Upali's

Served from 11:30am until sold out. A choice of 2 types of rice, served with 3 vegetables, papadam, dry fish, red chilli & curried gravy.

One of our best sellers! Jaffna-style preparation of fresh boneless mutton cubes sautéed with spices, served on a sizzling plate.

Fresh mullet on a sizzling plate, drizzled in Upali's special pepper sauce, served simmering with garlic, ginger & onions.

Fish head cooked in a light, coconut based curry with okra, topped with diced pineapple & aubergine. ~25 min cooking time.

Marinated fresh crab cooked with spices from Jaffna. A must try!

Fresh crab in Upali's special Sri Lankan black pepper marinade.

2 paratas served with chicken or tomato gravy

Seven-in-one vegetable curry. The recipe dates back 2000 years!

Fresh vegetable soup.

Tamarind and pepper spicy soup using a recipe from Northern Sri Lanka.

Fresh local mutton on the bone with mixed vegetables & lentils.

3 Sri Lankan style empanadas (deep fried egg pastry) with a filling of vegetables sautéed in garlic & onions.

3 Sri Lankan style empanadas with a filling of tin mackerel and potatoes sautéed in garlic & onions.

5 deep fried croquettes of boneless fish OR vegetables with finely diced onions, green chilli & spices.

5 deep fried croquettes made with baby jackfruit, vegetables, onions, green chilli & spices.

5 pieces of fried whitebait marinated in Sri Lankan spices.

Fresh cucumber, green chilli, onion & tomato salad.

Deep fried bitter gourd, tomatoes, onions & green chilli mixed with Sri Lankan dressing.

A traditional Sri Lankan coconut relish made from freshly grated coconut, red onions, dried red chillies, lime and salt. Served with or without maldive fish.

Red onions, curry leaves, cloves & cardamom, sautéed sugar, tamarind juice & crushed chilli.

Tin mackerel salad with sliced raw onions, green chilli & tomatoes.

Sri Lankan herbal green leaves (pennywort) salad mixed with onion, green chilli, maldive fish & grated coconut.

Fresh boneless chicken cubes sautéed with authentic Jaffna spices, served on a sizzling plate.

Classic preparation of spicy, sweet & tangy chicken on the bone with authentic Sri Lankan spices.

Mutton marinated in freshly ground Sri Lankan black pepper, garlic, onions, lime & salt.

Tin mackerel cooked in a red curry sauce with sliced onions, chilli & tomatoes.

Tin mackerel tempered with onions, green chilli & crushed chilli.

Fish Kirata: cooked with coconut milk, turmeric & tomato. Or Mirisata: cooked with chilli & authentic spices.

3 seasoned deep-fried fish slices garnished with onion rings & lemon.

Marinated yellowfin tuna cooked in gambooge (sour & dry curry).

Sautéed fresh cuttlefish cooked in a red curry sauce.

Lagoon prawns tempered with spices, ginger, garlic, onions & tomatoes.

Fresh lagoon prawns Kirata: cooked with coconut milk, turmeric & tomato. Or Mirisata: cooked with chilli & authentic spices.

Cuttlefish mixed in a homemade spicy batter made using garlic butter, cornflour & egg white.

Authentic Sri Lankan spices mixed with green chilli & garlic, folded into a traditional omelette.

Lankawe omelette folded with cheese.

Boiled egg cooked with coconut milk, turmeric, onions, curry leaves & spices.

Slices of egg omelette cooked in a white curry sauce.

Thin, crisp, round flatbread.

Lentils tempered with onions, curry leaves & turmeric.

Water spinach tempered with garlic.

Baby jackfruit stewed with traditional spices.

Boiled Welimada baby potatoes tempered with garlic, onions, lime & curry leaves.

Boiled jackfruit seeds cooked with grated coconut & black curry sauce.

Deep fried brinjal cooked with shallots of onion & green chilli.

White potato cooked in coconut milk, turmeric, onions, green & curry leaves.

Raw cashews tempered with garlic, onions & spices, cooked in a rich coconut gravy.

Okra tempered with onions, garlic, green chilli & crushed chilli.

Baked Sri Lankan style bread.

Baked Sri Lankan style bread with butter.

Steamed white rice.

Steamed white rice tempered in ghee with onions & curry leaves.

Ruhunu wholemeal red rice.

Steamed white rice with garlic.

Available only 11am, 4pm. Ask server for available varieties today.

10 string hoppers (wholemeal or white flour) pressed into noodle form & steamed, served with tomato gravy and pol sambol.

1 egg hopper + 3 plain hoppers (bowl-shaped pancakes) served with katta sambol.

Add-on plain hopper.

Add-on egg hopper.

Steamed cylinder of ground flour with grated coconut (wholemeal or white) & coconut milk, served with coconut milk & katta sambol.

2 flatbreads made from a flour mix, served with gravy.

Add-on roti.

1 large roti and 3 small rotis made with grated coconut, green chilli, onions & curry leaves, served with lunu miris.

Cheese, onions and pepper folded and grilled in a flatbread roti. For Kottu Roti and String Hoppers Kottu, served with gravy.

2 flatbread made from a flour mix with onion & crushed garlic.

Add-on sudu lunu roti.

Grilled flatbread with egg.

Choice of red or white rice, 2 vegetable curries of the day with parippu (dhal) and pol sambol. Served with papadam, dry fish, red chilli & curried gravy.

Perfect for sharing. Includes 2 polos (jackfruit) cutlets, garlic rice, string hoppers, egg & plain hoppers served with lunu miris, chicken curry & fried fish, hot butter cuttlefish, seeni sambolaya or pol sambolaya, parippu or kiri hodi.

Sweet hoppers (bowl-shaped pancakes made from fermented flour). Choice between milk or jaggery hopper.

2 scoops of either vanilla or chocolate.

Pudding made with jaggery & coconut milk, topped with nuts.

Sri Lankan seasonal fruit salad with ice cream.

Southern buffalo curd with treacle, specially made for Upali's.

Biscuit pudding layered with chocolate sauce, topped with vanilla ice cream, made exclusively for Upali's by our owner's loving wife.

Custard dessert with caramelised sugar.

Plain Sri Lankan tea.

Black coffee.

Ginger-infused Sri Lankan tea.

Highland branded fresh milk.

Traditional Sri Lankan herbal porridge.

Coffee with milk.

Tea with condensed milk.

Cardamom-infused Sri Lankan tea.

Premium Ceylon tea.

Made with condensed milk.

House-made ginger beer.

Fresh Sri Lankan king coconut.

10 string hoppers (wholemeal or white flour) pressed into noodle form & steamed.

1 egg hopper + 3 plain hoppers (bowl-shaped pancakes made from fermented flour).

Add-on plain hopper.

Add-on egg hopper.

Steamed cylinder of ground flour, layered with grated coconut (wholemeal or white flour) & coconut milk.

A hearty Sri Lankan breakfast staple, chickpeas, Upali's scrumptious take on this classic.

1 large roti and 3 small rotis made with grated coconut, green chilli, onions & curry leaves. Served with lunu miris.

Add-on small pol roti.

Add-on large pol roti.

Traditional Sri Lankan rice made with coconut milk. Served with lunu miris.

Add-on portion of kiribath.

Baked Sri Lankan style bread.

Baked Sri Lankan style bread served with butter.

Choose carb (String hoppers / Hoppers / Pol Roti / Pittu / Milk Rice / Roast Paan) + choice of curries (Chicken / Fish / Lentils-Parippu) + side dish (Katta Sambol / Coconut Milk / Pol Sambol / Tomato Curry). Served with local tea or coffee.