Buffet Maharaja

Extreme poor quality indian food. Naan was extremely undercooked and was pure dough. Curries were diluted and cold. Told the manager my concerns he said the restaurant caters to its populations tastes and only for indian events he makes more authentic spicy food. Please go elsewhere, this restaurant gives indian food a terrible name and is nothing close to authentic.

THE WORST MOST HORRID HORRID HORRID HORRID HORRID BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD AND WORST THAN INFINITELY BAD restaurant in the world. There are flies swarming the heating trays. The food looks radioactive due to all the food colouring. The floors are slippery and it is disgustingly humid because of all the condensation from the heating trays. This place is a shitty mess. Buffet Maharaja is like paying a stranger on the street to vomit regurgitated putrid sewage back into my mouth. This is horrid Indian food and most likely the worst restaurant in Montréal. This places boasts a hundred different dishes in their buffet and they all taste the same. You will be disappointed to see that everything is stored in aluminium slosh buckets heated underneath with propane burners. This is never a good sign. Also a very bad sign is when an Indian resto is soooooooooo shitty and desperate that they’ve got to serve stale French fries. This is a pitiful and sad state of affairs. It boggles the mind to think that this awful awful place is still in business after all of these years. This is one of the oldest Indian restos in the city. I remember back in the 90s that they used to run advertisements on the television. Either local CBC or CFCF12 or Global. Or maybe it was SRC I forget. There was soft core porn late at night and I think between programmes Buffet Maharaja would come on and brag about how they had like a hundred different items. The first time I went there was when I was a teenager and I knew it was absolute shit. But hey! Unlimited food! And they served me beer even though I was underage. I went back about a year ago just because I’m an optimist but it still sucks donkey balls. Go anywhere else. See my other reviews for suggestions. Peace out.

Mediocre Indian buffet with limited selection, even though I think it said 100+ items on a sign on the exterior? If I had bothered to read the reviews beforehand I wouldn’t have gone. And they are accurate. I think there were four or five main dishes, one of them butter chicken and one lamb, and none were particularly tasty. The naan was decent though, as were the papads, so I had a carb heavy lunch. There must be better Indian options around in such a restaurant filled city, so I would recommend avoiding this one.

This place is an abomination. Absolutely deplorable food. All meat items had stale taste to it and to make things worse everything was lukewarm.
Avoid this place like the plague!

Nothing to write home about…
Butter Chicken was No good in taste and not even properly heated…
Saag chicken was ok .
Everything else was pretty sub-​standard.

Le pire restaurant indien de Montréal. Pas beaucoup de choix et nourriture sans saveur, qualité des aliments douteuse…
Très cher payé pour un buffet et service qui laisse à désirer.
Bref, allez ailleurs… autre que dans un buffet.

Even after reading the reviews i went to try the food. But i realized i did a big mistake. Environment is not good, forget about the service, nobody cares, i refilled my water glass by going towards the counter and getting my own jug of water. Actually nobody works their everything is taken care by one person, kitchen, service etc. Quality of food is too bad. The yogurt smells bad and the meat is half cooked. I suggest everybody please don’t take a chance.

I wanted to give them 3 stars because the service was very friendly but I was distracted by the commercials playing in the background! One of the tvs was playing the show «How it’s made»…
The buffet was ok at the beginning but when you start paying closer attention, you quickly run out of options. The butter chicken is not chicken breast, the pieces of chicken were very fatty and the sauce completely tasteless! The rest is just about the same; starts off good till you realize that the quality is just not there.
Dont be fooled by the buffet; go elsewhere to satisfy your Indian craving!

Will give it 0 stars. Worst Indian food I’ve ever had. This place used to be so good with over 100 varieties. Largest Indian Buffet in North America. Now they hardly even have 10. Don’t even think about it when you go to Montréal.

Pretty good spot. Considering that this is a buffet, the food is well prepared and exceptionally fresh. The variety helps to ensure that there is probably something for everyone.
If this were strictly an ala cart restaurants, I would probably only give it 3 stars. But, as this is a buffet, the quality of food is4 stars in it’s category.

Possibly the worst Indian food I have ever had. Went a few times when it was upstairs and it was ok but now it is awful. Very poor choice and the quality is awful, the beef curry had burger bites instead of real meat. Best thing was the fresh nan they brought to the table. Salad bar is large but garbage, had one plateful of food and left. didn’t check out the toilets but the dining room was dirty enough so dread to think what the toilets were like. I wouldn’t give it one star but you can’t post a review unless you do.

I had not been here since 2012… it went through a lot of changes, now the dinning hall is smaller, the buffet has fewer choices and the food went from average to junk… don´t bother

Just worst
Never ever go to this place. Expired food. Stupid staff. No taste and real expensivevv

Worst quality of Indian food I ever had. No variety even for dinner — both the veg and non-​veg selection was limited and the same curry was used in multiple dishes. The veg food had no labels on it — so VEGETARIANS BEWARE! Very pricey — which was even more frustrating!

This place has gone to the dogs. it is under new management now, the place moved next door, the dinning room is smaller, fewer dishes to choose from, basically three or four veggies, three chicken dishes, one beef and one lamb, rice, a small salad bar with some fresh fruit. The food is still decent, but gone are the days where one could and taste a wide variety of Indian food to be tasted. The waiters were polite and brought a pig piece of naan with a bit of sauce, I think the same sauce from the butter chicken, which was a nice gesture. My disappointment came when I had to use the bathroom and it was not exactly clean, they have drains on the floor that have not been covered and funny smells come out of them, dirty floor, dirty sink, etc.
They still use the old website, so don’t be fooled, the old menu is history and so is the roomy dining halls.
I am afraid I’ll have to find another place to go

Contrainte d’y aller pour cause d’anniversaire d’une amie, j’ai été absolument déçue par ce buffet terne et sans saveur. La subtilité de goût que l’on recherché habituellement dans la cuisine indienne fait cruellement défaut dans leur bouffe, qui manqué royalement d’épices. Bof, bof, bof.
Comme nous étions un groupe, le pourboire était inclus dans la facture totale, qui s’élevait à près de 30 $. 30 $ pour un repas médiocre dans une ambiance moche, et avec un service nul, ça fait beaucoup!

I enjoyed the buffet. There was a large selection and there was something for everybody in my group, lots to choose from. It might not be considered as totally and completely authentic, but hey, the place was clean, the food tasted good, and the service was friendly and efficient.
I’m definitely going to return.

Very okaish place. The food was not that great. The place needs to be revamped. The bar area (I guess non operational) seemed unhygienic. Even the ice cream section seemed too shoddy with old deep freezer and tasteless ice creams. I don’t think there is anything the servers or waiters can do here. The management needs to get this placed cleaned up and painted.
Vegetarian food did not taste fresh. The cutlery was way too old. The deserts were horrible.
A suggestion: cook less, cool good and keep the place clean and ventilated. 8 good dishes are better than over 25 average dishes.
I was just a visitor on a trip to Montréal.

Terrible food, terrible service. Half empty. Rock hard balls of grease called pakoras. Crusty jello, yes, crusty. Warm sweet lassi. No one to take the dishes away. View overlooking a construction waste bin. Lighting they forgot to turn on, and when they did, it was glaring.
I’m guessing that the positive reviews below are from family members.

Well, I didn’t really want to go after seeing all the negative reviews but could not turn down an invitation from a friend for his birthday.
Lets get started. Not really so called authentic Indian cuisine, but more of a mix of cuisines from central provinces of India. I went on a quiet weeknight in freezing cold but it didn’t really disappoint. While some of the food were very dry and bland but some were extremely classy and delicious.
Butter chicken is their primary, but god they make it good even without cashews and pistachios, mind you its a peanut free place. Spinach lamb follows the same path with other curry dishes. Naan is staple bread but expensive, their waiters still served them to each and every table and more if being asked, now no Indian restaurant actually do that these days. Only downfall, vegetarian dishes were dry, i believe the staffs did not change the trays and they had onion rings and french fries, oh please its an Indian Buffet.
My waiter was quite dynamic and seemed to have quite a good knowledge about origin and ingredients of Indian food. His suggestion was to go for dining during their Saturday night, which is the busiest and the best day by far he said.
Its a good place for events and to dine with families too.
I believe its worth giving it a try on Saturday night too.

I will be adding to the fair amount of existing reviews for the Maharaja Buffet by saying I went with my fiancé earlier tonight and we had a good time. We had previously both looked at Unilocal for reviews and we weren’t sure what to expect; it seemed some people really loved it while others disliked it. Well, we liked it!
We liked the food; although the food was not crispy fresh (after all, it’s a buffet so it can be expected that any dish remaining more than 5 minutes in a heated plate will be slightly wet, it’s perfectly normal) it was tasty, good and quite fulling. The ambiance was nice, the waiter polite and efficient, and if you get to sit in the back you’ll have a nice view of the city.
Now, vegetarians who like buffets will be pleased; about half their selection is made of vegetarian dishes. Even my fiancé who eats meat took and enjoyed the veggie food.
Maharaja Buffet might not be the fanciest place in town but it is nice, cosy and good. We’ll certainly go back in the future.
P. S. They take credit card, however it seems they do not take debit as we saw an ATM machine at the entrance.

I’ve never tasted such tasteless menu. As being of East Indian descent, the food was bland, below Indian standards. There was no taste in the food, especially the vegetarian options.
The variety of desserts especially the Indian desserts were displeasing to the eyes.
The vegetable naan bread given the fact it has mashed vegetables inside it, was empty and had a yellow — ish color to it.
I would definitely not visit this place again and I would recommend others to do their own research.

J’ai mis les pieds qu’une seule fois chez Maharaja. En 1998. Mon premier indien.
Quelle déception ! Tout était sec et tout goûtait très fort le cari. Le service était moche, inefficace et sans sourire…
J’ai tellement été rebutée par mon expérience de la cuisine indienne que je n’ai remis les pieds dans un resto indien que 8 ans plus tard, en 2006, pour un souper de groupe, l’anniversaire d’un ami. Le Royal Gandhi, si je né m’abuse sur St-​Laurent (et Fairmont, coin Nord-​Est)… Malheureusement, cet endroit a dû fermer boutique. Le Royal Gandhi m’a par contre (et heureusement !) fait découvrir une délicieuse cuisine. J’ai depuis mangé à plusieurs restos indiens de Montréal et n’ai jamais été déçue; l’indien, c’est bien épicé et savoureux… délicieux, quoi ! et on se fait habituellement bien servir (avec un sourire s.v.p. !).
I have now moved on to way much better ! ^_​^
Enfin, ma seule et unique visite au Buffet Maharaja en était une de trop. Né fréquentez pas cet endroit… allez ailleurs; passez à autre chose sans même passer par ici s.v.p. !