The Host

Excellent service. Had my sons first birthday party in the private room. Service and food were excellent.

This is my first visit, the ambience is very good. Best customer service, taste of the food is different from other restaurants, usually every restaurant has similar menu and same old taste, but this restaurant is unique, they got perfect south Indian flavours in it. i loved it

Decided to come for lunch with family. Best decision ever.
Coming here for the only the second time since they renovated this place about 18 months back. Very good décor and ambiance. Comfortable feeling.
Food was ravishingly good: every course from appetizers (aloo tikki, pani puri) to south indian to main dishes (butter chicken, tandoori chicken, paneer, etc)
Naan was fresh, hot and soft. Bonus: chicken biryani. one of the best I have ever had. Chicken was falling off the bone.
Expanded desert section: kheer, gulab jamun, custard, gajar ka halwa plus ice cream. Didn’t try each as I was too full by then.
If there were 7 stars available, I would rate this place as ⁷⁄₇.
The best indian buffet in Mississauga, a must-​go.

It’s been 5 years since I’ve had butter chicken so I used Unilocal and searched «Best butter chicken». Chilli Chicken House and The Host were the two closest locations. I decided to go with The Host since I’ve never been there before. Growing up in this area I was surprised to see how close it was! This wasn’t the typical Pakistani/​Indian restaurant I was used too. This place was fancy, dimly lit with well dressed waiters. I was greeted right away, with sentences always ending in sir.
I ordered 2 Murgh Makhni aka butter chicken and
pilau rice for take out. Each order came with naan bread. And this was the best naan bread I’ve ever tasted! Fluffy & buttery but not too buttery. The rice was a little hard at the top but this was outshined by the savoury BUTTER CHICKEN sauce!
While waiting for my takeout I witnessed multiple dishes leave the kitchen with such finesse, smelling good and looking great! Like a tree you pass blending in the background I’ve ignored this place my whole life! I plan on coming back

Came here for some late night Indian food.
We got the chicken trio, the Malai Kofta, rice, naan, and gulab jaamin. The food is 3 stars. The service is slow though and given the price I would average the place at 2 stars.
The experience was overall disappointing.

Great service. Quality food. Nice ambience. Keep up the Good work

Great ambience, customer service and good tasty food!
Quantity is smaller compared to the pricey menu! Otherwise authentic taste for Indian food!!!
Good job!

Acceptable Indian food and the service was ok but the look and feel inside was a bit dark and dated…

Been there several times and the food has always been great. I loved the experience every single time. I like all of the buffet choices. I went for dinner a la carte once and remembered the butter chicken being much better (the buffet butter chicken was still great)! Nice décor and seating area as well. Always look forward to my trips here.

I wish it wasn’t so because I was really craving some yummy Indian food while house-​sitting in Mississauga but… this was the worst Indian food I have ever eaten. It was completely lacking in flavour. It tasted like water with peas floating inside of it. I was starving when I picked up my take out order and then I couldn’t even finish it I found it so bad. I made myself a sandwich for dinner instead. I wouldn’t return to this place if they paid me. Sorry, but I will definitely be sticking to my tested and loved Indian restaurants from now on.

Came in from California for a family visit, and my father treated us to Sunday lunch there. The food was out of this world. It was buffet, and I was so sorry I couldn’t eat endlessly! Very much look forward to my next visit.

The customer service was great. Enjoyed the tandoori chicken and naan with various lentil and chick pea dips. I highly recommend this place for your Indian cuisine fix.

Went for a kids birthday in the party room for lunch today. The room is quite cozy and good enough for 25 – 30 adults and a few kids. The food in the buffet was quite good. A little less greasier than the rest. They had idlis, medu vadas samosas spring rolls and chat — bhel paani poori etc. and masala dosas as well. The lady making it seemed very slow and not geared for service. All the rest of the food servers and wait staff were amazing. Personally I don’t like naan and prefer tandoor roti. They made it right away and also sent a couple more later. The saag in buffet was a welcome change. The dessert choices were quite good as well. Go for service and then food.

First time having Indian food was at The Host. I loved it. Wait staff is very friendly. Food was prepared quickly and tasted great. Whenever I am in Mississauga I’ll be returning here!

I have been to host four times with four different groups and it has been a success each visit. Tried the lunch buffet on the first visit and enjoyed the flavours, colours and smells. Just divine! I especially loved this service as a first timer because it allowed me to sample a wide variety of items and gave me a reference point for later visits. The other three visits I engaged the dinner service and loved every dish that was ordered. The Bhel Puri was spicy and flavourful — just the way I like it, the Bhindi Amchuri was a great new way to experience okra and the butter chicken just melts in your mouth. In all three visits not a single person walked away from the table unhappy. The décor is very nice and the wait staff are very courteous and always with smiles on their faces. Only negative I can give is that they serve their Perrier water at room temperature and make up for that by giving you ice… which sort of defeats the purpose of having bottled water.
As for the negative reviews, seems to me that most of them, with the exception of Dale’s were written before the renovations and I suspect change in some of the staff.

Amazing customer service! The internet was down and the waiter let me link to the data on his phone because the international data on my plan was not functioning.
I asked if they had a Pinot open, I would love a glass, even though it was not on the menu by the glass. They. Brought it to me by the glass & opened the bottle just for me.
The food was delightful, fresh and full of delicate spices.
A definite gem!

if you want to spend the next 24 hours on the toilet, this is the place for you. As for me i will never go back. If i could give it 0 stars i would

Went here for dinner recently while in the area for business. I was a bit skeptical given the wide range of reviews. I was very impressed, I didn’t try the buffet (I would never try the buffet) but went with the dinner menu, the server was very helpful with sorting out the choices. The appetizer platter for two was great — spice level was higher than usually seen in Canada (equivalent to a medium in a US Tex-​Mex restaurant) and the flavors were great. Over the service was excellent and the meal was very good. I will definitely go back.
The only negative is that the wine list is very limited and overpriced. The one unusual wine on the list (a Portuguese Green wine) had been 86ed.
Don’t let the negative reviews scare you off from trying this place for dinner, it will be unusual and the food will amaze you.

This place had a good selection of Indian food: butter chicken, goat meat, chickpea with nacho stuff, tandoori chicken, spring rolls, samosas, naan and so on. It was my first time trying goat meat; it tasted like lamb but with a stronger smell.
They also had a good selection of desserts: rice pudding, a donut-​like thing that was too sweet to finish, white and cheese-​like things and ice cream.
This place was decorated with bracelets on the ceiling. I would recommend the lunch buffet.

Tried to stay away from this place as its too close to Square One and therefore a mall-​restaurant.
I eventually went and was pleased. Steered away from the buttered chicken and tried stuff I’d nearly never had… except the Kofta as I have to have it… and enjoyed it all. Loved the Murgh Lababdar too. So juicy.
Will be back.