurant was quite new. But it’s there now, at this late 2008 visit, and I ask co-owner Joe Thottungal [read more]
