Gate of India

Hamilton, Canada

2.9

Open now

18 reviews

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Telephone:
+1 905-528-5548
Website:
www.gateofindia.ca
Address:
201 James Street N, Hamilton, ON, L8R 2L2
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
0.3 miMary Street
0.3 miWest Harbour
0.4 miHess at Cannon
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Takes Reservations
Yes
Delivery
Yes
Take-out
Yes
Accepted Cards
Credit, Debit
Good For
Dinner
Parking
Street
Bike Parking
Yes
Wheelchair Accessible
No
Good for Kids
Yes
Good for Groups
Yes
Attire
Casual
Noise Level
Quiet
Alcohol
Full Bar
Outdoor Seating
No
Wi-Fi
No
Has TV
No
Dogs Allowed
No
Waiter Service
Yes
Caters
Yes

Today

Today 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Open now
Local time (Hamilton) 1:36 PM Thursday, May 22, 2025

Business hours

Monday 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Tuesday 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Wednesday 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Thursday 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Friday 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Saturday 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Sunday 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Description

Specialties

Fine Indian Restaurant, The best Indian Restaurant in Hamilton

History

Established in 1987.

Mohammed N. Anwar arrived in Canada in 1983. He gained employment at an Indian restaurant in Ottawa, Toronto and Montréal. This experience and exposure to perfect Indian cuisine brought him to partner with friend Syed Fazlul Bakht. The two of them set out in search of an ideal location. Hamilton was the chosen favourite for it’s small town community friendliness, opportunity of fast growth and no other Indian restaurant have position themselves here. So on April 7, 1987 Gate of India Restaurant was opened, Safiqul Karim and Syed Jubed Ali joined with them as a partner. Syed Fazlul Bakht chose the name Gate of India because it’s very famous historical memorial in India to commemorate and respect the 70,000 Indian solders that scarified their lives in World War I for freedom of the Indian culture.

Meet the Manager

Enamul H.

Manager

Work here more then 20 years. A family member. After Mohammed N Anwar (Brother) passed way, Enam is take care the business.

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18 reviews of Gate of India

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Place rating: 1
Toronto, Canada
My girlfriend and I ordered takeout yesterday. The naan bead was burned and the butter chicken sauce was way too sweet. The sauce was like tomato and sugar and the oil was separated. I have eaten a lot of butter chicken and this was literally the worst in my life. The chicken was tender at least. Very disappointed.
Place rating: 1
San Francisco, CA
I love Indian food. I’ve had Indian food all over the world and was really excited to see an award winning (based on the signs on their door) Indian restaurant in hamilton. We ordered the chicken tikka masala and a shrimp dish and they were a 2⁄10. The chicken was overcooked and obviously never marinated and the sauce was sweet! There was no spice to it no flavors just super sweet sauce. I was so disappointed because I was trying to show my boyfriend how good Indian food can be and he was NOt impressed. Nor was I. Wouldn’t come back. Service was good tho but bad food.
Place rating: 1
Hamilton, Canada
Don’t bother, bland food and over priced. Also raisins and nuts in Butter Chicken??? What in the what?
Place rating: 4
Hamilton, Canada
I’ve been hitting up this place a few times over the little while working close to Jane’s north. Lunch is so inexpensive and always a veg option. Can’t go wrong. We usually order nann (so tasty) and veg pakoras which r sooooo good. Just a easy go to lunch place.
Place rating: 4
Hamilton, Canada
probably the best indian place in town. the bangalor pall is off the walls good! its crazy spicy though, so be prepared.
Place rating: 1
Hamilton, Canada
Absolutely awful experience, Disgusting food and terrible service!
We live in Dundas and ordered 5 dishes as a treat mid week. Whilst placing our order we were told it would take about 40 min, I also specified that I would like my dish extra hot!
Delivery took 1 hr 40 min, with a baby in the house this totally ruined our evening and to add insult it was stone cold! My wife ordered a Chicken Tikka Masala, I have lived and traveled extensively in both India and the UK and what ever we were sent it was certainly not a Tikka Masala, but it was most definitely disgusting! I ordered a Lamb Dhansak and had specifically requested it extra hot as the Canadian pallet for Indian Food is on the milder side, this arrived both cold and very mild!
This restaurant has to seriously look at the delivery company it uses and its chefs because there are lots of other restaurants out there providing a far better quality of food and service for I might add less money!
Our hunt for an Authentic and good value Indian Restaurant in Hamilton continues because we will never give Gate of India our hard earned money ever again! Disgusting and awful!
When I called to voice my disappointment regarding my order I was met with an unapologetic and rude response! This so called restaurant is why I joined Unilocal because I feel that others should be aware of bad food, poor service and rude businesses!
Place rating: 4
Myrtle Beach, SC
Favorite Indian restaurant in the town, they do delivery too. The little desserts balls are great, I could eat a ton. I always have to get garlic naan too!
Place rating: 2
Hamilton, Canada
My partner and I order from another Indian restaurant nearby a few times a month and decided to give Gate of India a try… we regret it. We ordered three different vegetarian curries that all tasted the same; canned and sweet. The portions were incredibly small given the price and there was absolutely no spice or depth to anything at all! The service was wonderful but the food was bad, we will not be returning.
Place rating: 4
Hamilton, Canada
Excellent! Had the lamb tikka, butter chicken, and samosas.
Highly recommend this restaurant.
Place rating: 5
Toronto, Canada
I love love love this place. My boyfriend and I order from Gate of India whenever we’re in Hamilton. We’ve eaten here probably 25+ times over the last 10 years and the food is consistently delicious. Our first visit was when we were in university (at McMaster) and we’ve been coming back ever since.
Usual order: sag paneer, chicken phall, beef madras, lamb pasanda special, channa masala, aloo gobi, chicken jalfrezie.
Their lamb pasanda special sauce is heavenly. It’s slightly sweet, super flavourful and just incredible. Their madras sauce is also amazing. I have never had a bad dish from this place. The meat is well-​cooked and high quality– they use white meat chicken chicken and lean lamb and beef.
I like how their curry sauces are always well-​blended. I hate finding full spices (cardamom pods, whole cloves, etc) in my curries, which happens all the time when ordering Indian food in Toronto (but never at Gate of India).
Place rating: 3
Hamilton, Canada
I have been to GoI 3 or 4 times and have to report mixed results. First of all people, steam clean your carpets. This restaurant would never be accused of being overly clean, at least not if the floors are any indication.
My most disappointing dish was the Matar Paneer (peas n cheese). The sauce was kind of stuck to the peas as if they had been sitting in a Tupperware dish for the past week. It wasn’t fresh at all and really turned me off.
The rest of my meals have been great. Great flavours, decent quantity, nice naan, good service. If they tidied things up a little and were more consistent, I’d definitely go more often.
Place rating: 2
Toronto, Canada
I really really want to love this place, it’s just so close to me and I have such a deep love of Indian food, but this place isn’t it. My standard Indian order is Butter Chicken & Saag Paneer. The Butter Chicken is mediocre at best, while the Paneer is usually pretty disappointing (small crumbled bits of paneer instead of big chunks).
Place rating: 5
Hamilton, Canada
Lunch special is so so so great! Only 5.95 dollars including one soup .one main course and one dessert of today. Meat platter is 6.95 dollars
Place rating: 2
Toronto, Canada
We waited almost an hour for our mains, and when they arrived we were surprised at how small the portions were. This was really too bad – because the food we did get, when we finally got it, was really tasty.
Unfortunately because of the tiny portion size, we won’t be back: simply not good value, despite being packed with flavour.
Place rating: 1
Toronto, Canada
This restaurant is a joke. I ordered butter chicken and received chicken pieces in a yellow, coconut flavoured broth that had a soup-​like consistency. The garlic naan barely had any garlic at all. A complete waste of money. If you’re going to call yourself an Indian restaurant you should be able to make butter chicken correctly
Place rating: 3
Hamilton, Canada
I came to this restaurant with a deal coupon. The service was excellent, the décor was very outdated, the quality of the food was good. The portions were very small thou. Def not enought to stuff you or share between two. The meat dishes cost $ 12 so there should be bigger. I would not return.
Place rating: 4
Toronto, Canada
Was with the fam and the GF looking for some dinner on James North before the Art Crawl and wasn’t feeling the flagrantly available Portuguese food, so we went to Gate of India.
Restaurant was fairly quiet and the service was decent. Décor was nice, warm and dimly lit. The flat-​cracker (dunno what it’s called) they brought out as an appetizer was actually the spiciest thing we had the whole meal. The saag paneer was a bit bland but passable, the naan was warm and excellent, and the butter chicken and butter shrimp were well-​pitched and doused in a delicious sauce.
Only gripe was that the music was basically one never-​ending song that sounded like a sitar player hopelessly enslaved to their instrument. But perhaps this is a staple of Indian restaurants. Either way, I think this is the beginning of a long love affair with Indian food. Next stop: Banjara on Bloor.
Place rating: 5
Hamilton, Canada
Absolutely delicious, if a bit expensive. The samosas and pakoras were the best I’ve ever had, and the curries were fantastic. I would eat there all the time if not for the price — it cost us 90 $ for the four of us, plus tip and that was splitting meals designed for ½ the number of people we had. Thinking about it makes my mouth water even now, though. Totally worth it.