As team leader, I organized the last dutch lunch with my team for departing co-op students. One place that I have always been curious about was India's Taste. It has been many years since I visited this place and probably due for a revisiting. With one of the co-op students having a meeting crunch at 1pm today, we decided to leave for lunch at 11am (so early).

Reviewer: Eating With Gordon
Visit Date: 8/24/2016
Food Rating: 3.5/5
Service Rating: 3/5

Atmosphere:
The restaurant was located at the corner of the building. Once inside, the entrance featured a long cold display selection of sweets for sale. There were elevated platforms for seating (which I thought was weird). In the north corner of the restaurant was the serving stations of different Indian foods. The tables were clean and tidy. I was amused to find out that the drink menus were inserted under the glass table top (so you really can't grab them).

Service:
For this meal, the servers constantly asked us offered us fresh baked naan and refills. I thought this was completely different from what The Host did (self service at the buffet area). They also constantly refilled our drinks (engineers love drinking water).

Food Comments:
When comparing the food selections available at this lunch buffet to The Host, India's Taste definitely has a lot more variety of foods. It was pretty hard to "document" everything they had available. 

Available foods available at Lunch Buffet (from memory):

• Butter Chicken Curry
• Tandoori Chicken
• Papadum (near kitchen)
• Veg Tawa (near kitchen)
• Chicken Tawa (near kitchen)
• Samosa
• Plain long grain rice 
• Caesar Salad
• Gajar Halwa (carrot pudding)
• Egg Curry
• Goat Curry
• Chicken Malasa Tikka 
• Veg Skewers
• Pani Puri
• Fish Pakora
• Gulab Jamun (you may have seen it as Timmy bit soaked in SWEET syrup)
• Ice cream (4 flavours including chocolate chips and chocolate mint) & mini sweet cakes

Overall, the foods were a little spicy for me. Everything was pretty tasty and good. The puri quality was horrible - very hard and old tasting. I enjoyed the fresh naan being served directly at our tables. 

Would I come back? Yes - definitely a lot better than "The Host" in comparison for food and selection


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Sweet section for take out

Sweet section for take out

Name:	India's Taste
Price Range:	$$
Cuisine:	Indian
Address:	680 Denison St, Markham, ON L3R 1C1
Phone:	(905) 948-0909
Menu URL:	www.indiastaste.ca/menus/
Website:	www.indiastaste.ca/markham/
Hours:	Sunday 10:30AM–9:30PM Monday 10:30AM–9:30PM Tuesday 10:30AM–9:30PM Wednesday 10:30AM–9:30PM Thursday 10:30AM–9:30PM Friday 10:30AM–10:30PM Saturday 10:30AM–10:30PM
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