Kurulu Bay is not your typical holiday restaurant with big signs, bigger menus and a soundtrack working too hard. The Kitchen at Kurulu Bay sits back from Koggala Lake, folded into gardens, mangroves and old barringtonia trees. It feels like a place that would rather be found than seen. The property is spread out, almost inconveniently so, but clearly by

By Caitlin Rajan Open Door Policy feels less like a restaurant than an invitation into someone’s world. Founder and Creative Director Dom Fernando’s newest venture has taken three and a half years to come to life, and the result is one of Colombo’s most ambitious dining experiences to date.

Pasta comes with its own mythology. Rules repeated so often they begin to sound like fact. Marble is the best surface. Fresh is always superior. Oil in the water stops sticking. More ingredients mean more flavour.