Reviews Punjab Sweet House

Despite the lack in the interiors decor, the food is great. The paneer is my favourite dish. My preferred place to go for East Indian food. It's cheap and its vegetarian.

FANTASTIC! Delicious vegetarian dishes plus rice, chapati, salad, curd, a dessert item...what more could anyone want for $10?!
The assortment is always great with pulses and vegetables +/- paneer dishes!

A great experience! Friendly staff!. I'd heard that this restaurant had great samosas, so I popped in to pick some up. It's definately not a fancy restaurant, but the food speaks for itself. A dozen hot, tasty, well seasoned samosas for only $6! Quite the steal. They also had a large range of Indian sweets, and a small buffet. Will definately be back!

Vegetarian? Wow!!. We went twice before I realized that it was vegetarian. The richness of the food makes you think it has meat!

The food is very good but the buffet is usually lacking a few dishes. The rice pot is often empty, and the service is almost non existent. The problem is that there is very little english spoken here. Other than that, I like the place.

This is the BEST value of any restaurant in Winnipeg. A buffet for $7 is pretty rare.

Awesommmy Good - Authentic Taste. I love this place so much... the food has that true authentic mughlai / punjabi food flavour which is missing in other Indian restaurants. I cant get enough of this place.
Interiors.... not even close to being cool.... but who cares considering the price, choice of buffet & great taste.
Doesnt make me miss the food back home ...... Thank you :)

I come from a authentic Indian home, and my mom cooks only Indian food. I can honestly say, this place is great if you want the true touch of home cooked Indian food from the village!

Their desserts are great - but didn't have a great experience with their kneer. Wasn't mixed or even slow cooked.. Either way, love their samosas!!

Like mother makes it. This is a vegetarian restaurant.

Punjab Sweet House and Restaurant is the very definition of a hole-in-the-wall restaurant. Even in its strip mall, it' doesn't jump out at you. But the food is the most authentic Indian food I've found in Winnipeg. It's a burst of homemade in every bite. The buffet is small and can include dishes that are not traditionally Indian, like mushroom curry. But the dishes that are traditional are very well prepared. And the chapatti (flatbread) is scrumptious and included in the buffet.

Unfortunately, the serving staff speak Punjabi, with little sometimes no English. However, once you cross the language barrier it's fairly simple to get what you want. Also, the cash staff do speak English well enough to take phone-in orders.

Although I've only had the buffet here, the menu impresses a few a-la-carte dishes which can be ordered for dine-in or take out.

One of winnipeg's best restaurants. period.. "Don't bother making the trip out to Punjab Sweet House if you are after the "exotic" East Indian dining experience. You will not see the typical adornments of hookah pipes, tablas, or incense. Nor will you see a majority of non-Indian or non-Punjabi people eating there. More of a "professional kitchen" than a restaurant, it is much closer to what an eatery is like in India, in that the dining area is an extension of a veritable factory in the back. From the milk-intensive, luscious paneer (a type of unfermented vegetarian cheese), to a vast selection of stunning khoya, or sweets (hence the name), Punjab Sweet House has Winnipeg's East Indian population to impress, wholesaling grocers and restaurants throughout the city. Judging from the very steady flow of traffic of its take-out patrons, it is succeeding.
After dismissing rumours of an improbable $6.95 buffet (lunch and dinner), my colleague and I (a starving artist and student, respectively), sceptically endured the ropey Sunday bus ride to a grim industrial area bordering what is known as "the Maples." We found the tiny restaurant on the end of a nondescript strip mall, with two teenage boys wearing patkas (Sikh headdresses) playing road hockey in the snow just outside.
We were greeted by four smiling women sitting at a table, clad in jewel-coloured saris to our left, and a large glass fridge with a silvery rainbow of goodies to our right. The décor was sparse and clean, with five tables to choose from and one washroom to prep ourselves in for the ten-course feast. Another smiling woman emerged from the back with water for us, for which we didn’t have to ask. At almost the very moment we sat down with a bit of each entrée (six) from the bain-marie, she re-emerged with two steaming chapattis (whole-wheat flat breads), hot off the griddle, still glistening with ghee (clarified butter) to prove it.
Our very first bite was into the succulent slabs of tangy paneer, made fresh on-site. We were thrilled. Bathed in a velvety masala cream, the dish was the most generous we'd ever seen in terms of paneer content. Knowing it takes two litres of milk to make a medium-sized brick, we felt guilty the buffet was so inexpensive.
Other dishes in the buffet (also available as entrées, of which there are many others that range from $7.99 to $9.99) included the dal makhni, an exceptionally buttery, rich lentil dish; the channa masala curry, fragrant chick-peas stewed in onion, garlic and tomato, and the comforting green bean and potato subji, a delicate and complex dish cooked not a moment past its prime. The boondhi raita (yogurt with chick pea flour chips) provided a cool counter-balance that I admittedly had thirds of. All dishes had subtle layers or nuances, making them intriguingly distinctive, as is the joy of good Indian cuisine. My diabetic colleague then jealously watched me eat two helpings the most satisfying and simple rice pudding I have ever known.
During our nearly three-hour wait in the bitter cold for buses that weren’t running on a Sunday, we struggled to think of any other restaurant that would have been worth the suffering, and came up with none."

Meatless Monday !. Came here tonight with my Little Sister for the buffet they serve everyday until 8pm.
Tonight on the buffet was a nice simple assortment of vegetarian dishes that included a Bitter Melon Curry, Paneer Masala, Spinach Curry, Creamy Lentil Dahl and a nice Chana Masala. There was also a green salad and raita.
When we walked in at 5pm we were the first ones in for dinner. There was no rice on the buffet at this time but within 2 minutes they had some fresh Basmati out for us. Each curry had a pleasing taste, mildly spiced yet flavourful. I have never had bitter melon before and I am sure it is not for everyone as it has a very distinct bitter taste.
Naan was made freshly for us and a second one was even offered which we accepted to soak up all the masala on our plates. The naan was also included in the buffet price which is a super deal.
Service was warm and friendly from the two women there. At $7.99 this buffet is the best kept deal in town !!
I also took advantage of their great samosas (10 for $5 to take home) which came with a bold tamarind sauce. Yum !

If only it wasn't so far away!. I really love the Punjab Sweet House. The atmosphere is definitely dive-y and the service is sometimes seemingly absent (they will come, eventually!) However, the buffet makes up for all shortcomings. The paneer is always delicious and the lentil and chickpea dishes are great too. The rice is tasty and the side salad, though simple, is refreshing after some of the hotter entrees. The naan bread is fresh and excellent and their chai tea is good (you can order it without sugar if you like too). I've only tried a couple of their sweets, both of which were cardamom-flavoured and pretty tasty. My only real complaint is that this restaurant is so far from the city centre - I once looked at Transit and it would have taken an hour and a half to get there by bus! Definitely a must when travelling by car, and the prices are super low.

Best Samosas in Winnipeg!. Haven't had the chance to enjoy a meal here, but these are without a doubt the BEST samosas in Winnipeg! And CHEAP! They're 75cents each, or 50cents each if you buy ten...and you WILL eat all of them! Fabulous, and they're equally excellent re-heated days later in the oven (don't microwave them...not good!) We often drive to a nearby location *ahem* to have their butter chicken, but this place is vegetarian and doesn't have it - but we make a special trip here JUST for samosas!

Delicious sweets but service is usually slow, they don't take credit cards & debit machine's down alot lately.