Nila's Kitchen Indonesian Food

Restaurant · Calgary, AB, Canada

About Nila's Kitchen Indonesian Food

Nila's Kitchen Indonesian Food operates as a food stall inside Crossroads Market, a long-running indoor market and flea market complex at 1235 26 Avenue Southeast in Calgary, Alberta. The business is run by Nila Tulis and her husband, Pol Polandari, who opened the stall to share dishes from their hometown of Surabaya, East Java, a history documented in a 2022 Savour Calgary feature on the vendor. Pol handles the savoury side of the menu while Nila focuses on desserts, a division of labor the article describes directly.

The savoury lineup centers on beef rendang, slow-braised in coconut milk and spices and served over turmeric rice with sambal, alongside satay chicken skewers grilled to order and a tossed chicken noodle dish. Nila's dessert specialties include kueh lapis, a colorful layered tapioca cake, a baked thousand-layer cake known in Indonesia as lapis legit, and serabi, a pandan-flavored coconut-milk cake sweetened with palm sugar. Reviewers single out the thousand-layer cake in particular, noting it takes roughly five hours to prepare and is often requested around Lunar New Year and Eid.

Crossroads Market itself is open Friday through Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Monday through Thursday, and the stall follows the market's own hours since it keeps no separate schedule. It occupies stall 139 in the market's Farmer's Market Area, per the market's own current vendor directory. The business appears online under two names referring to the same stall: Nila's Taste of Indonesia, used on its Facebook and Instagram (@nilastasteofindo) accounts, and Nila's Kitchen Indonesian Food, the name recorded in the market's own vendor listing, which this record now uses as the primary name.

The stall carries a 4.9-out-of-5 rating from more than 100 Google reviews, with diners describing the food as authentic Indonesian home cooking served with friendly, welcoming service. No certifying halal body is named in available sourcing, so no halal claim is made here. This record previously carried the name Borobudur Resto Indonesian Food, taken from a secondary aggregator listing that proved outdated; the correction reflects the vendor's current name, phone number, and hours, cross-checked against the market's own vendor page, Wanderlog, and the 2022 Savour Calgary profile, all of which independently agree on the stall's location and the phone number 403-681-1223.

Address

1235 26 Avenue SE, Stall 139 (Crossroads Market), Calgary, AB, Canada

Opening hours

Friday Sunday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Monday Thursday
Closed

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Category

Indonesian Restaurant in Canada

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