Ceylon and Curry

Visited Sydney and looked for a Sri Lankan restaurant for lunch. Found Ceylon and Curry with good ratings. Personally the food is amazing with traditional Sri Lankan flavour. But the atmosphere is average and long wait. Good service. Tried beef kottu, biriyani, rice and curry. Highly recommended.

We had a frustrating experience ordering take away here tonight through the eat club app. We ordered our dishes and later we received a message that 3 out of 4 of our curries were unavailable. We ordered another 3 curries then some time later we received another message that they were unavailable, we changed our choices a second time and then again a third time. It turns out that they were entirely out of goat, lamb and chickpeas but they hadn’t updated the online ordering system or thought to call us to explain until after our third attempt to order. In the end we ended up waiting more than an hour for our food to be ready. When we finally did pick it up a few items (like the sauces) were missing but we were far too tired to go back and complain.

Effort has been made to make the Ceylon and Curry dining room cheery. Saturated images of Sri Lanka line the walls, edged with plastic plants. They soften the impact of the plastic-draped, paper-topped tables, edged with burgundy and brown high-backed chairs. It’s air conditioned, but you wouldn’t know it, with a hot gust entering under the curiously high-set front door. It all adds up to the right kind of place to tuck into a tropical curry. And what says hot climate curry better than scraped coconut-infused pol roti ($16.99) dipped in yellow dhal flavoured with curry leaves and mustard seeds and sprinkled with spicy coconut sambol? It was actually the best yellow dhal I’ve had in years. With the chicken delivery not arriving, the two-person combo meal ($48) is off the menu, though the all-female team make it work with a Sri Lankan coconut fish curry instead. For just over fifty bucks this gets us a tasty, white-fleshed fish curry, a pot of tangy and tannic ginger tea, two bowls of saffron-hued rice, and a pleasant green bean curry. There’s also a bowl of eggplant “salad” where wedges of eggplant are taken right to the edge of explosive liquid interiors under a dusting of fresh coriander, tomatoes and washed onions. We add on a Sri Lankan spicy goat curry ($19.99) where tender hunks of goat swam in a watery tomato-based sauce, but it was more food than we needed. While there have been numerous attempts—including one across the road—to elevate Sri Lankan cuisine, there’s something charming about the inexpensive and unpretentious Sri Lankan home-style cooking you will find here.

From the outside it looked closed and a bit basic but, but, but the food was amazing. If you want food that tastes like it's been cooked by a Sri Lanka grandma, this is it. The parathas were phenomenal, perhaps the best I've had. The curry was intense and rich in flavour. It wasn't the watered down (for Australian audiences) version that I thought we'd get. If you want authenticity this is your place.

We had such a wonderful experience here. We were warmly welcomed by the owner who explained all the items on the menu for us as it was our first visit. My goodness, the food was so delicious! I had the rice with 5 curry dish and everything on the plate was fabulous and so flavourful. The beef was exceptionally tender and juicy. The serving was very generous, and I had enough left over to take home for dinner! All meals are cooked to order using fresh ingredients and you can really taste the love and care that has been put into the meals 🤗