I was here several years ago for their regular dinner menu - it was not very memorable to me as Toronto had plethora of authentic Indian food and my taste buds were surely quite spoiled back then.
Now that I am back to Vancouver, finding good tasting Indian restaurant in the metro Vancouver area seems almost impossible. I haven't had courage to venture out into surrey but I am not sure if I will ever make it out there just for Indian food.... Okay.. Maybe if I become desperate enough or if little India on queen street (my fav indian restaurant in toronto) decides to open a location in surrey... Anyway.
In search of a good Indian food lunch buffet, Jordan and I have came across several disastrous ones. We have tried new India on w broadway (which was simply horrible), saffron on kingsway (bland, not memorable, low quality of ingredients), samosa garden on kingsway (food quality fluctuates too much, low quality ingredients) - despite good services at all restaurants, the quality and flavour just wasn't there. Just as we have given up on metro vancouver's Indian buffet lunch, one day, Jordan's brother in-law told us about maurya's lunch buffet. I have always known that Maurya is one of the highest rating Indian restaurant in Vancouver, but I didn't know that they served lunch buffet. So on a sunny afternoon, we went to try out their lunch buffet.
At $13.99 pp, it is priced a bit higher than most of the Indian lunch buffets (which usually range from 8.99 to 10.99). The buffet menu was rather small (just like the rest of the indian buffets) with some salads, curries, and 2 simple desserts.
I started my meal with their salads. Both Jordan and I enjoyed their caesar salad quite a bit as the dressing was really flavorful. I highly doubt they make them in house but I'd love to know where they buy their dressing from! But I just thought it was a bad idea incorporating crotons into the Caesar salad because the dressing and the moisture of the romain lettuce really made the crotons soggy. Maybe setting the crotons on the side next time?
Among all the main dishes (curries, meat dishes... Etc) my fav was definitely the tandoori chicken and lamb quorma. The tandoori chicken was flavorful and juicy (which isn't the case for most tandoori chickens) and I loved how the lamb chunks in lamb quorma was fork tender. Although I could care less for their butter chicken as the sauce was predominantly creamy with very little in terms of other flavours but the chicken chunks were incredibly juicy; I thought that was worth noting because the chicken tends to get dry. I suspect they cooked their chicken and sauce separately and tossed them together after.
Their naan bread had butter incorporated and I would have to admit that it was not authentic but, hey, those little things tasted do damn good!!! The creamy buttery Flavour of the naan bread was just amazing :)
For dessert, I really liked their mango mouse. Although it was nothing to write home about, it was still quite decent and I'd still go back to Maurya for the menu items mentioned above.
In conclusion, I'd be back for their lunch buffet for sure. The quality of the food was just exceptional and despite a "slow" lunch time traffic their food still tasted great.
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