Cinnamon Lakeside goes Sri Lankan in style

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The popularity of the Hopper Night at Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo is understandable. Every month, the hotel gives guests a taste of authentic Sri Lankan food, in a spread fit for a king, at a price anyone can afford.

This time the event will be on Friday, 25 February from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. As always, it will take place at the garden area beside the tranquil waters of the hotel’s pool and the Beira waterfront.

Crispy, stuffed hoppers and egg hoppers, string hoppers, kottu roti, vegetables and meat curries, pittu, babath, chicken curry, fish ambulthiyal, and many other Sri Lankan favourites are prepared by the chefs and served at a lavish buffet.

Stuffed hoppers have recently taken an adventurous turn with cheese and chili hoppers, ‘seeni sambol’ hoppers, ‘kiri aappa’, ‘pani pol’ hoppers and masala hoppers. During the meal, a calypso band makes its way around each table entertaining guests and obliging with requests.

Just about every imaginable local dessert will decorate the dessert counter. Be it lavariya, dodol, milk toffee, kokis, kavum, asmi, helapa, mung kavum, coconut rock or banana fritters, every bite will take you further back in time to when these treats were prepared at home just for you. To complete the journey, the staff will then serve a traditional ginger tea.

When it’s time to depart you will linger unwilling to leave a place of such comfort, but fear not, the Hopper Night will return with more treats very soon.

To enjoy this fabulous offer at just Rs. 1,200+++, contact the Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo Poolside on 2491998.