Gold Winner Dhaba Casual Fine Dining Silver Winner Curry Village Bronze Winner Rasa: Flavours of India For eight years, Dhaba Casual Fine Dining has been giving folks a reason to eat in Bayers Lake. For seven years, Haligonians have been voting it the city’s Best Indian Restaurant. Family-run and focused on authenticity, Dhaba has made […]
Dhaba Casual Fine Dining + Express
20 things to eat right now
Spaghetti carbonara Mappatura, 5883 Spring Garden Road, $12/$22 Carbonara is a dish that so many restaurants make, but so few seem to nail. From cream sauces that claim to be carbonara to sauces with scrambled egg to thin, watery undercooked sauce, this supposedly simple dish can also easily be botched. Mappatura chef and co-owner Terry […]
Best Indian Restaurant
Gold Winner Dhaba Casual Fine Dining Silver Winner Curry Village Bronze Winner A Taste of India The truest sign that Dhaba Casual Fine Dining is killing it up in Bayers Lake is that there’s always something new happening. From opening a rapidly expanding sweets and spices shop next-door, to celebrating seven years in business this […]
Dhaba’s in demand
Bayers Lake’s hot ticket Dhaba Casual Fine Dining & Express (8 Oland Crescent, 444-4411) just keeps on growing. Thanks to popular demand owners Faizal and Salma Junus expanded their space last winter, doubling Dhaba’s capacity to 60 seats, and next week it’ll take over yet another neighbouring property expanding its capacity yet again. “I believe […]
Dhaba Express expands
Dhaba Express (8 Oland Crescent, 444-4411), the excellent Bayers Lake establishment offering authentic East Indian cuisine, this week is doubling its seating capacity from 25 to 50 by busting through to the space next door, formerly a wedding rental business. Dhaba Express owner Faizal Junus reports that by February 27 they’ll have the capacity to […]
Dhaba Express and Coles Neighbourhood Restaurant taking over from Indian Buffet Palace
Two new restaurants are about to open, each taking over a location where Indian Buffet Palace closed earlier in the year. Look for Coles Neighbourhood Restaurant to be up and running first: After several weeks of renovations in the former Buffet Palace space at 972 Cole Harbour Road, Coles is due to be serving customers […]

