Kirish Spicy Greens - Prince George

Love this little place. Have been going here since it first opened. Down to earth, good people. Unpretentious

I have loved this restaurant for years food is absolutely delicious! Family who runs it are very attentive and caring. I had the spicy masala and it was a great portion size and had the perfect level of spicy!

Sri Lankan and South Indian. This is a hole in the wall place that is brightly lit, and you get to join the whole family watching tv if it's not busy. Just had a great vegetable lamb curry, came with a roti that was obviously hand kneaded- not from some chapati factory! A sign of the authentic quality.

It is a nice place to try some excellent spicy foods. Mild,medium or hot spicy. Food is also very tasty if you don't like the spicy variations from mild to hot.

The culinary equivalent of Goldie Hawn, the constant tweaks and revisions are starting show their scars with the old restaurant. I speak of Spicy Greens—err, I mean Aruntha’s Ceylon Garden—err, I mean Punjabi Spice House—err, I mean Kirish Spicy Greens—just PICK A NAME ALREADY! This is getting exhausting. It’s getting so bad that when people ask, I just answer with, “that Indian restaurant next to the bowling alley on 5th Ave.” Seriously, their name should be on a white board in washable ink. With each name comes a new review. I fully expect Trip Advisor to contact me with, “Seriously, is that location cursed?” No doubt, I firmly believe this is yet another iteration of the same menu with the same people, now expanded to the three locations. Kirish is the newest name of the oldest location. What’s odd is that each time they change something, it looks a bit better. At first, Spicy Greens looked like the dining hall at Alcatraz. When it became Aruntha’s Ceylon Garden, it started to resemble an actual restaurant. Now it’s positively the nicest Indian restaurant in town. It actually wears its ethnicity plainly. Compliments aside for the other fringing Spicy Greens, but they all look like a Denny’s stripped of its flare. Kirish sports washed brick and pink walls, with various ethnic regalia hanging or perched casually about. Only one TV offers any distraction. It doesn’t look expensive; it’s not about the cost. It’s about consistency, application, and comfort. Following this pattern, given a few more name changes, this restaurant will eventually sport holograms, laser-sporks, and android servers able to switch into a Bollywood dance number with the press of a button. The service has gotten better as well. No more do I have to beg for a water refill; within minutes of being served, a full jug was delivered to the table. However, the most noteworthy addition is their new buffet. Now, I’ve always appreciated Spicy Green’s lack of buffets. They’ve always been about generous plates of incredibly spicy food (and, of course, take-out), not about buckets of three-hour old sauces and dried naan. I’m not saying that I dislike Indian buffets. In fact, they’re about the only buffets I can actually stomach, the one asterisk whenever I claim to hate them. This is because some restaurants in town actually do a decent job with their buffets. Tandoori Nation and Dana Mandi both have respectable offerings, leading me to believe that Indian food could be the only one to survive the buffet apocalypse. It’s unfortunate then that Kirish’s buffet is very different from those other two restaurants. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it’s borderline depressing, the kind of buffet you find at a wedding…after every table had gone over it three times leaving only a few spoons and semi-dried rice remaining. Although not terribly expensive, after my first plate, I felt little desire to return, though I did, somehow expecting I had missed something. It did feel like I had stumbled into my work’s staff room hours after a meeting, and only a few items were left, like a slot machine each time a pizza carton was opened. Admittedly, I might have actually been the last customer to that buffet before it closed up for the day, but the quality and the selection was poor. In contrast, my girlfriend praised the fried rice she ordered separately, once again stressing that fact that “mild” spice according to Spicy Greens is akin to a “mild” nuclear meltdown.I hope sincerely that this poor buffet experience is not indicative of a trend. Generally, these restaurants are quite good, and I understand the need for a buffet given that many people around this area barely have 30 minutes for lunch, but with a small ration afforded to the buffet, it might be a better suggestion to travel up to Dana Mandi, or even better, Tandoori Nation. If you can’t manage the detour, then I would advocate ignoring the buffet altogether in favor of a normal dish. When I ordered a dosa, those arrived quickly enough. Maybe one more name change would be in order, just as a quick polish to perfect the formula. They are almost there…sooo…I guess, expect a new review in three or four months.DECOR: 4.5PLATING: 3SERVICE: 3.5FOOD: 2.5VALUE: 3OVERALL: 3.5 out of 5