Planet India

Came here for a birthday party of like 15+
Our waiter, SaMi, had a rediculous amount of charisma, a wicked sense of humour and was one of the best waiters I’ve had in a long while. I never got to properly give him a thank you for dealing with the party and giving us tons of laughs.
The food here is authentic and delicious and I highly recommend going if you are in the mood for Indian food!
I had a dinner plate which comes with butter chicken or lamb curry, naan, rice and dessert for $ 17. Pretty sweet option if you’re just eating for yourself and not sharing family style :)
Do it!

It is now 2016. I drive 25 minutes to eat here. I’ve eaten many other places. Nothing compares. Seriously. Best Indian Ever.

Very good. Ordered Takeout Chili Chicken and Chana Masala. Nice spice and flavours. Very Friendly.

My favorite Indian in surrey. Full of flavor. All the dishes and great but not a big fan of their roti.

Absolutely love this place. It’s in heavy rotation in my house hold. Flavour is fantastic, portions are huge, great value and a nice restaurant though we usually order take out. Would have been 5 but often the servers are unattentive

Love love love everything here! We usually order 6 dishes including appetizer ‘s, and everything is flavourful and delicious.
Service is wonderful.
Love this place!

We love Planet India for take out and dining in! We usually just get butter chicken, rice and naan because it’s sooooo good! They’re always so friendly when we come in. We have two small children and they don’t mind at all. Great food, reasonable prices, nice staff, and there’s usually some good Punjabi music playing which is a bonus.

The best Indian takeout in Surrey, chilli chicken and goat Currey is highly recommended. If your ordering out they have reasonable prices and usually have the food ready on the time they provided on the phone. Delicious garlic Naans as well.

This place is consistently good. The food is authentic and as good as what you would get downtown. Best part is that it’s close to home so we don’t have far to go. :)

Came here with a group of 10 people. It was relatively empty when we arrived and became ¾ full during the night. Compared to Tasty Indian Bistro, this atmosphere was very very casual, and I found the restaurant to be very drafty. It’s kind of a whole-​in-​the-​wall place but it was clean (and the bathrooms were clean too). We ordered a liter of house wine (Jackson Triggs) for $ 22, which is unheard of if you dine downtown a lot like I do, so I thought that was a steal! We ordered the butter chicken which was killer and soooo creamy delicious! Another highlight was the appetizer platter which had a bunch of fried things (fish and chicken tandoori) and came in a very large portion size. We also had the eggplant curry and chicken curry, and all were quite good but the butter chicken stood out for me. Service was okay; not too attentive but didn’t ignore us either as they came to change our plates which I was pleasantly surprised at. Overall a good experience but I somehow thought it was going to be fancy like Tasty Indian Bistro which it isn’t; however for the price, this is great! I would go here for a casual delicious meal.

Another curry date with fabulous peeps in Surry at this down-​to-​earth little shop. It’s very busy for a Tuesday night and is welcomed by a variety of ethnic patrons.
I’d recommend coming here in small or big groups so you can share a few goodies family-​style.
So for our family-​style we savoured the following:
Chaat Papri — my favourite appetizer of all times! It’s a cold dish of chickpeas, onions, potatoes, dhai bhalla, chutney and spices. Everything mix into a tornado of deliciousness that hit your taste buds in layers.
Planet Platter — Good mix and portions of various featured appetizers such as fish and chicken pakora, kabobs, wings and veggie pakora mmmmm.
Butter Chicken — other review are right! This is probably the best butter chicken you will have. The sauce is creamy but not oily and the chicken is tender (though I don’t taste and believe it is free-​range)
Goat Curry — Please order mild spicy for this one. The medium spicy one almost put a friend into coma. The meat is «goaty» and not for the unadventurous.
Baingan Bhartha — Veggie delight! This is an eggplant dish with peas, onions, tomatoes and spices. Again go easy on the spicy level please.
Not to mention and regular and garlic naan breads that are perfect companions or wipe your sauces clean, or you can like it clean however it pleases you!
You’d be further pleased with the price tag as well! For that much food and two jugs of wine for a party of 8 it comes to less than $ 25 per person.
See you at the next feasting!
Cheerio!
So for ou

I would never go back again the service was slow due to one waitress. They had about 7 tables to serve, water glasses weren’t refilled we asked for spicy and thats all we tasted expect for the bold indian taste.

Amazing great Indian food! Eat in or take out is really good! Always a favourite spot for us to go to! Great staff and a friendly place.

My partner and I went here not too long ago. We love Indian food, love it! Although the service was good, the food was either much too salty or much too bland. We left feeling kind of nauseous. But, that was our experience.

I just went with a business associate for a lunch. Same great food. Same friendly service. Nice and bright, clean and relatively quiet. They had a lunch special for $ 8.99 with lots of choices of meat or vegetarian dishes. We both chose the lamb curry. It was served with rice, bread and salad. It was a very good value. I can highly recommend Planet India when you have a craving for good Indian cuisine.

There aren’t enough great reviews here, so I thought I better chime in.
DH and I are working our way through the menu. (I just opened up their web page to remind me of all of the different items).
First of all the location is good because you’ve got reasonable parking after 5 within the parking square. The interiors are well designed and the booths allow for privacy with their high backs. The bathrooms and interiors appear to be very clean, and consistently so.
The service is always impeccable. You always feel very welcomed here. If I didn’t have to be careful with my diet I’m afraid I’d be here more often. I took a cooking course on Indian cuisine, but hey, I’ll never get close to what their great chef can do, so really, why bother?
If you have a larger group with you, you might want to start with the Planet Platter appetizer for the first time, so you can get a bit of a hint of what you can look forward to.
They make the best Chicken Tikka Masala around. Funny enough, I haven’t had the chicken curry yet, but we’ve plowed our way through everything else on the chicken menu. Everything on the veggie menu is wonderful as well.
I like the salad that they provide you with as a crunchy fresh foil against the rich and creamy sauces that most of the meat and veggie dishes offer.
I think they also make the best bread and rice around. Try the Bhatura with the Channa Masala. Basically, you’ll end up being like us. You have to go back again and again to try something different, or invite 10 people to come with you so you can enjoy more menu choices.

Having recently moved, we were looking for a new Indian restaurant. As in past I relied on prior Unilocaler reviews to help me choose.
My wife had suggested Indian Take-​away earlier in the day. She works with several Indian women on her staff and she texted me back to say that they all love Planet India. They share their homemade food with my wife at work and know her palate can tolerate and enjoy anything.
So I was surprised when one of them said «if you want it hot… just order it medium».
So we ordered a mild butter chicken for our daughter which turned out to be actually REALLY mild. Still very flavourful with a nice texture.
But for ourselves we ordered a Chilli Chicken, HOT! It was a great dish with lots of good flavor but it certainly wasn’t anywhere near hot! If there’s a difference between white people hot and Indian people hot, our dish would have been a bare medium at best on the white scale. after all, we ordered CHILLI chicken!
That reminds me of a Russell Peter’s joke «No, my friend. you don’t want it hot» or something to that effect. Actually, we did.
We also got a spinach paneer which I don’t usually eat along with some roti. But the highlight of this meal was the totally awesome Garlic Nann! Fantastic bread and great for dipping in all the sauces. Highly recommended.
When I was waiting for my order near the door, there was a party of 8 seated over the wall to the right. Most of their food came out at once and the dishes looked and smelled just awesome as it passed by us to their table. I had to curb myself from peeking over the wall to see what they ordered and how it looked.
We’ll definitely come by again for a sit-​down meal there. The interior décor and layout look great and there’s an open bay to the kitchen to see the chefs and how clean and modern the operation looks.

Although I’m new to Unilocal,and really wanted to avoid the extreme cliché of rating a restaurant 1 star or 5 stars; Planet India deserves the 5 star rating.
As a person of Indian descent (but also quite white washed), this Surrey strip-​mall restaurant on 72 and King George far exceeded my expectations. The food was prepared with the same care and quality that the chefs (who are also the owners) would prepare for their own family, and the service was impeccable (take note, Vancouver restos).
I was treating my work colleagues to lunch, good olé white folk, who don’t often eat Indian food. We ordered the standard:
Butter chicken: the chicken was perfectly prepared (not overcooked or dry), and you could tell it was marinated properly (some BC recipes call for 24 hours of marinading). Rich but not overwhelming, and no food colouring added. Wonderfully presented dish that was easy to share amongst the table.
Goat curry: delicious, just like what mum would prepare. No overbearing spices drowning out the curry itself, very tasty.
Lamb kebobs: presented on an iron skillet on top of bed of onions and still sizzling/​steaming. Accompanied with a side of chutney, the kebobs were a great starter and I’d definitely order them again.
Garlic na’an/na’an: prepared in an actual clay oven! Like another Unilocaler mentioned below, the garlic na’an is prepared with actual garlic, not the powder dusting stuff. The na’an was as you’d expect, lightly crispy on the outside yet soft and tearable. The perfect accompaniment to our mains.
Overall, I definitely checking this place out if you’re in the area — if you’re not, then make the trip out because its well worth it. Also, try the fennel seeds!
NOTE: if you’re here for lunch, be forewarned that you won’t want to work after :)

Planet India Restaurant, Surrey.
I’ve noshed at a few South Asian restaurants before in Gastown, but this is the schznit of authentic Indian fare,…I greedily scarfed down creamy veg Pakora with savoury simple rice and mopped up every little morsel of the sweet spicy brown lentil Dal with my naan. …don’t be afraid of the Serrano peppers in your fresh salad, tons of robust flavour without the scovill burn, don’t 4get 2 squeeze your lemon all over your plate!
You should go,…again and again. I know I will.
Happy Noshin’
Brianm
Your Foodie @ Large.

I’m beginning to think that we’re missing out on Surrey restaurants, don’t seem to be that many reviews, & this one is gonna be one of my fav’s too, not just for the food but the overall ambience.
Server obviously said that the butter chicken is the most popular, as usual great, creamy taste. Dipped with the garlic bread, which was cooked with real garlic, instead of those wanna-be’s who use garlic powder – big difference in taste.
Though she was a part-​time, server pretty friendly, good service with a smile, & spoke fluent English.
Chef is truly authentic, cooked over 25 years from all over the world, from what we were told.
Nice booth seating, upper-​scale casual though not exactly fine dining, & a cool oval-​shaped bar area with the TV up there too.
Lots of parking.