Salma's Kitchen

Armenian food with Middle Eastern infusion

Salma's Kitchen is a family-run Armenian and Middle Eastern kitchen in Abbotsford, BC. We cook pickup meals and cater weddings, office lunches, memorials and family gatherings across the Fraser Valley and Metro Vancouver: kabab, shish tawook, kibbe, fresh salads and dips by the half kilo. Call us to order.

Kababs off the grill, dips made from scratch, and the flavours of Armenia with a Middle Eastern soul, cooked the way home tastes.

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An overhead view of a shared table laid with grilled skewers, a bulgur and parsley salad, bowls of dips, warm flatbread, pickles and lemons on cream linen.

What we cook Armenian and Middle Eastern: kabab, shish tawook, toshka, sujuk, kibbe, tabouli, Armenian salad and dips by the half kilo.
How we cook From scratch and to order. Dips, salads and marinades made in our own kitchen, grilled mains cooked for the day you asked for.
Where we cook Abbotsford, BC, in the Fraser Valley. Pickup from our kitchen.
Where we cater Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Mission, Langley, Aldergrove, Surrey, Maple Ridge, Burnaby, Vancouver.
What we cater Weddings, office lunches, celebrations of life, birthdays and family gatherings.
How to order Phone only. Call (819) 743-5953 and you talk to our family, not a booking form.

From the grill

What does Salma's Kitchen cook?

Grilled Armenian and Middle Eastern mains, salads and dips made from scratch. The house favourites are kabab, shish tawook, toshka and our signature kibbe. Every grilled dish comes as a sandwich or a full meal, and meals include fragrant rice, salad and your choice of dip.

Kabab

Sandwich · Meal

Juicy, expertly seasoned and grilled to perfection. A mouth-watering blend of spices in every bite.

Shish Tawook

Sandwich · Meal

Marinated chicken breast with an enticing smoky flavour, served with our signature dip.

Toshka

Sandwich · Meal

A Syrian favourite: crispy and golden outside, warm minced meat and spices within.

Kibbe

Meal

Our signature. Ground beef, bulgur wheat, onions and hand-picked spices, four pieces with rice and salad.

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Grilled meat and chicken skewers resting on a stoneware platter with charred peppers, tomato, onion, chopped parsley, sumac and half a lemon.

Bowls of dips with pools of olive oil beside a dish of olives, torn flatbread, mint, parsley and scattered pomegranate seeds on a linen cloth.

Dips for your home

Can you buy the dips to take home?

Yes. All three dips are made from scratch and packed by the half kilo for pickup in Abbotsford: roasted red pepper muhammara with pomegranate molasses, silky classic hummus, and smoky baba ganoush. Call ahead and we will have them ready.

Hummus · Muhammara · Baba Ganoush

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Three tall glasses on a brass tray: deep red iced hibiscus tea, cloudy lemonade with mint, and a frothy white salted yogurt drink.

To drink

What do you drink with a kabab?

We pour three: ayran, the creamy salted yogurt drink; hibiscus tea, deep red, tangy and lightly sweet; and lemonada, fresh lemon with mint. Each one cuts through grilled meat differently, so ask when you order.

Ayran · Hibiscus Tea · Lemonada

More on all three in our guide to the drinks we pour.

How we work

What is it like to order from a family kitchen?

You call, and one of us answers. We cook to order rather than keep food waiting, we make the dips and salads ourselves, and we work out your quantities with you instead of guessing at them. Ordering ahead is the only thing we ask of you in return.

Made from scratch

In our kitchen

The dips, the salads, the marinades: we make them ourselves rather than open them. That is why we ask you to order ahead. Food this fresh has to be made on a day, and the day is yours.

Generous by habit

How we portion

In our family, "I am full" is where the feeding begins. We would rather you carry leftovers home than watch a table run short, so when we work out quantities with you, we plan on the generous side.

You talk to the family

How we take orders

No cart, no form, no script. Call and you reach the people who cook the food, so you can ask a real question and get a straight answer instead of a policy.

Bought close to home

Where it comes from

We buy what we can from Abbotsford and Fraser Valley farms. It is better food, and it keeps us connected to the growers in our own community.

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A table dressed for a gathering: cream linen, stoneware plates with folded napkins, plain glassware, unlit candles and a runner of olive branches.

Feeding a crowd

Do you cater across the Fraser Valley?

Yes. We cater weddings, office lunches, memorials, birthdays and every gathering in between, from Abbotsford east to Chilliwack and west as far as Vancouver. Spreads of grilled mains, mezze dips and salads, cooked fresh by our family and delivered ready to serve.

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From our kitchen to your table

Order ahead for pickup in Abbotsford: sandwiches, meals, salads and half-kilo dips.

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