Tuk Tuk Snack Shop - Carta

My husband and I went to dinner here tonight and the food was amazing! The service was equally as good. We had such a wonderful time and can’t wait to return. Have to say we also love reading the owners responses to silly 1 star reviews! Keep it up! You guys are great

This is a great restaurant! I love how it mixes Sri Lankan and Southern cuisine together. I have never experienced this before. However, I feel like the food leans more toward Southern cuisine with a Sri Lankan twist. The atmosphere is great but has limited seating space.

Great food and service. The food was a delicious variation of Indian style. We had an appetizer of curry chili ribs which were very good. For the main course, we had a chicken rice and curry bowl that was also excellent. The service was efficient, and our entire party agreed that we'd be back. Ver carta

Owner is incredibly rude and immature it is honestly shocking. She will also take negative reviews and post them on her account, mock them, respond rudely, and then block you. I thought this was just my experience but it looks like many other customers have had similar experiences. I look forward to seeing this review put on blast!

Chef Sam Fore has some of the most innovative and delicious cuisine in Lexington! If you were a fan of Chef Mark Jenson's dearly departed Middle Fork Kitchen Bar, I highly recommend you try Tuk Tuk Snack Shop. Do get reservations as the seating is limited. And my husband who usually hates coconut, loved the dishes make with it at Tuk Tuk Snack Shop.

My friends and I visited for a brunch and everything was so good! Not only delicious, but unique and unexpected. I’m southern, so I know biscuits and gravy, but not like this! It felt adventurous to eat like this and I really enjoyed it. The chef (owner) came over to our table and spoke to us about the food, giving us more info and context about what we were eating and just generally making sure we were having a good time. I’ll be back! Ver carta

Y'all. This is my new favorite trendy but casual place in Lexington. We came here for dinner. The food was delicious and came out fast. I recommend the curry bowl, seafood pasta, ribs, or deviled eggs. All of the drinks and dishes have a unique spin on them. The owner is WONDERFUL and waited on us and accommodated us on a Saturday night even though we didn't have a reservation. She answered all of our questions and we got to learn about Sri Lankan food/spices. Not a lot of seating but they do have indoor/outdoor tables. There are vegan and gluten free options. Easy parking because it's in a plaza. I hope this place sticks around. Check it out!

I am a *massive* fan Indian and Sri Lankan food cuisines. I have years experience making dishes from these cuisines and have made many Sri Lankan dishes from scratch with joy. It's an amazing cuisine so I was excited to see what this addition to Lexington's restaurant scene had to offer. For my first sampling of this restaurant's dishes I chose the eggplant salad. It was not interesting but was fine. Not extraordinary and definitely not worth the price. The main entree I chose was jackfruit and grits. As a southerner I am quite familiar with grits and as lifelong vegetarian/vegan I have a lot of experience making things from jackfruit. To put it bluntly Tuk Tuk's jackfruit and grits was abso...

Lexington, KY and the general central KY area have a much more diverse food scene now than when I moved there 9 years ago. Part of the success of many small ethnic eateries in the area have been the warmth of service and the demand for variety in an area that has had cultural homogeneity for a very long time. Given how lovingly my hundreds of friends in the area embrace and welcome new businesses serving diverse food, I was surprised to hear the restaurant was not doing so well. One look through their social media accounts and responses to Google reviews, and I understood the problem clearly. If their service was even half as dedicated as their attempts at snarky responses to dissatisfied cu... Ver carta