Restaurants in Jaffna
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Mangos
Behind a new café that looks somewhat half-finished is a solidly built timber-roofed dining pavilion with open sides. Here you can get good rice-and-curry lunches and traditional South Indian specialities for dinner, including excellent masala dosas (dosas stuffed with spiced vegetables) cooked to order.
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Three Star Hotel
This typically fly-infested servery has particularly delicious rice-and-curry meals. The vegetable curry is mild, the saffron rice is laced with raisins and for Rs70 you can add a chunk of prefried chicken.
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Café Yours & TCT Supermarket
The tiny modern café attached to this Danish-owned supermarket serves reasonable instant coffee and makes mini pizzas to order.
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Thanj Hotel
Basic, friendly place for fresh hoppers (bowl-shaped pancakes) in the evening.
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Sri Palm Beach
The menu of this comfortably air-conditioned upstairs place is wide and reliable. It serves very good fried chicken ‘65’, as well as masala dosas (paper-thin rice- and lentil-flour pancakes) after 6.30pm.
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Old Park Restaurant
Although it’s a bit like eating in someone’s front room, the Old Park offers some of Jaffna’s tastiest cuisine and is paradise for garlic lovers. Its small garden is pleasant for a cold beer.
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Malayan Café
This downmarket but popular and wonderfully olde-worlde eatery has marble-topped tables, long glass-and-wood cabinets and occasional blasts of incense to bless the in-house shrine. The cheap vegetarian fare is served on banana leaves and eaten by hand. When you’re finished, fold up the leaf and post it through the letterbox-shaped waste chute in the hand-washing area.
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Hotel Rolex
This is a bustling local eatery with a good range of food choices.
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Cosy Restaurant
Along with its attractively lantern-lit dining terrace, sheltered by cadjan (coconut-frond matting), the great attraction here is the tandoori oven, with which the chef produces excellent fresh naan (flat breads), as well as succulent chicken tikka (chicken marinated in spices and dry roasted); arrive early, as supplies are limited. There’s a long menu of alternatives.
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