Sri Lankan Cooking Class: Authentic Culinary Experience
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414 Ratings
Unawatuna

Embark on a culinary adventure in Unawatuna with a 3-hour private Sri Lankan cooking class. Discover authentic recipes, learn how to make traditional dishes in clay pots, and savor a delicious meal with a passionate local chef.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Sea Waves Restaurant & Cooking Classes - You will be joining a traditional Sri Lankan cooking class with a chef that has more than 30 years experience of cooking. We have a small Family Restaurant Business. The chef is passionate to teach and to share the experience on how Sri Lankan meals are cooked and allow you to experience a delicious meal…
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What's Included
  • Food Ingredients
Meal Options
  • Traditional Sri Lankan Dish
Additional Information

Enjoy a 3-hour private and authentic cooking class in a local restaurant with a chef who is incredibly passionate about Sri Lankan cuisine. This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. Your cooking class takes place in a local family restaurant in Unawatuna where your chef will teach you how to make nice…

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Location
Sea Waves Restaurant & Cooking Classes
Yaddehimulla Road
On the way to jungle beach road on your left hand side.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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403jettj
Jul 5, 2025
Best cooking class in Sri Lanka - An incredible chef who is both kind and patient. A gorgeous kitchen and experience. Starting off by shopping for ingredients offers meaningful insight into that process and then cooking an incredible meal afterwards.
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Caro100000
Jul 4, 2025
The best experience - We arrived very late, but Susanthi welcomed us with a big smile. After going by tuk tuk to the market to get fresh fish and vegetables, we had a lot of fun cooking under the supervision of Susanthi. Thanks a lot for this great experience!!
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Tom
Jul 4, 2025
Very nice cooking lessons - We came for cooking class. She is very easily accessible via Whatsapp. She takes you to the markets to buy the fresh ingredients. We were allowed to choose a dish and the ingredients ourselves. She showed us how to do it and we were mainly allowed to work ourselves. Very accessible and very friendly. A very nice experience! The restaurant is currently open.
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Wafa
Jun 26, 2025
Learning to cook Srilankan food from the best! - This has been truly a memorable experience where we’ve got to learn about Srilankan cuisine preparation. We’ve experienced it from the scratch starting from going to fish market and vegetable shop, learning how to identity freshness of fishes and getting to know about different vegetables grown in Srilanka. Also, the chef has beautifully taught every small details of cooking with precision and she truly has good sense of humor too. The food tasted amazing and we really enjoyed it. Highly recommending all the tourists to experience it. 💯
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334abigailr
Jun 25, 2025
Jungle cooking class- highly recommend - Susanthi’s cooking class was brilliant. We loved that she took us to the market to select our preferred fish and vegetables for the curries. We then made one fish curry, one Dahl and 4 vegetable curries. The cooking class was very interactive and Susanthi will be sending us the recipes (and more!) to recreate at home. Susanthi will was a great host and it was a pleasure to join her in her beautiful jungle kitchen.
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Margauxc280
Jun 24, 2025
Fantastic cooking class in Unawatuna - This cooking class was really fantastic. First we went to the local fish and vegetable market to choose our own ingredients. Then we made several local dishes, mainly curries that we eventually ate ourselves. This was a very nice experience that I would absolutely recommend if you are in Unawatuna.
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Wanderer23567443280
Jun 21, 2025
The perfect Sri Lankan cooking experience! - We had the most wonderful exerience taking the Sea Waves Restaurant cooking class! Suzanne welcomed us in a lovely, charming and humorous way. She took us to the local market to buy our own fish, herbs and vegetables. Afterwords, we made the best curry's we've had on our 2 weeks journey through Sri Lanka. The perfect experience for everyone who wants to experience what Sri Lankan cuisine really is, get the perfect guidance, and to actually cook yourself! Big thanks to Suzanne and her wonderful family!
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Sunshine60744960644
Jun 20, 2025
Susantis curry is the best - Me and my girlfriend had an amazing time at the cooking class and an activity we will never forget. We visited Susantis’ cooking class in the low season in June. We had a great time and learned a lot about the Sri Lankian food and kitchen. We got all the recipes from Susanti of the food we cooked together. We’re looking forward trying the very delicious curry at home. We can really recommend this experience and especially with Susanti because she is a really nice open minded person who is still cooking traditional and is mixing her spices on her own.
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109maikem
Jun 18, 2025
Amazing experience with Susanti - We had an amazing experience with Susanti at her cooking class in the low season in June. She is very nice and open minded and gave us a lot of impressions into the Sri lankian kitchen. Already on the shopping tour before she showed us how you find the best and fresh food (vegetables, fish and chicken) and when you have to be careful buying it. Nice was also that we could choose our own vegetables for the curry and for every vegetable she had a good idea to put in the curry we later made. Her kitchen is amazing, she uses a lot of modern but also traditional kitchen utensils, that was fun. The final curry was absolutely the best we ate here and we already looking for cooking it at home and trying to get near to the taste of the curry from Susanti.
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C6122jmivank
Jun 14, 2025
Very nice cooking experience - I attended the cooking class in January 2025 and highly recommend it. It was very well organized and included a visit to the local market to buy ingredients, where I received a helpful explanation on how to identify fresh, high-quality produce. The class itself was excellent, and I also appreciated the pleasant setting on the edge of a forest. At the end, you’ll receive detailed recipes so you can cook the dishes at home as well.
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).