ACTUALLY decent biriyani – 250LKR

Let’s lay down the facts:

1. You are broke
2.  You want biriyani
3. You think, “can I afford biriyani?”
4. Why yes, yes you can
5. How you ask?…Keep reading

250 Rupee biriyani runs on a simple concept. You pay 250 rupees and in return you get a large portion of biriyani, a chicken leg, something along the lines of – let’s call it raita and the saviour of it all, a cup of gravy we wished we had more of. Their other options include getting Chicken 65 (150 LKR) and a boiled egg (40 LKR) to the usual 250 rupee combo .

Starting off with the no nonsense biriyani. It played it’s part well and was more flavourful than some of the exorbitantly priced biriyanis we had back in our boujee days (a moment of silence please). Not gonna lie at first glance it did look dry, but that was not the case at all, that biriyani is a catfish but in a good way. It was perfectly moist ( yes we said THAT), making the godfather of biriyani pretty proud.

Moving on to the protein aspect, the usual chicken leg was rather underwhelming, it was like isso wadé minus the onion-lime topping situation 😩. It lacked flavour and unfortunately was only  a notch better than plain, old boiled chicken. On the other day the chicken 65 was god sent and was well worth the extra 150 LKR. The flavor profile, texture, overall taste and even the appeal was much better in the Chicken 65. Our only disappointment was that 3 of those juicy boys weren’t enough, but for 150 LKR, we really can’t complain.

The gravy was what brought the whole thing together. It was a hero without a cape, really. We would drink this in bucketfuls with paper straws heheh. However, the biriyani to gravy ratio was  off for our hodi-loving selves, we definitely did wish we had more gravy 💔.

Pretty self explanatory, the “raita” was just onions with morsels of green chilli mixed with a minimum amount of curd/yogurt making it quite dry.

With that our ratings are as follows; 

• Value for money – 10/10
• Taste and appeal – 7/10
• If it fill us up – 10/10
• Chances of us having it again – 8/10

You can find 250 rupee biriyani on instagram @250rupeebiriyani, contact them directly at +94777585250  or check them out on PickMe and Uber Eats. One suggestion would be to expand their standard 5km only delivery radius, since we had to pick me flash the food to our office. 

We would definitely order from 250 rupee biriyani again, broke or not but realistically broke 🤷🏽‍♀️.  

If you try this out, do let your Gods know children (the Gods being us😗). Stay broke and hungry till next Thursday (or Friday because we are not reliable, evidently) 

By Maheli Sri Gintotage & Sakuni Wisanperuma