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Vibrant new restaurant is a first for Nottingham food lovers Source:Nottinghampost Nottingham’s latest restaurant is bringing something zingy, dynamic and new to the city’s food and drink scene. Colombo Street is the first Sri Lankan restaurant to open – with a whole new vocabulary of flavoursome dishes to get acquainted with, from hoppers and sambals to kottu and gothamba rotis. Street food and home-cooked classics feature on the menu, devised by Pasan Nissanka, who first came to the UK to study aerospace engineering at university. He said: “When I first moved to the UK something I really missed was Sri Lankan food. It’s not very common here. I started cooking as a hobby for myself and my mates and fed a lot of people. “In 2018 I started a street food business trading out of a gazebo, going to events around the Midlands including quite a few in Nottingham.” The ...