Saffron Fine Indian Takeout

Wonderful food, great service and good prices. Got the combo #5 (which is two non-​vegetarian dishes) and it was more than enough! Had left overs for the next day! Would HIGHLY recommend the butter chicken. Probably the best I’ve ever had!

Amazing, Awesome, Addicting!
Saffron is a must visit if you are in the NW and looking for something different and delicious. Not only do you get great quality Indian cuisine, but you get great customer service as meals are always ready on time. The sweet lady behind the counter is extremely kind and we always end up having a great conversation as she prepares my food. Butter chicken is a must, obviously. I also recommend the chick peas or the coconut chicken. Don’t forget to grab a few chicken samosas as well! I promise you won’t regret it.

Really enjoyed the butter chicken here. The food is fantastic and the service is good as well. The lady who owns it is really sweet and very helpful. Definitely will be back!

This place is pretty good, but not the best place in town for East Indian food. The service is fairly quick (about a 20 minute wait), the food is relatively good, and the staff are very friendly. But, I’ve had better.
Just a warning, this is takeout style only– there’s no place to sit and dine in the restaurant. Call in and place an order and go pick it up, or you can just order at the counter and wait about 15 minutes.

Indian food always offers some excellent vegan options, and Saffron had three on the warmer tonight. Something something with eggplant, something with chickpeas, and something something mixed vegetables. My two vegetarian entrees combo came with about a cup of white rice, a slab of naan bread, and cost about $ 12. The food was great.
The servers were pleasant and they knew where to steer me. If I ordered ahead from their menu I could get more custom options than their daily buffet, but they change the specials every day and I like rolling the dice.

Saffron has me a bit torn.
One hand it’s solid food, served quickly, friendly staff, and reasonable prices for Indian in the NW side of town. On the other, if I’m craving Indian it doesn’t quite satisfy.
From someone who loves Indian food and had traveled to India and eaten the real deal — it’s not quite to my quality of authentic. For example, the naan is closer to greek pita than I’d expect. Not that I have an issue with greek pita… but just not always what I’m hoping for. That being said, there isn’t a lot of NW competition for Indian so it is sometimes better than taking a bit of a drive to something a little more authentic or going to a higher price point place that takes a while.
Saffron is a bit different that some restaurants in that they make a handful of dishes that day and you choose from those — not the menu unless you order in advance for a lot of people or something. They will always have butter chicken and a dahl but other than that you’ll have to call or just go check it out. They will always have a few vegetarian dishes and then some with meat. They often have ocra and saag which are far from my favourites — and that’s sometimes a bit disappointing to me.
The good thing about Saffron is the food is made when you stop in (but does NOT taste like buffet style that’s been sitting) so it’s quick to stop in and pick up.
The prices for the NW are not bad. For a veggie combo you get 1 veg dish, rice, naan and a curry for $ 9. Add a buck for a meat combo. Add a couple bucks for a second veg dish. A combo with 1 dish is more than enough for me most of the time. A combo with 2 dishes is usually 2 meals if I buy more naan. Overall that’s not a bad deal when facing the cost of other NW alternatives.
Overall, Saffron is definitely a good option to have around.
Review 3 of 30 in Unilocal’s 30 Day Challenge

Food is so yummy, and priced just right! This place offers take out only, and they do have daily specials. Ask them which dishes you should try! You usually can’t go wrong!

Feeling like Indian food the other night and didn’t want to make the trek back downtown to Tandoori Hut (my favorite EI restaurant in Calgary) so looked around for somewhere closer to home.
Their menu has a decent number of choices and is priced fairly. However finding the menu was a bit of a pain. They have a website but has been taken offline so I had to go to
to get a copy. Not a big deal restaurants without a website is a HUGE annoyance for me. Anyways… ordering was quick and easy.
Arrived at the planned time and they were just assembling our order. The staff was very friendly and helpful in getting everything well packaged and out to our car.
Now the important part of the review… the food! We started with the «mix & match» appy consisting of 2 samosas (we took beef), 3 kababs and 6 pakoras. The samosas were ok, not the best but still very tasty. The kababs were tasty but very dry. But the pakoras were amazing! Perfectly spiced and very crispy. For entrees we went with butter chicken, chicken korma, dhaal makhani and veg curry and here’s where I’m conflicted. While everything tasted good, nothing tasted like what I’m used to. I like my butter chicken to have a noticeable tomatoy taste but theirs was more rogan josh sauce. The korma, again it tasted good, didn’t have much of a coconut taste. The dhaal makhana was quite good. The curry veg were well spiced and good selection.
My rating of ³⁄₅ isn’t completely fair in that the food & service were both good it just didn’t have the tastes I’ve come to expect with EI food.

The food at Saffron is amazing, we’ve never had anything that wasn’t outstanding. Phone ahead if you want a specific dish as they will make things to order, or just show up for a little adventure in your meal choice to go with the daily specials.