House of Dosas, Kingsway & Knight

POSTED May 18, 2009 BY Boon Kondo

HOUSE OF DOSAS
1391 Kingsway (@ Knight), Vancouver
604-875-1283
www.houseofdosas.ca

You’ve probably driven past it a million times, that Indian restaurant on the NW corner of Kingsway & Knight – House of Dosas! Northern and Punjabi food is most well known for Indian food abroad but House of Dosas serves a staple South Indian food – dosas (dosas are also common in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore). A dosa is basically a combo of curried meat, veggies and potatoes but wrapped up in a long & thin crepe and is a staple South Indian dish for breakfast/lunch.

The dosas looks a lot bigger than it looks as the filling covers only about a 1/3 of the length (in the middle). The dosas are served with 2 types of chutney and I believe a tomatoey type sauce. Being Hopper Wednesdays when we went, we also tried hoppers for the first time (aka appams). These are rice breads that are thin but a bit thicker than the dosa crepe and comes with 3 sauces to fill inside the hopper (pictured below).
The plates are shaped and colored like banana leafs as banana leafs are traditional South Indian serving plates (again, also common in Sri Lanka, Malaysia – as we have the aptly named Banana Leaf restaurant as well, Singapore and Indonesia). In South India today, apparently, they are also used for formal meals, not so much for the everyday.

Dosa Mondays has all dosas for $5.99 (they are about $10 regular)
Thali Tuesdays has the Thali dish (below) that consists of Rasam, Raita, Pickle, papadam, Rice and Chapati bread for $10

Chef Special Madras Dosa (they can obviously come triangle shaped as well)

Hoppers/Appams (served on Wednesdays)

OTHER DOSA & SOUTH INDIAN RESTAURANTS IN LOWER MAINLAND
Saravanaa Bhavan
Excellent dosas but only veggie, also has South Indian buffet for lunch
955, West Broadway, (At Oak Street) Vancouver

Chutney Villa
147 Broadway East (NW corner of Broadway & Main), Vancouver

Nooru Mahal
Not as good as they used to be
4354 Fraser St. (at 28th), Vancouver

Dosa Garden
7611 Edmonds St (SW corner of Edmonds & Canada Way), Burnaby

Quilon
6030 No.3 Rd (@ Westminster), Richmond
604-303-0011

Category: Food and Drink

Age

so close to home! will check it out for sure.
Jef Choy

ha…I already posted it but I must admit that I originally stole it from you…..
http://www.mumblemagazine.com Bob K

We went here for the first time a couple weeks ago… first dosa experience ever, we sat there for a minute looking at them trying to figure out how you’re supposed to eat them, then had to ask. It looks like it could be a “crack off pieces and dip it in” affair but it’s actually a knife and fork deal.
Miller

The Monday Dosa special is well worth it after the weekend when you have no food and don’t want to cook. Pakora is also pretty epic.
Boon Kondo

Oh, shit, Choy, is it gonna be ryanated then? ;p I

Bob, i actually usu eat the whole thing with my hands, true south indian style. Cant do rice with the hands though, gotta stay nip for that.

Age, you Chutney Villa is pretty good too (Main/Broadway). Saravanaa Bhavaan might be the best ive tried so far though but only veggie.
nikitha

i love your food!! keep it coming!
:)
http://fairwaysandflips.blogspot.com/ Keith

so psyched on house of dosa! Only went there for the first time this summer but I’ve always wondered where the dosas were in Van. I used to eat tonnes of them back east and in Singapore.
sharan..and..kamal

very tasty dosa
sharan..and..kamal

very tasty dosa

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