Venez déguster un excellent repas chez Masala Bay Fine Indian Dining. L'atmosphère de cet établissement est décontractée. Masala Bay Fine Indian Dining est ouvert en soirée tous les jours de la semaine. Vous pouvez payer par American Express, MasterCard et Visa.
The restaurant is tucked away from the main street in downtown Waterloo, and seemed quite quaint out front. We were looking forward the meal as it was named a top restaurant by The Record newspaper. The decor inside was appropriate for an Indian restaurant. Cut to our meals arriving.........the chicken had an off-smell as if it was several days old and it also tasted quite dry. The lamb in the biriyani was tough as leather and greasy. I would have rated the food higher if it wasn't so expensive. I will definitely not be going back to this place again. I had tried the other Indian restaurant down the street a few months earlier and definitely preferred it over this place, in spite both of them being quite expensive.
Piggy is not impressed. The food seems to be getting worse, and every time I visit I only notice more and more faults in the restaurant.
The place is in dire need of a make over. The ceiling tiles are all different colors, with some of them sagging due to a flood or rain leak. If dirty ceiling tiles aren't enough to put you off your food, then the metallic smell that the menu leaves on your hands surely will. The papadum rolls that are served while you order, come with a minimal amount of raita, chutney and whatever other sauce they put in.
The meats especially lamb are inconsistently prepared. Sometimes the cuts of lamb are more tender while at the same time they can be quite tough and chewy.
The Nan bread is definitely not worth ordering. Crispy, overcooked, and stale.
The fact that the garlic nan is really a plain nan with garlic butter rubbed on it, says it all. They don't even have keema or peshwari naans.
I'm not sure what happened to the lassy, but this time it was more like a salad, with pieces of cilantro leafs and stems, cumin seed and coriander seed floating around. Personally I think that a plain lassy should have at most salt and ice.
I will try my best not to visit this place again unless I hear that they have really re-done the way they do things. It seems the owner is still stuck in his past days of glory when it was the only restaurant around that offered something different than burgers or wings.
Be careful! The "good" reviews are OLD!!
Based on old reviews we were looking forward to trying Masala Bay's buffet, and finally made it in today. This pretentious little place is overpriced beyond belief for the variety and quality of food they served. My portion of butter chicken had several pieces of undercooked near raw chicken in it, and it was sweet tasting. The tandoori chicken pieces were dried out and overdone. My water glass had crusted food on the rim as did one of the dessert bowls. There were rotting strawberries (and I do mean grey and rotting) on the fruit platter, the naan was the consistency of shoe leather. The goat curry was flavorful and spicy, probably the best item there. The various masala dishes all tasted much the same and were overcooked to a consistency of mush. I would have felt cheated had we paid $8-10 per person for this and the bill was just under $28.00. Two other diners left without finishing their first plates of food. I wish I had seen Piggy's review under Masala Bay Fine dining and we would have avoided this place altogether. Is it better at the dinner hour ordering from the menu? Who knows. At these prices we won't be giving them a second chance. Definite candidate for Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares. One last comment - We were both grossed out to discover the bathrooms open directly onto the room where the buffet is laid out, in fact they are less than 8 feet away and there is NO soundproofing.
Atmosphere: The restaurant is quite small so when we visited in a large group, I think they were overwhelmed.
Considering our group size it is understandable that the sercive may have been a little slower. The athmosphere is interesting and they have menus with metal covers, which I don't think is really a good idea as it leaves my hands smelling of cheap jewelerry.
To be honest the food was not really great and maybe I would have tried more things on the menu if they were not so ridiculously expensive.
Starters are between $6 and $10, and a Lassi whichi s really yogurt, water and salt costs more than a beer would at most places.
The mains are between $15 and $20 and you still have to add rice or a Nan bread to that.
And at these prices you would expect that the dips and accompaniments to be free? No, guess again, expect to pay for your yogurt dip or mango chutney.
I'm surprised that salt and pepper are not on the menu.
Anyway, the point is that south indian food should be inexpensive and if you want the whole indian experience here it's not worth paying the price. Maybe the owner things that since he was trained at the Taj Mahal Hotel in India, his approach to this very traditional and classic cuisine is superior.
Everytime my partner and I go, we have a fantastic time. It is always great food, and no one does Naan like Masala Bay!
Best Indian food in Waterloo region!
Definitely check this place out!
