When Kolamba first opened in 2019, many diners who walked into the charming eatery in central London’s Soho district weren’t familiar with Sri Lankan cuisine. They thought it was just like Indian food ...
As the Sri Lankan immigrant community in Jamaica, Queens follows the devastating economic crisis and the deadly protests and food shortages it’s fueled in their native country, Queens Lanka — a rare ...
Was the incongruous Sri Lankan restaurant that existed for a few years in a staid Chevy Chase DC neighborhood in the 2010s ...
For many years, Rasika Wetthasinghe, the co-owner of Queens Lanka, an extraordinary new restaurant and grocery store in Jamaica, Queens, worked as a chef for the Hilton hotel in his native Colombo, ...
The first Sri Lankan Panda Express quietly opened in Rogers Park late last March. That’s what Kiso Sivarasa and his partners hoped when they launched Café Nova on the ground floor of Loyola University ...
The first time I went to what would become my favorite restaurant in New York, it was an accident. A friend and I dropped into Sigiri, in the East Village, after our original plan fell through. I had ...
Sri Lanka’s two main ethnic groups — the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils — have long had a contentious, violent relationship that’s seen civil wars and ethnic cleansing woven into the ...