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Occupying two floors of a building on Stoney Street, on the periphery of Borough Market, Rambutan is packed when I visit one Saturday lunchtime. It’s shortly after the restaurant’s launch, and the whole place reverberates with the chatter of well-heeled, in-the-know foodies. Borough Market attracts a crowd that really cares about food — and there’s plenty to care about at Rambutan.
Named after a lychee-like fruit found in Asia, Rambutan is the debut restaurant from British-Sri Lankan chef Cynthia Shanmugalingam, who began running pop-ups and street food stalls in 2014, and released a cookbook (also called last summer. It was a bestseller, so fans of Shanmugalingam’s recipes will be glad there’s now a permanent
