Our Story
From Punjab to 56th Street.
The story begins two generations back, in the kitchen of a small hotel in Punjab, India, where Satbir and Sukhvir, a husband and wife duo, spent their days around good food, good company, and a recipe that was really more memory than measurement: proportions kept by hand rather than written down.
When they made the move to Canada, that same feel for food came with them. Twenty-five years ago, the husband and wife duo opened the doors to an Indian restaurant in Tsawwassen, BC, calling it Connaught Place, with little more than a handful of recipes and a lot of hope.
Over the next two decades, the restaurant became part of the neighbourhood, turning first-time visitors into regulars and regulars into family. Word got around South Delta for the butter chicken and fresh naan coming out of the kitchen, but really, people kept coming back for the same reason they always do: it felt like home.
When it was their son Harpo's turn to make the place his own, he didn't change what was already working. He kept every recipe exactly as it was passed down, renovated the space, and gave the room a new name: Clay Oven, after the traditional clay tandoor at the heart of the kitchen. Same hands, same heart, just a new sign out front.
Delta agrees. Clay Oven was voted Platinum for Best Indian Restaurant in the 2025 CommunityVotes Delta awards, on top of being named Favourite Indian Restaurant and Favourite Vegetarian Restaurant in the South Delta Reader's Choice. It's an honour the family is grateful for, but the real reward has always been the same one: neighbours who keep coming back, streetlamp by streetlamp, right here on 56th Street.
