Cargills Liquor Outlet

The clerk tried to steal 120 extra! This is your best bet around for beer as it actually has a price list and scanner. It also has cold beer. You go around the back of the Cargill where deliveries are made. There is a line with bars but they indicated we should go to the area with an open counter. Here there is an English price list. 625ml of Lion Lager is 180 and 625ml of the stout 8.8%abv is 320. I actually liked the stout. They scan, you should also get a receipt. Assuming we were too dumb to do the math they scanned a more expensive beer trying to charge us more than showed it as refunded on the receipt. We noticed before handing over any money and they corrected it so we paid the correct amount. They were hoping to pocket 120 overpayment! Even with all this, this is the easiest booze store in Kandy. All the others are just a counter, no list, probably no scanner and receipt. Just do the math yourself!

Best place to get low cost liquor. You have to go around the food city building to the back if you want to find it. There’s normally a long que but it’s worth it.

Worth a look, if only to see how liquor is viewed in Sri Lanka. There is an airport style queue system leading up to a counter. There's no browsing. You need to know what you want. And you'll have a bunch of impatient locals waiting behind you. Bottle of arrack is about 1000 LKR. Tin of warm Lion about 220 LKR (versus 600 LKR in the local bars).

Hard to find, but a good value place to buy beer and liquor, once you've waited for the inevitable queue.

Not a suitable location for a liquor store. But service is good. Popular with local crowd.