The Mount Everest

Our all time favorite Indian spot. A tiny little hole in the wall that I hope never changes (except for maybe getting more seating).
My Dad swears their butter chicken is addictive and everything I’ve ever had from here is glorious. I’m pretty sure Mount Everest is family run and I don’t know how the cooks aren’t all a million pounds… if I could cook like that I would be.

I went for Indian takeout since I was vegetarian that day. Food was really good except only thing I found was that it was really overpriced compared to the Indian restaurants I’ve been to. This would make me not come here again especially when I ordered garlic naan and got the wrong type of naan. As well, serving size wasn’t enough when ordering naan. If you go here order more than two pieces since each one is cut ridiculously small.

This is my absolute favourite place to go. Food is incredible and very fairly priced. Great menu selection and lunch buffet is great to try if you are new to Indian food. Staff is very friendly and attentive. Also have a great bar selection with many authentic beers. Never a single complaint.

Me and my six year old sister decided to walk here (45 minutes) and use her birthday money for a delicious treat. Me being a female of Indian descent, I was very, very excited to try the food after reading the reviews on Unilocal.As soon as I walked in, the place was completely packed and it was burning, no a/​c. I ordered two chicken buriyanis, one mild and the other spicy, and one mango lassi. I thought the chicken buriyani was $ 9.95 so I was like meh, yolo. It ended up being $ 10.95. They gave my sister a glass of water because she asked for it and an elderly lady gave her a bag of gummies. The service was great, thus the second star, but I am the definition of disappointment right now. I had to wait a good hour for the two buriyanis. The mango lassi came within ten minutes, (thank god) but it was $ 2.25 for a small cup. I come home excitedly to try my food and I started crying. Yes, crying. The food looked so disgusting and inedible, I felt like I let my sister down. The total was $ 25.27 because of the 10% cash discount, if not, it would have been $ 28.07. The food did not even cover half the takeout box and it was just yellow coloured rice with mushy curry. The spicy buriyani was not even spicy and the mild tastes disgusting. I am writing this review right after eating that food and I am already sick to my stomach. Please do not purchase the buriyanis if you go here. I have ate $ 4 buriyanis with the box overfilled and great taste. I wanted to like this place so bad, but I can’t. I will not return here again.

OMG sooo delicious and very reasonable prices.
The owner is very friendly and waitress are very pleasant.
Try it, you won’t be disappointed.
We asked if there’s a time limit during lunch buffet?
The owner is so kind, he said no rush I want people to enjoy eating.
I will definitely return and recommend others

Amazing food have been going there forever and they never disappoint. The owners are extremely nice and friendly the food always taste fresh and wonderful. And the service is amazing highly recommend going here.

I take my kids here for a special dinner about once a month. (For some inexplicable reason my wife doesn’t like Indian food.) My daughter has her favorites, but my son and I enjoy experimenting with foods we’ve never tried before.
The servings are generous, the ingredients fresh, the owner is friendly and, overall, the dining experience is quite simply among the most enjoyable one can have.
The restaurant is tiny. If it’s a Friday or Saturday, you’ll need a reservation. But — and I can’t stress this enough — this place is probably the best Indian restaurant in southern Ontario.
Best of all, the prices are reasonable, too.
I’m lucky to live just a block away from here, but I’d gladly travel for a while to enjoy food of this quality.

I usually came here for the buffet which is OKAY. But i wanted to try al carte.
I read their review on the back of the menu, and the suggestion of Chef’s Biryani and I’m glad I tried it.
I ordered mild, because in my experience ‘mild’ in a south asian restaurant is a bit spicy.
This dish however was not spicy, but the best part was it was still flavourful and heavenly delicious.
If I could find an opposite for bland, this is the dish.
I plan to try their butter chicken next time.
The owner/​family is very charming, which is a bonus.

Having dined at almost every Indian restaurant in the Toronto area, this one is definitively the best. How Mr. Singh makes his Saag is a mystery but I can’t stop eating it. Plate after plate after plate… I drive all the way from midtown Toronto just to eat here. Its that good.

I want to recommend the Tomato Coconut Soup; it is delicious! Could not get the owner to share the recipe. I have some every time I eat here.

Butter chicken with rice and naan… DELICIOUS! Honestly my new favorite dish. Great value too, I can get two meals out of it.
The place is small so I always get takeout. Staff are always super friendly.

Without question the best Indian food in the GTA. Incredible value for exquisite, genuine food. For me, the saag paneer, tarka daal, and paneer korma are the stand outs.
The owners are wonderful people who treat their clients as family. I can’t recommend Mount Everest enough.

The Mount Everest is right on highway 2 right before Church street, its really easy to drive by so keep your eyes peeled for the turn to park (if you miss it, turn on Church and you can access the parking at the back). I ate here quite a while back but it was a memorable experience as I’d never had Indian Food before (and had never really been interested to. The person I was with was rather seasoned with different cuisines and had eaten at The Mount Everest many times, so they made a few recommendations and I got to try a few things I normally wouldn’t have otherwise.
We came in on a weeknight and it was rather busy — luckily my companion had made a reservation! This restaurant is terribly small so if you’re planning on popping in, you may want to call ahead and make a reso just to make sure you can get seated right away.
I’m the kind of person that likes to know what I want BEFORE I go somewhere, so I’d spent some time looking over the daunting menu and trying to figure out what I was game for. In the end, we ended up getting an appetizer platter, naan, Mattar Paneer, and some kind of Biriyani.
One of the standouts was the Assorted Indian Snacks platter that we had to share. Having never had indian food, it was a great way to start the meal, with samosas, pakora, chicken tikka, papadum, sheekh kebab and some sauces. Given, I couldn’t tell you which thing was which (besides the samosas) for sure but it was all incredible! What I THINK was the Pakora was amazing, great flavor, lots of heat — I kept taking them off the plate before the other person could get at them. This platter was surprisingly large and I was almost full after having my half.
The naan was incredible, just amazing — but you really have to eat it right away as it gets hard rather quickly. Fresh out of the oven naan was incredible, hot, buttery, soft and almost melt in your mouth. I would go back JUST for the naan because it was so damned good.
My Mattar Paneer was a bit of a letdown — I had been looking forward to trying Paneer for sooooo long. I love cheese and its been a staple in my house since I was a kid, and I’ve seen it made and it looked incredible, especially paired with peas (who DOESN’T like peas?!) but it really wasn’t the dish for me. Flavor was a bit lacking and sadly, the paneer was disappointing, but I think that would have been true with any paneer dish — I had it quite built up in my head. The biriyani wasn’t anything terribly memorable, but I only had a taste or two and its not something I would typically order myself anyways.
All in, this was a great local place to try out Indian food and I would go back again (but with someone who’s adventurous into trying new foods). The menu is absolutely massive and it would take forever to try everything but I guarantee there’s some serious gems hidden in the three pages of food. I’ll be back (hopefully soon) to try it out again!

It’s pretty well known among my friends that I don’t like eating Indian food. Mostly because I find a lot of places, who tend to Americanize their foods, or over charge for really cheaply made dishes to be lacking. However, I do often go out to try them, if jus to give them a try.
I went here with my mom, and we had their buffet.
The service was actually very good, they were very attentive and brought bread and water quickly. The owners seemed a bit overtly interested in talking with some guy on one side of the restaurant, but the rest of their staff was pretty good.
The atmosphere was interesting, it is picking and the place was a little small. However, it seemed like they really made an effort with the decorations, and the way everything was setup. The tables were a little awkward, and when you had the buffet you tended to be looming right over someones head.
The food was a mixed bag though. There were not very many options on the buffet, the options they did have were mostly meat. Also in their dishes with sauce it’s like nobody really checked to see if anything was there. Looking for paneer in the Paneer Makhani was like hunting for treasure, the goat had little goat in it. The aloo gobi was absolutely appalling, it wasn’t really cooked and wasn’t flavoured at all. The yogurt had what tasted like sugar in it, the tandoori chicken was good, but when it ran out nobody replaced it. The naan were good, I liked how they were the right texture and everything. The dhaal was flavourless, and I’m not sure it was cooked quite right. The gulab jamun was fine.
I will give them bonus points for having really good beer, i definitely like the fact that a small restaurant has Hop City Beer, that’s a great brewery. So bonus point for that. Overall most things were good, but the buffet overall was definitely a fail. I do appreciate their service, and their beer, but I wasn’t really happy with their food.

I’ve only been here during weekday lunch hour for their buffet. It is one of the best value lunches around. $ 10 per person, taxes in.
The selection is somewhat limited, but I found the quality of what they have to be very good. And because the selection is limited, what is there moves quickly and everything stays fresh.
Butter chicken is on the sweet side – if that is your thing. It isn’t my thing, but I still go back for seconds. Goat curry, is also quite tasty, and I’m not really a goat eater either.
Samosas are good as well, but the nann is kind of weird. tasty, but totally different than most other restaurants.
It is family operated and the service is always outstanding. It looks like it used to be a small house, so seating is limited, and it fills up rather quickly during lunch hour.