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short eats
cheesy colombo (v & gf) £8
Colombo-style fried cheese cubes with sticky sauce (a family FAVE that’s hit it off UK-side).
lamb roll🌶️ £5.5
Crispy, golden & packed with flavour! Spiced lamb & potato with a sweet pineapple & sriracha kick on the side.
HOT BUTTER CALAMARI (gf) £6/11
Calamari marinated in garlic & chilli, lightly battered and cooked in a punchy butter sauce… Goes down nicely with an ice-cold lager!
CHICKPEAS (vg & gf)🌶️ £5
Stir fried in coconut oil, onions, garlic, mustard seeds, coconut shavings, curry leaves & crushed chillies.
hoppers
A hopper is a bowl-shaped coconut milk pancake served with coconut sambol, seeni sambol (caramelised onions with a hint of cinnamon) & lunu miris (Sri Lankan salsa).
egg hopper (v & gf) 🌶️ £4.75
plain hopper (vg & gf) 🌶️ £4.25
KOTTHU
The ultimate street food fix! Hot griddled, shredded rotti with onion, leeks & carrots. For the full experience, add cheese or a fried egg.
Vegan (VG) £9
VEGETARIAN (V) £9
Big veggie energy! With wok-scrambled, seasoned eggs.
CHICKEN £12
Slow cooked and full of flavour.
MIXED SEAFOOD £15
Straight from the coast. An authentic mix of tender calamari, ocean mussels, prawns & fish.
Gluten-Free? No problem.
Try our string hopper kotthu — a GF twist on the classic, using rice flour noodles stir-fried with chopped veg and/or meat. All the flavour, none of the gluten.
VEGGIE & VEGAN
KAJU MALUWA [CASHEW NUTS] (VG & GF) £9
Sri Lankan cashews and green peas in a sweet coconut curry. Our most creamy dish.
PARIPPU [DHAL] (VG & GF) £6.5
Creamy lentils blended with SL spices and coconut milk, slow cooked to perfection.
hot battered cauliflower (vg & gf) £7.5
Cauliflower with garlic and chilli, battered in polenta & served with caramelised onions.
fat sister (vg & gf) £7.5
Tender squash cooked in coconut cream, curry leaves, pandan leaves & mustard seeds.
tofu & jackfruit (vg & gf) £10
Plant-powered and full of flavour. Slow-cooked jackfruit, tofu and peppers in a rich coconut curry with roasted spices and fragrant pandan leaves.
kale and cabbage (vg & gf) £6
A fresh mix of kale & cabbage, sauteed in coconut oil and spices with grated coconut and a pinch of curry leaves.
Sri-tato (vg & gf)🌶️ £7
Roast potatoes lightly fried & spiced Sri Lankan style.
meats & fish
negombo fish curry (gf)🌶️ £11
Packed with Sri Lankan flavours. Succulent fillet of white fish cooked in Negombo spices and coconut milk.
Jaffna goat & potato curry (gf)🌶️ £12
Slow-cooked goat with potatoes in hearty Jaffna spices. A special recipe, courtesy of Chef’s Dad.
black pork (gf)🌶️ £12
Pork belly slow-cooked in roasted TCT spices, a secret FAVE mix courtesy of our ‘Granny Gertie’.
chicken curry on the bone (gf)🌶️ £9
On the menu by popular demand from friends and family, a typical Sri Lankan curry.
devilled
devilled prawns (GF)🌶️ £11
King prawns in a spicy sticky sauce with fresh chillies & mixed peppers.
devilled wings (GF)🌶️ £9
Sri Lankan style fried chicken wings with peppers & red onions in a spicy, sticky sauce.
devilled pork & pineapple curry (GF)🌶️ £10
Crispy belly pork wok-fried with fiery chillies, red onions, and ripe pineapple chunks in a thick, tangy, and spicy soy-chilli glaze. A balance of sweet, sour & heat.
salads & sambol
beetroot salad (vg & GF) £6
Subtly sweet, shredded beetroot, with tomato.
COCONUT SAMBOL (VG & GF) £6
A fresh coconut relish blended with shallots & spicy green chillies.
sl style sweetcorn (vg & gf) 🌶️ £6
Crunchy sweetcorn and grated carrot finished with a sauté of mustard seeds, curry leaves, pandan & chilli.
CUCUMBER SALAD (VG & GF)🌶️ £6
A zingy cucumber, apple and radish salad in a coconut yoghurt with chillies and lime.
rice & rotti
STICKY RICE 'KIRIBATH' (VG & GF) £5
Rice cooked in coconut milk served with spicy lunu minis.
BASMATI PANDAN RICE (VG & GF) £4
parotta rotti (vg) £4
Sri Lankan flatbreads.
pol rotti (vg) £6
A Sri Lankan staple. 2 rustic coconut flatbreads with a chilli hit from the lunu miris.
fried rice
Wok fried with carrots, onions, green peas & TCT chilli paste.
vegan ( vg & gf) £7
vegetarian (v & gf) £9
mixed seafood (gf) £13
Top with a fried egg (v & gf) +£1
SWEETS
TREACLE HOPPER WITH VANILLA ICE CREAM ( V OR VG & GF) £6.5
A warm folded hopper drizzled with golden treacle and served with vanilla ice cream.
milo chocolate biscuit pudding (v) £7
Hold tight chocolate lovers...layers of SL tea biscuits and light chocolate MILO mousse topped with chocolate.
PANNA COTTA (GF) £5
A unique SL twist on panna cotta made with coconut milk, coconut treacle, garnished with pineapple chunks & lime zest.
ICE CREAM (V, VG & GF OPTIONS) £4.5
Hand crafted ice cream. Ask for our flavours.
CAN'T DECIDE? ONLY £30PP
You pick some, and we'll add a few TCT favourite dishes.
V - Vegetarian
VG - Vegan
GF - Gluten-Free
🌶️ - A Bit Spicy
🌶️🌶️ - Sri Lankan Spicy