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EXCELLENT Based on 157 reviews William Marshall2024-06-04Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Really good. Hoppers were delicious and so was the lumprais. Kurt Olson2024-05-26Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. A wide variety of food on the buffet. And for $20 we thought it was reasonable. My family could handle the spicy food better than me. But most of the food was not too spicy. I wanted to try the goat and it was spicy. Nice selection of simple fruits and desserts. The staff as friendly and attentive. dennis koshy2024-05-08Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. A Sri Lankan place that serves a mix of what can pass off as Sri Lankan, Tamil, Sinhalese, Malayali or even South Indian food. You have to be familiar with this cuisine to appreciate the place, or should be an adventurous foodie. Avoid if you are more of a barbecue/TexMex/burger kind of person. Service and ambience both are rather basic, but then that's not the reason to go to a place like this. Aubrey Kelso2024-05-04Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Wonderful and friendly staff! We ordered from our car because our toddler fell asleep, they brought it out to us and were so nice! The smoothies and teas were so good and fresh, not artificial tasting like many other places! The rice and meat were so flavorful and tender, our toddler devoured his rice and we devoured our food too! So great, you've definitely earned a loyal customer!! Peeyal Kumar2024-04-28Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Not only is the food fantastic and authentic, the service here really differentiates Spicy Zest Canteen from many other restaurants. I came in at 6:00pm on a Sunday and enjoyed the dinner buffet for $20. The buffet items are constantly being refilled with fresh, hot food and there is a great variety to choose from. The Kuttu was by far my favorite dish! The dessert table is also delicious The service here is absolutely fantastic. The lovely employees are so friendly, tending to all of our needs and refilling our drinks as soon as they notice the glasses are running low. As you go to get food, the staff is smiling, striking up friendly conversation, and asking how you are enjoying everything. The buffet includes FRESH roti and hoppers and they were brought to our table before we could even ask. They truly treated us like family and made the entire experience all the better. There are not many Sri Lankan restaurant options in the area and we are grateful that Spicy Zest is so delicious. They have a great reputation for their amazing food and I can attest that the rumors are true! 11/10 I would definitely come back Kylea Frank2024-04-27Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. I am new to the area and came a couple weeks ago during their buffet.. they also let me order the butter chicken during the buffet hours as well. When I tell you that everything was fresh, juicy, and delicious!! My boyfriend is very picky when it comes to what he eats, I brought him a to go plate from the buffet and he was in love!! I was so happy that he loved their food because it’s really hard to get him to try different cultures. Believe me when I say that this is the best Indian food that I’ve had in a while and I’m so happy that they are right around the corner from my house! I’m on my way to them as I’m typing this to go enjoy their buffet again! The lady at the counter was very friendly and let me try their desserts. The cook and the rest of the staff were very friendly as well! I recommend that anyone who loves Indian food should come here!
EXCELLENT Based on 19 reviews Suranjith P2023-04-01Verified Dinner with friends Dine in | Dinner | $20–30 If you want to taste Sri Lankan food in DFW area, the only place to visit is Spicy Zest. They have buffet on Friday evening and on Sunday brunch. The varieties are so wide you would not be able to taste all on one visit. We have visited Spicy Zest since its inception and see that there is an improvement each time. I am including some photos to show the varieties available. lindsbeans2023-03-12Verified Delicious and Different SpicyZest was so fun! We went on a Saturday morning and there was a buffet with tons of options. The staff was super friendly and helpful and told us what everything was when we didn’t know. Would absolutely come again. Drboomer2021-10-17Verified Wow! Amazing Find You can tell the chef and his wife take a lot of pride in serving up some of the best, most authentic Srilanka food in the Dallas area. Great selection of Srilanka groceries as well. Jon L2020-01-26Verified I'm becoming a regular This is just some addictively good food. I've never even heard of Sri Lankan cuisine, and certainly couldn't find Sri Lanka on a map, but darn, the food is great. And the owners are super friendly. Best part: try the buffet! abroadwithashley2019-10-04Verified Definitely a Hidden Gem! You might be surprised to hear that there are not a ton of options in the United States for Sri Lankan cuisine. You might even be surprised to know that this is a Sri Lankan restaurant. But regardless, this place was absolutely fantastic. We ordered 7 or 8 dishes family-style and we loved all of them. Our only disappointment was that we didn’t go more than once. That sounds like hyperbole, but we were seriously disappointed. The restaurant is a bit out of the way, but it absolutely feels like a place that is undiscovered. The food is amazing, and the service is excellent. What more could you want? Narma172019-09-26Verified Sri Lankan food in town! I will definitely recommend this place for delicious authentic food. A variety of Sri Lankan cuisine full of flavor. Great staff and excellent service.Small place with a good ambience. Will visit again and again ! Jim6092019-03-10Verified Fabulous restaurant We had the buffet luncheon here and it was terrific. Samples almost every dish and then went back again and again. The shrimp tempered, chicken bryani, chicken curry, beef in gravy, egg curry; I give up everything was spectacular. Side dishes included a number of chutneys adding to the flavor feast. Marie Y2019-02-25Verified Best Sri Lankan restaurant in town! I would definitely recommend. Very authentic. Awesome food. Do not miss it if you visit Dallas! Excellent service too! hannes19412019-01-07Verified Visiting our son in TX he inited us to this small but wonderful place. My wife and I enjoy trying different cuisines, and for this reason our son brought to this restaurant serving Sri Lankan food. All natural ingredients and no artificial flavors, they claim. After testing their food we believe them. A complete new experience. Similar but much different that Indian food. We really enjoyed all the new flavors, specially the sun dried fish among others. HIGHLY RECOMMENEDED! Damitha3602018-09-29Verified Sri Lankan Authentic Food in Dallas If you want to try Sri Lankan food in Dallas.. this is THE place to visit. Awesome food.. real Sri Lankan taste.. and good service!!
EXCELLENT Based on 215 reviews Sanjay S.2024-07-12Verified I am in the process of moving to Dallas from Los Angeles and decided to try this Sri Lankan restaurant close to where my last meeting was. Boy am I glad I came here. I sat at the bar since I was alone and enjoyed some scotch along with the beef kottu and the lumprice with lamb curry. Both dishes were exquisite and I ordered way too much for one person but I am glad I did because everything was perfect. The restaurant is beautiful and inviting. I was helped by Mohan who was very welcoming with both my drink and food order. His suggestions were spot on. I am relatively new to Sri Lankan cuisine but I feel that its popularity will keep growing as more people get exposed to the wonderful flavors and textures. I highly recommend this restaurant to all foodies and Indians like myself who want something that is familiar yet so unique. Hong Phuc N.2024-06-20Verified I tried very hard to love this place. I know I did. But... it just didn't end up impressing me as much as I wanted it to? I can't tell whether the food is "authentic" since this is my first experience with Sri-Lankan food. Those who've read my other reviews will know that it is seldom my first priority anyway. Hence, I'll simply attempt to comment on the taste from a neutral perspective. So I had the mixed kottu, a fish bun, a dalgona coffee and a curds dessert. Not the best flight, but I felt it was diverse enough for a try. The mixed kottu on its own is pretty good. Spicy (in the "lots of spices" way), al dente, and delicious. I ordered it with cheese, though I didn't notice much cheese. It wasn't a big deal, though. It could've just blended in with all the hot meat and eggs. I did taste a certain creaminess to it. However, when I was having this dish, a constant thought kept crossing my mind: "Hold on. Isn't Pad Siew just this but better?" Yeah. Having lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana for a long time - a place with a large Burmese population, lots of whom can cook a mean Pad Siew, it was hard for me to be impressed. Maybe I just wasn't sure what I was expecting, but I did expect some new flavors and tasting what amounted to an imitation of Burmese-Thai cuisine of all things did disappoint me a little. The fish bun and the dalgona felt pretty much the same. The fish bun has too much bun and too little fish, and the fish paste they used had a quite fibrous texture that made it feel more like pork floss than a piece of fish to my tender teeth. I guess "fibrous vaguely-fish-flavored curry bun" just didn't roll off the tongue too well. Meanwhile, the dalgona coffee looked a lot better than it tasted. It didn't taste *bad*, it just tasted like a Starbucks frappe. The curds dessert, on the other hand, was easily the worst offender in my book. It didn't taste like much else besides yoghurt smothered in honey - a VERY SOUR yoghurt, at that. Again, I have no idea if this is supposed to be authentic, but every rendition of the Halloumi and Honey dish has been more enjoyable to me, while feeling quite similar. My friend had a chicken yellow rice and complained that the chicken was a bit salty. I only had a bite of it, but I'm inclined to agree. The chicken meat itself didn't seem to be anything special, either. It was breaking apart like everything you get from Tyson. Service is ok. Atmosphere is ok. Neither really stood out either way to me. TL;DR Sri Lankan cuisine is quite curious. However, I don't think the place stands up very well on its own. Kristi N.2024-05-31Verified It's been about a month since the visit. We went for Sunday buffet. Small place in a little strip mall so parking might be rough. Our waitress was so nice and friendly. She even went over the menu with me to help choose items guaranteed to not be in contact with fish or shrimp. It's the first place to even tell me do not eat from the buffet which meant less money I spend there ... but she was explaining ordering my own item is promised to be the safest. That really means a lot when you have a serious, dangerous allergy. It's nice when the place does care about customers and doesn't mind to help explain the preparation methods. Really appreciate that so much. Lily M.2024-05-20Verified We came here to celebrate my cousin's birthday and I thought it was a great place with great food. The buffet has an array of different things for you to try and the food tastes so fresh! My kids are picky eaters and they enjoyed the food very much. The service was amazing, and our waiter went above and beyond to take care of our group. We each got a free mimosa and the staff made me two Egg Hoppers to try. The ambiance is family friendly. The owner was a very friendly guy, and he even brought my cousin a complimentary dessert for her birthday and joined in to sing for her. Great place! Roshni R.2024-05-18Verified Great food! Awesome service. Live music on weekends and buffet make this a great place. Jocelyn G.2024-03-31Verified Tried this place for the first time and the food was delicious! Definitely a great place for me to try new food. Service was a bit slow but everything else was good. Amal S.2024-03-03Verified DALLAS HAVING THE WORST INDIAN FOOD SCENE in US I had given up on finding anything remotely exciting until I found this Sri Lankan gem. A warm Lankan joint that offered a welcome respite from the mind numbing stale "Desi this " "desi that " joints that dot every corner of north Dallas . Every damn thing from biriyani joints to A2B suffer from soulless , stale , fatty over spiced flavor profile that even people from AP+Telangana have started to disown.Unlike these joints Mohan and crew at zest take pride in their food , it's almost perfect , yes the black chicken curry in Sigiree in NYC is marginally better but the sambals and freshly made appams here are clearly superior..The surprise star of the menu was the unassuming eggplant moju, simply put it is my absolute favorite preparation of this vegetable that I can barely stand done any other way. Even the bloody dal and bread is heartwarming with a slightly imperfect tinge of turmeric that somehow adds to its authenticity .I hope they never buckle under the pressure and stay true to their roots in a city of Indian restaurants that have clearly given up. Until such a day , I will land up every week with my family to enjoy the warm hospitality where my kids get their special marshmallow laden hot chocolate and I try every combination I can think of on their menu. P.S: If you think Vijaywada Biriyani is a real thing this is not a place for you , stay away. Nish K.2024-01-13Verified We had such an amazing experience being here! The dinner buffet on Friday was so worth it and all the dishes were so different and flavorful. The hoppers are so good when you eat them hot with chili paste and the chicken curry. The drinks were also unlimited (margaritas, Sri Lankan tea, and coffee) and the tea was sooo good. 100% worth coming on a buffet time! Kenya R.2024-01-09Verified The food is very closely related to Indian food. It wasn't great and it wasn't bad. I tried 3 of their fried appetizers one of which they got wrong, but I didn't make a deal of it. Since it was a cool day, I got the chicken stew with a spice level of 1. If you don't do spicy, ask for no spice because 1 was too spicy for me to enjoy. Anna H.2024-01-07Verified Just need to vent. I went out to lunch with friends today and didn't check ahead for the price of this lunch buffet. I assumed it would be reasonable because it's similar to Chinese food (I thought) and it's hole in the wall ethnic. I'm angry because the meal was so unhealthy. Scant vegetables except for the chickpeas and some weird eggplant salad. The food was unappetizing because it was mostly brown and 75% fried so there were all these little brown fried things in pans that mostly tasted alike. On top of it I'm supposed to be on a low salt diet, and everything was over the top salty. The one interesting dish was the egg hopper which I didn't try because it was more fried stuff, but I heard it was good. So I kept eating without much luck hoping something would be good and healthy, not salty or too sweet. I was already disappointed, so imagine my alarm when I was handed a check for $27!, that's without a tip. So I'm just mad that I blew that much money for an awful unhealthy buffet. If you like lots of salty fried brown foods, have at it for $27 at lunch yet.
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