5 What would you say is a MUST try when you visit Taphouse by RNR?

The Grilled Platter is our sharable dish. It's great for a group of friends on a night out. It is a meat lovers dream. There’s chicken, pork chops, chicken wings, kochchi sausage, grilled pineapple and ciabatta bread. The pol roti koththu came about from wanting to reinvent the well admired koththu. We wanted to see how we could change the koththu base.

We tried a bunch of different things; bread, noodles, pasta. But in the end we knew we had something with pol roti. We love pol roti. We love koththu. But we eat both only a certain way. With pol roti koththu we paired the two together to make an amazing dish! We have two flavours so far - chicken curry and the fiery kochchi sausage.

We really wanted to do something with lingus. Lingus has a lot of Dutch influence in its preparation, and it really should be as famous as other spicy sausages around the world. The thing is when you think lingus you think about the lingus packs you get at the frozen food section right? Actually there are quite a few small business owners in Colombo and Negombo who make lingus fresh based as their own family business. We sourced lingus meat from these suppliers and went about making a pork burger. With lingus you already have the complex flavours of the spices and we balanced it with a treacle mustard sauce.

The Hot Butter Cuttlefish is a staple of any good Sri Lankan bar menu. And we have been doing it for years! We fine tuned the recipe recently with our homemade Chillie oil and chillie paste.