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 ...
Appam are the lacy, fermented-rice pancakes enjoyed in southern India, but in Sri Lanka, they’re called hoppers. The name apparently came from English colonialists mis-hearing the word for rice, which ...
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.