Heritance launches Sri Lanka culinary series with chef Sav Perera

Heritance Hotels & Resorts has launched a five-part culinary and cultural series, A Week Worth Tasting, with Sri Lankan-born chef Savindri Perera. The project spotlights Sri Lanka’s regional foodways, communities and landscapes across Kandalama, Kandapola and the south coast.

Why it matters: - The series puts Sri Lanka’s regional cuisine, local producers and cultural traditions at the center of a destination story. - Heritance Hotels & Resorts is using its properties to connect guests with farms, fishing communities, tea growers, village kitchens and Ayurvedic food traditions. - The launch gives Sri Lankan cuisine a broader international platform through chef Savindri Perera, who built a profile on MasterChef Australia.

What happened: - Heritance Hotels & Resorts launched A Week Worth Tasting, a limited culinary and cultural series created with Sri Lankan-born chef Savindri Perera, known as Sav. - The series follows Sav across three regions: Kandalama, Kandapola and the southern coast. - Heritance says the project is designed as a destination-led culinary journey focused on food, people and place. - Audiences are invited to follow the journey through Heritance’s channels.

The details: - Heritance Kandalama, Heritance Tea Factory and Heritance Ayurveda anchor the series and serve as gateways into their surrounding regions. - In Kandalama, the series highlights Geoffrey Bawa’s design ethos, local farms, lake communities, village cooking, firewood techniques and dining experiences tied to the landscape. - In Kandapola, the misty highlands shape the story around tea, local livelihoods, produce and culinary experiences. - In the south, the series explores food through balance, nutrition and Ayurvedic wisdom, alongside coastal rhythms and healing-focused cuisine. - The series presents Sri Lanka’s food culture through ingredients, traditions, communities and landscapes that shape what appears on the plate. - Sav Perera is a Sri Lankan-born chef based in Adelaide and a former MasterChef Australia Top 3 finalist. - Sav’s cooking is shaped by memory, heritage and a focus on sharing Sri Lankan flavors with wider audiences. - Heritance connects Sav with local farms, fishermen, tea communities, village kitchens, markets, Ayurvedic traditions and Heritance chefs. - Heritance says those encounters are transformed into guest dining experiences.

Between the lines: - The launch reflects a broader travel trend: hotels are increasingly selling place-based experiences, not just rooms. - Heritance is also reinforcing its identity around architecture, culture and regional storytelling, not only hospitality. - The emphasis on food as a cultural lens gives Sri Lanka a way to market tourism through everyday life and local knowledge. - Heritance Hotels & Resorts is the flagship brand of Aitken Spence Hotels, part of Aitken Spence PLC. - Aitken Spence Hotels oversees 16 hotels and resorts in Sri Lanka, Maldives, Oman and India through Heritance Hotels & Resorts, Adaaran Hotels & Resorts and Turyaa. - Heritance Hotels & Resorts is the custodian of the largest portfolio of Bawa-designed hotels in Sri Lanka.

What's next: - Heritance is positioning the series as an ongoing invitation for audiences to follow the full journey. - The company is expected to use the project to deepen interest in its properties and the regions they represent. - The series may also broaden awareness of Sri Lankan cuisine among international travelers and food audiences.

The bottom line: - A Week Worth Tasting turns Sri Lankan cuisine into a travel story, using one chef’s journey to showcase the island’s food, people and landscapes.