Cook & Eat Your Meal At This Eatery With Its Owners, A SriLankan Family ...

This Eatery conducts a cookery class, where you can cook your meal with the host and later eat it.

Google maps location link; https://www.google.lk/maps/place/Bees+Honey+Cookery+%26+Restaurant/@6.8724328,81.0427187,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x3ae465ce99a496ad:0x67a3e91d784d5de4!8m2!3d6.8724275!4d81.0449074 Owner Mr. Seana +94 717609139 The Bees honey restaurant is situated in Kital Ella, near Ella. With the google maps location, you can go near his place but make sure to call him because it will be difficult finding the place on your own. If you go by road, you have to stop near the school and walk. But if you walk on the railway track from Ella towards Ella rock for 2 km then it would be easy to find this place, a lot of tourists come here in this way.

Here, either you can order for breakfast, lunch, or dinner and eat or you can join with them and cook your meal. They have a menu with soups, juices, etc.,

I called them the previous day to inform them I was coming, Mr. Seana asked me to come by 12 pm. So I arrived at their place a little before 12. It was difficult to find the place although they have placed signboards. I called them and asked for directions.

                                       

Since the restaurant was closed for several months they had to clean the place, the whole family Mr. Seana, his wife, and his two kids did all the cleaning in a jiff.

So the cooking started, with 6 curries (5 veg dish and 1 chicken dish) and red rice. They taught me how to wash the rice, the water level, how to cut the vegetables, and how to cook. They use clay pots and firewood, a true Sri Lankan village-style cooking.

                                      

The cooking process looked so simple, there was no much sauteeing. They mix all the ingredients in the clay pot before even taking it to the fire. I usually have seen cooking where each ingredient is sauteed and some of the ingredients made to a paste and added but not here. The chicken curry though looked simple when it was cooked, tasted amazing. The meat was perfectly cooked and so tender. The raw banana curry is something new to me. It was served hot and tasted excellent They used coconut oil only for cooking. All the 6 dishes with the rice were cooked in just 1 hour's time. The owner Mr. Seana is a farmer and grows his own vegetables which are used in these dishes. A great experience with lovely and tasty food. #itaste #srilankanlunch #ella