Jalsa Indian Fast Food

Tried dosa and not happy at all. Will try their more popular dishes of vada pav or pav bhaaji next time. The entrance door is confusing. It happened with and another two gentlemen.

Love the food at Jalsa. The service is pretty good and worth the wait!

A very cozy restaurant for South Asian street food. A brief visit had me enjoy a very exciting plate of Chaat papri, an excellent choice of a side along with Dahi bhallas. Service was prompt but very meek.

Great food, authentic taste.
The only downside is that service can be slow at times. Slightly expensive for the value.

This chaat place has among the best pav bhaji, ragda pattis, bhelpuri & other chaat items.
It is clean & efficiently run.
The con: when I checked in on Unilocal,there was a free offer of a lassi with a Bombay Frankie. The owner would not honor it saying it is an outdated offer & they have nothing to do with Unilocal offers! I think this is quite un professional– they could have honored the offer & offered me a lassi, especially as I did not see any expiry date on the offer.
Unilocal also needs to review this offer with restaurants as this has happened to me previously in other restaurants.
I don’t know who is to blame here.

Over priced, poor portion sizes. It’s quite sad that they used to have great portion sizes for the price but unfortunately after a few months the quality and portion size decreased. Quite disappointed being a 25 year patron of the Erin mills area and a passionate foodie.

Pretty good chat restaurant although they have much more. I had a few of the dishes and all were made very well. The best was the dhai puri. The service was very very quick. I was surprised at that.
Only reason for a 4 is because I’ve been spoiled by another chat restaurant in New Jersey. The food isn’t as good as Bombay Talk.

This place was quite disappointing. Reading the reviews my family and I went in with high hopes to have some great Indian evening snack kind of foods.
1. The service is the worst I’ve had in a long time. They seated us and then forgot about us. It took them 10 minutes to bring us water and take our menu even though the restaurant wasn’t very busy. They never at any point asked how our meal was and mostly ignored us.
2. The food itself is oily, mostly tastes of spices and the restaurant provides very small portions. What really annoyed me is the poor service in bringing the food.
My mother received her meal and we figured they would take a few minutes so told her to go ahead and eat. My sister and I received our dosa just as my mother finished her dish so she was left staring at us while we ate. The common stance when serving multiple people food is to bring it out at once or to bring it very close together. 10 minutes apart doesn’t count as being acceptable.
— The pain puri was ok — nothing to write home about.
— The sabudana vada was the only good part about this meal
— The sada dosa was good for what it is — plain dosa
— The accompanying sambar was incredibly watery and cold despite our dosa being incredibly hot
— The Pav Baji simply tasted of masala. In India when you buy Pav Baji you can taste the vegetables and the butter but at this establishment you can taste only spices that weren’t properly cooked out. It was passable for cheap Indian food.
— The dosa was incredibly greasy and parts of the dosa were quite thick and became soggy quickly
— The mango lassi was ok but for the price the portion quite small
$ 40 for a meal where we were provided slow service, passable food and overall a mediocre experience.
We will not be back.

Two carnivores decided to go eat vegetarian Indian food today and were pleasantly surprised.
The service was fast and our server was knowledgeable when we asked what he would recommend.
We ended up getting misal pav which came with pav bun and a bowl of nuts. It was really spicy but full of flavor. We also got special pav bhaji which came with pav bun as well. This one wasn’t spicy and it was also really tasty. We decided to order dessert and got the royal falooda which is a drink with ice cream and crushed nuts and jelly like things in it (kinda like a ice cream float).
The prices were really good, around $ 6 – 9 for an entrée. Ps when they say something is spicy it’s really spicy!

If I lived any closer I’d eat here every day. Very unique dishes that I haven’t found anywhere else. The food is so good, I didn’t even notice it was vegetarian until the second time I went.
Pros:
–Great tasting food
–Excellent value
–Serving size allows you to sample lots of items
Cons:
–Location is not open for Lunch Monday to Wednesday

This place is awesome! Such great prices and a different take on Indian. A local hole in the wall. The owners are also super nice and give great service.

Service has deteriorated lately, most of the items in the menu are not available. Looked like the waiter himself was the cook as he used to disappear inside after taking the order. Also the portions are small. Food looked like it was assembled from the many ready-​to-​eat Indian snacks.
I won’t be surprised if this place closes down in the near future.

Dont even try south indian. This place ia good only for street food. Paavbhaji was ok. Sandwiches are good. Chinese bhel is very good. Wada paav and dabeli. not so good. Chole bhature THE WORST I EVER TRIED. I have been to this plce many times so I have tasted everything here. Normal falooda is good don’t try special falooda. not good at all.

Good food but service is waaaaaaaay too slow. We here for 3 hours just because there were 20 min intervals between each dish. Too too slow.

Best Dabeli in North America hands down. I have had dabeli at other restraints in new jersey and new york but nothing beats Jalsa. Their Pao Bhaji is amazing and the best I have had in GTA. Their prices are very nominal and service is great too. What more you can ask. Definitely my goto place for indian street food.

I loved the place. Finger biting taste of Mumbai.

I would’ve given a review of the food I ate at this place but sadly I never got around to it.
Went to Jalsa on a Thursday night with my family and was VERY disappointed with the customer service of the place. We were the second party in line to be seated in a restaurant which was about 80% full but no one from the working staff came to ask us the number of people, tell us the wait time or if we were dinning in or taking food to-​go. After about 20 minutes of waiting, not moving up in the waiting line and watching the two servers walking around with completely disregard of the costumers waiting, I decided to go and ask for a to-​go menu so we could just get the food and leave. Upon asking for the menu and amount of time it would take to prepare 3 appetizers to-​go, we were told that the wait will be about an hour. It was at this point where I had had enough and lost my patience to wait around and decided to go elsewhere.
All in all a very very poor experience.
I would recommend to go here during the time they don’t have a lot of people in the restaurant or more staff working and please let me know how the food was.
cheers

Excellent excellent excellent!!! Try the dahi puri (and make it spicy!), vada pav and veg cheese grilled sandwich. Those are loved by every single person in our entire extended family. Definitely a mandatory stop whenever I am in Mississauga.

Simply delicious food! The Bombay Bhel Poori is my favorite dish, although just about everything else on the menu is a close second.
The servers are all really nice, and your food comes out hot, fresh, delicious, and fast!

Good Indian Street food, I couldnt make up my mind on what to order and ended up ordering way too much! None the less, tasty! (keep in mind while small plates… they add up to make one VERY filling meal!!)
The staff were friendly and gave the right amount of attention to us with out doting on us but checking up on us regularly. Our server made a few good suggestions and ended up ordering those and was very satisfied.