Aroma

Due to yesterdays lunch gone wrong, we ended up at Aroma (Indian buffet). It was far far far busier than normal...perhaps because we slept in and were running behind? Or perhaps it was the crowd coming over from the "Learning Annex"/Donald Trump event. Quite a few people had the cheesy little names tags still stuck to their shirts.

Anyway, doesn't really matter why it's busy - but it translated into some rather poor service. Took forever to get seated, numerous requests for a glass of water, and had to make a request for naan bread that usually appears quickly.

Food was tasty though. Pickled beets, pakora, samosa, papandums with 3 kinds of chutney for appetizers. They have salads, but most seem kinda creamy so I avoided them. Main course was tasty rice, chickpea curry, tasty black lentil curry, mixed veg curry. Ian had butter chicken, tandoori chicken, curry goat and perhaps a beef dish??

For dessert, the gulab jaman seemed a bit picked over, but the pieces that I managed to snag from under the foil were tasty. Rice pudding, as usual, was good. Took it easy on the ice cream this time, but the bit of cherry that I had was good.

Pretty good value for $23 (for 2) including tax and tip.