Veda Takeout
Today I hit up Veda. I'd heard about this so-called "healthy" Indian takeout style place.
It's on Yonge just south of Davenport, a little takeout type place with a few seats, and it has a totally clean, spartan "new age" appearance. It's obviously meant to appeal to office chicks and Yorkville types who work in the area, or anyone who would take a yoga class.
It was totally empty when I went for a late lunch. The concept is there's only a few dishes and it's served up combo/bento style. You get rice; spinach rice or non-spinach (but not plain) rice with two dishes ($5.25 for two cheap dishes or $5.87 for one cheap and one more expensive dish -- ie. meat).
I went for the spainach rice with curry chick peas and saag chicken. The stuff was lightly oiled and lightly spiced, nothing close to the usual grease/spice bomb that Indian places usually deliver. More along the lines of Indian homecooking. It came with a so-so flatbread which was bland but good for dipping in the sauces.
The chickpea curry was pretty good, tangy, light spice. The chicken the the saag chicken was dry and bland, but the tomato/spinach sauce was good with the rice. The portion size is good, so it's a great value.
It was decent, really good value, maybe on the bland side, but certainly something you could eat everyday, but if you dig spicy or rich Indian food you won't find it here.
It's on Yonge just south of Davenport, a little takeout type place with a few seats, and it has a totally clean, spartan "new age" appearance. It's obviously meant to appeal to office chicks and Yorkville types who work in the area, or anyone who would take a yoga class.
It was totally empty when I went for a late lunch. The concept is there's only a few dishes and it's served up combo/bento style. You get rice; spinach rice or non-spinach (but not plain) rice with two dishes ($5.25 for two cheap dishes or $5.87 for one cheap and one more expensive dish -- ie. meat).
I went for the spainach rice with curry chick peas and saag chicken. The stuff was lightly oiled and lightly spiced, nothing close to the usual grease/spice bomb that Indian places usually deliver. More along the lines of Indian homecooking. It came with a so-so flatbread which was bland but good for dipping in the sauces.
The chickpea curry was pretty good, tangy, light spice. The chicken the the saag chicken was dry and bland, but the tomato/spinach sauce was good with the rice. The portion size is good, so it's a great value.
It was decent, really good value, maybe on the bland side, but certainly something you could eat everyday, but if you dig spicy or rich Indian food you won't find it here.
Labels: italian, restaurant review, takeout
posted by Amit @ 11:26 PM
1 Comments:
At 9:44 PM,
Tim said…
I hit up Veda today for spinach rice with dal (lentils) and beef madras. The dal was really nice: tangy and light. The beef was a dry - I sense a theme - but the sauce, which kind of resembles an Indian version of chili, was very flavourful, and pretty tangy as well.
I didn't dig the flatbread which was dry and bland, but I guess if you dunk it in the sauce it's okay.
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