Makkah Restaurant

I used to eat here all the time as a kid with my parents until I started having a mind of my own and realized how dirty the place is. If the tables are that horrid, can you imagine the back and people making your food?
I’ve had instances of finding hair in my food and the fact that the majority of it just soaking in oil is such a stomach turner.
My parents stopped eating here and I will never either.

I have NEVER eaten such terrible Indian/​Pakistani food. EVER. My husband and I were so disgusted the last time I ordered from there that we tasted it, ate a few bites and chose too dump it in the trash. The lamb curry was a misery of oil, water and burnt spices. It was acrid. The chapati (home made style roti) was so terrible and had a strange colour. The daal was disgusting – and really, how can you make a daal disgusting. The simplest of spices and it tastes royal. What did they do to it?
Delivery: don’t even ask. First time I ordered some kebabs and two hours later I find out their driver delivered it to the wrong address. The next time I ordered (the shitty lamb curry, daal and chapati), they gave me someone else’s food (marked with my address – different items). I ran after the driver and he realized the restaurant made a packaging error. How can you do this twice in a row to the same customer?
The only good thing here is their beef tikka and seekh kebab, and for that I gave them the two stars. Really if these weren’t so good, they deserve negative stars for the most acrid and foul food and curries on the entire planet.

Heard good things about the naan, so i stopped in for takeout. As others have noted, the place is ghetto. Pretty unappealing inside. Service wasn’t rude but pretty unwelcoming and apathetic. The sauce for the chicken curry i ordered was OK but there was no chicken to be found – just a chicken bone (probably a neck bone). Not worth another try.

The good:
This place is classic. The prices are cheap. The food is essentially greasy and good Pakistani fast food.
The bad:
It’s so ghetto.
The ugly:
Parking in this area is tough sometimes.

Got some takeout from Makkah. Everything was okay, but most items were not particularly tasty.
Bihari kabob was flavourful and tender.
Naan was good.
Also tried a thali combo with 1 meat, 2 veg:
Chicken tikka was fine, but nothing special.
Dal was so-​so, not particularly flavourful & had a sludgy texture.
Mixed vegetables were not exceptional, but nice enough.
Salad was standard and uninspired. Rice was standard.
If I was close by and needed food, I might or might not try Makkah again. I wouldn’t go out of my way for it.
2.5 stars

Really good Bihari kabob and chicken charga. The atmosphere might not be the nicest to sit in but I always to take out and have had amazing food. They also take catering orders too. I feel like the quantity you get is a lot for what you pay.

Possibly the best BBQ for bihari kebab in Canada. Try the bihari kebab which is a super tender tenderloin meat BBQ in the tanoor. Comes with naan. The rest of the food is very good, albeit VERY spicy and I am used to heat. Ask for plain yogurt on the side to sooth the heat. The place is a bit dirty on that the tables don’t get cleaned often, sometimes the wait is unreasonable, but the food is fantastic.

Places like Makkah perpetuate the stereotype that food from the sub continent can only be greasy, spicy and heavy handed.
Makkah does a decent enough kebab: juicy and flavorful. Heaven forbid you order vegetarian curry: tasteless and chances are pretty old, since no one seems to order their veggies.
It’s a one-​curry-​fits-​all kinda place and grimy as hell.

These brothers are the real deal. Don’t look at their décor too heavy, look at the authentic food that they serve, which is amazing. These guys know their craft and they know it well.

Terrrible, terrrible, terrible business ethic!
Last week I bought 7 chicken biryani fr them and they were nothing but plain rice mixed with whatever left over chicken curry they had. To add, some of the rice had fish smell in them. I may look chinese but they might not know that I am from India and I know what good biryani should taste like.

Below average food. Have had better in so many places around Toronto. But yes, naans were amazing.
Otherwise everything else is sub par. Guy at the counter, I think the manager, isn’t very friendly either. Place is really stuffy too.

Best daal ever (very spicy and earthy), excellent chili chicken, good curry beef, good saag paneer, very good, but not very spicy butter chicken. Oh, and fluffy naan done in tandoor, actually everything that comes out I the tandoor is pretty amazing!
I always get delivery, and order way too much so I have lunches made for the week.
Pakoras! Get them too. YUM. (But need to be reheated in oven to bring them back to pre-​delivery perfect crispness)

Firstly, I love the portion sizes. For the amount of money you pay, you get quite a lot of food.
Shrimp Curry ($ 9): Let me tell you, this dish is spicy! I have no problem with that, I actually love how spicy it is; the bell peppers really give it a kick. However, this dish is a little too salty (not a big deal to me) and I wish the shrimp were just a little more tender. I have only eaten shrimp curry at one other restaurant, thus I cannot really compare this dish to other ones. This didn’t WOW me though.
Palak Paneer ($ 8): I have tasted better, this dish was quite average. Also, I wish there were more pieces of paneer (cheese) in it. It was still enjoyable though.
Butter Naan ($ 1.25 each): Holy moly! I did not expect the naan to be this big! At another restaurant, they charged $ 1.50 per naan (half the size of Makkah’s naan) so I didn’t expect this. The naan was also not too oily. The underside was quite burned at times though; eating burned food isn’t very fun.
OVERALL: The food tasted average. I wasn’t amazed by the dishes. They were still quite enjoyable, but I have definitely dined at better Indian restaurants. I am a very big fan of their portion sizes though. This was my first time eating food from Makkah, but I’m not too keen on coming back though.

Don’t let the dingy signage and interior deter you — the food here is tasty! Some of the best naan I’ve ever had, and it’s fun to watch them make it at the front of the store. Every dish we have tried had lots of flavour, and they don’t hold back on the spice either. Great butter chicken, lamb curry, dal and veggies, and a dish we’d never had before with ground beef and peas that was really hot.
You can also get naan sandwich/​wraps that are served with a wicked tangy hot sauce.
We’ve done take out or eat in — eating in worked a bit better because the various curries get easily sloshed together on the walk home otherwise.
Friendly and quick service.

A little hole in the wall.
I just randomly piced dishes that looked good. I think had the Curry Chicken and one of the Dhals. Both were good and super spicy.

We ordered Makkah take-​out (or rather delivery) from Just-​Eat from Makkah.
You must try this place out.
Totally recommend the Tandoori (we had the chicken) — yummy.
We also had the lamb curry, rice, naan bread (fyi — the pieces are massive!), and the beef samosas (these were really great).
The food came in great time and they wrapped the containers in foil to keep them hot.
The food came in good time and there were «no prisoners» at the end.
Lamb was tender and flavorful and the mango lassi’s were great for putting out any «fires».
So good !!

I went here late last year with two friends for dinner but got sick later that night.
I wanted to love this place. I know it has its fans. It was hard to decide so I played it safe with a vege combo option. It was good. Nothing special. The value was mostly there. At that point it was 3 stars.
Within several hours it was pretty obvious to me that I had food poisoning. You can never prove these things but I am pretty sure I was able to trace it back to this restaurant.
I would be willing to give it another chance but will likely just go somewhere else.

Looking for naan and some pretty tasty kabobs to go with? This is your place. This place is smokey from the naan ovens and smells like a giant BBQ. Which is what I want to see, just not come out smelling like. There is no real reason to stay and eat here unless you are making a pit stop. Check out the menus in the photo gallery and put a take out order. Note the spice levels, it can creep up. Medium spice has got some kick for the more western palette.

Food is good but man service is damnnnnnnnnnn slow. It’s happened to me twice now. Once for take out. I called ahead and have them 30 and when I got there they took another 20 !!! And this time done-​in and we everything we ordered were already prepared besides the naan so i don’t understand why on earth they took so long. We waited 20 minutes for already prepared food. Ridiculous. We were the only family in the resteraunt and a few take out customers.

I would never ever going in Makkah Restaurant by myself if my fellow Unilocaler did not take me here!
Makkah Restaurant is full of men… all the men that works in the kitchen… all the men that was ordering the food or eating the food in here. I really stood out like a sore thumb…
The self served eat in area is clean and spacious… after you placed your order, you picked up your food and then you eat and after that you pay… All based on honour system since you even help yourself with the drinks from the fridge!
Chicken Tikka Kebab was so tender, juicy and delicious! And love that charred smokey flavoured!
Naan bread that is freshly made by those friendly kitchen staffs that even posed for my photo shots with a big smile on their faces!
Just love Makkah Restaurant for their food, their down to earth vibe and friendly service!
Now maybe I am ready to come back on my own now???