House of Dosas

Since the mid 1990s, the House of Dosas has been at the northwest corner of Kingsway and Knight (prior to that, the restaurant was a 50s-era greasy spoon). There are now two dosa restaurants on the 1300 block of Kingsway, and a third in the next block west. I recommend the dosas to those I take to these restaurants, though my favourite meal at the Sri Lankan-run House of Dosas is the curry (medium-hot), which I have with lamb, raita, naan and papadam.

House of Dosas is another Kingsway space whose shape is determined by the street's angular relationship to the grid, which was imposed after contact (prior to that, Kingsway was as it lay: a narrow path pounded out by deer and those who stalked them). House of Dosas has seven windows, five of which can be seen in the picture above. The fourth window from the left faces east and provides a view of the (diagonal) rise to Dumfries. That's the movie I watch when dining alone: cars and their departure.