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Spice City Toronto: A Dose of Dosas
A Bloordale restaurant makes a South Indian specialty in the some of the pinkest surroundings imaginable.
A dosa with side dishes, from South Indian Dosa Mahal. Photo by Sarah Efron.
Bloordale resident Quaison is such a fan of South Indian Dosa Mahal (located at 1262 Bloor Street West) that when his son was born a few months ago, he ordered 200 samosas from the restaurant for the baby shower.
“Before I started coming here, I didn’t realize that South India has a different style of food than the rest of India,” says Quaison. “The food here is very reasonable in terms of price and the dosas are light, so they’re not a burden on the digestive system.”
Indeed, dosas—a type of crepe made with a batter of ground rice and lentils—are the specialty here. You tear off pieces of the dosa and dip it into the assorted small dishes that come with the meal—samplers of zucchini curry, coconut chutney, and eggplant.
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