9, Station Road, Colombo 4
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Mythi's is a small streetside restaurant down Station Road, Bambalapitiya, that serves up some killer rice and curry.
Mythi's used to be a small spot down Fife Road, and now it's an even smaller spot right opposite the KFC at Majestic City. The venue has changed, but has the food? We investigated.
The new Mythi's has just one little table that seats 4 and a glass counter with all their curries. There's a mysterious kitchen area that you can't see, but you just have to believe in. Service is generally just one person behind the counter, and it doesn't take more than a minute or two to get served, pay, and be on your way.
Nobody really comes here to dine in, so you probably should just get take out. Just be warned that they use a lot of packaging (plastic lunch sheet, paper box, numerous plastic bags), so if you plan on being a regular maybe just bring your own lunch box.
The star of the show at Mythi's has always been their black pork curry [UPDATE: It is with great sadness we have to announce that Mythi's doesn't make this delicacy anymore]. You can always opt for just their curries at varying prices, pork at Rs. 190, chicken and fish at Rs. 110, vegetable at Rs. 40, which is what we did. The meat itself varies from little boneless bits to little fatty bits (which I know irk many, but I personally love), all soft and perfectly marinated. I didn't come across any chewy, tough, or gristly bits, which was great, and the flavour was excellent too with the usual goraka and even some very mild hints of tamarind coming through. I'd definitely say it's comparable to some of Colombo's most popular BPCs, like the one at the DBU.
You can choose from a rice and curry, with either red or white rice, and a choice of chicken (Rs. 240), vegetable (Rs. 160), fish (Rs. 240), or pork (Rs. 320). Any of your choices come with an array of sides and curries, which in our case consisted of parippu, pol sambol, beans, kekiri, papadam, dried chillies and a little piece of karawala. In the past they've also had stuff like gotukola malung and jackfruit curry, so you'll just have to turn up and see what's on the menu for the day. Every component of our fish rice and curry was well prepared, albeit with enough rice to feed 3 people and not enough curry to soak through all of it.
They also have "specials" like Fried Rice and Nasi Goreng, but we don't really recommend it. We tried the Chicken Fried Rice (Rs. 280) which came with a piece of sweet chilli fried chicken, chilli paste, and an omelette. There wasn't really any vegetable or curry, so this was a bit dry and underwhelming.
If you're into black pork curry and don't have the cash or enthusiasm to dine at the Gallery Cafe, Mythi's is a good substitute (just don't expect the same ambience obviously). It's a good spot for your lunch break take away rice and curry, at a super central location.
The new Mythi's doesn't have a lot of seating, but they do have plenty of great curries!
Mythi's is a small streetside restaurant on Fife Road that offers arguably the best black pork curry in Colombo, along with a killer rice and curry.
At Mythis you can always find get a good serving of pork curry- arguably the best local meat curry. For Rs. 260 you get a generous helping of pork, a good splash of the day’s vegetable curries- dhal, beetroot, okra, breadfruit, a papadam and some sambols on a typical day. It’s a good meal for the price and - by the standards of buth kades - Mythis is clean and well ventilated.
සිංහල අවංකයෙන්ම ඒකෙ නම් පුදුම රසක්. ඔය ඕන මසක් මාළුවක් කන යාළුවො නිකමට හරි මිතිස් බීෆ් එක කාලා බලන්නෝනි. මොකද ඒකෙ පාන් පරාටා වගේ දේකට වුණත් ඇර නොතිය වගකියන්න...
සිංහල හොඳම දේශීය මස් කරියැයි තර්ක කළහැකි ඌරු මස් කරියක් හැමවිටම ඔබට 'මිතිස්' වෙතින් ලබා ගත හැකිය. සාමාන්‍ය දවසකදී ඔබට රු. 260ක මිළකට හොඳ මස් පංගුවක් සහ පරිප්පු, බීට්රූට්, බණ්ඩක්කා, දෙල් වැනි දවසේ එළවළු ව්‍යංජන, පපඩම් හා පොල් සබ්‍ම්බලක් සමග හොඳ බත් පිඟානක් කෑ හැකිය. එය මිළට හා බත් කඩ ප්‍රමිතියට අනුව හොඳ ආහාර වේලකි. 'මිතිස්' පිරිසිදු, හොඳින් වාතාශ්‍රය ඇති තැනකි.
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zlonboy
Tried Mythis after reading the review. IMHO, the pork curry was average, maybe it has been the time or the day I went. I have had some superb, I mean exellent pork curry at Gallery Cafe and at the Dutch Burgher Union, albeit spending way more than what I paid for Mythis.
savan
The Mythi's pork curry is pretty average - I meant pork curry in general was arguably the best local meat curry- better than chicken, and beef curries. Mythi's variant is only regionally interesting in that if your in the area why not but not worth going out of your way for.
Should have made that clearer-the heaven's kitchen variant is one grade above but we're still looking for pork curry perfection.
zlonboy
Got your point Savan. I would also like to recommend that you tryout and review Summer Garden down Green Path. They serve a decent mixed-grill (greasy) and a pork stew.
DavidBlacker
glad to see you guys finally got round to Mythi's. IMO the best pork curry in Colombo. definitely better than DBU and Barefoot (both which it shouldn't even be comparable to, given the difference in price). i've not had the pork curry at Gallery, but i think a true curry can only be judged with its proper samba rice, parippu, and other accompaniments, and not in the sterilised rice-on-the-side versions you get at the Barefoots and Galleries, so i usually avoid it in the upmarket places. there are so many other things those places do way better than curry.
btw, it's tamarind in the pork curry, not mushroom. traditional black pork curry has tamarind in the seasoning.
food terroirist
Thanks again David Blacker. I've become a regular visitor at Mythis since your (& the other dudes recommendation a few weeks ago).
food terroirist
"They've also got some mushroom in there as well which complements the pork."
If it's the kidney shaped black colour stuff in a rather thin slice (1-2cm thick), then it's dried goraka.
Booruwa
must try next time.
My new lunch spot tho is Gami Gedara in Ethul Kotte. They've got a range of veges to choose from and pork, mutton, chicken, fish curries, prawns, cuttlefish, fried fish, egg. Cmon what more do u want! Go for a weekend lunch.
viran
Try palpatha near mirihana.massive range of curries. Foods pretty good too
Bhagya YAMU STAFF
It definitely wasn't tamarind but it could have been goraka that I mistook for the mushroom. Although texturwise it was quite similar.
Booruwa
Tried Mythis last week. Got one black pork curry with rice and one chicken curry with rice. Black pork was good… More meat with bits of fatty pieces. Rice and curry was quite ordinary. Chicken curry again very ordinary. Only I was there at noon time on a Saturday. Wouldn't try Mythis again as its a bit out of my travel zone.
However the Tastys just across the street was packed to the brim! Got some awesome eclairs:)
Lakshen
Wanted to try out this place after reading this YAMU article. So me and my friend bought a couple of black pork curry portions today. Veryyy small portions with fat! Average taste. I think this place is a bit overrated regarding black pork! …… you can find a few places which will offer a fairly larger portion for the same price around narahenpita and Kirula Road!!
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lakshen
Wanted to try out this place after reading this YAMU article. So me and my friend bought a couple of black pork curry portions today. Veryyy small portions with fat! Average taste. I think this place is a bit overrated regarding black pork! …… you can find a few places which will offer a fairly larger portion for the same price around narahenpita and Kirula Road!!
the.sage
does this mean that the fife road location is no more?
Or are they doing a parallel run?
Kinita
Fife Road is no more! Their only location is Station Road, Bamba now.
Shehan
You wanna have the best rice and curry with pork just visit the hole in the wall down park road. Not just the pork but all of their curries are so good and they serve nice yellow rice during weekends.
Manoj
There's no pork here anymore