Restaurants in Galle
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Rampart Hotel
This ancient place has an ornately carved wooden staircase that would make redevelopers drool. But you won't drool over the long menu of dull Chinese, local and Western fare served in the cavernous dining room on the 2nd floor. Rather, come here for a drink and the amazing sunset views.
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Serendipity Arts Cafe
This photo-crammed hole-in-the-wall cafe has a fusion menu that includes Western sandwiches and Eastern curries, brilliant juices and shakes, bacon-and-egg hoppers and proper filter coffee. They claim that some of the recipes are generation’s old family secrets – though we’re assured that the ingredients aren’t as old! It’s an ideal place for lunch or breakfast. The cafe is owned and run by Juliet Coombe and her husband.
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Galle Fort Hotel
The restaurant at this hotel serves superb, though very pricey, Asian fusion cuisine at tables set along the deep inner veranda. The dinner menu changes nightly. At other times there are baked goods, classic breakfast dishes, salads and sandwiches. The bar, overlooking Church St, feels like a colonial retreat, and is popular with the expat community.
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Mama’s Galle Fort Roof Café & Guest House
Eat under the twinkling star-lit sky with views of a spinning lighthouse at this guest house, which conjures up some of the most sensational curries in Galle – all at dirt-cheap prices. If the food really grabs you, ask about joining one of their cookery courses.
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Anura's Restaurant
This tiny, bright-orange, hole-in-the-wall place serves fantastic light curries, various pastas and even what are reputed to be Galle’s best pizzas. The paintings on the wall give it a trendy cafe-gallery feel.
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Young Men's Buddhist Association
Housed in another mouldering colonial gem of a building, the YMBA is a local social club that has a wonderful café hidden away on the main floor. The superb curries are served at communal tables.
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South Ceylon Bakery
Opposite the bus station, this highly popular lunch spot, with its impossible-to-resist sweet and savoury short eats, and gut-bursting curries, is the most convenient place to eat in the new town.
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Nescafe Shop
There’s no sign, but you can’t really miss the rotti-slapping going on at this dark little cave of a cafe opposite the lighthouse. By far the cheapest place in the Fort to stuff your face.
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Pedlar's Inn Cafe
A groovy little place in an old colonial house. Shakes, coffees and sandwiches can be enjoyed at long tables that are good for lounging. As well as a cafe, it doubles as a jewellery shop.
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Janahitha Teashop
A world away from all the posh restaurants and arty cafes, this solidly locals-only teashop brews the best cuppa in the Fort.
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Royal Dutch Cafe
Mixing cinnamon cake with biryani and ginger tea with a shop full of batiks, this is a chilled spot for a light lunch.
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New Chinese
A budget stand-by by the train tracks, this has very reasonable and filling Western, Chinese and Sri Lankan food.
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Ruhunupura Pastry Shop
Despite the name, this place specialises in ice cream. It’s hot. Indulge.
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