RESTAURANT
Far Pavilion Restaurant
The main restaurant of the hotel can seat 175 people at one time. It provides a spectacular view of the surrounding mountains. The Far Pavilion offers a comprehensive buffet with both Eastern and Western food.
Coffee Shop Restaurant
Our coffee shop restaurant can seat 40 people and is open 24 hours a day. It is an ideal place for a quiet snack regardless of the time of day.
Third Dimension Cuisine
Authentic Cuisine
Aitken Spence Hotels showcase a unique gastronomy. It is built on authentic Sri Lankan cuisine developed not only through generations of tradition but by using the latest scientific advancements and outstanding culinary skills of our internationally award winning chefs. Sri Lankan cuisine, which we have inherited, is based on local ingredients and enriched by the history of influences the island nation has faced over its long history.
Local Ingredients
The island is said to have been colonised by the Balangoda people about 34,000 years ago. Veddas (forest-dwellers) are believed to have inhabited Sri Lanka for at least 16,000 years.
Although originally believed to be hunter-gatherers, evidence suggests that they grew agricultural crops such as oats and barley. As Sri Lanka has a vast coastline, fish was also a major part of the diet of the islanders.
In the 5th Century BCE, the migrants from North India (later to be called the Sinhalese) settled along rivers and introduced the cultivation of wet paddy. Subsequent elaborate irrigation systems allowed the development of a thriving hydraulic civilisation which utilised many tropical ingredients.
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