Sri Lankan dinner laid along the table by lantern light

Food menu

Three sample menus from the kitchen. Mix them from day to day, and tell the cook what you would like the night before.

Home cooking from the south coast, made with what the cook finds at the Galle market that morning.

Egg hoppers, kiribath and coconut sambol with Ceylon tea, the sea at dawn behind

Breakfast

07:30–10:30

  • KiribathCoconut milk rice with lunu miris
  • Egg hoppersCrisp rice-flour bowls, coconut sambol
  • String hoppersWith kiri hodi and dhal
  • Curd and treacleBuffalo curd, kithul treacle, fruit
Red rice and curries in clay bowls on a banana leaf

Lunch

12:30–14:30

  • Rice and curryRed rice with five curries from the market
  • Isso wadePrawn and lentil fritters
  • Gotu kola sambolPennywort, shallot, lime, coconut
Fish curry, jackfruit and aubergine in clay pots by lantern light

Dinner

from 19:30

  • Ambul thiyalSour fish curry, goraka, black pepper
  • PolosYoung jackfruit, slow-cooked in roasted spices
  • Wambatu mojuSweet and sour aubergine pickle
  • WatalappamJaggery and coconut custard, cardamom

Allergies and other diets are cooked on request.

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