Nama, located in the Scarborough Bluffs area, is the product of love between Kirsten Scott and Amit Kulkarni . Amit Kulkarni was the owner and chef of The Royal Kashmir which was located at Yonge and Eglinton. His engineering and financial background brings certain creativity and precision to his cooking. Kirsten Scott was born and raised in the Scarborough Bluff’s neighborhood. She has a passion for food, nutrition and balanced well-being. As different as these two are their love of food has brought them together in this little Indian restaurant called Nama. After working together for a number of years side by side with Amit, Kirsten has now opened Nama in the Cliffside Village.

Being mostly vegetarian, and at times a vegan, Kirsten is dedicated to a wide and pure vegetarian menu with many vegan selections. Her love of fish inspires truly fantastic fusion cooking taking Turbot, Halibut Steak, Tuna, and Basa fish together with traditional Indian Sauces to create subtle flavours with excellent texture. As with the Royal Kashmir, the meats used by Nama are first class. The lamb is fresh Ontario leg of lamb only, and the beef is AAA top Sirloin. These meats together with slow cooking and secret spices produce succulent dishes with additive flavors. The rice used is Tilda basmati rice which is one of the finest quality rice out of India today.

There are two chefs at Nama, Amit, who was born in Indian and raised in Kingston, Ontario, and Babulal Sharma who was part of the Royal Kashmir and is from Northern India, Punjab. Together they use their expertise to make fine Indian fare, and enjoy doing it.