Spice Hut

I absolutely love the naan here. But aside from that, this place isn’t really anything special. The back kitchen area looks messy and makes me slightly uncomfortable with ordering from there. Also I wish they had more paneer dishes.

Eat in is decent. Naan is above average. Butter chicken is flavourful.
Take away is a very dismal potions and such a bad rip off. I ordered a second time and opened the food up in front of them, showing them the small potion and 4 small pieces of chicken in the butter chicken. They argued that’s normal. I showed them a photo of heaping portions when I had eaten in their restaurant and then they still argued.
There is much better in the RockWood mall area.

One of the best options for south Asian cuisine in Calgary. Recently became vegan and they were able to modify dishes for me. Amazing!

I’ve gone here twice. First time I got briyani and chicken tikka and it was great. Second time I got the veg pakora and briyani. Pakoras were good tasting but very soggy and the briyani lacked flavour. Hopefully my third visit will be a tie breaker in a positive way :)

The food is really expensive here. They serve a small portion with a high price compared to other restaurants in the same class. The place is not clean at all. It was disgusting. It reminds me low level restaurants. It is small and not enough seats to go there as a family.

Can’t rave enough about this hole in the wall joint. The place has a fresh and authentic menu and cooked to order. The bread is made fresh, hearty portion sizes, and great lunch specials. It tastes just like food we had in Iraq and we will def be back!

This place is really really great. I always come here to get my Indian/​Pakistani food. I don’t waste my time going elsewhere. We order the chicken vindaloo, beef madras, goat karahi and butter chicken. Absolutely amazing.

We ordered the butter chicken and garlic naan.
It was good. Not too spicy. The naan were big n soft.
We wanted to order samosas but it would have taken 10 minutes to make. I suppose that’s a good thing though, they would be fresh. We declined at this time due to time constraints.
I would recommend this place

It could be just me but I think this is the worst place to get your desi food. When you get worst possible customer service from the owner himself (Mr. Manzar if I am not mistaken), then does not really matter what kind of food this place would serve. We went to his place on the way to our hotel after a long day trip to Banff on June 13, and the way he treated us it was utterly preposterous. Felt like we were there for free food. May God have mercy on his soul!

The food is incredible. They are open every single day. I honestly don’t know how they work that hard. I’m a regular here now and I’ve never been disappointed with the food.

One word. Yum.
The ambiance is part of the experience.
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YUP… this is a gooder for sure. All the food is quite tasty. The only problem with the place is the actual owner. Kinda has a cocky attitude doesnt really make you feel welcome. For me I like to support the local guys as much as I can but service is huge. Maybe it was an off day for him but hoping that he reads this and knows that he has a good product but service is garbage. None the less because there aren’t any other authentic Pakistani restaurants in close proximity to the NW… we will continue to go back and support him/​them.

Great indian food! I recommend this place for great indian eats on a budget! You can eat in however it is a very small seating area and the ambiance is totally lacking. The food and flavor and spice totally makes up for it. I recommend this place to order some take out and enjoy at home if your looking for any ambiance. The naan bread is the best Ive had. cook freash to order and huge portion! The staff are very friendly and the food come out very quickly. I recomment the chicken tikka masala if your looking for some good hot spice and the butter shrimp for a twist on butter chicken for a nice creamy tomoato sauce. I would definatly go back, but I’d take out and enjoy at home next time.

This is a dinky little place that will surprise you with great Indian food. Their butter chicken is awesome! Spinach paneer is awesome! The only thing is the spice is never precise, i can go one day and it might be medium heat the next week i order the same dish and its high heat. so, you need to tell them mild, medium or hot. Other then that they are great. They do however make their naan on top of a deep freeze, i don’t know how sanitary is that? Oh well, food still good!

I was pleasantly surprised by Spice Hut. It’s tucked away in Huntington Hills. I had been driving around for a while, hungry and undecided as to what I was craving when I saw the name.
The place is sparsely decorated but clean. Utilitarian tables and chairs that you would find in small take-​out places fill the seating area. Menu is broken down to the usual sections with a middle section of their specialties. I opt to try the Nehari, beef shanks slowly cooked in special spices for hours. The proof is in the eating with tender morsels of melt-​in-​your-​mouth beef, the flavour is very subtle. The heat is there though. I was warned that both my dishes were very spicy. The Nehari is not as spicy as the Vindaloo.
The chicken Vindaloo packed the real Vindaloo heat but it was a little (just a smidgen) too tomatoey for me. The chicken pieces were nice and tender. All in all good Indian food. The prices are extremely reasonable with the Nehari at $ 9.99, and @8.99 for the Chicken Vindaloo. I ordered 2 naan @ $ 1.50/ea. The naan was a little dry but it looked really good coming out of the tandoori. I’ll try rice or Roti next time. Parking is plentiful.

I moved away from Calgary and I still crave this place like crazy and make sure to go every time I visit.
The food is just as good as the pricier Desi restaurants, but way better value. There is also a certain «home cooked» quality to the food that is amazing, and hard to find.
We LOVE the pakoras, fish curry, daal, pretty much anything with paneer in it, and the baingan bhartha.
The owners are always there and are real sweethearts too.
Miss you Spice Hut. Please never close.

I use to go out for lunch all the time but lately I haven’t gone out for lunch because I’m trying to be more ‘healthy’ and I bring my own lunches to work. I work in the NE so lunch options are normally limited to fast food joints as one hour lunch just doesn’t seem long enough. Even though I don’t eat out that often, I still search Unilocal!because I enjoy reading review and trying new places.
Indian food. That is what I have been craving for a long time. I could be flakey when people ask me to go out for lunch because I’d rather go to the gym but this time I chose a restaurant and set a date so I know I wouldn’t flake out.
Spice hut is located in a strip mall area, semi hidden, right across from the KFC in the Hunterhorn shopping area NE. It was around 11:45am on a Wednesday afternoon when we arrived. Before entering, I pause and said «wow this place does look pretty ghetto… it must be amazing then!» because most hole in the walls are… at least for me! Surprisingly, it wasn’t busy at all! There were only two other people dining at this hour. Spice hut is a pretty small restaurant with only 7 tables — 2×4 tops, 2×6 tops and 3×2 tops and a visible kitchen area. From reading the review, we immediately knew what we wanted but still glanced at the menu. The menu doesn’t have the lunch special in it but there is a poster on the window outside as well as a small poster inside that promotes the $ 7.95 lunch special. The lunch special includes: butter chicken, curried veggies, miz vegi pakoras, vegetable samosa, rice and a piece of naan bread. It also came with two sauces: a medium hot sauce and a sweet yogurt sauce. For drinks, we ordered waters to which we received a jug of water and plastic cups (a little ghetto ;)). I had to order a mango lassi which is a traditional indian beverage which is normally made from yogurt, water and mango pulp. It’s a perfect pairing for spicy indian food — it helps cool your tongue and it’s pretty tasty.
Our food came out pretty fast and I got super giddy as per usual. Of course I had to snap 100 pics before I dug in. I went for a mixture of the butter chicken sauce and rice… bliiiiissss! It was exactly what I wanted. It was tasty, the butter chicken wasn’t anything AMAZING but it was good. The butter chicken was a mild spice which was nice for me (I don’t like toooo spicy). While I was eating, I could see them preparing some naan so I asked the guys if they wanted to share an order of garlic naan. but before they could answer, I had already gone up to the front and ordered it :) hehe. It didn’t take long for them to prepare garlic naan which came in four pieces. The pakora is a deep fried vegetable snack, there are two pieces and they have a nice chewy crunch and a slight onion flavor, yummy. The vegetarian samosa was crunchy with a mash potato texture inside. Overall everything was really tasty, Steven and Parker literally wiped their plates clean. You definitely get a bang for your buck with this lunch special.
Okay, so now you know my secret…$ 7.95 for *see photo* all of that delicious food? It’s FANTASTIC! You definitely get your money’s worth here. Go… now!

Like so many places, I’ve been meaning to stop in here for like forever. Then a friend said to me… it’s so good you have to try it. As always I’m up for that kind of challenge.
So the day came and I ordered some takeout because that’s want I wanted for lunch one busy day. The minute I walked in to pick it up, the place smelled so good. My order consisted of rice, butter chicken, pakoras and naan. Can I just say there was enough food to feed a family of four. Outstanding.
Everything was very flavourful, tasty with so much food leftover. The Naan was warm, chewy and just amazing.
The guys working there were very friendly as well and I like friendly. Definitely coming back to this little gem. Love to support local.

Their lunch special gives you two pakoras, naan bread, a samosa, two different curries, and rice. All for under $ 9. That is a lot of filling food for a crazy good price. The butter chicken has a nice kick to it, which I really like. I usually avoid butter chicken because a lot of places make it slightly sweet, which is kind of off-​putting.
The guy at the front was not too inviting though. He had this «psh, whatever» attitude that made you think he couldn’t care less if you were there or not.

3.5* (minus ½ star only cuz I get thirsty afterwards…)
Lunch special $ 7.95. (about a 10 min preparation time)
includes: pakora, butter chicken, fresh made naan, safron rice, and some veggie thingy.
Very tasty!
and their kabobs look delicious as well. :)