Eater’s Guide to the Best Sri Lankan Restaurants in London | Eater London

"The Eastcote branch of this contemporary restaurant is attractively done up with framed pictures, flowers and wooden furniture reminiscent of a Sri Lankan family home. The menu is imaginative, based on the Sri Lankan-born chef’s own family recipes. Beautifully presented short eats come accented with cassava and wrapped in filo pastry; devilled dishes are perked up with an extra oomph. The Dutch-Sri Lankan classic lamprais here features rice with meat curry, green jackfruit curry, aubergine pickle, seeni sambal (caramelised onion relish), boiled egg and fish cutlet served on a banana leaf. There’s a notably good choice of vegetarian dishes, including savoury urad lentil and spinach vadai, and a beautifully complex tamarind-laced yam curry. Also spiced with own-made curry powder are chicken curries (on the bone and boneless), mutton-on-the-bone curry, and a sharp, spicy coastal speciality made from squid. Watalappan, a traditional egg and coconut milk custard with nuts, is dense with the distinctive flavour of palm jaggery and perfumed with cardamom and nutmeg." - Sejal Sukhadwala