Oak Ray Restaurant Galle — Restaurant in Galle

This place is well located on the Galle Hikkaduwa highyway. This place is mostly visited by group tour operators or large number of tourist groups come here for lunch as it has got a wood handicraft factory and by bringing tourists here, many of them also end up purchasing some handicrafts.

After visiting Galle fort and other places we arranged for a Tuk Tuk and they suggested this place which i was not convinced as there were quite a few options around Galle to get a good meal. My advice, never trust the tuk tuk guys for advice as they only take you to places that they get commission and where they get free meals like the one they got after dropping us at Oak Ray. SLR 1200 for a vegetarian lunch which had nothing great, no AC working and no proper service as we had to wait for a long time for water, reason being the staff were more busy with making preparations for the larger tourist groups and also did not want to take ala-carte orders informing us that these orders will take a long time.

Not a great place for dinning unless you are a member of a tourist or travel group. the next day we went to Raja Bojanam for a price of SLR 1999 and that was a great value for...

Their lunch buffet is one of the most reasonably priced for international tastes at 2500 SLR. They change cuisines daily, mainly based on tour groups they receive. You can call ahead to ask. Today's happened to be Chinese and Western.

I particularly love their salads and that they have fruit. The video captures most of their food but there was also a tea and coffee station as well as a dessert station with fruit and ice cream across from where the hot food was setup. If you ask nicely you may also get access to their local cuisine of 5 or so dishes at the back mainly dedicated to staff.

They begin around noon, and probably only have scraps left after the day's tour group leaves, but officially it's from 11.30am-3.30pm. There are clean bathrooms, no internet, accept card payments. Service is great but it gets a bit busy and hectic when the tour group arrives but settles after they leave. Looking forward...

We were forced here by our tour guide probably assuming we would buy the local handycrafts located at the same place on the ground floor. The food barely looked appealing at the buffet. We had paid for about 4 kids as well who barely ate a thing. The staff refused to let us take anything to go other than some bananas, which wasnt the case when kids were involved at the other two buffets we were dragged to before this.

The wait staff here seemed pretty adament and unfriendly.

TRY TO AVOID THIS PLACE...