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Desi Corner
Categories: Food Specialty Food Ethnic Food Restaurants Halal Ethnic Food, Halal [Edit]
40 Dundas St EMississauga, ON L5A 1W2
(905) 275-7501
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- No
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Quiet
- Has TV:
- No
- Caters:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
4 reviews for Desi Corner
4 reviews in English
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Review from Naureen H.
4/26/2010
I finally went here after a recommendation by Farheen and I was not disapointed!!
The behari and seekh kabab rolls were totally fantastic. See Farheen's review for what a kabab roll is. But basically its a spicy kabab with chutney and onions and salad all wrapped up in the best fresh hot naan.
I need to add that the naan it comes in is made super fresh (not the frozen kind, but actually made in a tandoor!!)
Totally quality food for only 5-6$ a person! Oh, its totally Halal for those that are looking! -
Review from Justin B.
Etobicoke, ON
7/1/2011
With a spicy masala kaboob with onion and tomatoes wrapped in fresh naan I wash the tingling sensation with a mouth full of Pakola a deliciously sweet Pakistani cream soda. I underestimate the amount of food I haven't tried.
This is a take out only place but the nice woman behind the counter connected with me and understood I wanted food right then to devour. A couple minutes later and $5.32 on debit (on change on premises) I was happily satisfied. -
Review from Janelle W.
1/5/2010 3 photos
I'm one of those miserable, sad people who lives nowhere near their family, and thus does not spend holidays surrounded by warmth and maternal love. Instead, I spend holidays searching for an open restaurant, my standards dropping the longer my search drags on. And when I finally find someplace that will serve me a plate of food, I'm all over it like a lesbian on free Melissa Etheridge concert tickets.
11:00 p.m., 1 January 2010. I was so desperate for dinner that Wendy's began to sound viable. But further down Hurontario Road, I was saved from square beefburger hell by the glowing lights of Desi Corner.
Desi Corner is a tiny North Indian take-out and grocery on the side of a run-down little strip mall at what I'm calling Mississauga's "United Nations"--the intersection of Hurontario and Dundas, densely-packed in all directions with restaurants touting the cuisines of South Asia, the Orient, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean. At Desi Corner, the floors are dirty, the lights flicker, the shelves are rusty, and the door is plastered with old posters and sun-baked tape marks. Boxed spice mixes sparsely populating their shelves comprise the majority of their grocery inventory.
I left with a large styrofoam clamshell packed tightly with biryani, a 16 oz. container of green masala chicken, two huge sheaths of naan, a small tub of sweet rice, and a sweet paan. All it took was $16 and 3 minutes.
There's no seating--it's take-out only. So when I got back to my hotel and started noshing my New Year's feast, I realized why Desi Corner took only 3 minutes to pack up my food: Most everything is pre-made and stored in a refrigerator, then sold as-is. Aha, Desi Corner is take-out only because they intend for people to take the stuff home and warm it up on the stove or in the microwave. Same idea as buying a frozen pizza at the grocery store, except this stuff is made fresh every day and has a lot more flavor. Only problem was my hotel room had no microwave.
So there I sat dipping tough, lukewarm naan into refrigerator-cold coriander curry. Happy effing New Year!
Had the curry been the right temperature, my socks still wouldn't have been knocked off. It was dull on flavor, heavy on oil, and contained so little chicken. Their so-called "famous" biryani had a flat, one-dimensional flavor profile, and the meat seemed disconnected from the rice--an afterthought, more than an integral component of the dish. Biryani is supposed to be full of land mines--star anise seeds, whole cardamom pods, cinnamon bark, and curry leaves that you need to eat around--Desi Corner's version looked and tasted as though it had won Minesweeper.
With Mississauga being like an AYCE buffet of my favorite kinds of ethnic dives, I doubt I'll end up at Desi Corner again. But for the kitchen-challenged microwave chef, Desi Corner is a great solution. And for anyone like me, who's without their family on holidays, Desi Corner rounds out the holiday blues with a lovely, cold meal. -
Review from Farheen K.
Toronto, ON
3/23/2010 1 Check-in Here
Im sure everyone on my iPhone Yelp app has been seeing me repeatedly checking in at Desi Corner every two days. It's called addiction in Kabab Roll form.
So here's the lowdown on the amazingness known as a Kabab Roll: Originally born on the streets of Karachi (at least to my knowledge, feel free to send me a wiki link proving me wrong if you have one), a very oily but thin paratha is spread and loaded with *boti* kabab(succulent cubed meat marinated & grilled with papaya & pakistani spices), a generous serving of thinly sliced red onions and fountains of green coriander and red chili chutney. Then, this paratha is rolled up tight, wrapped in parchment paper and inhaled by all classes of society on dilapitated Karachi streets. One Kabab Roll to unite them all.
Toronto suffers from a serious lack of roadside eating and until Desi Corner came along no one had the guts to dupe the kabab rolls of Karachi (beware of posers that use naan instead of paratha). The paratha at Desi Corner is not as oily obv. and the filler "boti" is replaced with seekh kababs (which is ground meat as opposed to cubes) but damn are they close to replicating the flavor of the green chutney and the spice. For $4, I get 60% closer to my cherished memories of Karachi. Hey, I'll take it and one for the road too please.Listed in: The Real Brown
