AAHAR-THE TASTE OF INDIA INC.

What AAHAR-THE TASTE OF INDIA INC. does

Aahar-The Taste of India Inc. is a privately held, independent Indian restaurant operator headquartered at 1573 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, operating two Ottawa-area locations. The company's core offering is authentic Indian cuisine prepared using traditional practices, anchored on a lunch and dinner buffet that has been running for over 15 years since the founding of the original location around 2009.

The business runs three primary dayparts 7 days a week - daily breakfast (7am-10am) including Canadian and Indian classics, a lunch buffet (11:30am-2pm), and dinner service (5pm-10pm) - plus a Friday-Saturday late-night bar (10pm-2am) and a catering operation capable of full-restaurant buyouts for groups of up to 100 people. Distribution is omnichannel: dine-in at both physical locations, takeout and delivery for the Ottawa East site via a menu.ca integration, and direct reservations by phone.

Revenue is generated through point-of-sale restaurant transactions (dining, buffet cover charges, bar sales, breakfast covers) and event/catering bookings. The company has no disclosed parent, no funding rounds, no management team publicly listed, and no technology platform beyond its website and the third-party ordering integration, making it a founder- or owner-operated local hospitality business with a horizontal, consumer-direct go-to-market motion.

Name

AAHAR-THE TASTE OF INDIA INC.

Legal name

Aahar The Taste of India Inc.

Website

https://aahar.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Aahar-The Taste of India Inc. operates two Ottawa-area Indian restaurants serving daily breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets, Friday-Saturday bar service, and catering for groups up to 100, with online ordering via menu.ca for takeout and delivery.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Casual Dining Restaurants

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511), Restaurants and Other Eating Places (72251)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

All-Day Dining Restaurants (THAFACAJ)

Keywords

• Indian restaurant dining
• Indian buffet service
• Event catering services
• Authentic Indian cuisine
• Restaurant online ordering

Headquarters

HQ city

Ottawa

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Dine-in Restaurant Service: Revenue from breakfast, lunch buffet, and dinner service offered 7 days a week. Lunch and dinner buffets have been pleasing patrons for over 15 years.
2. Catering Services: Specializes in both large and small catering events. Restaurant can be booked entirely for groups of up to 100 people.
3. Online Ordering: Online ordering system for takeout/delivery from Ottawa East location.
4. Bar Service: Bar operating Friday-Saturday 10pm-2am with signature cocktails and beer.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Aahar-The Taste of India Inc. operates a full-service Indian restaurant in Ottawa, Ontario, serving daily breakfast (with Canadian and Indian classics), a long-running lunch and dinner buffet using traditional Indian preparation practices, à la carte dinner service, weekend bar service with signature cocktails and beer, and catering for both small and large events including full restaurant buyouts for groups of up to 100 people. The business also accepts online orders for takeout and delivery from its Ottawa East location through the menu.ca platform.

Product overview

Aahar The Taste of India is a single-location Indian restaurant (with 2 locations) in Ottawa, Ontario, operating as a full-service dining establishment. The company offers a unified restaurant experience consisting of dine-in dinner service, daily lunch buffet, breakfast service, and bar operations, all built around authentic Indian cuisine prepared with traditional practices and spices. Additional services include catering for events and online ordering through a third-party platform. The restaurant has been serving patrons for over 15 years with their lunch and dinner buffet offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Dine-In Indian Restaurant Service
• Lunch and Dinner Buffet
• Breakfast Service
• Bar Service
• Catering and Private Event Service
• Online Ordering (Takeout and Delivery)

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Mandarin Restaurant: Canadian all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant chain with multiple locations; directly comparable to Aahar's lunch and dinner buffet model and full-service daypart operations.

Broad incumbents

• MTY Food Group: Major Canadian restaurant franchisor operating multiple full-service and quick-service concepts; relevant as a scaled incumbent shaping the Canadian restaurant competitive and franchising landscape Aahar operates within.
• Recipe Unlimited: Canada's largest full-service restaurant operator (Swiss Chalet, Harvey's, East Side Mario's, etc.); a broad incumbent with overlapping full-service and catering capabilities relevant to Aahar's positioning.

Others

• The Keg Steakhouse & Bar: Canadian full-service steakhouse chain with full bar program; comparable as a scaled full-service Canadian operator, though differentiated on cuisine and price tier.
• East Side Mario's: Canadian casual Italian full-service chain under Recipe Unlimited; comparable full-service family dining format serving similar local community and group-occasion use cases as Aahar.
• Boston Pizza International: Large Canadian casual-dining chain with sports-bar format and group dining; comparable on full-service family/casual dining model and private-room group bookings relevant to Aahar's catering business.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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