Ground Floor, 58 Riley Street, East Sydney 2010
Tues - Sat 12pm — 10pm
Sun 10am — 4pm
Closed Monday
02 8542 9936
For dinner we take bookings for tables of 6 - 8 on our banquet menu. Bookings taken for lunch Tuesday to Friday, please call or email.
Hello and welcome to Lankan Filling Station where our food is inspired by traditional Sri Lankan flavours.
We're a casual eatery with a focus on hoppers: a bowl shaped savoury pancake made from a fermented batter of rice flour and coconut milk with crispy, latticed edges and a soft doughy crumpet-like centre. Torn, folded or dipped, hoppers are made to be eaten hot-hot, with an array of curries and sambols.
Hoppers can be eaten at any time and, with that in mind, we will be open throughout the day and night. Come for a snack or stay for a feast.
A Sri Lankan meal is made to be shared featuring a selection of curries, sides and sambols.
It’s a balance of aromatic spices, textures, flavours and heats.
Start with some short eats, Sri Lanka’s answer to snacks, to whet your appetite. Choose a curry or two, dhal (of course), some vegetables and a few sambols as well. Your only other decision then has to be how many hoppers you think you can eat. (We suggest starting with an egg and a plain hopper and then adding more as you desire.)
Or order the banquet menu and leave the thinking to us.
As a special Sunday treat we have a menu of brunch delights, some traditional, such as kiribath and sweet hoppers, and others like our toasted godamba roti filled with onion, green tomato and cheddar. Available Sundays, 10 am – 4 pm.
Join us for a crab curry feast on the last Sunday of every month.
Sri Lanka is famous for its spicy crab curry, which is eaten all over the island and often best enjoyed by the edge of the ocean with the sand between your toes. While there is no sand in inner-city Sydney, we do have access to some very fine seafood and in particular to the freshest of crabs. With that in mind, each month we celebrate our favourite crustacean by cooking it in a curry and serving it with an array of accompaniments.
Price $65 per head (not including drinks).
Download a booking form and return to info@lfsfood.com.au
Pre-payment required (no refunds).
No alternative menu on the day.
Early sitting 12 pm until 2 pm; late sitting 2.30 pm.
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No meal is complete without a refreshing liquid to wash it down whether boozy or not.
Sri Lanka is renowned for its tea and with that in mind we have created our own unique blends imported straight to us. Drink it to help quench the heat of a curry or eat it with love cake for a sneaky afternoon respite. Our non-alcoholic offerings include King coconut water and our own version of Sri Lanka’s famous faluda. For wines we have a short yet succinct list to suit all palates. Like our food, we look to makers who treat the land with care. And if you are fond of hard liquor we have arrack, distilled from the flower of the coconut palm. Strong, almost whisky like, it is an essential Lankan drink.
There are other choices to explore and, if you wish to pretend you are lounging on a beautiful Sri Lankan beach, try the Mu-mu, our tropical island drink.
We believe in sustainability in all areas of our business and constantly aim towards this ideal. Whether from Sri Lanka or locally sourced our criteria is the same, we want our ingredients to be grown, raised, sourced or fished with a conscience. Here is a little information about some of the people we are proud to work with.
https://www.randallorganic.com/
Based in NSW and growing organically certified rice, Randall is a small family owned business. They grow several excellent rice varietals and, most importantly, for us they stone-grind their rice to make the flour we use for our hopper batter.
https://featherandbone.com.au/
A local supplier with the highest of standards, Feather and Bone supply us with our meat. We have a long history of working together and have great respect for the rules they follow.
http://www.ruralreturns.org/about/mission
A not-for-profit company in Sri Lanka, Rural Returns runs a program helping small-hold farmers grow and supply largely forgotten heirloom rice varietals. They have a variety of red and samba, or village, rices available all with specific healthful Ayurvedic properties.
You can’t be Sri Lankan without arrack and lucky for us we have found one that is not only delicious but is also made in a small factory that takes great pride in reducing their carbon footprint. The sap from the coconut flower is hand collected daily by toddy tappers high in the trees and then left to naturally ferment before being distilled to become arrack.
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