Kuku’s

Delicious take-​out. Staff (owner?) was friendly and helpful. Food is tasty without too much heat. Good value for a great meal.

Although the inside storefront seems a little Spartan, you would be denying yourself a rare treat if you passed this Indian Take out and delivery up based on its outward appearance. Inexpensive and amazingly well proportioned servings; great lunch box specials; both omnivore and vegetarian menu items. If you are spoiled for choice, they have complete dinner specials that cover appetizers to dessert. Their menu is diverse, their portions huge and in my experience the most inexpensive Indian food in town. Kuku’s is the best value for money and tastiest Indian food in Victoria.

For your money, you can’t get much Better than kuku’s. Its my favorite lunch spot. The pakoras are amazing, and the samosas are awesome. Please don’t order butter chicken, its just chicken, heavy cream, tomatoes and some spices, just make it at home.

Food was really not great :(
We had butter chicken (way too sweet, tasted ketchupy) aloo gobi and vegetable korma both very mediocre. We would not have even eaten it if we weren’t so hungry!
The portions were pretty big, the food came in 48 minutes when we ordered delivery on a Sunday night.
We will not order from then again based on the quality of the food — we were really disappointed.

SO good, they have the best samosas ive ever had, hands down– huge ones too. A really awesome black bean dip with pita bread– everything from here is great every time, and super-​filling for a decent price

So I’ve only had the appetizers — but boy are they ever good! The pakoras are done fresh to order and the samosas are huge and yummy! One makes a good lunch really :). Perhaps I’d feel differently about the mains, having read other people’s reviews, but I really can’t speak to those at all.

Fairly pedestrian but authentic Indian food. Their customers seem to be mostly of Indian descent, to be frank, most of them getting take-​out, so I take this as a certification of both authenticity and quality.
Stopped by for dine-​in, which means sitting at a cluttered window counter, but the food was pretty decent so I didn’t mind. Service was very attentive: when I said it wasn’t spicy enough, they brought out a variety of hot sauces and powders for me to choose from. Nice people, and good cooks to boot.

This place has delicious butter chicken but the chicken tastes a bit processed. You can’t go wrong ordering the special with butter chicken, rice, naan, dessert and 4 samosas for$ 20! Enough to feed 3 ppl. When I’m looking for a tasty inexpensive meal I grab butter chicken for pick up. If you’re looking for good Indian food go elsewhere but this place is worth trying.

Just really bad even if it’s cheap/​fast. Lacks in every way… spend a little more and get Amrikkos.

Surprising good. Not necessarily «fine» food, as advertised.
Ordered their ‘dinner for 2′ takeout. I don’t suggest eating in, little room except a bank of counter seats at the window, which affords no view due to restaurant advertising, and not clean looking.
Ok, so my partner says its three star takeout: although the «butter chicken» is not — it’s a coconut tomato sauce curry, savoury and mild sweet, not spicy. It has good balance of cubed chicken. Looks like tofu, but we are certain it’s chicken cubed from Sysco or other company. Minus a star there. Sounds questionable, but it’s actually good. Basmati rice good and cooked near perfect. Naan bread warm, soft with grill or bake marks. Samosas with potato/​veg filling appear homemade, crisp crust, soft veg, mild flavour, that comes with a mystery liquid sauce, that was mild, flavourful. Gulab Jamun for dessert was acceptable.
For $ 18.95 plus tax, for take-​out, it’s more expensive than fast food, but a nice change for take home, and good enough we may order again sometime. Not that we’d go rushing back, but worthy of 2.5 to 3 stars. Even with the switch from butter chicken to?

They are mainly a take-​out or pick up place (with a small area for sitting if you really wanted to). We only had butter chicken and spinach saag (cheese curds) and I would say the food was good and are up to par with the good Indian restaurants in Vancouver. The price is reasonable for the quantity you get. The food is prepared ahead of time but it tasted fresh when my husband picked it up and brought it back to our hotel. However, rice is a bit pricey compared to the dishes and there is a delivery fee which is why we opted to skip the rice and to pick up.

I was pleasantly surprised the first time I tried Kuku’s, especially with some of the negative things I’ve read. The food was abundant, cheap, and flavourful, though the sauce of the chana masala has a vomit-​like colour. At first glance, it seemed as if it could be a decent option for Indian food for a third of the price of any other place in town.
However, our second Kuku’s order failed. The chana masala still looked like vomit, but it lacked the flavour it had previously. Our naan was lukewarm and gummy (it was warm and fresh for our previous order). And we tried the Malai Kofta this time and it just tasted like mush.
It’s worth paying three timees the price to go to Amrikko’s or Sizzling Tandoor.

Finally decided to drop in on kuku’s, passed it by so many times previously. They are honest about the food up front, it says catering and take out and makes no claims of being a restaurant or making food to order.
PROS: was in and out with my take out order for myself, fiancée and daughter in under 10 minutes for just under $ 20
CONS: food was mostly terrible. Every single thing is prepared beforehand, I’m scared to think it may be days on end. The dessert was overly soggy, the naan was rubbery, the buttered chicken smelled decent but tasted noticeably worse then something you could buy at the corner store in a jar and made my stomach hurt shortly after. The veggie samosas were alright but barely better than grocery store deli heat-​rack ones. The basmati rice was fairly good.
Count me out of ever going back to kuku’s no matter how fast and cheap it is.

Food is quite good and the prices are reasonable. $ 10 for a combo with a pretty decent amount of food. My main gripe with this place is that they have been advertising an all you can eat buffet but it’s been several months without opening. I asked them when they intend to open it too and they said not for a couple months still at least. This is just cruel… we need another Indian buffet in Saanich to compete with Sabris! Anyway yeah check it out. They seem to know and enjoy what they’re doing when it comes to making food, just not how to set up a buffet apparently!