Jaffna House Restaurant

Sri Lankan restaurant · Tooting

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"This amazingly pocket-friendly Tooting stalwart started as a small café and takeaway nearly 30 years ago, but has grown in popularity and stature. Avoid the generic Indian items: there are plenty of south Indian-style Sri Lankan delicacies here. Pithu, here made from wheat and brown rice flours and steamed in the cavity of a bamboo, as is traditional, is fried in butter with seafood. Banana fritters can be found alongside prawn and lentil fritters, and sweet ones made from moong beans and fresh coconut. Devilled dishes include devilled beef and liver; there’s also assertively spiced fried potato pirattal. Sri Lankan omelettes with onions and green chillies lurk in the menu’s depths, as do beef, squid and crab curries accompanied by wonderfully spiky carrot sambal." - Sejal Sukhadwala

Eater’s Guide to the Best Sri Lankan Restaurants in London - Eater London
Jaffna House [Official]

90 Tooting High St, London, SW17 0RN, United Kingdom Get directions

jaffna-house.co.uk

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