Bombay Se

Of all the Indian buffet restaurants that we have visited, Bombay SE would be at the top of the list. We ate during lunch time and there was only one server/​host. She was friendly and was always visible. We liked how the location was on the 2^nd floor and the walls were made up of glass windows overlooking the plaza and 120^th St. Food was very good with plenty of choices. My favorites were the Fish Pakora, Shahi Paneer and the Goat Curry. The curry was very flavorful but not spicy. Their Naan was made fresh and was very delicious especially the garlic Naan. You can order a basket full served to your table.

Delicious butter chicken on rice. Had a boatload of it. Great veggie spring rolls. Great naan. Great seasoned chicken legs. It was a simple buffet but i just loaded up on the same each trip to the buffet table so it didn’t matter. I would go again. $ 1 tip and it left a look on the ‘waitresses’ face as I paid. Indians do not tip, therefore, I do not tip them. It’s fair. Love their food. Very pleasant owner. Social shopper deal.

I went here for the dinner buffet, I had the $ 11.99 dinner buffet coupon, we arrived around 6:50 the food was fresh, they give you an option of garlic naan or normal naan, we chose garlic naan, the buffet also includes a glass of free pop not sure if it is refillable I didn’t get to ask as I didn’t drink much pop. I was busy enjoying the naan, dahl makani, palak paneer, channa and potstickers yes they have vegetarian potstickers so yummy. For dessert I tried their delicious gulab jamuns. My guest enjoyed the goat curry and butter chicken on rice. We will be back this place is by far one of the best buffets in Surrey. The server was friendly and checked on us often and she refilled the items that ran out in the buffet area. I was surprised that their buffet serves chaat papri.

I dined here on a Social Shopper deal. $ 14.50 for a dinner buffet with drinks and fresh naan for two people. Was it worth the $ 14.50? Absolutely. Would I pay full price for the buffet? Absolutely not.
We were greeted by the hostess and shown to a table. A high chair was provided for my son but it was broken. We waited for 15 minutes before anyone approached us offering water.
Finally, our drinks and garlic naan came. My chai tea was forgotten about so I didn’t get it until mid meal.
Onto the food:
The garlic naan was piping hot, fluffy and fresh. It was delicious.
The buffet was not replenished nearly enough. When we arrived there was only one cube of paneer in the shahi paneer and the rest was all sauce, this was not replenished during the entire hour and a half we were dining.
Mid way through our dinner the same thing happened with the butter chicken. They replenished this only after a customer complained. The butter chicken was good, a nice rich sauce (more tomato than cream based) moderate spice and very tender chicken.
The tandoori chicken was cold and never replenished but the flavour was there.
The one item that was replenished often was the fish pakoras, which were piping hot and very flavourful.
The vegetable pakora was stone cold and never replenished.
They are definetly short on servers as service was lacking and they are not on the ball about replenishing their buffet at all.
Overall, if you can get the Groupon or Social Shopper. deal then I say go for it. After all its cheaper than fast food. But I wouldn’t pay full price.

Went here for the all you can eat lunch buffet and loved it! My husband and I kept remarking how good the food was as we ate. We went right when they opened so the food was fresh… some of the best naan bread we’ve ever had too. Very impressed!

We had the groupon for the buffet. It was AWFUL. When we got there at 12:30 the dishes on the buffet tray had barely anything in them. It was taking them forever to refill those. Service sucked and the food wasn’t that great tasting. There are hundreds of other better Indian restaurants in the area. Please do not waste your money. I’m not sure I’d even pay $ 5 for a buffet there unless I’m desperate.

Came here for dinner with a friend. Service was good. We had our water filled regularly and server checked up on us during our meal. Portions a bit on the smaller side. Food tasted good. Naan was fluffy. Butter chicken had a good amount of meat and prawn vindaloo was a good level of spice. I think they should adjust the prices relatively to the other restaurants in the area and the restaurant would have more potential. The street food menu was interesting and is worth trying as you do not normally find that at other restaurants.

The food is disgusting. It doesn’t even deserve one star. They didn’t give us the chai we ordered and then tried to charge us for it at the end. I got chicken soup since I’ve been sick lately and it turned out to be canned Campbell’s chicken noodle soup. I don’t even eat canned soup at home and I can’t believe I just paid to eat it in a restaurant. My bf got chilli chicken sizzler that we have fond memories of eating in India but the one they served here was covered in KETCHUP. Nowhere in India have I seen that. It was disgusting. The chana bhatura was too greasy. The best street places in India don’t serve such greasy bhaturas. And the chana had a powdery taste which implies they didn’t cook it with the right spices. Nothing has made me miss the food back home more than this place. I hope I’m not sick from it tomorrow.
PS: Incase it wasn’t clear, the food is not at all authentic.

Worst. Indian. Food. Ever. Seriously, I’ve never had a restaurant experience this bad. Lunch buffet service was 45 mins late and what finally came was lackluster at best. Never going back.

This restaurant is absolutely the WORST Indian restaurant I have ever experienced! STAY AWAY from here. There’s a restaurant in the same complex across from here, try that instead. save yourself!
The food was horrible, and service was even worse.

We had heard about this place from a friend staying in the area. So we came here to try the dishes authentic to the street food of Bombay and stayed away from the regular dishes that you would get at any other Indian restaurant around the world. Opening up the menu, these would be found on the upper right hand corner under a section aptly called ‘from the street’.
Between the two of us, we tried two of the most common street food dishes from my hometown — Bombay — pav bhaji and sev puri.
The result — a mixed review — the sev puri was very close to the taste we’ve come to be used on the streets of bombay but the pav bhaji wasn’t. I may be a bit strict here cos I’ve had twenty years to look for the best street food in Bombay and I’ve had some awful Pav bhaji in bombay as well. Nonetheless the Sev Puri was quite authentic in taste (and delicious) while the Pav Bhaji was close but not quite making it there. The portions were large enough to be filling indeed.
We came here on a wednesday evening when the Canucks were playing the Kings in the season’s first fame in Vancouver itself so the place was quite understandably deserted. Whatever it maybe we had excellent service and enjoyed the game as well on the numerous screens all over the place. In fact, I’m quite sure some of the folks sitting around the TVs in the outer room were staff members.
The restaurant by itself is the second story of a larger part of a strip mall and is quite frankly HUGE. there’re booths and tables to sit at as well as couches and bar style seating so overall, the ambience is a mixed bag. I don’t know if the place is full on the weekends but overall I’d say I would come back here but only for the Bombay street food, the rest of the menu can be had at other restaurants …

This Indian restaurant is quite big and the upstairs dining hall is quite amusing. So my girlfriend and I came here for dinner one night, and apparently a punjabi family had made a big order, so our caucasian waitress made it clear that our order would take more than thirty minutes. Okay? So one table orders enough food so that we have to wait thirty minutes? Whatever, my girlfriend and I were hungry and we didn’t want to go anywhere else. I mean it was a late thursday night, mostly everything else was closed.
After waiting for nearly an hour, our food finally arrived. We had ordered a Rogan Josh which came out spicy and very flavourful, but a bit too spicy for my girlfriend. No problem. We had a Chicken Biryani accompanied with a cool raita as well. Unfortunately, our portions were so tiny, we didn’t feel like we got enough. Nothing to complain about, right? Well if those two dishes and naan cost nearly $ 40 then of course there’s a big reason to complain! Their Rogan Josh was pretty good, but it came in like a Kid’s Meal size portion, the naans were a bit burned, and the Biryani was nothing special. Not really the greatest place to have your local Indian food.

Aw, I really enjoyed the food here. On contrary to the first review, the waiter was prompt, but subtle, which IMO is an extremely desirable trait in restaurant staff. I would suggest wearing a sweater though, it was chilly. Opt for THE SIZZLER, mind blowing.

I was really looking forward to it because of another non-​Yelp review that I had seen. Bombay Se used to have a non-​traditional AYCE — in other words it was AYCE but not a buffet. You just ordered it and they’d bring you out a bunch of bowls of stuff with naan — made for a cool presentation with great variety.
As it was I went at 2 p.m. — not the busiest time — and it is now a buffet and I was disappointed at the offerings. None of the dishes was noteworthy. And they had butter chicken gone wrong. Spicy with no distinct flavor. The goat curry had no goat meat left in it — lots of bones — and there were a few other dishes.
Plus the service was sub-​par. I wanted more naan, but no one came around the entire time I was eating!
A little on the expensive side compared to some of the other Indian places along Scott Rd. Mehfil — in my mind — offers a better value.