Spicy selection: Best Indian buffet restaurants in Calgary

Indian buffets end the dilemma one faces when placing an order: butter chicken or vindaloo? Samosas or pakoras? Rice or naan? Enjoy a bite of each at these indulgent Indian buffets. Serving meat, seafood and vegetarian dishes, they’ll have you coming back for seconds and maybe fourths.

Spicy selection: Best Indian buffet restaurants in Calgary
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Five Rivers Indian Cuisine

1
11 Castleridge Blvd NE, Calgary, AB T3J 3J8

This restaurant’s name refers to the five rivers that the Indian state of Punjab is named for. Five Rivers Indian Cuisine features an impossibly vast vegetarian buffet. The menu includes traditional paneer and dal dishes, pizza, burgers and brunch favourites such as chole bhature, a fried North Indian bread served with chickpea curry. The restaurant also serves hot parathas, a stuffed bread that is one of India’s most popular breakfast foods.

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Glory of India

2
515 4 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2P 0J7

The award-winning Glory of India offers a lunch buffet with a generous selection of choices. Diners can choose from around 30 dishes, including eight to 10 vegetarian options and four to five meat dishes such as chicken vindaloo, fish masala and rogan josh, which consists of lean chunks of lamb or beef cooked in an onion and tomato gravy. Save room for dessert, as the restaurant’s buffet usually includes eight selections, including gulab jamun, fried dumplings dipped in a sweet syrup, and almond kheer, an almond-rice pudding.

Chennai Spices

3
175A 52 Street SE, Calgary, AB T2A 5H8

Chennai Spices is an Indian buffet with a South-Indian kick. Ordering the restaurant’s buffet is a great way to sample a variety of its delicious dishes. The buffet is served on weekends only and includes 10 vegetarian and four meat dishes, naan and dosas, which are savoury crepes. The restaurant, located in the northeast neighbourhood of Marlborough, can also conveniently accommodate big groups.

Rajdoot Restaurant

4
2028 4 St Sw, Calgary, AB T2S 1W3

The buffet at Rajdoot offers a wonderful selection of Indian comfort food: butter chicken, channa Chandni Chowk (chickpea curry), tandoori chicken and gosht-e-allu, a spicy, sautéed-beef-and-potato curry. Also always on the menu, find at least one type of lentil dish such as daal makhani bhukhara. The buffet menu also includes seasonal dishes, vegetarian options and dessert. The restaurant is one of the few that offer a dinner buffet seven days a week and a lunch buffet on weekdays.

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Taste of India

5
128-12024 Symons Valley Rd NW, Calgary, AB T3P 0A3

Taste of India adds a flavourful kick to Calgary’s northwest food scene. The restaurant located on Symons Valley Road in Evanston offers a lunch buffet that usually features appetizers such as pakoras and samosas and main dishes that include dal makhani (a lentil-and bean dish prepared with cream and butter) as well as that popular standby, butter chicken.

Hot Million Indian Cuisine Inc

6
2125 36 St NE, Calgary, AB T1Y 5S3

From the appetizers to dessert, the delicious lunch buffet at Hot Million will have your attention for the entire meal. The ever-changing menu here can include goat curry, tandoori chicken, dal makhani and pakoras. The buffet also features salads, pickles, raita, spiced yogurt and desserts including rice pudding and hot gulab jamun. The restaurant is located outside the southeast corner of Sunridge Mall.

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Royal India Cuisine

7
163-115 9 Ave Se, Calgary, AB T2G 0P5

Royal India is a popular downtown Indian restaurant. Located in Sun Life Plaza, it offers a daily lunch buffet as well as dinner buffet on weekends and special occasions. Five vegetarian and four meat options are offered daily. These can include lamb curry, tandoori chicken and navratan korma, a creamy, mixed-vegetable dish prepared with cottage cheese and cashews.

Surahi (Restaurant)

8
8906 MacLeod Trail SE, Calgary, AB T2H 0M4

The lunch buffet at Surahi always includes a few crowd favourites. Chicken samosas, vegetarian pakoras, a beef dish such as such as palak beef (beef cooked with spinach), tandoori chicken and butter chicken are always on the menu. Additional items include lentils, mutton curry, basmati and lemon rice, pickles and rice pudding.

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