Long-heralded Sri Lankan restaurant Rambutan opens today (17 March) on the edge of London’s Borough Market, from chef and food-writer Cynthia Shanmugalingam (above). Rambutan was first announced last summer, when Cynthia introduced the concept with a soft-serve ice cream pop-up featuring such flavours as mango; jaggery; watermelon and hibiscus; and buffalo curd. Her first book, […]
A new Sri Lankan restaurant will open in Soho. Kolamba is the brainchild of owners Aushi and Eroshan Meewella, whose foundation for the venture is “a love for the recipes they grew up eating in the houses of family and friends in Colombo, Sri Lanka.” They say: “Nowhere are these flavours as bold and unapologetic […]
JKS Restaurants – AKA the Sethi siblings (Gymkhana, Trishna and a driving financial force behind Bao) – will open a second outpost of their hugely popular Sri Lankan street food shack, Hoppers, in Marylebone on 12 September. The original Hoppers was one of the biggest hits of 2015 when it stormed into Soho with its “incredible” and […]
