Best Sri Lankan Restaurant in Scarborough

What makes the best Sri Lankan restaurant in Scarborough — and why locals choose Blessed Kitchen.

What separates the best Sri Lankan restaurant in Scarborough from the rest isn't fancy decor — it's whether the kitchen cooks for the community that actually eats this food. By that test, Blessed Kitchen earns it: hand-ground spices, made-to-order cooking, and 100% halal.

How to judge a Sri Lankan kitchen

Order the devilled chicken and a mutton biryani — both expose a kitchen fast. If the devilled is smoky and the biryani's rice is fresh and separate, you're in the right place. Try our authentic kottu roti next.

Why locals keep coming back

Fair prices, generous portions, and food that tastes like home. Takeout, GTA delivery, and request a catering quote for big events. The best Sri Lankan food in Scarborough is the kind the neighbourhood eats every week — and that's us.

The plates to judge us by

If you want to know whether a Sri Lankan kitchen is any good, order the dishes that are hard to fake. Kottu should be chopped fresh, moist with gravy, never dry. Devilled chicken should be sticky, sweet, sour and hot at once. Biryani should come with real sides, eggplant moju and pineapple curry, not just raita. And watalappan should taste of kithul jaggery, not sugar.

Our menu and prices

• Kottu Roti, $13, with an egg omelette
• Biriyani, $12, chicken, beef, mutton or vegetable
• Chicken Devil or Beef Devil, $12.99
• Chilli Chicken, $14.99, and Chilli Shrimp, $18.99
• Boneless Mutton Devil, $14.99
• Puttu Mixed, $20, with your choice of meat, dhal curry and coconut sambol
• Coconut Roti, $12, or Roast Bread, $13
• Fried Rice, $20 to $23, and Sri Lankan Noodles, $15
• Paalandi Half Chicken, $40, for the table
• Vattalappam, $15, and Mango Lassi, $6

Why people come back

We are a family kitchen. The cooking is done the way it is done at home: spices ground by hand, every meat HMA-certified halal, nothing rushed. We are a takeout and catering kitchen rather than a big dining room, so the effort goes into the food. Many of our regulars order every weekend and book us for their family events.

Read more about our Sri Lankan restaurant in Scarborough, or see halal catering in Scarborough.

How to order

Order direct for pickup or delivery, or call for catering.

• Order direct from our kitchen for pickup or delivery, with no app markup.
• Call or text (647) 449-2924 for catering and large orders.

Blessed Kitchen, 328 Passmore Avenue, Unit 59, Scarborough. All meat is HMA-certified halal.

Ordering for the first time

For two people, order a Kottu Roti ($13), a Chicken Devil ($12.99) and a Biriyani ($12) and share. For four, add a Puttu Mixed ($20) and a Vattalappam ($15). Order direct to skip app markup, and pick up from Passmore Avenue if you are nearby.

Allergy notes

Some of our dishes contain egg (kottu, egg masala, watalappan), dairy (yogurt sambal), fish (maasi sambal is made with dried Maldives fish) and nuts (green pea cashew curry). If anyone has an allergy, tell us when you order and we will tell you what to avoid.