Curry Point

Curry Point used to be one of the University’s better lunch spots deal wise, but my last couple of visits have been disappointing on the real. When I first started working at UBC and discovered the multi-​headed lunch Hydra that is the Village food court, Curry Point was the go-​to as the mad line-​ups would attest. Not so much anymore though. The quality of the food has remained decent, but it’s the quantity and hence the overall value that’s taken a turn down and outwards.
I think they must have switched management at some point in the last year, because the real friendly dude who used to serve you up an enormous, steaming, styrofoam container of food court indian has been replaced by this taciturn lady who’s real stingy with the grub if you feel me. My colleague Vlad who still eats there more frequently than I do claims he’s seen her mentally counting the pieces of meat in a ladel of butter chicken before serving it. Lest you think that sort of thing is limited to the meat dishes, I can assure you, they are equally miserly when it comes to the vegetable selections. My last visit (not coincidentally the one that turned me off the place for good) I got three small scoops of mutter paneer, curried vegetables and veggie butter chicken on rice served with flavorless naan and an attitude of total indifference for $ 9. Get the fuck outta here man.
Look there is a deal, a covenant if you will between purveyors of food court food and those of us who eat it. We understand that it need not be fantastic, but it will fulfill certain other criteria. First, it shall be cheap, and second it shall be plentiful. If you chintz out on either, you best be sure to make it up on the other, and then some. If you can’t do either, then, I will have no truck with you. Get it together Curry Point, it ain’t hard.

Bleh. That’s how I feel after eating at Curry Point. I didn’t expect much from Indian food in a cafeteria, but I a) expect them to not have Westernized the names (peas and cheese? come on, most of us know what mutter paneer is, and if we don’t, we can look or ask!) and b) don’t want to be biting into chicken pieces and hitting bone. My teeth are sensitive and break easily!
The food itself wasn’t very good either. Watery curries, cardboard naan, and the butter chicken was surprisingly sweet. And it’s not even that cheap!
Remind me to bring my lunch on Monday.

Indian food, cafeteria style. The only Indian place in the pit, and a pretty filling meal for not much. The curries are actually spicy, but the flavors are not amazing can be overcooked. The naan that comes with the food is bland and cardboardy, but still useful with the aforementioned spiciness. With few food option at UBC though, this is unfortunately about as good as it gets for us students. What can you do?

Two words to sum up the food: freakin’ nasty. The beef curry I got was swimming in a puddle of liquid and bland. The mutter panner («peas and cheese» is what they called it) was similarly bland and watery. I want my curry to have some thickness to it. The naan they served me was stale and dry. This place has some reasonable reviews in the past but I’d have to say avoid it now. Though cheap, it is not good and cheap.

While nothing amazing, Curry Point has the distinction of being the only Indian food place at the UBC campus. And while the food is not spectacular, it is one of the better places in the food ghetto and is relatively cheap.

Best deal at UBC, if you can find it. It’s located in the UBC village basement, which I didn’t even know existed until my 3^rd year of Uni.
Anyway, their combo deal gives you two entrees, a huge piece of naan bread, rice, and a drink. A great deal that will leave you stuffed. Plus they also have all the yummy sauces like chutney that you can slather all over your food.
The selection is great and there are just as many vegetarian dishes as there are regular dishes which is great for veggies and omnivores.

I went here after the longest time (a couple years I think). I thought it used to be good. Decent anyway. But it’s really not! The rice is all watery, making all the curry taste watery. The butter chicken and the mutter paneer totally lack any flavour, and butter chicken lacks spice. If you put safeway’s Tomato Basil Bisque on some cooked chicken, you could do a better job at butter chicken than Curry Point. So I don’t think I’ll be back here… unless every other place on campus shut down all at once.

Another counter in what I like to call the food dungeon thanks to the location down a narrow flight of often slippery stairs. Curry Point was a staple for me until Leone came along simply because it’s one of the few places in the food dungeon I can bring myself to eat at. It’s not going to knock your socks off, though. The fairly wide variety of curry they offer is sort of bland. You get what you pay for and Curry Point is certainly cheap. It will stave off hunger for a few hours, sure, but there are other places in the dungeon that serve grub that actually tastes like something. Namely Leone.