Dosa Paragon
Victoria, Canada
The read// why locals go
A husband-and-wife kitchen on Yates Street, Dosa Paragon serves South Indian food in a dining room it keeps strictly vegetarian. The griddle does most of the talking: rice crepes that arrive plain, stuffed with potato masala, or spread with a house-made spicy chutney for the Mysore version, alongside uthappam pancakes topped with sauteed onion and cilantro. Before those come idly steamed from rice and lentil batter, soaked in sambar or seasoned with gunpowder spice and butter, and vada fritters with coconut and tomato-herb chutneys. Most plates land between seven and twelve dollars, many of them marked vegan or gluten-free, and biryani turns up as a late-week special. One small, specific corner of South Indian cooking, run by the two people who own it.
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Yates Street 735, V8W 1L6 — Victoria
The read// why locals go
A husband-and-wife kitchen on Yates Street, Dosa Paragon serves South Indian food in a dining room it keeps strictly vegetarian. The griddle does most of the talking: rice crepes that arrive plain, stuffed with potato masala, or spread with a house-made spicy chutney for the Mysore version, alongside uthappam pancakes topped with sauteed onion and cilantro. Before those come idly steamed from rice and lentil batter, soaked in sambar or seasoned with gunpowder spice and butter, and vada fritters with coconut and tomato-herb chutneys. Most plates land between seven and twelve dollars, many of them marked vegan or gluten-free, and biryani turns up as a late-week special. One small, specific corner of South Indian cooking, run by the two people who own it.