Ropewalk

Decent place, banana cocktail is absolutely best. Other cocktails are ok ‘sh. Food is generally good, ceviche with tuna is terrible but the rest is pretty good. Spicy prawns are very good. Atmosphere is excellent life music is amazing. Service is very inexperienced (we had to teach our waiter how to open a bottle of wine because it was her first one, which was quite adorable but it’s not your high end place with exceptional service).

Abhishek, we are so grateful for the most amazing cocktails this evening. The BEST cocktails in Galle, served by the best staff ever. We are so glad we came here. We wish you were open for longer.

We dined there & it was an awesome experience. Food: jackfruit balls yum! Eggplant bites yum yum tasty! Crab curry was v delicious - bohomo hodia (very good!) Cocktails: v v Creative Gunpowder & Ropewalk! Musician: out of this world - being a 1 man band, it sounded like a 2-3piece band! Great upbeat jazz vibe! SVC: impeccable by Ryan whom we met in the afternoon & convinced us by his SVC & attention to come back in the evening for a great evening! Thanks heaps👍

Beautifully restored colonial bar serving a wide range of high quality arrack and arrack cocktails. The service was very pleasant, there was live music (quite good) in the adjoining room. Overall a tremendous experience.

Absolutely delicious bar for highly unique cocktails. We kept coming back to try another one on their airy terrace (photos over couple of days!). Very friendly staff too. Loved the Ropewalk and Pepino cocktails particularly.

We settled on this restaurant after a bit of walking around trying to find a diverse menu. While a bit pricier than some of the others the food and service were great. We had the poori and Sri Lankan chicken and our son the burger. The curries in particular were delicious with a great variety of dishes. Service was great, atmosphere a little lacking as we had to sit inside in a dining room which felt a bit separated to the rest of the place, however it wasn’t bad. Would highly recommend and perhaps book if you want decent seats.

Amazing cocktails! Unique flavor profiles while still being delicious. Great way to try drinks made with Sri Lankan arrack as the spirit. I was a little leery about trying the stout-based drink (tagged as ‘must try’) but it was fabulous. I ordered the mutton rolls,which were fresh, tasty, and huge. Minced mutton stuffed in dough coated with crispy panko flakes, then deep fried. The setting is gorgeous. Beautiful relaxed outdoor seating on the veranda. There is also indoor seating in the open air living room area, and then the air conditioned bar area. All in all, a lively scene.

Last week my friend Kate and I had a super evening with at the Ropewalk Bar at the Galle Fort Hotel. Ropewalk champions locally inspired cocktails and was named by Condé Nast Traveller as one of the top 20 bars in Sri Lanka - and boasts an extensive variety of Sri Lanka’s traditional tipple-Arack. We loved the signature arack sour cocktail named after the bar itself, followed by ‘gunpowder' arack cocktail as well as the more traditional arack cocktail with fresh passion fruit. We both did climb the ladder to reach the arack laden shelves without a hitch First time in ages that I enjoyed exploring the many flavours of Arrack-based cocktails. Great meeting the bar maestro, Nabeel, also Praveena, Abhishek & Denham. Looking forward to the Colombo incarnation happening soon!