Savera Indian Cuisine

My husband and I live in the area and often visit this restaurant for either din in or take out. On a Friday takeout can take up to an hour but on a not busy night is much quicker. Regardless it is worth ordering ahead as the food is delicious we generally get the mixed vegetable curry and butter chicken. Although butter chicken isn’t the most adventurous order it is extremely delicious! I sometimes wish I could just drink the sauce. I’ve had other items on the menu and have never been disappointed including lamb and vegetarian dishes. All delicious, fresh, quality ingredients and great taste!

3.5. I’d like to come back and try a few other dishes. Service was friendly and very efficient. Our server made sure to make our food extra spicy even though we ordered the standard white people butter chicken and Palak Paneer with Tandoori shrimp. I am quite familiar with Indian food and cook it at home often, so bland is not an option.
The free papadums were nice. a lot of places don’t give these out. We were very hungry, so this little snack quelled our grumbly bellies.
Everything was fresh and delicious.

Has been supplanted by Pukka for best Indian food in the neighbourhood, but still remains our favourite option for takeout. A wide ranging menu of solidly done standards.

We have eaten a few times and we were not disappointed.
I think they could afford to go a little heavier on the spice.
I’ve had the Paneer dishes and they are fantastic, sometimes a tad oily. I’ve had the Chicken Tikka too, it came on a big crackling plate and it tasted good, but lacked spice and seemed just a bit overdone. But overall the food is delicious and the service was great.
The portions were just right for everyone eating, with a bit left over.

great food, great service!
my favourite is the lamb korma!

3.5 stars. I ordered the saag kofta with garlic naan for takeout and I must say this place has some great things going for it, and some things that might explain why it seems even on a friday night, most of their dinner business appears to be takeout.
The curry itself was delicious. Had a nice flavour, the koftas were big and plump (I actually thought they gave me the potato one by mistake at first) and the spice is just right (if you prefer your curry spicier I’d recommend saying so when you order cause for indian this is on the milder side). The garlic naan however was disappointing… it barely tasted like garlic and I’ve had much better naan elsewhere in the city. If I’m paying almost $ 5 for naan, it better be amazing! Should also note that unlike some indian places, their curries do not include a choice of rice or naan automatically, so you are paying 4 – 5 bucks on top of the listed price for curry.
Portions are very big, but not unusual as most indian places I find you can easily get one curry and have it for two meals.
The family who runs it seems very lovely though, attentive and had a warm presence. Unfortunately I think when you start charging almost $ 20 for indian food (no desserts or apps even for that price), you are really limiting the scope of guests who’d come on a regular basis (hence why there were barely any sit-​in diners… considering you’d have to pay tip on top of that price).

The staff are very attentive and nice! Great service! The food is amazing. The take out containers were filled and I can’t wait to go back again! I got the chicken tikka masala, garlic ban, and some rice… Delicious

Visiting from Austin Texas. I had the Daal Makhavi. So amazing. This exceeded all expectations. Put a dial touch on the day especially with the garlic naan.

Don’t believe the people who talk about small portions. My husband and I are big eaters and we always leave here with leftovers. We’ve tried quite a few dishes and loved them all. Service has been friendly and obliging. Strongly recommended.

Welp, this is disappointing. The butter chicken is now too sweet and they no longer add spice to it.

We love Savera. Portions are small but the food is so rich you don’t need big servings (and when did quantity equate quality? Looking at you, Meena). As a neighbourhood joint it’s great; a family business not run by yuppies or their blogger-​friends, slightly cheaper than Banjara and 100% less sketchy.
We loved the Dahl, aloo gobi, the pakoras were so yummy and not greasy, butter chicken, madras chicken, josh rogan — haven’t had a bad meal there! Go to Pukka if you want people who care about your bespoke baby gear and how good your Instagram feed is; this is a family restaurant with honest, good and straightforward food.

Really really really good. A hidden gem in the area. Honestly more people should know about this place. Nice people. Good food. We love the vindalu.

the food is delicious, My husband is not a fan of Indian cuisine but he really enjoyed his meal. The restaurant is nice and quaint and service is quick. They are also really well priced. I looked at the menu before hand on the website

Really enjoyed the butter chicken. The whole meal was delicious and service was excellent and attentive. Had their house specialty which was a lamb, which we enjoyed (it had more of a kick than the butter chicken). Will definitely be back or order delivery.

Had the best butter chicken I’ve ever had. Ambience is great too and staff are friendly. This is a good date place. I’ll be back and bring my friends.

We might consider going back here, but it’s not likely to appear on the list of places we regularly frequent.
Food: 3.5÷5
We tried two dishes: the okra masala and goan coconut curry. The okra was perfectly cooked. I was a little less impressed with the curry; it was fine, but I didn’t think it was very distinct from the more generic northern masala curries — no coconut flavour at all. The shrimp were themselves tasty and juicy, but six shrimp is kind of skimpy for the price. The rice was nicely cooked, but the roti wasn’t very good (and, as the manager randomly volunteered in explaining why the roti was delayed, it was frozen before we ate it?)
Service: ²⁄₅
The manager who served us was really good about filling up the water, but his presence was a bit oppressive; too many suggestions for drinks, dessert, more purchases. The shrimp curry and rice came quickly, but we then waited quite a while for the okra and roti. This was tolerable, but when we noticed that the bill had the wrong price for the goan coconut curry, the manager said that the real price was the price in the computer, and that the menu price was a misprint. I didn’t bother fighting for it, and just subtracted the price difference from the tip. Weird experience overall.

We were super psyched after seeing that this place had four stars.
However, as soon as we looked at their menu, we knew this place was not for actual desis.
Between three of us voracious eaters, we shared:
–daal makhni (vegan)
–aloo gobi (vegan)
–shrimp goal
–okra (vegan)
–a lot of naans
Also, they have free papdum and two dips to start (one of the dips is vegan). Fairly yummy.
Unlike most Indian restaurants, the dishes aren’t family sized. So we could have easily ordered and finished four plates of food. (Keep in mind that we have larger than average appetites).
The dishes were fairly uninspired, slightly overdone, a little too oily. And there were huge chunks of raw ginger used as garnish. The ginger was not sliced properly.
The only thing I can recommend in good conscience is the daal makhni. It was slightly yummier than average.
How Savera secured its spot as a two star restaurant: the service.
The young lady who was supposed to be waiting our table was super nice, proficient in English and efficient.
But the manager kept stepping over her and serving our table. The manager was slow-​witted, easily confused, not that proficient in English and made it very challenging for us to exclude onions from our okra dish.
If you are brown, do not eat here. If you are white and a fan of clean white linens, mediocre food, small portions, and overpriced dishes, I guess you can give this place a shot.

Some of the tastiest Indian food I’ve been able to find in TO. The curries are excellent, and the naan is great. Service has seemed fine, though mostly have gone with friends when we’ve enjoyed talking, and so slower rather than faster service was greatly appreciated. Have never felt rushed at Savera, which is a big plus.
The only problem is the salt, as a previous poster noted. Not really noticeable in the food, which tastes great at the time — the dishes are very well balanced (and have ruined me for a couple of old favourite Indian restaurants where the food tastes a lot less good in comparison). But after eating, we puff up like beach balls from the salt.

Dear Savera,
I’m going to to give you a solid four stars, but on the condition that you go a little more easy on the salt next time.
Otherwise the décor is good, the service is good and the food is good.
Other than being too salty, the curries were good; the naan was also good but could have been more fluffy.
Maybe, they were trying to make up for Gary’s bad review on the service, because the servers were very attentive. The restaurant also has a nice family feel. We were there around 8 on a Friday night and the wait staff and kitchen staff outnumbered the diners by about two to one.

Un très bon restaurant indien dans ce coin un peu perdu de St Clair Ave West. Avec comme voisin un sushi et un restaurant péruvien, le passant à l’embarras du choix. Qu’importe, nous savions grâce à Unilocal que la réputation des lieux n’était plus à faire. Avaient-​ils raison? Oui, oui et oui ! C’est excellent, relevé, raffiné, léger en goût et des portions généreuses. Nous y avons mangé un palak paneer, un ragoût de lentilles et de haricots rouges, des crevettes et une quantité de naan — tout était au-​delà de nos espérances. Nous y retournerons, c’est clair !

I’m not going to even try to figure out the names of what we ordered. There was some lamb, some cauliflower and potatoes, an order of a bunch of garlic naan, some chicken vindaloo.
Listen, I’m no Indian cuisine visheShajny, but I enjoyed all of the food thoroughly. Not overbearingly spicy — but still hot and flavourful.
The service was a little weird, took a long time for drinks, opened the patio garage door as we were leaving (instead of as we sat down), and was a little pushy in terms of what we ordered — but everything was satisfactory in the end.
Also, average bathroom rating for this establishment came in at a solid 2.875÷5 with a standard deviation of 1.56.
Would certainly come again, uncle.