Samosa Garden Restaurant - Vancouver

This restaurant use to be called Samosa Garden at one time. It is now called Star Anise Restaurant at 3502 Kingsway, Vancouver. This was the first time I was here for dim sum and is it was really good and the service was great. The price of the dim sum is $ 2.98 Alot of families come here for lunch. I plan to come back for lunch again , I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Samosa Garden died a slow indian buffet death and is now a Hong Kong style chines restaurant. We tried then once and after their lost our order and a 45 minute wait we left

There were 4 diners, other than the two of us at around 6:00 pm I counted five staff members. The vegetable Pakora appetizer came overdone and did not taste very good.My wife ordered the butter chicken ( okay according to her but not remarkable) and I ordered the Goat curry. We also orderd rice for two.The butter chicken arrived ten to fifteen minutes before the Goat curry and the Naan bread. The rice had been forgotten.The Goat curry was not good - very runny / watery and extra spicy ( despite our asking the server to ensure that it was mild)When I gave our feedback, I was told that the Japanese cook they had employed had left in the past couple of weeks to return to Japan, and the replacement had his own recipes.This prices are cheap - 10.00 for a meal with Naan bread, and it certainly used to be excellent. Not today. The parking spaces are really small, so there is a good chance of some door dings here.

I've been to Samosa Garden numerous times over the years starting when they first opened. For a while it used to be my favourite Indian restaurant as the food could always be counted on to be delicious and flavourful. I don't know what has happened here lately, but the food quality has really gone downhill. The service was never great to start with, as none of the staff (servers included) ever smile or even try to make conversation with customers. And once you're seated for the buffet, forget about seeing them again...you even have to get up and go ask for drinks and even the bill. But the food was what kept me coming back.My last visit (September 1, 2009) was particularly disappointing. On the buffet trays, the rice (both the basmati and the pilaf) was not cooked well enough. (Not a pleasant feeling having to crunch on rice!) The naan bread tray had very little bread in it, and what little was there was cold and hard. The tandoori chicken, while the tray was almost full, tasted a little burnt. The most disappointing dish, however, was the butter chicken (which is my favourite dish at Samosa Garden) tray had only sauce in it and was void of any meat. I had to walk up twice to the staff to ask them to refill the trays. After waiting more than 15 minutes, they brought in a small bowl of butter chicken and put it into the tray. I ran up to get some before the other customers (who had been waiting as long) finished it off. Still no fresh naan bread, and by this time, the burnt tandoori chicken tray was almost empty as well.I ate, walked up to the counter to ask for my bill, paid it and left...with no plans to come back again. They've just lost a formerly satisfied and loyal customer.

For the price not worth it...I still can't forget the burned chicken butter.