Hyderabadi Biryani & Mandi at Pakka Local

Butter chicken poutine, paneer tacos and spiced cocktails in Surrey's slickest Indian lounge, open until 3am.

One of Vancouver's highest-rated Indian spots on The Drive, where street-food snacks flow into proper cocktails and a room that hums.

South Indian dosas with a cocktail list built for spice, low lighting, and 2,300 reviewers who've already figured this out.

Where Pondicherry's centuries-old French-Indian love affair lands in Hastings-Sunrise, with a coconut tequila chaser.

Five thousand reviews and a 4.7 for one gloriously butter-drowned Amritsari kulcha. Dignity is optional.

Named after an epic, delivering on it: North Delta's 4.6-rated Hyderabadi dum biryani, sealed under dough and saffron-stained.

A sleek Coquitlam bistro with a 4.5 across nearly a thousand reviews, because the lamb biryani has something to say for itself.

A decades-long West Broadway fixture serving Kashmiri and Mughlai recipes nobody else in the city is cooking.

Gary, Anu, and thirty years at the stove make Langley's top-rated Indian worth every minute of the drive.

Crispy, forearm-length dosas and midnight filter coffee until 3am, for the night that isn't over yet.

South-west Indian coastal cooking, Vancouver Foodster Curry Challenge winner, in a Surrey room where coconut and tamarind run everything.

House-ground spices, dum-steamed goat biryani, and a 4.7 rating that makes two thousand Googlers sound completely reasonable.

The legendary Chennai tiffin institution arrives in North Delta with crispy dosas, a filter coffee ritual, and an unlimited weekend thali that earns the drive.

North Van's quietly confident Indian room: rogan josh, naan from the tandoor, and an underground parking situation nobody warns you about.