Author: nathan

UNITED STATES, San Francisco, California. If “Goa” is in your restaurant name you should do a mean vindaloo, right? While this offering looked right by colour, and consistency, it smelled right, but it’s what’s inside that really counts. And what was inside was a lot of potato and not a whole lot of lamb, and very little meat overall versus the curry itself. And I still wish the serving size was larger for the price. Shrinkflation is a symptom of a problem in today’s economy, but I have to grade a dish on a standard versus others. Taste was ok and the vibrancy was nice, but this dish failed on the tangibles.

UNITED STATES, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Most disappointing was the serving size for the price paid. The vindaloo itself was ‘meh’. Not fresh and not incredibly tasty (and somewhat sweet) but you could recognize it as a vindaloo that could do better. One positive, I asked for very spicy and I was served very spicy, which doesn’t always happen.

CANADA, Pointe-Claire, Quebec. Unfortunately, today’s vindaloo from Sahib is inferior to the dish they served prior to 2020. It’s a good effort, but lacks what its predecessor excelled at.

UNITED STATES, Boston, Massachusetts. Fresh, spicy, vibrant. Goat meat. Very well done and I was surprised. Just wish there was more.

CANADA, Alexandria, Ontario. A small town restaurant does a good job competing flavor-wise with some much larger big-city restaurants.

CANADA, Laval, Quebec. Standard vindaloo at a small restaurant outside of Montreal. We were the lone diners during a Thursday lunch visit. The food quality was good but the location is likely why this restaurant didn’t survive.

IRELAND, Dublin. A new measuring stick for future vindaloos. Switching to goat would make this vindaloo nearly unbeatable, and a larger serving size would have meant more to cherish the next day (I love leftover vindaloo). Very fresh and very vibrant vindaloo curry. Wonderful.

CANADA, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec. Odd consistency, a miss on the curry makeup, and it was sweet. Did they add sugar? Did not smell like a vindaloo I’m familiar with.

CANADA, Pierrefonds, Quebec. Even though they offer goat meat (10 points) the rest of the dish fell flat in most areas. It was served as a soup consistency which was surprising.

CANADA, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. A good effort, but lacks vibrance and flavor.