Dining

Riviera Crab Cabana one of the top restaurants in Batticaloa, offers a dining room where the local dishes on the menu are freshly prepared every day to order. Guests may also dip their feet in the soothing waters of the lagoon and relax with a chilled beer by the water. There is also the option of dining on the pretty lagoon front. Our restaurant is very famous for Batticaloa lagoon Crab curry, prawn curry and cashew curry.

There is a bar at Riviera Resort offering a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. There are open cabanas, verandahs, shady enclaves and water front sit out area where our guests can kick back and relax with a drink. Freshly prepared fruit juices. Popular alcoholic drinks include Sri Lankan Lion Beer. Arrack is the high kick national drink, the spirit of Sri Lanka.

Reception / garden and lagoon front hire can include catering, where vegetarian options can be provided.

Sri Lankan cuisine is similar to the cuisine of South India, in its use of chilli, cardamom, cumin, coriander and other spices, but it is generally much spicier and has its own distinctive taste, due to the addition of ingredients such as Maldive fish and herbal spicy greens.

A typical Sri Lankan meal will consist of a main curry and rice, along with several other vegetable dishes/curries. Kiribath is a well-known Sri Lankan rice dish, meaning milk rice. Side-dishes include pickle, chutney and sambol. The most famous of these is the coconut sambol, made of fragrant coconut mixed with chili, dried Maldive fish and lime juice & crushed to a flowery mix. This can be eaten with rice, as it gives zest to the meal and used to increase appetite.

In addition to sambol, mallung is also eaten – a dish of chopped edible leaves mixed with grated coconut and red onions.

There are many varieties of food like hoppers, string hoppers, pittu and rotty made out of rice flower and eaten with spicy curries and sambol, which are specialities at Riviera Resort. Milder curries are also available on request, so that the food caters for all tastes.

There is a bar at Riviera Resort offering a variety of drinks. There are open cabanas, verandahs, shady enclaves and water front seating area where our guests can kick back and relax with a drink.

A variety of the famous Sri Lankan tea is available. Non – alcoholic ginger beer is popular in Sri Lanka and there is also a wide choice of freshly prepared fruit juices. Popular alcoholic drinks include Sri Lankan Lion Beer. Arrack is the high kick de-facto distilled national drink.

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