Chutneys Fine Indian Cuisine

Casual yet classy. Great food and great service. The waiter offered recommendations of typical Indian appetizers and paired it with delicious masala chai tea. The lamb vindaloo was spiced perfectly along with tandoori chicken on a sizzling platter and spinach paneer all accompanied by fragrant saffron rice and garlic naan. Fresh tasty and delicious food served with care. The atmosphere is quiet and allows for great dinner conversation.

We had a take out delivered Sunday evening — it was cold, dried up and inedible. I called to tell them and was told to heat it in the microwave. The person I talked to was unhelpful and rude and only offered a discount on our next order… no chance we will ever order from there again!
The poppadums were crushed, the mango salad barely recognisable as a salad and the vegetable ‘curry’ consisted of barely cooked frozen vegetables in a sort of curry sauce. The pulao rice was pathetic as was the rock hard nan bread. The whole meal was a disaster, complete waste of money.

Top notch curries all made from scratch.
Chutney’s hold it’s own with many high end Indian anywhere.
If you are looking for fusion Indian, go elsewhere.
Chutney’s serves up all of your favorites and get the spice just right.
Service is friendly, but the owners are fiery when challenged.
They make up for this in the quality of the food.
For those turned off by the owners, I understand. But for me, food quality always trumps services when you’re not paying a premium.
They have a deal for a significant percentage off pickup orders before 5pm, which cuts a sizable amount off the bill.
May favorites are veg biryani, chik tikka masala, aloo gobi masla and mutter paneer. Pikoras are also top notch.

Expensive but great Indian food.
Lamb Korma: Great creamy sauce with big chunks of lamb. Definitely recommend.
Beef Vindaloo: Moderately spicy is a great way to go if you want some kick. Meat was delicious in sauce. Would recommend as well.
Naan: Nah, don’t order. Nothing special and overpriced.
Overall score: ⁸⁄₁₀.

My favourite indian food in Toronto. I also love the fact that they deliver, though I wish they did that earlier on in the day as well. Very, very good food!

I think a lot of the previous reviews didn’t give chutneys a fair chance. If you’re unhappy with something just politely make note of it the next time you order and something will be done to make sure you’re satisfied. That’s what you get when you have owners and management who care about quality service and food. In any resteraunt whomever I’d making the food is not going to know what they did wrong if the only action you take is through a rant on Unilocal.
I have never had Indian food before. Never! I was convinced to go try it after much debate with my boyfriend who is a chef and well versed on both sides of the table. We also went with his friend from England and his girlfriend, who has undoubtedly tried an array of Indian cuisine.
I have to say we were all very impressed. I’m a very picky eater and I was eating a little of everyone else’s food to try, then sneak attacking for some more! We all vowed to go back. My boyfriend the chef gave his seal of approval
The staff was incredible, prompt and polite. I’m not sure if it was the owner or a manager we spoke to but he was super humble and made sure we were taken care of.
Make sure you check them out, it will be worth your while

My husband and I just ordered for take out — very impressed! The quality of food and flavours truly resembles the taste of India. Perfect amount of spice with each dish. The one and only reason why this place isn’t a 5 star is because I found their prices to be a bit pricey, however, I would most definitely order from here again!

Good place but i feel this place has gone down over the last year or two. The quality of the food is good but dishes like he butter chicken almost taste as if ketchup is used. Used to be far more fragrant and fresh tasting. I have been going here for about 10 years and I would have given a 4 star rating a couple of years back but not any more.
I don’t know if I will go back or try finding a new go to for Indian somewhere else.

My friend said not to go there. She dealt with a very angry employee who threatened her. Since I live far away and this person can’t get to me I am spreading the word. Don’t go there.
I love small businesses, I just hate people who won’t make good when they’re wrong.

I was a regular customer of this restaurant until my last delivery order was botched. I spend $ 60+ on a meal for two and when the delivery arrives a part of it is missing. I call the restaurant back and ask them to drop off the missing part and they deny it ever being part of my order. Over and over again. Patronizingly calling me ‘miss’ and telling me their delivery guy won’t go out for an order less than $ 35 when I already spent $ 60! To top it all off the person I placed the order with is conveniently not there to confirm there was a mess up and the managers are also away. Their employee, ‘ken’ argues insistently with me that I am wrong and nothing was missed and nothing will be done about it, even after I ask if its worth them losing a customer over it. Apparently employees (not managers or owners) have the authority to decide this at this restaurant. After I hang up on him he calls me back… First to threaten me, inviting me to speak to him angrily to his fave and lecturing me about my choice of language and then again telling me to call the police on him. So now I have an angry employee who had threatened me and knows my address. Delivery gone wrong! Be warned there is zero concept of customer service in this restaurant’s training process and if you order delivery you should be prepared to cook part of the meal yourself!!!

Fantastic butter chicken! love the after dinner herbs to help aid digestion and cleansed the pallet

I have never eaten at Chutney’s, only ever gotten take out, but so far I’ve been impressed. Not blown away by every dish, but have enjoyed most of the dishes I’ve tried and they do make the items really spicy upon request!
Their mulligatawny soup is pretty good (the daal soup is quite bland and unexciting though), the paneer makhini is delicious, and so is the veggie korma. I have tried an ocra dish as well and found it just okay. Solid butter chicken. Their mango and rose (!!) lassis are soooooo good (I had never heard of a rose flavoured one before, so I had to try it and was not disappointed). Overall, I’d say the food is above average.

As someone who is Gluten sensitive I look at how many options I have on the menu. What I’ve found was that all the items were gluten smart except for the bread.
The service was friendly and the atmosphere was surprisingly light for this classy restaurant.
Great food! Lots of options, meat. vegetarian, dairy free, gluten free, savory, sweet & always delicious.

We’ve recently moved to the area and we were hoping this could be our new Indian food go-​to restaurant. The food was tasty but nothing to really boast about, especially when discussing food and value. I’ve had better indian food in TO that was offered at a more reasonable price.
Also, the server made a mistake on our order, twice. Which is OK, I guess, but then he questioned us about them. Why would we lie about what we ordered? It was so… weird.

My friend and I decided to try Chutneys since we were in the area and they had decent reviews. The restaurant itself is clean and modern looking but the tables are pretty small. Nobody greeted us at the door or showed us to a table so we were left wondering if they were even open for business.
The butter chicken was delicious but it’s not something I can’t find elsewhere. Can’t say the same about the garlic naan — it wasn’t very garlicky at all. There wasn’t a lot of chicken pieces in the butter chicken but I personally don’t mind as I prefer less meat and more sauce.
The service was below expectations, especially because of their location. When we asked for containers for our leftovers, our waiter placed both in the same paper bag and there was sauce all over the outside of the plastic bag (thanks…). We were going to pay by cash but then he said he didn’t have change. If this was an attempt to receive a tip, we were going to tip regardless, just not generously. And what restaurant doesn’t have enough cash for change? Seriously.
Overall, I wouldn’t say it was the worst experience since I did enjoy the food but I definitely won’t be coming back. Better bang for your buck elsewhere!

I am not sure about all the positive reviews. We ordered take out today and had the worst Indian food ever.
We ordered «Haryali Chicken Tikka» which was dry and rubbery instead of being juicy and succulent. It was so bad that it tasted like leftover food that was reheated.
We also had «Rogan Josh» which is a lamb curry. Lamb was severely over cooked and the curry was disgusting.
The «Raita» was watered down and was smelly.
The «Naans» were not bad.
All in all I would never eat here again. So grossed out!

I really love this place. I don’t come here as often anymore b/​c I don’t spend as much time in Bloor West as I have in the past.
I love their zucchini masala — I haven’t found another place that serves it, and it’s super delish.
Their butter chicken is also good. Haven’t had a bad dish here yet!
Yummy!

I loved it– the husband didn’t care for it.
For that, it gets a ⁴⁄₅.
Ordered the butter chicken and chicken korma– rice– naan. Fair prices, and I guess extra nice because there isn’t much selection in the area and it was nice to have some tasty indian near my home.
Yuuuuuuuum.

We’d intended to try this place for a long time, and finally one night when I was seriously craving some Indian, we decided to give it a spin. The atmosphere is great — very clean and well decorated (it doesn’t really smell strongly of spices like a lot of Indian restaurants I’ve been too).
The staff was extremely friendly and very attentive. Our dishes were fantastic and we were both very pleased with the quality and taste of the food. The portions were great and we were able to share our meals with one order of rice, which is great since I find at other places you usually each need your own order of rice.
Our food came out quickly, and we were not rushed through our dinner even though we left only shortly before their closing time. We were too full to order dinner, but the waiter brought us out some sort of mango purée dessert in shot glasses to try, on the house. It was delicious and confirmed that we’ll be having dessert the next time we visit.

Being a child immigrant, I grew up in a real melting pot neighbourhood and I ate the foods of so many different cultures. Indian food to this day remains one of my most favorite foods. I used to frequent Babur on Queen St. (right near CITY TV) but of late have been really disappointed.
I finally found another small harbour to indulge my love for Indian food and that would be Chutney’s on Bloor St. W (west of Royal York, near Montgomery). The place is absolutely spotless, with pristine, crisp white linen on the tables. When the server places the plate on the table they always hold the plate by a cloth napkin. So polite.
The chicken dishes are all great, be it Saffron Chicken, Butter Chicken or Saag Chicken (it’s green so if you don’t like spinach avoid this one altogether!) One of my most favorite vegetable dishes is the Eggplant Patiala, it’s got an attitude. We’ll often order the seafood curry which has four different kinds of fish/​shellfish in a really lovely coconut curry sauce. Apps are all decent but I am very partial to the Onion Bhajia. They are crispy and the chickpea crust isn’t soggy or oily. I hate when the first thing you can taste is the oil. Pulao is also good but I resent paying $ 6-​$ 9 dollars for basically a rice dish so we usually just go with basmati. Naan is made fresh and there is nothing more comforting than soaking up the saffron sauce from the chicken with a piece of fresh hot naan.
The wait staff will ask you how you like the temperature of your indian food, I’m in the middle of the road. I’m getting old and I am so not into the burning ring of fire the next day. The restaurant always serves up a shot of Mango Lasshi (sp?) with a small shot of liquer in it as a compliment.
Chutney’s offers a take out bargain. If you order your dinner between 4:00−5:00 (even though I don’t pick it up until around 6 p.m. on my way home from work) they offer a 35% discount. What a bargain. I have taken home a killer takeaway Indian dinner for about $ 38.00 We’ve always got a few leftovers for lunch at work the next day.