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🇱🇰 Colombo
8 places across Parts Unknown & No Reservations
Every Place Bourdain Visited in Colombo
8 placesGalle Face Green
Galle road
"This is our Central Park," Dharshan Munidasa says (a chef and TV personality). Tony and Dharshan had street food here.
Nelum Kole Restaurant
Tony had lunch at this local rice and curry joint with Kumar Lopez, CEO of Sri Lanka Press Institute, a news trade organization. They had chicken curry, spicy potatoes, beets, and rice.
Wellawatte Railway Station
Tony took a 10-hour train ride to Jaffna.
Lakmali Hotel
Station Road
Tony had a heavy breakfast here although he was feeling very ill. Sambal and chili, rice.
The Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon
Reid Avenue
Postcolonial elite. Tony describes it as "the last remnants of long-gone empires." They drank coconut liquor
Hotel De Pilawoos
Late night dish called kottu roti. It is made of diced veggies, eggs, curry sauce, and chopped roti chopped together.
Rifka Catering Company
Stewart Street
They had biryani
Galle Face Hotel
Galle Road
Tony stayed here. In the open air restaurant, a man scares away the birds from eating guest's breakfasts by shooting them with a slingshot
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