Green Chili

Because I’m Indian, we don’t often go out for or order Indian in, but this week we were lazy and craving some Indian food. We ordered the chicken tikka masala, palak paneer, dal makhani, rice, raita and 2 garlic naans. With tip the bill came to $ 60. Honestly, the food was excellent — flavourful, a tad spicy (ask them to reduce the spice if you don’t take it), and authentically North Indian. I prefer it to Moti Mahal which is just around the corner and is heavy on the cream and is so rich I usually go into a food coma afterwards. Plus, the value for the price is amazing. We’ve eaten 4 – 5 meals out of this one order (Indian for breakfast, lunch and dinner and lunch again!). I really hope these guys stay open. Their lunch buffet is also excellent. Been there twice and would go again!

My friends and I went for my birthday.
We ordered the chicken curry, butter chicken and some spicy goat thing.
The naan was burned, the chicken pieces were really big and dry. But the sauce was to die for.
The goat dish that we had was amazing, the meat was very tender and full of flavour.
The service was pretty good too.

Just had take out. I must’ve admit pretty damn good. It showed up hot, and it was hot until I finished eating. Butter chicken was awesome so was the tandoori chicken the naan, and The cheese pakora. And the basmati rice was perfect.
That’s the whole truth on takeout.

Hmmmm. Green chili left a bad taste in my mouth recently. Bad chili.
Lazy night in with my boyfriend and as per usual we caved and choose delivery. I placed the order for all our regular favourites. I’ve been using the iPhone app since I found out about it, and it usually works great, it keeps your address and payment information on file and automatically pays for the order. I submitted everything, was charged, and received my confirmation email indicating I would receive my order within an hour.
An hour and 40 minutes later a very grouchy delivery man arrived demanding a delivery fee of $ 6 to be paid. OK– I have no problem paying this fee, but why so angry at me? I simply placed an order for delivery via an online app provided, and it’s not my fault if it didn’t include a delivery charge. After paying him he handed me the bag and marched off. Upon getting inside I noticed we were missing our 2 orders of rice, and missing our requested pops.
We immediately called them to let them know of the error, and whom ever was working literally argued with us for 15 minutes saying we never ordered those items, and we were sent the correct order. I told him I had an online order confirmation, an online receipt, and a paper receipt in front of me, so I am sure he could see what I had ordered but for some reason he was refusing to acknowledge that they made a mistake, and was unwilling to correct it. Finally I asked him to then break down my order of how we arrived at the total of $ 60, when he was forced to admit my items were missed.
You would think a normal reaction as a business would be apologetic, maybe toss in a free appetizer or 10% off next time coupon. No, no, he then starts telling me that if we want the rice we need to come pick it up ourselves. After arguing with him for another 5 minutes about paying a delivery charge, the order being super late, the fact that it was their error the whole time to begin with, and the fact that I was charged for something they did not give me, he gave in and said they would deliver the items.

What gives green chili? Why the fight over some rice and pop? I think rice is kind of a staple when eating Indian food, soooooo…
I don’t know if I’ll order from here again to be honest, I was made to feel in the wrong when I wasn’t. I love their food don’t get me wrong, but you cant treat people like that.

Definitely one of my favourite take-​out places in Calgary. I honestly haven’t even seen the inside actually so I’m simply rating the food. They are always quick and the food is very tasty, although very mild if you order as is.

I work on 17^th and I am also new to Calgary. So I am always on the look out for new great places to have lunch and dinner. I have been in Calgary about 9 months now. And have tried 5 – 6 East Indian restaurants, and Green Chili is my favorite. Take out, or sit in. It’s always great and the staff have always been lovely. The prices are fantastic for the proportions you get, I always have enough for a huge lunch, and dinner as well from one take out order. They also have a very good app that you can use to order on, which I’ve had no issues using. Good job Green Chili… Mmm!

My husband and I love this place, usually order once every few weeks when the fridge gets bare. The food is amazing, the service is decent.
The prices are great, not too expensive and the portions are big. The lunch buffet is the best bang for your buck and if you order take-​out its free delivery over $ 50 (which will feed you for days after). My fav items: veggie samosas with cherry sauce, chicken korma and lots of cheese naan.

EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTING FEEL AS IF WE HAVE BEEN POISONED!!!
My husband and I both in our fifties love curries and have tried several around the city and even as far as Canmore and until now enjoyed all. We should have known
better than to have stayed as there were only another two couples in on a Saturday evening, anyway we stayed and after about 10 minutes had to ask for a menu another sign!!! Ordered our meal along with wine, eventually our vegetable pakora
arrived still no wine… meal, rice and nan arrive had to ask for our wine could have
been a genuine mistake! Off home now thinking we will never be back there and
Never a truer thought as from three in the morning we are both up being sick, my
poor husband is still being sick and can still not even keep down a glass of water if
this continues we will have to call the doctor!
I have given it one star but if it was possible I would give it Zero. seems the only way
i can post this is to give it a star rating…
Hannah
Mission
Calgary

That undescribable feeling you get when waiting for a food delivery. Phoned in and ordered Green Chili Authentic Idian cuisine while the boss and I were enjoying a lazy Sunday.
We decided to order the Prawn Bryanni, Malai Kofta and Veggie Appitizer platter which came with vegetable pakoras, samosas, and paneer pakoras.
Simple but enough food for both of us. When it arrived, it was hot and fresh. The delivery man was really nice. We grabbed plates and ate up. The flavor was all there and we enjoyed everything that was ordered. Definitely worth keeping the menu in your stack of delivery menus.

Don’t be fooled by the modest exterior, once you get into the restaurant it is spacious and modern, with some excellent friendly service. Went for the lunch buffet, while the number and types of items in the buffet are fairly standard, the quality was excellent. And the fresh made garlic naan we were served was some of the best I’ve ever had.

Best Indian food in Calgary by far. Very consistent.

What happened Green Chili??? Why have you done this to me? I feel like I have been spat on by a friend.
It’s been awhile, I know that, but, why have you decided to go total mediocre on me?
Your service is slow, the last few times we ordered take out from you, we both felt awful afterwards, so this time we ordered hoping that you wouldn’t poison us.
No poison this time, but the food has just lost all oomph. Everything was bland from the samosa to my navrattan korma, where you were really skimping out on the main part of it. The vegetables. It was like a mixed bag of corn and peas with one sliced mushroom and one cube of cheese that you diced into sparrow size pieces and smothered in the sauce in hopes I wouldn’t notice.
It was also pretty dead in your dining area when I went to pick up my order. I think people are catching on.

Went for the lunch buffet, takeout.
Was definitely a good value and they were generous with Naan bread.
I don’t go out for a lot of Indian food but I would definitely return here when I get my next craving.

We were jus googling the Indian cuisine restaurants in calgary and got to find this place and gave a try. That was on friday evening. Not much crowd. And nt many servers. Only two for the whole place. Of course that’s nt a big place too. I dont think it can accomodate a big crowd. Ambience was good with a tv and dim lighting.
There was a mini bar too in it.
The cutlery and plates were clean and neat. I have seen many ppl were coming in to carry out their food ordered from the restaurant.
Food was good. But compared with the typical indian food, it wasn’t that great. Overall tasted good.
Fish pakora that we ordered was a way over the expectation and tasted good.
Even though we mentioned it to make it more spicy, we didn’t get the desired spice in it.
Prices were reasonable and worth food.

My girlfriend and I have been to almost all of the downtown Indian restaurants. Each one has their own specialty but none of them are «the best». We tried Green Chili one evening and were delightfully surprised.
We ordered the standard Butter Chicken but also picked up the Shahi Paneer which is a cheese type of dish. It was so flavorful and the portions were great for next day left overs. The rice and naan were both fresh. The best part was the price. Green Chili came in much less than other Indian places.
Green Chili has become a staple of our Indian take out. The service is friendly, efficient, and there is lots of parking in the back.

I’ve never tried this location, but the small take out one on mcleod trail and about 75^th is great. Spicy if you want, but never just for hot sake. Vindaloo is the one for me. Masala chicken is a popular one too. Pass on the rice. Gets dry the next day. Just get naan.

I’ve been to the Green Chili at Crowfoot and loved it, so naturally I would try the one closest to me this time.
We got there at about 6, so it was empty, except for 2 people waiting for take-​out. Service was quick and very friendly.
We ordered 3 curries, lamb vindaloo (I would recommend lamb over other meats as it is fattier and meant to tone down the heat), butter chicken (a guilty pleasure), and a prawn one (forget the name). Along with 2 orders of naan, and some rice.
I noticed right away that the food wasn’t very hot, merely warm, so I suspect it may have been reheated as a leftover from the lunch buffet. I know curries can’t be made fresh to order from scratch, but I expected a bit fresher, or at least a bit warmer to give us the impression it was fresh. Our vindaloo had a great amount of spice, our butter chicken was a bit short on the chicken part, and the prawn curry was great. Naan was delicious, and we had just enough to take home leftovers for my lunch the next day. I asked for another order of naan to go (but they did cheap me out a bit)
I did also notice that prices and availability differed between online and the menu in store. Prices were about $ 1-​$ 2 more expensive in the restaurant than online. Which is strange.
Overall, pretty good (A-​OK) I’d go back but probably just for a buffet and not for dinner.

A-​List. Excellent food, solid service. These guys know how to cook. Worth the walk or drive.

I live a block from this Green Chili location and make it in for the lunch buffet two or three times a month. I can’t speak to dinner service since I’ve never eaten dinner there, but for lunch, it’s become what I consider to be the best buffet in town.
What sets Green Chili off from the competition (and that means the also very good Moti Mahal across the street) is the variety and novelty of items on the buffet. At, for example, Surya, the buffet is exactly the same every day. At Green Chili it NEVER is and almost every time I have eaten there– and I’ve been dozens of times– I get to taste something entirely new. Today was especially amazing. They had their Chicken Kadai on the buffet, which is rich and hot, they had a preparation of potatoes and cabbage that was outstanding and that I’d never seen before, and they had something called Kadi Punjabi, which is not on the menu (that’s another amazing thing: the buffet has things not on the dinner menu) and which was a sort of stuffed veggie dumpling in a delicious, creamy sauce. Other days I’ve had and enjoyed a fish curry, goat curry, superb aloo gobi, Hakka chili chicken, a spicy fruit salad (you have to experience it to understand it) and lots of varied items. It’s always a surprise at Green Chili and best of all, every thing is absolutely delicious. Including the ample, complimentary naan.
Add to all this– the only Indian resto I’ve seen in Calgary that regularly has ras malai on the buffet for dessert.

Good food.