Sri Lankan food in Basel

alelandmit_reterich · 3 October 2013 07:55

Hi,

I'm looking for places with Sri Lankan food in Basel. So far I know of these ones:

Taste me

Markgräflerstrasse 70

Spice Inn

Horburgstrasse 19

Does anyone know others?

eilynk · 4 November 2013 13:04

Hi,

Bäckerei Epting in Elsässerstrasse 136 4056 Basel does good Sri Lankan food. Don't let the name fool you, it is a bakery / restaurant

alelandmit_reterich · 4 November 2013 14:17

Thanks a lot for the tip!

alelandmit_reterich · 21 February 2014 23:43

There is another one, rather recent, in Rosenthal:

Ganapathy Take away+Restaurant

Mattenstr. 50

Dusanciah · 1 February 2015 11:28

There is one just under the Starbucks SBB that's the underground cocky park you enter near Starbucks. I think it's caiied city bar. Very delicious Sri Lankan food eat in or take away.

alelandmit_reterich · 2 February 2015 08:02

Thanks a lot, raja4u!

I went to check it out last night and they indeed have typical Sri Lankan food. Very convenient location as well.

City Bar Restaurant Take Away

Ceylon & Indian Food

Elisabethenstrasse 4

Opening hours:

Monday-Saturday 10am-midnight

Sunday 3p-midnight

Peterixgrlie · 2 February 2015 09:25

Could you explain to me what is typical Sri Lankan food, and what is the difference with Indian food ? Because I have only eaten Indian food so far. Perhaps I could give the City Bar a try.

alelandmit_reterich · 2 February 2015 09:36

Hi kittekat,

Sri Lankan food is similar to south Indian food. Some dishes are peculiar to Sri Lanka, however, such as the kothu roti.

Most Indian restaurants in the West serve north Indian food.

Peterixgrlie · 2 February 2015 11:13

Thank you. Do you know about typical ingredients, is it more or less spicy than northern Indian food, or is the difference not so big ?

alelandmit_reterich · 2 February 2015 11:30

Hi kittekat,

In my experience it is less spicy than north Indian food, but you can always ask to turn it up or down. In terms of ingredients, it depends on the dish I suppose. This could be a starting point if you want to learn more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_cuisine

alelandmit_reterich · 13 June 2015 09:51

I finally went to Bäckerei Epting. For a long time I thought it was closed. It seems to me to be open only at lunch time on workdays. They serve decent Sri Lankan food for 16.50 CHF, with the twist that you can replenish your dish as much as you want until you are full or more.

peebittleenys · 14 June 2015 08:27

That's a good place. Here's a Tages Woche article about them:

http://www.tageswoche.ch/de/2013_36/leben/576392/

There's also a tiny Sri Lankan takeaway/restaurant at the Bahnhof in the underpass where the bicycles are parked. (It's very close to the

Elisabethenanlage exit.)

alelandmit_reterich · 14 June 2015 08:41

Thanks for the article! Yes, we did discuss that place in the thread, City Bar Restaurant Take Away.

alelandmit_reterich · 23 June 2018 10:22

There is a new Sri Lankan Tamil restaurant called Pavina in the Basel area. This one is actually in France but only 400 meters from the Swiss border with Saint-Louis. There used to be a Spanish restaurant called Flamenco there.

The sign says "Indian and Spanish specialties" but the menu is 60-70% Sri Lankan and the rest is French / Swiss. The signs are in Tamil and French. They have kothu roti and other typical stuff.

Restaurant Pavina

76 Avenue de Bâle, 68300 Saint-Louis, France

https://www.google.ch/search?q=resta...na+saint+louis