Ceylon Spice Kitchen
A small family kitchen cooking home-style Sri Lankan food, with a few dishes you will recognise and a few worth trying for the first time.
A sample menu. This restaurant is not real.
Dinner
Served from 5pm. Rice and curry plates, hoppers, and short eats.
Rice and Curry
Each plate comes with rice, a sambol, and a poppadom.
Sri Lankan Chicken Curry•• DF Chef's pick
$16.50Chicken thighs simmered in roasted curry powder, curry leaves, and coconut milk. A common home-style version; regional and family variations exist.
Sri Lankan Fish Curry•• DF
$18.00Firm white fish in a tamarind and coconut gravy, gently spiced and finished with curry leaves.
Dhal CurryV VG GF
$12.00Red lentils cooked soft in coconut milk with turmeric and a curry-leaf temper. Comforting and mild.
Cashew CurryV VG
$14.00Whole cashews in a pale, creamy coconut curry. A celebration dish that works any night.
Hoppers and Short Eats
Egg HoppersV GF
$9.00Bowl-shaped fermented rice-and-coconut pancakes with an egg set in the middle. Best eaten hot.
Chicken Kottu Roti••• Spicy Chef's pick
$15.00Chopped roti stir-fried with chicken, egg, and vegetables. Our most-ordered late plate.
Fish Cutlets•• DF
$8.00Crisp, spiced fish-and-potato croquettes, four to a plate, served with lunu miris.
Sambols and Sides
Pol Sambol••• V VG GF Spicy
$4.00Fresh coconut pounded with chilli, lime, and red onion. Bright, hot, and on every table.
Sweets
WatalappamV GF NF
$7.00A set coconut-and-jaggery custard, scented with cardamom and nutmeg. Rich and not too sweet.