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Hopper Hut

Reviewed by Toronto Life
  • 880 Ellesmere Rd. (at Kennedy), Unit 217 • View on map »
  • 416-299-4311
$30 Gourmet
Allows one person to dine well for $30 or less, including tax and tip; they are not star rated More like this »
Editorial Review

Fiery Sri Lankan fare—high-quality ingredients served in generous portions—is served in this modest 45-seat dining room replete with marble-topped tables, worn wallpaper and a TV blaring Bollywood flicks. Ulunthu vadai are greaseless yellow lentil fritters speckled with fennel seed and minced green chili sided with intensely sweet caramelized-onion seeni sambal. Enormous banana leaf–wrapped lamprais hold ingredients aplenty: basmati rice, hard-boiled egg, jammy-sweet eggplant curry, chewy dried fish, potato, spicy onion sambal, spongy potato-channa fritter and ...

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