939, Ethul Kotte Road, Sri Jayawardana Pura, Rajagiriya
Open until 11:00 PM
Aasife is good place to get biriyani in Ethul Kotte. The food is good and service friendly.
This is the second time I have been pleasantly surprised by an Indian restaurant. Aasife is located on Ethul Kotte, right next to Burger King. It has been there for almost two years and I cannot believe I have not been there. Until now.
They have an extensive menu with all the Indian favorites, especially biriyani. Their variety was pretty impressive as there were about 8 different types of biriyanis to choose from.
The Prawn Biriyani (Rs. 580) was so delicious, filling and certainly enough for two people. There were about 10-12 prawns mixed in with a well-seasoned biriyani.
We also tried the Butter Naan (Rs. 100 each) which was decent. It was pretty much what you would get at an average restaurant, maybe less oily.
You can't go to an Indian restaurant and not get the Paneer Butter Masala (Rs. 400). While this wasn’t as good as the one we had at Chola, it was a close second. The paneer could have been cooked longer because it was denser than we liked, but the excellent gravy made up for that fact.
The Kerala Chicken Masala (Rs. 480) was also really delicious. There were a lot chunky chicken bits to go around with a spicy, albeit a little peppery gravy. The paneer masala and the chicken did wonders with the naan, as you can imagine.
Their beverages menu was nothing special, with drinks like fruit juices and milkshakes. The Chocolate Milkshake (Rs. 300) while not the most authentic thing to get here, was very satisfactory. It was very chocolatey and had very little sugar, which is always a plus for me.
Their service is excellent. From the moment we entered, we were received with nothing but friendliness and accommodation. They were more than keen to give us separate bills when we asked, and packed our food. The food arrived within 10-15 minutes and everything was served warm.
It’s very spacious with booths and tables, which means it can hold at least two big crowds at once. The wallpapers and the mood music were par for the course.
We highly recommend this place, especially if you live in the area.
Enjoy some great Indian cuisine, especially biriyani.
Aasife is the newest biriyani spot to hit Colombo. We went to check it out ad here's what we thought.
සිංහල ඔය ඔක්කොම කෑම ටික අරගෙනත් අපට ගියේ රු.2000ක් වගේ මුදලක්. හැබැයි ඉතින් හතරදෙනෙක් ට වුණත් කන්න ඇහැකි තරමේ කෑම තොගයක් ලැබුණා.
සිංහල මුලින් ම මේසෙට ආවේ ෆලූඩා එක. බිව්වයින් බිව්වේ නෑ මහත්තයෝ මේ වගේ රස ෆලූඩා එකක්. මේක හරියට අතුරුපස තුනක් එකට දාලා හදලා වගේ.
Address
939, Ethul Kotte Road, Sri Jayawardana Pura, Rajagiriya
Directions
It's right next to Burger King on Ethul Kotte, towards the end of the byroad leading to Rajagiriya.
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We would rate this as the best Biriyani spot in Colombo. Mutton Biriyani was very tender and flavorful. The Faluda dessert was fantastic. We visited the place for the first time with a European family and they greatly enjoyed the food. Also a clean place with efficient staff.
1/5
My order was a delivery. Buriyani came without the Raita or the gravy. Taste was blank and not at all good. Ordered a butter paneer. When I tasted it, it was already going bad and had an awful smell. The gravy in the paneer was just tomatoe sauce.
Will not order or visit this place again. Sending food that has gone bad is a health code violation!! Authorities should look into places like this!!
FYI - call them and ask for a refund and send the food back if this happens. I did it!
1/5
Took my whole family for dinner ordered sweet corn chicken soup it was literally way to sweet when asked why the waiter said that's why they call it sweet corn chicken soup lol…!! (Good thing they did not have TIGER prawns…!)Ordered mutton and chicken biriyani vs hopeless lithe rice tasted bitter did not finish it non of us did….
1/5
Ordered mix rice, because they said to make buriyani take 40minutes. Mix rice came with bad smell. Really awulf. Manthurian chicken also same. Really bad. Frustrated.
2/5
Food has no flavor… tried their Biriyani tastes horrible!!! Positions are quite substantial
1/5
Absolutely crappy service. Food
is decent. Not a dine in place. Only good for take away or home delivery.
1/5
This place sucks
They have only buriyani and nothing else
Waste of time and money going this place!
This place is terrible. The biriyani was pasty and almost felt like it had been reheated a 1000 times. The place is filthy. They brought water in glasses that had greasy finger marks all over it and the cutlery was not washed properly. Eat at your own risk.
Yucky :( … Unluckily the lemon grass is replaced with this shi** restaurant.
Oily and food was full of msg, I had a vegetarian paneer which I ended up with red fingers after eating the stuff, that mean it is full of artificial dye. It was really uncomfortable after the meal as the meal was oily and a fake Biriyani place at all. Not recommending even not if someone die out of hunger.
SUCKS :(
5/5
Yasisurie
Good food. Good service!
3/5
Mystica
Can't we have a shortened version of Sinhalese reviews in English please.
4/5
Miku
Goooooooooood food! Chicken kebabs is bae