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It's one of the restaurants of the Hilton Hotel, and it's located across the road, by the swimming-pool. It serves nearly authentic italian food and it's truly delicious. The dress-code is casual, and the place is very relaxed. Some seafood tortellini.. to die for! Lobster and king prawns were ok, but not memorable. We went back a second time for pizza with parma ham - and the ham was authentic! We were amazed. The tiramisu was sour... so forget about desserts.
The food at the restaurant of the Sigiriya Village Hotel is very beautiful... it's actually more than beautiful, it's spectacular. It's a buffet, of course, but the chefs have taken their time in carving and decorating some pumkins and squashes. Very eye (and photo) catching. Despite its beauty the food looked like all the other buffets that we saw across Sri Lanka... talk about a serious lack of imagination at very high prices. We opted for a-la-carte: we had delicious king prawns at a much
The restaurant is spectacular: it was once the room where tea was sifted and graded, and wood abounds in the decor. The nearby kitchen is where the tea factory's engine room was. There are two menus: a sri-lankan buffet or a-la-carte western food. The buffet is the most expensive of the two. We had some a-la-carte meat - I don't even remember what it was, although it was pretty good. What I'll never foget is the desserts, and in particular the ice-creams... to die for!
Two very different restaurants for two different experiences: at the restaurant of the hotel suisse, located inside the hotel's ballroom, you go for the excellent food - at the Pub, in Kandy town you go for the atmosphere and for the beer, but the food isn't that amazing (it's still edible, though) Hotel Suisse: the flambés... everything flambé on the menu is delicious!The Pub: we had some pasta carbonara... edible. The kebab isn't so.
It's a nice hotel and restaurant set in a park, not far from the rock temples. I think it's mainly geared for tour buses, only we did not see any when we were there. The usual buffet food - quite uninspiring, with no particular qualities or demerits. particularly good was some grilled tank fish - and really horrible the buffalo curd
Aida in Bentota is a very good place to eat,it looks out onto the Bentota Ganga(river) and it floodlit at night. The food is excellent as is the service and there is wide selection of both local and western dishes. Last time I was there a meal (3 courses and coffee and 3 drinks each) was £31.00 for 4 people with healthy appetites. Rice and Curry(Sri Lankan style) but then I am a curry freak.The french Onion soup is excellent and almost a meal on its own!
Drinking is an important part of Sri Lankan male culture, and a social gathering is usually accompanied by a bottle (or ideally several bottles!) of arrack - spirit distilled from palm toddy or coconut. Sri Lankans like to think of themselves as big drinkers - and much is made of bragging about how much (or little) was drunk in a night (a lot like the UK then!). In fact I find normal arrack to be fairly mild - certainly not as strong as most Western spirits. It's not really drunk straight, but mixed with anything from ginger ale to Sprite or most usually Coke and is quite drinkable. A common Sunday might involve getting a few bottles from the wine stores easily found around town (look for a barred window and a group of men outside!), grabbing some friends and heading for the beach - have a swim and then the drinking begins. Arrack is nearly always accompanied by 'bites' - snacks of...
The national dish of Sri Lanka is rice and curry. At lunchtimes it's sold virtually everywhere - street stalls, restaurants, men selling it in 'lunch packets' from a wooden table at the roadside - and is mostly very cheap but of highly variable quality. At its best it's a wonderfully flavoursome delight, at it's worst its bland and tasteless. The trick is working out where is good and where is bad - unfortunately that's purely down to luck rather than the appearance of a place. If you find a good place, stick with it.The best place to try rice and curry, apart from quality restaurants, is at a family home. The wife/mother will generally spend hours making it and the longer it cooks for the more flavour it has. You'll also get ridiculously large portions!The meal is overwhelmingly rice, with a little bit of curried meat and gravy (the curry sauce) to flavour it. At shops, you can usually...
The traditional Sri Lankan way of eating is like much of South Asia (and two year olds in Britain!) - with your hands, playing with the food and mixing it into a ball with your fingers. The theory behind it (other than saving on washing-up) is that this makes you more involved with your meal and makes the food taste better - but I haven't really been convinced! Personally I think it just makes a mess and stains your fingers with curry. Some cafes will have spoons and forks if you wish but you'll have to ask. All reasonable restaurants give you cutlery and Sri Lankans are expected to use it when eating out, which suggests they're not entirely convinced that finger-eating is the best way to go either! Personally if I'm with Sri Lankan friends I use my fingers like they do, but nobody will be offended if you pull out a spoon.
Sri Lankan food is renowned for it's spiciness and hot taste. Throughout the trip you'll be warned by proud Sri Lankans that you'll find the food too hot for your poor sensitive foreign mouths to handle. But in fact I've eaten plenty of hotter curries in Britain, and certainly in southeast Asia. I find most food here is much milder than you're led to expect - particularly if you're staying at tourist hotels which deliberately go easy on the spices, but even when I'm eating with local friends who sometimes put even more in just to prove a point!To be honest, I've also been a bit disappointed with the quality of the food. I've always thought you can tell the quality of a country's cuisine by the standard of the most basic cheapest street food - if you've been to Singapore or Thailand you'll know this can be fantastic. In Sri Lanka however, much of it is fairly bland and tasteless. Sri...
Mount Lavina Hotel Colombo
5 Reviews and 395 Opinions This is the closest hotel you can experience the Beach as you come to Colombo. Good food, good rooms...
Earl's Regency Hotel Kandy Kandy
4 Reviews and 235 Opinions Kandy Perahara Starts on Esala Full Moon Poya Day in July & finishes on Nikini Full Moon Poya Day on...
Palm Garden Village Hotel Anuradhapura
3 Reviews and 111 Opinions The Palm Garden Village is like a colonial club, but one with a relaxed and freestyle-air. It was...
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