Golden India - Ottawa

If I could review this with a zero, I wouldWe ordered from their website online and the food arrived 2 hours lateTWO HOURS.

Lunch buffet. Good selection. Meat dishes rich but very sweet. Good quality meat (not too bony or fatty). Brand new place, worth a try.

We traditionally treat our teenage grandson to an Indian restaurant meal for his birthday. He has discerning taste, a large appetite and a love of spicy dishes and our experience at Golden India was a winner. The food was freshly prepared, a pleasing variety of dishes, the restaurant peaceful with simple Indian raga music playing in the background. The beer was reasonably priced and easy parking at the front of the restaurant. For all it looking like a hole-in-the-wall, we call it a hidden gem.

Just ordered for the first time tonight, thought we could find a food Indian option in the neighbourhood. Specified on the phone that I have a severe but allergy and food was arrived covered in nuts. We called back and the lady apologized and sent us another order. The delivery person asked for first order back upon arrival. Food was blend, sag paneer was very dry and too salty. Butter chicken was disappointing as was the rest of our food. Do not waste your money. We will keep looking for another option because we are certainly not going back.

The food: is decent and has an authentic taste. I also enjoyed the spice in it (I had a Very Hot dish - the Lamb Madras;) however, my partner did not because she could not handle spice very well and the menu only had 3 options for the Milk Dishes. But I think the flavour and spiciness of the food were very well-done, from an Indian-food perspective.Take-out service: When I arrived to get my food, one of the owners looked at me strangely as if they were not expecting customers or so. They asked me what I needed and I said I had made an order. They looked through all of their receipts and data on their ipad, then asked me if I called or ordered online. I said online and it had already been paid for. Then without no confirmation or further questions, they kept looking and ran into the kitchen. The other owner told me to wait a bit. In about 5 minutes or so, they came out with a food bag and told me that was mine. The strange things were that, they never asked for my name, what I ordered, and never provided a receipts with the food. I was cautious and checked the food before I left but the pick-up process was not so pleasant.The food portion and the price: The portion was very small for the price of the food. We ordered the "Main dishes," one Lamb Madras and one Chicken Bhoona. Each came in the medium-sized styrofoam (16oz) and each cost at least $13 each (without rice or naan bread.) We also ordered the appetizer Shaami Kebab, which was supposed to come with onion rings, tomato and lemon wedges. It did not come with these sides and the appetizer contained 2 pieces (which were not stated in the menu).Overall, I find that although Golden Indian offered very tasty food, the price is quite high for how much food we got. We have our other usual go-to places where offer similarly tasty food at similar price, but much larger portions that a group can actually share if we were to order multiple main dishes. Hence it is unlikely that I will order from this place again. Plus the pick-up service also made it seem like they did not make an effort to keep customers.