Food & Drink
Meals
Breakfast is included in the villa rental. For other meals, our cook can prepare group lunches, dinners, snacks, juices and milkshakes. You pay the cost of ingredients, plus a cooking fee of USD 15 per group per meal. The cook can shop for you, or you can provide the ingredients. There is also a well-equipped guest kitchen in case you want to prepare food for yourselves.
The cook can prepare a wide variety of Sri Lankan dishes we recommend you try throughout your stay. Spice levels can be adjusted to suit your group. Non-Sri Lankan meals can also be prepared. Please inform the Villa Manager of any food allergies and preferences.
We don’t have a restaurant and cooking is done on the basis of a shared family/group meal, not individual, plated meals. However, alternative and additional dishes can be prepared to accommodate children and any special dietary needs or preferences.
Please inform the cook in the morning if you require lunch and dinner to allow time for shopping and cooking.
Listed here are some meal suggestions. You are welcome to discuss different ideas and the cook will be happy to try something new and take tips from you. Staff go off duty at 10pm.
*Kindly note that some ingredients are seasonal e.g., mangoes/avocadoes. Fish, seafood and chicken are readily available. Local mutton, beef and pork make good curries. Premium cuts of meat (steaks, fillets, lamb chops/racks etc.) are not sold in the local area stores. We have a guest fridge and freezer space if you want to bring anything with you.
Local produce is plentiful and reasonably priced, but imported vegetables, fruits and ingredients like cheeses, cold cuts and choice of coffee varieties are harder to source and expensive.
We recommend you bring your favourite coffee with you. We have coffee plungers, a bean to cup espresso machine and a coffee percolator.
Please bring your own wines and spirits. You can buy local brand spirits and a limited selection of wine in the Cargills supermarket in Dikwella, or in Matara Town for a better selection.
Breakfast
Tea & Coffee
Fruit Platter or Fresh Fruit Juice
Toast, Butter, Jam
&
Choice of Western or Sri Lankan cooked breakfast
Western
Eggs any style with bacon, sausage, tomato and potato
Or
Sri Lankan omelette with onion, capsicum, tomato and chillies
Or
Pancakes or waffles served with jam, sugar & lime or treacle
Sri Lankan*
Coconut (pol) roti served with chicken fish or egg curry, dhal and seeni sambal
(a sweet and spicy onion relish)
Or
String hoppers (indiappa) served with chicken, fish or egg curry, kiri hodi
(coconut gravy) and pol (coconut) sambal
Or
Milk rice (kiribhat) served with fish, chicken or egg curry and lunumiris (sambal
of red chillies, onion and lime)
* Please order evening before if you would like a Sri Lankan breakfast.
Soups
Spiced lentil soup with garlic bread
Mulligatawny soup with cumin bread
Pumpkin and ginger soup with garlic bread
Tom Yam with seafood, chicken, tofu or vegetables with garlic bread
Tomato soup with garlic or herb bread
Vegetable soup with garlic or herb bread
Lunches/light meals
Spring rolls – vegetable, chicken or fish
Prawn cocktail with avocado (in season)
Omelette – plain, cheese and tomato or Sri Lankan style
Flat bread pizzas (margarita, vegetable, bacon, sausage, prawn, spicy chicken)
Platter of Sandwiches or wraps Choose from
• Egg, tuna, prawn or chicken mayonnaise
• Cheese and tomato
• Sausage, egg and tomato
• Pol sambal and fried egg
• Toasted cheese, tomato, onion, basil
Club sandwich with chips
Stir-fried noodles or rice with egg, vegetables, chicken or seafood
Chinese special fried rice or noodles
Pasta salad with vegetables, prawns, chicken or tuna
Asian mixed vegetable salad with cashew, tuna, prawn, calamari, or chicken
Chickpea salad
Thai green mango or papaya salad with cashew nut, chicken seafood or sprats
Sri Lankan cuisine
Sri Lankan food takes time to prepare well. Please order at breakfast for lunch, and at lunch for dinner. Spice levels can be adjusted.
Rice and curry. Fish, prawns, chicken, beef, pork or mutton served with vegetable curries, dhal, mallung and papadums
Pol (coconut) roti with fish, chicken or meat curry, dhal and seeni (sweet, spicy onion) sambal
Red or white rice-flour string hoppers with chicken or fish curry, kiri hodi (coconut milk gravy) and pol (coconut) sambal
Hoppers, plain and egg, with chicken, fish or meat curry and pol (coconut) sambal
Kiribhat (milkrice) with chicken or fish curry and lunumiris (chilli, lime, onion relish)
Red or white rice-flour pittu with fish or chicken curry, kirihodi (coconut milk gravy) and katta (chilli, lime, Maldive fish) sambal
Roasted paan (bread) with crab or prawn curry
Kothu roti. Stir fried, chopped roti mixed with vegetables and spices with egg, chicken, seafood or cheese
Devilled dishes. Fish, chicken or prawns or calamari stir-fried with red chillies, green capsicum, tomatoes and onions
Black pepper or hot butter cuttlefish
RICE & CURRY a classic Sri Lankan meal with a great variety of curries to choose from. A Rice & Curry meal typically consist of a protein (fish, egg, chicken, meat), vegetable curries, dhal, a mallung, rice and papadum. Be sure to try… fish mustard curry, white fish curry made with coconut milk, Amulthiyal, a hot, sour, dry fish dish, red chicken curry, strong, mutton or beef curry, black pork curry, spicy prawn or crab curry… Vegetable curries… green beans, string beans, wing beans, pumpkin, butternut squash, kekiri/cooking melon, bitter gourd, snake gourd, spine gourd, ridge gourd/luffa, drumsticks, polos/ young jack fruit, jack fruit seed, capsicum, cabbage, oyster mushroom, plantain, tomato, green mango, ambarella, brinjal, potato, beetroot, kankung, leek, okra, lotus stem, banana flower, cashew, kohila… Mallung – a salad of shredded leaves, grated coconut, lime and spices, raw or slightly tempered, made from many different leafy greens such as gotukola, mukunuvena, kale, spinach, cabbage, passionfruit leaves…
Globetrotting
Nasi Goreng Indonesian spicy rice with egg, chicken, fish or prawns
Biryani with vegetables, egg, chicken, beef or mutton
Tandoori chicken or fish
Sweet and Sour chicken, fish or prawns
Teriyaki chicken or fish
Red Thai curry with prawn, fish, chicken, tofu or vegetables
Pasta
Pesto with prawns, cuttlefish or chicken.
Carbonara
Tomato, garlic and basil with prawns or seafood with or without chilli
Cheesy pasta with or without bacon
Sausage and tomato sauce (spicy or non-spicy)
Pizzas
Choose toppings: Tomato, onion, basil, brinjal, capsicum, mushroom, chilli,
olives, bacon, sausage (spicy/non spicy), chicken, prawns, calamari
Seafood
Whole fish, fish steaks, jumbo prawns, prawns, calamari or crab cooked with
your choice of flavours: Garlic, ginger, lime and kochi chillies
Garlic butter
Lemon mustard
Tomato, red chillies, ginger and garlic
Battered, fried fish, calamari or prawns
Lobster (in season), poached, grilled or gratinated
Yellow Fin Tuna
Sides
Potatoes – roasted, boiled, mashed, tempered, French fries, sweet potato fries
Rice – red rice, white rice, yellow rice, tempered rice, coconut rice
Stir-fried rice or noodles with vegetable, egg, chicken or seafood
Stir-fried vegetables with soy, ginger, garlic or oyster sauce
Vegetables – steamed, boiled, oven roasted, gratinated
Side salads – Mixed vegetable
Green salad
Tomato and basil (and avocado in season)
Tomato, onion and cucumber
Cucumber and mint (and avocado in season)
Thai green mango or papaya
Beetroot salad
Bitter gourd, tomato and onion
Snake gourd, onion and green chilli
Desserts
Curd and honey
Ice cream
Fruit salad
Crème caramel
Coconut and lemongrass crème caramel
Pineapple and banana fritters with ice cream
Wattalapan
Coconut pancakes
Chocolate biscuit pudding
Drinks
Complementary local coffee and Sri Lankan teas (black tea, green tea, fruit
teas, ginger tea with jaggery, chai)
Hot chocolate
Ice-Tea
Fruit Juices – Banana, lime, papaya & lime, lime & mint, watermelon, mango,
passionfruit, narang (local orange), pineapple, soursop, guava, mixed fruit
Lassi – Plain, banana, mango, avocado and papaya
Milkshakes – Vanilla, banana or chocolate
Snacks
Fish or vegetable cutlets
Papadums
Popcorn
Cheese toast
French fries
Sweet potato fries
Manioc chips or fried plantain
Fruit
- Please ask the cook if you would like to freeze some fresh juice or ice tea lollies