I had an amazing experience at Turtle Bay! The view of the beach and sea turtles was breathtaking. The food, especially the tuna, was delicious. The desserts were a sweet delight, and the staff was incredibly friendly and attentive. Highly recommend this beachfront restaurant! 🌊🐢🍽️🍰👏
Service
Take out
Meal type
Lunch
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
In principle, it is an excellent place situated in a unique location.
The restaurant is offering a few room above the restaurant themselves and in a building beside it. We had the rooms above the restaurant, which was an excellent choice.
The place is situated directly on the turtle Bay beach so that it is possible to go there from the hotel stairs within less than 30 metres. Also , is the hotel offering masks, snorkels, and other equipment for their hotelguests for free. This is also relevant for the available sunbeds on the beach.
The name turtle Bay Beach does not promise too much, as you can see in the attached photos (made by myselves) that there are a lot of sea turtles near the beach which can be observed easily with a bit of patience.
The food in the restaurant itself is excellent at all. Therefore, also here a special thanks to Mr Sampath Jayantha, the cook who made the food in his special way uniquely.
The breakfast was also different every day and contained all kinds of Sri Lankan specialities.
In general, all written above would be a good reason to give full five stars. However, the hotel does not accept credit cards. For me, this was an issue since I usually do not carry this high amount of cash money with me needed for our 5 night stay.
Also, it was obvious that there was an issue with the ventilation of the wood fired pizza oven in the kitchen. The smoke was during our entire stay moving upwards in the hotel rooms above the restaurant. The resulting smell was as a consequence quite strong, which we did not like.
Solving the two issues would allow me to grant full five stars for this, as already mentioned, unique location.
Bottemline, fair price performance ratio, and therefore a clear recommendation.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Lunch
Price per person
Rs 2,500–3,000
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Beautiful place, friendly staff, excellent cuisine. We tasted almost everything from the menu and were very satisfied. Accommodation clean. We were also lucky and released baby turtles into the sea. Definitely recommend.
Service
Dine in
Price per person
Rs 2,500–3,000
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
We found this place by chance and what luck we had. It is a restaurant on the beach in the heart of Mirissa Beach. It is between Coconut Hill and Parrot Rock. Lunch/dinner can cost around €10 per person depending on the choice (drinks included). The quality is very good as well as the service and they have a good variety of food to choose from (Asian, Sinhalese, European... as well as fish of the day). In our case we chose 2 freshly caught lobsters. They were somewhat small but also cheap (€13 each) and are also served with a side dish.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Lunch
Price per person
Rs 5,000+
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
This resturant is something of itself.. It's just below sommerset mirissa, so you would expect a good experience. I have traveled and helped the Sri Lanka people for the past 10 years but this resturant is a no go. They are rude and following their own rules on the beach. Avoid at any cost or if your are even thinking about it, go to the next one for suberb service.
Food: 1
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 1
Amazing seafood and Sri Lankan breakfast. We did not try the western breakfast but it also looked very nice. The service was super friendly and accommodating. The setting is beautiful.
Meal type
Dinner
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Recommended dishes
Seafood Platter
Horrible service. I went around 4pm no staff was paying attention. I asked for the day specials written on the menu and the waitperson was not aware. They did bring the fish it was frozen. I took off. You are paying for the location.
Service
Dine in
Price per person
Rs 4,500–5,000
Service: 1
It took between 1 and a half and 2 hours to bring food for 8 people and 2 hours for a tea. Food is not so good compared with what we had in Sri Lanka and the prices are high.
This place is great!! Wonderful staff, great cocktails! Saw turtles while snorkeling both days we were here. You MUST visit!!
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
