Aromatherapy

For lunch the other day, we headed over to Aroma on King for some delightful Indian lunch buffet. It's perhaps not the best place in town, but it does have "close to our house" going for it!

Skip the salad bar & head straight to appetizers. Try the greatly improved samosas (vs a few years ago), a pakora and a papandum. I like to make a chutney brew-ha-ha with yogurt raita, mango chutney and red mystery sauce.

Standard meaty offerings include butter chicken, tandoori chicken, goat curry and beef curry. Quality of chicken is a bit suspect with weird chewy or hard pieces swimming around in the tasty butter chicken sauce.


I generally stick with veggie - today was chana masala, eggplant curry, potato/broccoli curry and saag paneer (I think). Ian of course was not pleased by the lack of lentils, but he ate some extra butter chicken to help him get over it.
Ian goes for some dessert in the pic below - butter chicken with rice, gulab jaman and rice pudding. Generally, some iffy melon & ice cream round out the dessert offerings. Stick to the gulab and rice pudding!

Nominal price is $10.99 but for two with tax, tip and tap water total bill came out to $28.