LANKA

I visited this restaurant during a business trip after seeing its positive Google reviews. The food exceeded my expectations — especially the chicken-based dishes, which were all delicious. However, the spicy chicken kebab I ordered was quite a bit spicier than I anticipated. The staff were friendly, though communication was a bit difficult.

As fellow sylheti Bengalis, I am truly sad that the standard is so low amongst our kind. As soon as came in, the decor reminded me of the restaurants from the 90s. There was an awkwardness in the air, we were the only ones in the restaurant and no one greeted us kindly or gave small talk. We asked for a diet coke, but the drink was definitely the cheaper supermarket type, and was most likely sitting the in the fridge because of tasted flat. They rectified it by pouring us a new coke from a can. After we complained about the coke, the service was more hurried and awkward, which made complaining about the rest a bit more harder. The lamb chops left a lot to be desired. No spices were used, and there was more fat than meat on it. The biryani was passable, if you don't have taste buds. On their menu it says we could request medium, hot, very hot but they didn't ask us this. If your only customers aren't Asian folk, you could probably get away with mediocre service. But this isn't authentically Indian or Bangladeshi. I really wanted to like it and support them as a business, but I honestly think you need to try elsewhere.

We were in Hull for a short family holiday and chose here to eat. The staff were very kind, food was delicious. We had salmon and prawn sag, and the papadoms were fresh! It is a very smart restaurant 👌 Thank you.

Absolutely love the food here... been coming here for years. The staff are so polite and attentive. Highly recommend you give it a go!

Visiting Hull recently, The Lanka was fairly close to where we were staying. Nice restaurant, really friendly staff. Nice meal generally.