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Sri Lankan$$$$
If salt-and-pepper squid has suffered from overexposure,let’s talk hot-butter cuttlefish. Tender flesh with just a little snap. The fragrance of banana chillies and shallots,and addictive spicy butter that leaves your tongue tingling.
Every dish is a celebration of spices at O Tama Carey’s teensy restaurant. Depth and complexity are in abundance,whether in playful snacks,such as betel leaves shipping roasted crab,chilli sambol and lime,or rich curries ordered from a tick-a-box menu.
And while you don’t need to love chilli to eat here,it certainly helps;when the menu says it’s hot,it means it. Relief comes in the form of comforting parippu coconut-milk dhal,or creamy cashew curry driven by a restrained white curry powder.
Hoppers are a must on weekends,best torn by hand for swiping through every dish. Still sweating? Rose-flavoured faluda and lo-fi wines are on hand.
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An Amalfi Coast holiday feel just steps from Coogee Beach.
Sushi and small plates for the bronzed and beautiful.
The spice is right and the hopper bar is hopping.
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