A few weeks ago I was drinking tea at a shop in Alhambra, and a man seated near me mentioned he was from Sri Lanka. I asked him if there were any Sri Lankan restaurants he particularly loved around ...

The menu at the Sri Lankan restaurant called Apey Kade is heavy with dishes that, even if you’re a well-fed foodie, probably don’t ring any bells. The names exude distant shores, even if you don’t ...

There are certain cuisines that are exported from their origin so rarely that encountering anything resembling them is an event. When what you’re eating in an obscure, entirely neglectable strip mall ...

A spread of coconut roti, kola kanda risotto, coconut chickpea curry, lamprais, biriyani and pan-seared salmon at Sri Lankan restaurant Kurrypinch, which opened on Hollywood Boulevard this spring.

Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. Spicy Lanka — Located along Hillside Avenue’s restaurant row in downtown ...

Hoppers come four to an order and — surprise! — there’s a runny egg inside one of them. This week, Counter Culture traipses in to Banana Leaf, a newish Sri Lankan restaurant in the part of Manhattan ...

There’s no shortage of delicious things to eat in East Hollywood: herbaceous lamb kebabs at Saffy’s; garlicky prawns at Kuya Lord; the entire spicy-sweet-salty pantheon of Thai Town. But until ...