Lankan Filling Station opened in 2018 in a narrow converted garage and there’s never been a better reason to hang out in a space where they used to change tires. The menu at this Sri Lankan spot is made up of traditional dishes like sambols and curries, along with creative starters like devilled cashews and crab cutlets. It gets pretty lively, so come here with a group (make a reservation), order a bunch of colorful dishes to share, and soak it all up with rice and hoppers (rice-flour crepes).

Address: 58 Riley St., Darlinghurst NSW 2010, AustraliaPhone: +61 2 8542 9936. This casual Sri Lankan restaurant is beloved for its fragrant curries, spicy sambals, and signature hoppers — a type of bowl-shaped pancake, perfect for dipping. Book ahead for the crab curry feast on the last Sunday of every month, served with a lip-smacking selection of sides.

Lunch at Lankan Filling Station will see your tiny table so laden with flavours, spices and colours that it’s like dining inside a kaleidoscope. A delicious one at that. It's open on Friday and Saturdays only for lunch, so book ahead.

Lankan Filling Station is a restaurant that can be smelt before it’s seen, with notes of masala, tamarind, cardamom, and ginger delicately scenting the street. Flavour-laden bites of mixed pickles, fish cutlets, and sambol-spiced crab whet the appetite and set the tone for the feast ahead. Lacy hoppers served with coconut milk gravy and flaky roti are quick to follow—using your hands is encouraged—with an array of vegetarian, fish, and meat curries offering something more substantial.

Sri Lankan food is punchy, rich, delicious and – best of all – mostly gluten free. That means the majority of the menu at this popular Darlinghurst eatery headed by chef O Tama Carey is in play without any alterations. The main event is Carey’s signature hoppers: crisp-edged, bowl-shaped fermented rice flour pancakes that are perfect for scooping up fragrant dishes like the banana leaf-wrapped fish with coriander curry paste, or the slow-cooked kangaroo tail curry.

Price range: AU$ 60 for two approx.Timings: Tuesday to Friday: noon- 10 pm; Saturday: 10 am- 10 pm; Sunday: 10 am- 4 pm.Address: Ground Floor, 58 Riley St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010, Australia. Inspired by Sri Lankan culture, Lankan Filling Station will serve you a really interesting set of menus. From the tang of the acharu pickles to the bold-as-hell black curry and eye-openingly scented love cake, this place will have something for all kinds of tastebuds.

After building a cult following for her show-stopping hoppers at Carriageworks Farmers Market, O Tama Carey flung open the doors to her first permanent restaurant, Lankan Filling Station, in 2018. A shrine to Sri Lankan cuisine, the east Sydney venue features a hands-on menu of hoppers, sambols and curries. The build-your-own style meal employs a check-box system, and it takes all the restraint in the world not to go on a mad ticking spree.

LFS' takeaway offering was one of last year's lockdown standouts. Now, it's back (hopefully not for long) and selling curries, dahls, roti and its signature hoppers – and it's almost all available pre-packaged, too, so you can choose it between eating it warm or heating your meal up later on. Plus, there are wines and cocktails to order and a range of condiments and curry powders to buy too.

The run-down: After years of cut-and-paste Indian restaurants flooding the city, Sri Lankan cuisine, which offers similar flavours with a more pared-back, rustic approach, is booming. Lankan Filling Station is at the crux of this, offering up a simple menu of curries, hoppers and dips that emphasise no-nonsense spice and flavour to stunning effect. Visit Lankan Filling Station

This restaurant is known for its vibrantly spicy food, meticulously prepared by the skilled O’Tama Carey. It's a place where you could find yourself wanting to eat every day of the week. The restaurant also offers a range of services including dine-in, takeaway, and gift cards, ensuring a convenient and enjoyable experience for all customers.

Lankan Filling Station: Heat-packing Sri Lankan curries are the name of the game at Lankan Filling Station. Arrive early to score a seat at the bar and watch chefs fire up fish, goat and potato curries to be served in hoppers (a fermented rice pancake) with sambols, the traditional Sri Lankan accompaniment.

If you are looking for a super casual eatery loaded with the flavours of Sri Lanka, look no further. Lankan Filling Station is the perfect spot to get your Resplendent Isle fix. Start with a fill of the crab cutlets with curry, green chilli and dill or the murukku with lots of crunch and spices.

Formerly a disused garage, Lankan Filling Station is one of our top picks for cool restaurants in Sydney. The small, bustling space is packed with hungry diners every weekend, all waiting to feast on a delicious selection of creamy dhals, fiery curries and signature hoppers.

There's chef O Tama Carey, who has set Sydney ablaze at Lankan Filling Station; Amy Hamilton who works sustainable delicious magic at Liberte in WA and Thi Le whose elegantly pitched Vietnamese cooking at Anchovy was a keeper straight out of the gate when she opened in 2015.

Well-situated in East Sydney only a few steps from William Street this is a venue we return to in order to enjoy the delights of truly authentic Sri Lankan food, masterminded by all round clever chef O Tama Carey.