Bombay Bhel

Nothing about this place is appealing! Food is horrible and over priced like every other Indian restaurant.

We went there last weekend for a lunch buffet. The food is delicious and is home quality; however, there are not many options. They had 4 curries and tandoori chicken, a very basic salad (just lettuce and carrots), naan and very basic indian dessert. All in all, it is very basic Indian food. Nothing special. Good for casual weekday lunch.

From the outside this restaurant looks abandoned: the patio is empty of tables and chairs and weeds are growing knee-​high out of the pavement.
The exterior is such a turnoff we decided to just keep walking. If the management can’t take a few minutes to clean up their exterior I hate to think what’s going on inside. What a hole.

We sometimes go here for their lunch buffet on a Friday. It’s just a short walk down from the North York Centre subway stop so it’s quite convenient to get to.
The lunch buffet is $ 11.99 and has all the regular dishes that you would normally find in an Indian buffet. The food, for the most part, is really tasty (their Butter Chicken is fantastic) although I can’t say that I’m a big fan of their Tandoori Chicken… I find it to have an overwhelming flavour of charcoal.
This place isn’t much to look at on the inside and I reckon they could do a little work on the outside to give it more curb appeal but the service is friendly and the seating area is well laid out.

Bad service, substandard food and expensive as well. Will never go to this place again!

Bombay Bhel is a popular spot around the North York area along Yonge Street… the reason, Indian lunch buffet. Now I have been here a few times for their lunch buffet, but never for their dinner. So please take that into consideration as you’re reading this entry. The place is decorated well, but nothing special. So you won’t be coming here for the décor nor will you be turned away with its shady environment. For this visit, I came here for a very close co-​workers goodbye lunch and we had a table of 12 on a Friday lunch. Make reservations if you can.
The lunch buffets had a variety of Indian dishes, as well some a little more common/​Westernized for its customers. There was probably around 20+ dishes different choices. I would like to say that this total included appetizers, mains and dessert. So did it have major variety? No, but it did include some of the main stables for an Indian buffet. They had vegetarian offerings such as palak paneer as well as some stables such as butter chicken, biryani and tandori chicken.
Now I’m a major meat eater at any Indian joint I head to. And yessss, sounds completely horrible but I’m a major butter chicken fan. Doesn’t matter if it’s with naan or with rice, I will eat that stuff up QUICK. I’m pretty okay with most Indian dishes as I have too many friends who love Indian, so after a while you know what’s good and what’s not. Now, I was starving and work was… «interesting» so my sense of adventure was totally destroyed. I went heavy on the butter chicken. So how was it you may ask, it was… solid. I didn’t find it special or bad, the flavour was there as it was sweet and creamy to my liking. However I did feel that some ingredients were missing to dish as a whole. From all dishes I got, theme was really. just solid. Nothing stood out but I do have to give it up to them as they were always filling up the buffet dishes, water and there were never a shortage of any dish. And trust me, limited naan is a bad bad things for an Indian lunch buffer. It didn’t happen at this visit.
Overall, I can’t say I liked it nor that I hated Bombay Bhel. It’s an okay lunch bufffet, the price can be a little higher than the norm but still even with that in mind, I can see myself coming back. The service was good and the place is laid out well. I found the environment better than some of the cheaper lunch buffets that some might compare Bombay Bhel to. So it’s a little classier… not by much, but if I was downtown for lunch, I wouldn’t be back. I’ll leave you all with that.

Our cousin was visiting from California and we decided to take him here for his first Indian cuisine experience. I didn’t really know what to expect as I haven’t been here myself. I just got a couple of recommendations from friends.
Atmosphere: casual, dim, good for groups because they can put tables together. I think there was a little holiday party going on in one corner of the restaurant.
Food: we ordered butter chicken, beef vindaloo, panak paneer as well as cheese and garlic naan. Aside from the panak paneer (spinach and cottage cheese dish) which lacked a little flavor, everything was delicious! Beef was tender, the butter chicken was flavorful and the cheese naan was unlike anything I’ve ever tried! The portions were good for sharing and we were at a comfortable ‘full’ level once we were done.
Service: great! Our glasses of water were constantly refilled and our orders came out promptly. It wasn’t very busy when we went (Saturday night) so I can’t comment on the service during peak hours.
I would definitely visit again!

Let me say I am a «Huge» fan of Indian food. Unfortunately, this place is easily the worst Indian food I have had in Toronto. I had a lunch meeting there today. The food is not FRESH. It is micro-​waved. Extremely lousy and they are certain to close. Please take my advice and skip this place, they are not worthy of your money, business or patronage. We ordered their most expensive MEAT COMBO. The lamb curry was terrible, and the TANDOORI chicken were two crappy dehydrated old drumsticks. I really should have walked out after the first bite. I hate to write such a review but they have no idea how to cook or run a restaurant.

I work close by and this is a great place to go for lunch as they have a lunch buffet, they have enough vegetarian options. Usually about 3 – 4 Vegetarian options in the buffet (that is besides the deserts, rice, naan and all the other stuff that goes along with most indian food.)
Lunch buffet was about $ 14 (they add gratuity), so beware, don’t tip on top of that if you don’t want to.
Food is flavourful and the palak paneer is awesome.
Service is great and fast, it is a little dark inside, but there is enough room to seat a fair number of people.
This restaurant is close to the Toronto Centre for Arts, so its great for dinner and a show.

Nah, the food was not good at all. Had the weekend lunch buffet for $ 12.49, limited dishes and not tasty. The curries were bland and the desserts were much to be desired. The naan was indeed very good — perhaps the only fresh item on the buffet? Too pricey for the what we got. Would not recommend this joint to anyone!

I on the other hand love Indian food. I had been to one of their locations in Mississauga years ago and the chaat was very good. We live near this location so thought, hey, why not!
They are very over priced for Indian food. For a leg piece of tandoori chicken its 11.99…im expecting a lot for that price and didnt get it… that being said, the naan was very good as was the bathura. We didnt actually try the chaat here, not sure if I will though…

I’m not a huge fan of Indian food. I mean, I like curry and what not but that’s pretty much it. I think it’s the coconut milk that they use or the spices but basically I only like butter chicken.
We came to this place because a family friend of my bf was having a birthday party there and we tagged along. I wasn’t stoked by the idea but I’m up for trying new things.
The place is really small, and extremely red, not bright red but a maroonish-​red but it was all over the walls. The restaurant is quite small and intimate. There aren’t any booths just tables and chairs.
For lunch they have a buffet but for dinner it is a la carte. There is a wide selection of different curries and spices and different degrees of spiciness depending on your palatte. There are a few vegetarian selections for those of you non-​meat eaters, I honestly don’t know how you live…
I chose the safe butter chicken. You have to order your rice seperate as well as the naan bread seperate. The rice comes on a plate, not in a bowl, on a plate and the small was enough for sharing between 3 people. The naan bread was good, it’s a little thicker than Malaysian roti but still delicious.
There wasn’t much flavour to the curry. Although, I was ridiculously full by the end, I didn’t feel satisfied. The spiciness was nilch even on the super spicy dish that my bf got.
An upside, is they have a liquor license and they serve very rare beers. Beers that they don’t sell at the LCBO and are native to India and other exotic countries. They also have wine for those winos out there.
The food wasn’t really my style but it was still good and it’s a great place for sharing, not sure if I would recommend it for a first date but definitely a 3^rd or 4^th date, once you’ve gotten to know each other. You’ll have fun taking turns dipping the naan into the curry sauce.