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Prime Tandoori House
Categories: Restaurants Indian Restaurants Pizza Indian, Pizza
808 Edmonton Trail NortheastCalgary, AB T2E 3J6
(403) 276-3334
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Good For:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Quiet
- Has TV:
- No
- Caters:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
7 reviews for Prime Tandoori House
7 reviews in English
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Review from Joel S.
Calgary, AB
Updated - 8/17/2011 ROTD 12/16/2011
Many writers have missed the main fare of this restaurant even though they all agree this place is a well kept secret among Indo-Pakistani restaurants. I recommend that you leave the idea of pizza or donair at the door the next time you visit, none of them being Pakistani food, and try the best masalas and tikkas you have every tried.
First and foremost this restaurant is a Pakistani one. That means curry, tandoori chicken, seekh, tikka, and mouth watering masalas, not donair or kebab rolls. You will not find better food at any Indian or Pakistani restaurant in the city, just ones that charge more, some much more.
My personal favourite is the Goat Karahi, which is chunks of goat on the bone simmered in a moderately spiced masala and served in a karahi (iron wok) at your table. Accompanied with Naan or Roti and Tarka Daal and you have a traditional Pakistani dinner just the way they eat it in Lahore. The meat literally falls off of the bone when you pick it up with your bread. Eat like they do, leave the knives and forks at the end of your table. A spoon is acceptable if you order rice; nobody uses a fork for rice in India or Pakistan except to push it on to the spoon.
The Chicken Tikka is always well spiced and oh so tender. When ordering Karahi Chicken do not order the boneless. Traditional Karahi is served on the bone and uses thigh or leg which have enough residual fat to keep it from drying out. That they do best. The boneless uses breast which dries out and becomes stringy.
Butter chicken is not Pakistani food so if you expect an authentic experience, then I recommend this item not be ordered.
The grilled lamb chops are equally fabulous as the Goat Karahi.
For those who want food the way it is served in South Asia, then this place is one of only four or five in the city that do it properly. This and one other (Mirchi) are the only ones that are centrally located. Forget the trendy Downtown and Kensington establishments; their prices are high, the portions small, and not prepared using traditional recipes (i.e. not authentic). The Mirchi on 12 Ave. SW is the lone exception but is slightly more expensive than Prime Tandoor.Listed in: Best Reasonably Priced…
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4/17/2011
This is my favorite Indo-Pakistani restaurant in the city. The Mirchi on 12 Ave. SW is just as good… Read more »
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Review from Allan M.
Calgary, AB
11/16/2011 2 Check-ins Here
Absolutely authentic Pakistani food. Amongst the best in Calgary! Try the Parahta - the only restaurant in Calgary that I know off that makes this authentically.
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Review from Wendy P.
4/18/2011 1 Check-in Here
Holy Mother of All Donairs! If I just finished the "regular" beef donair at Prime. What in a sacred cow's name does the large look like? I don't think I want to find out.
I went looking for a cheap but filling lunch today. Prime Tandoori House stood out in my head after reading Joel S' review yesterday and promising Cleatus V I was going to set out to try it more than some weeks ago. Cheap, filling, quick and tasty, Prime delivered on all fronts.
My donair was easily a foot long... well, maybe 10 inches, I didn't exactly have a ruler out next to it. For it and a can of Coke, $5.99. No need to check for smudges on your glasses or computer screen, you read that right. $5.99. My layers of donair meat, sauce and veggies were wrapped up in soft naan bread and not a pita. That was a delightful treat.
There are a few tables inside, so I suppose if you wanted to hang around and eat there, you could. But getting it to go will neither enhance nor detract from your experience. It's a "get-it-to-go" kind of setup. They've got a full menu of appies, vegetarian dishes, seafood, lamb, chicken and beef and a few combos that remind me of Western Chinese take-out.
Deal A:
Kabob or Vegetable Pakoras
Choose any 1 Curry
Lamb, Chicken Beef, Veggie
Rice + Naan
Can Pop
$18.99
See what I mean?
I took a take-out menu as well. I couldn't help but notice the pizza. 10", 12" and 14" pizzas with free unlimited toppings and with any number of toppings. $7.99, $8.99, and $10.99 respectively. For real, you can't make this stuff up.
So if you're on a budget, but really want to feel like you're not, then I suggest you get your touchy on over to Edmonton Trail and head on in to Prime Tandoori House. There's *naan* like it ;).Listed in: Cheap Eats, Where to eat in Bridgeland
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Review from Lisa P.
10/12/2010 ROTD 8/11/2011
I stopped in here today and had the kabob roll. I got the small size for $6.98. It was huge. Had 2 really big kabobs with cucumber, onions, lettuce, tomatoes, and donair sauce. The kebabs were so flavorful, one of the best I've had. You could taste all kinds of wonderful spices. It wasn't just a couple hunks of grilled meat. The naan bread it was wrapped in was soft and tasty, perfect. They have a smaller size that you can get with a pop for $4.99, just make sure to ask for that deal and not the regular sized one.
My order did take a while to prepare but I thought it was well worth the wait. I'm planning on going back to try some other Indian dishes and if they're anything like the kabob roll, I'll be very happy. As for the pizza, I might give that a try in the near future too since they have very reasonable prices. It does seem like a weird combination of foods here: Indian and pizza. Would never have put them together but if it works, then who cares. -
Review from Cornelius V.
Calgary, AB
Updated - 10/29/2010
We decided to order a feast of curries, donairs, and yes, the butter chicken pizza. We called from the king's yard (or whatever that pub across the street is called), ordered, then went over to pick it up a half hour later. 2 huge orders of rice, 3 curries, a large pizza, and a donair, more than enough for 6 of us came to $60 all in.
The donair was amazing. The pita is made in house. Enough said. The butter chicken pizza did not disappoint, and the curries were good, although the curry that the dude warned was "extra spicy" had the spiciness of green tobasco (i.e. not much).
Yes, this place is a dive, but the only good food in this city seems to come from dives. Because rent in this city is a rip off, there is the classical calgary dilemma of "nice looking v. nice tasting". You can't have both unless you pay lots of $$$. We would have dined in but we had an apartment a block away with downloaded movies that had to be watched. I don't know what everyone else is freaking out about.1 Previous Review:
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7/1/2010
Butter chicken pizza FTW. I'll come back and try the Indian another time.
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Review from dinah g.
Calgary, AB
4/3/2010
This place is kind of hit and miss, mostly it is open, a couple of times I have passed there and it wasn't. With no sign or back in ten minutes warning you don't know whether to stay or go.
If you do however get a chance to enter it when it is open, you can get butter chicken, beef or chicken vindaloo, lamb curry or vindaloo, veggie dish with naan or rice for under 11 dollars to go. There are also 10, 12 and 14 inch pizzas for less than 12, and dozen veggie or beef somosa packages at 9 and 11.99. These prices are more than reasonable and the food is pretty good.
But they have to be more consistent and keep the place open or at least invest in paper and a jiffy marker and some tape. -
Review from Katie C.
Calgary, AB
12/1/2009
I've only popped in to Prime Tandoori a couple of times, and even then it was mostly for takeout. I can't speak to JR T.'s experience, which sounds a lot better than mine. The first time I came in was at about 3 on a Monday - the place was empty but they quickly took my order of butter chicken and garlic naan. The butter chicken was decent when I got home, but the naan was burnt and so garlicky I was a walking stink bomb for the next day in a half. It almost blew my face off, and I love garlic.
The second time, I ordered wings and pizza for delivery (the weirdly diverse menu reminds me of restaurant makeover where they always yell at the chefs to focus on one thing and do it really well). They were dry and mediocre and a little lacking on the sauce. I declared myself done, but after reading JR T's review, I feel like maybe I was a little hasty. Evidently I should try their strong foods and ignore the others, no matter how appealing they might be. I'll update you all the next time I check it out.
