Colombo Kitchen

Sri Lankan Restaurant in Putney

Address: 240 Upper Richmond Road, Putney, London SW15 6TG
Phone: +44 20 3337 2249
Hours: Wed - Thu 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM; Fri - Sun 12:00 PM - 10:00 PM; Mon - Tue Closed

Menu prices: £7–£26 · ££ · Median main: £19 · 31/31 with a published price

Colombo Kitchen is an award-winning Sri Lankan restaurant in Putney led by chef Sylvia Perera, with a live hopper and kottu bar, clay-pot curries and lamprais baked in banana leaves.

Short Eats

• Rolls — £8.50

  2 pieces. Fried savoury crepe rolls with a spicy, juicy meat or vegetable filling
• Sharing Platter — £20.00

  2 of each vadai, cutlets, rolls and patties
• Roti Tacos — £17.00

  2 pieces. Unique fusion tacos made from flaky handmade roti with a devilled prawn, chicken or paneer filling
• Vadai — £8.00

  3 pieces. Spiced, donut-shaped fritters served with creamy coconut sambal
• Patties — £8.50

  2 pieces. Spicy empanada with fish or jackfruit filling encased in a flaky, buttery crust
• Crispy Curry Puff — £10.00

  Flaky and crispy pastry with a savoury curried filling
• Cutlets — £8.00

  3 pieces. Spicy breaded croquettes
• Crispy Fried Okra — £10.00

  Served with chilli sauce
• Karapincha Corn Ribs — £12.00

  Corn tossed in signature spices

Meat

• Ceylon Chicken Curry — £17.50

  Perfectly cooked chicken in a sauce made with an onion base and homemade curry powder
• Mutton Curry — £18.95

  Tender pieces of mutton in a fragrant curry made with unique Sri Lankan spices
• Negombo Black Pork Curry — £17.50

  A traditional curry made with Negombo dark roast curry powder
• Devilled Chicken, Mutton or Pork — £18.95

  A spicy stir-fry with chillies and peppers, chicken, mutton or pork
• Pepper Pork — £17.50

  Pork pieces stir-fried with peppers, onions and spices

Fish & Seafood

• Hot Butter Prawn or Squid — £19.50

  Beer-battered prawns or squid tossed in a spicy butter sauce
• Negombo King Prawn Curry — £19.00

  A chef's special inspired by her home town, prawns in a mildly spiced fragrant creamy coconut curry
• King Crab Curry — £26.00

  Whole king crab cooked in a reduced spicy sauce
• Clay Pot King Fish Curry — £20.00

  Fresh king fish delicately cooked in a creamy coconut sauce, served on a banana leaf
• Salt and Pepper Squid — £19.50

  Deep-fried squid seasoned with salt, pepper and chilli
• Devilled Prawns — £19.00

  King prawns cooked with chilli and Sri Lankan spices

Vegetables

• Sylvia's Aubergine Moju — £15.95

  Pickled aubergine with peppers and onions with a slight sweetness
• Nanda's Jackfruit Curry — £15.95

  Slow-cooked jackfruit curry
• Devilled Potatoes — £12.25

  Devilled potatoes

Lamprais

• Vegetarian Lamprais — £17.50

  Saturday and Sunday only. Fragrant basmati rice with mango curry, devilled paneer, aubergine moju, ash plantain curry, devilled cashew, pineapple curry, vegetarian cutlet, stir-fried beans and fried o

Live Kottu

• Paneer and Aubergine Kottu — £18.00

  Street food dish made live on a hot griddle, mixing Sri Lankan flatbread with curry, vegetables and aromatic spices

Live Hoppers

• Egg Hopper — £7.00

  Each. Plain hopper with a runny egg cooked in the middle
• 2 Plain Hopper — £9.00

  2 crispy bowl-shaped pancakes made from fermented rice flour and coconut milk

Desserts

• Watalapan — £8.00

  A traditional set pudding made from coconut milk and jaggery
• Oreo Hopper — £7.50

  Hopper topped with vanilla ice cream and Oreo crumbs
• Nutella Hopper — £7.00

  Hopper with Nutella
• Fried Honey Pineapple with Vanilla Ice Cream — £7.50

  Fried pineapple paired with vanilla ice cream