Spice Lanka

The selection of Sri Lanka spices is not to be beat. The store is clean and well-​lit, the owner not particularly friendly. They have a brunch, which we did not try. All authentic looking. Check out the «short eat» case and order the Chinese lamb roll and the Scotch egg goodie; awesome. The fish cutlet triangles were awful. hard to eat… the puff pastry better. Stocked up on some stuff, would go back in a heartbeat.

As a Sri Lankan I’ve been going to this store since it opened 10 years ago. Not only can you find items not offered even in Indian stores who sell Sri Lankan items, but their ready made food is delicious! Especially our apetizers that are time consuming to make, but everything I’ve had is great.

Great hidden treasure, there are alot of Sri Lankan spices; for the novice (i.e. me) Indian-​like spices. I know they are a separate nation (ha); but the spices are very simliar and they have a great selection, excellent prices and the folks in the store a very helpful and friendly. I have been going here over 2 years and have consistently had excellent service, purchased good products and received good cooking advice.

OK, admittedly, I know nothing about Sri Lankan grocery stores, so all I can rate is my experience at this one. We decided to make a Sri Lankan dinner (the result of a college study abroad experience) and with recipe books in hand, headed out to the grocery store. It’s small, similar to many other ethnic groceries that I’ve been in (except that EVERYTHING is labeled in English, which is kinda nice) and clearly frequented primarily by South Asians. Everything seemed pretty cheap (we mostly got spices) and it was well organized.
The owner was positively delightful and they had 98% of the items on our list. Apparently they also sell homemade hoppers, rotti and the like, I assume later in the day, so we’ll definitely be going back to check them out.