Eater’s Guide to the Best Sri Lankan Restaurants in London | Eater London
"Another brightly coloured, long-established Sri Lankan community favourite — don’t fall foul of the demure exterior: the food here is properly punchy. Avoid generic Indian items on its vast menu, and opt for a great range of fiery devilled dishes; or short eats like mutton roti and fish roll. These are tapas-style snacks served in Sri Lanka’s roadside cafés, beach huts and toddy tavern,; often huddled inside a layer of mashed potato, then bread-crumbed and fried. There’s a great choice of kothu, too — stir-fried meat, vegetables, eggs and spices — with either godamba roti (flatbreads), idiyappam (string hoppers) or puttu (steamed rice cake logs). Not to be missed are two of the capital’s best Sri Lankan food shops: Bestfoods next door, and Ganapathy across the road, that sell groceries like orange-hued king coconuts, banana flowers, Madras cucumbers, speciality baked goods, and dozens of varieties of rice in every shade of red." - Sejal Sukhadwala
