A Sri Lankan restaurant concept is to open in North London. Founded in Brighton in March last year, Coconut Island has secured the former Bill’s site at The Angel, Islington.
The new restaurant will open in April with the promise that, “You’ll feel like you have the sun on your face and the sand between your toes.”
Food offerings will include traditional Sri Lankan hoppers (bowl-shaped pancakes), kothu (chopped roti), wattakka (spiced pumpkin with coconut milk), pineapple curry, and salads of fresh gotu kola leaves with coconut, onion and chilli.
Puddings will feature watalappam made from of coconut milk, jaggery and cashew nuts and dope plantain – arrack battered plantain lightly drizzled with treacle.
Author: George Shaw
Former BBC journalist and founder and CEO of an award-winning London advertising and PR company for 20 years, providing restaurant consultancy services. Spent a decade as the director of communications of the Asian Catering Federation in the UK and lead judge for its various restaurant and chef awards programmes. Now returned to journalism, specialising in food and travel and currently the Editor-in-Chief for Taste London, Taste Asia, the Good Curry Guide and CEO of International Culinary Guides.