College Avenue, Mount Lavinia
Open 11 AM–11 PM
As far as beach bars go, Shore By O! is by far the most popular. Not all their drinks are excellent, but they do the best beer cocktails around and their bites aren’t too shabby either.
As far as beach bars go, Shore By O! is by far the most popular. Not all their drinks are excellent, but they do the best beer cocktails around and their bites aren’t too shabby either.
The Shore By O! has become of the most popular venues to go out and have a drink with friends. It's still one of the most affordable places in town, with the obvious allure of the beach, but we feel they've let their standards drop.
As far as beach bars go, Shore By O! is by far the most popular. Not all their drinks are excellent, but they do the best beer cocktails around and their bites aren’t too shabby either.
සිංහල ෂෝ බයි ඕ! නිලවශයෙන් විවෘත වුණේ මේ ඉරිදා. ඒක පරණ ගෝල්ඩන් මයිල් තිබුණ තැන පටන් ගත්ත විශාල බාර් එකක්. ඒක තියෙන්නේ හරියටම ගල්කිස්සේ මැද. ගල්කිස්ස කොළඹ සිට පැය භාගයක් තරම්වත් දුරයි. ඒත් දැන් මේක තමයි එහෙ තියෙන හොඳම තැන.
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From Galle Road, take Hotel Road towards the Mount Lavinia Hotel. Turn right onto College Avenue. They have some parking at the end of College Ave, or you can park before or down De Saram. Walk to the end of College Ave, cross the rail tracks and you're there.
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5/5
I read the comments before going and was reluctant to go but I found the place to be wonderful. I went there on a Tuesday so that might be one of the reasons. The place was great with a very relaxing atmosphere. The food was also great and very reasonable priced. The service was also excellent and we had a waiter near us almost all the time.
5/5
Thank you for your review. The Management of Shore, wish to sincerely apologize for your unfortunate experience.
We will look into this issues, in an attempt to improve our service and look forward to another opportunity to host you at Shore by O! in the not too distant future.
Please send us your contact details to “theshorebyO@gmail.com
3/5
They had a DJ and a live band playing at the same time. That was pretty darned annoying.
They also took ages with our second round of drinks, didn't have bananas in the afternoon and no cider in the night and brought our pizzas with burnt crusts. The location is lovely though.
3/5
Awesome place to have a drink. here are some tips though…not worth buying "Poison" its not poison at all, and the "graveyard" is spoiled with too much stout. first round of long island ice tea was good, but not that great at the second round. this inconsistency with drinks as the place get crowded can be seen on all by O! places. Serving takes a lil longer
//Price Range: 500-1000 Rupees//
Confuse about this, pitcher goes for 1400Rs then how come you guys suggesting the price range in that ?
anyway we il be going by this weekend…. let me check it out
Taekwondo beer mix is mediocre, I would rather mix a lemonade with lager and mix a spoonful of wasabi paste. The nacho portion is just not enough, and the guacamole did not have enough avocado, was too salty and tart, and the nachos were like appalam papadam. The potato wedges were also on the salty side, and given a few more seconds in the fryer would have come out burnt. Prices are good, but the quantity on the plate must live up to it, if not quality.
Great place, menu is a mess,not clear to pick items , need a simple menu,service was ok, nice food & drinks
was there on sunday and the service was appalling. it took around 45 mins to get a drink, and there was hardly anyone there!!! dissapointed.
About ten of my family and friends went here last night (6th - Friday) and suffice to say it ranked right on top of my most awful experiences! We ordered food that never came despite us reminding more than five times, one of the waiters finally came and said the kitchen is closed and therefore we will not be served! Same with the drinks and even then we basically had to force them to provide us a bill as they seemed quite content serving for free! The waiters are not at all trained and the menu without numbering just adds to their long list of problems. In short, I will never go back here unless they consider a complete overhaul of the place. Would not recommend this place unless you’re willing to just lie back enjoy the ambience sans any food and/or drinks.
Pathetic service. Sitting here for more than one hour and no one even bothered to take the order. Only attending when a foreigner wants to give the order.
Pathetic service. Sitting here for more than one hour and no one even bothered to take the order. Only attending when a foreigner wants to give the order.
Pathetic service. Sitting here for more than one hour and no one even bothered to take the order. Only attending when a foreigner wants to give the order.
Was there on Saturday around 7.45 p.m. Lovely place with a poor service.
Drinks arrived 30-35 mins later and then came the news after all that waiting no dunhill is available . The cheese toast and the cuttlefish was cold which arrived after 45mins after placing the order( No folks no tissues ) . Once served no sign of the staff to make another order. We had to collect the bill ourselves which was another 20mins. Will visit again in 3 months to see if the service ok.
Lovely place…. Just what Mount Lavania needed… But the service is HORRIBLE !!! we waited sooo long for our drinks and the food and got it after bugging them… Then we went to the bar and the service was still bad ! And the cocktails were just as bad…… Come on ! And they billed us wrong too
Superb place … I see few nagative comments and I too agree that service was slow but need to give them the credit for what they have done. I have been to goldan mile & this is fantastic… Great food ( menu is not clear to order ) srilankan stuff with sambola is out of this world. Bar & drinks were great …keep it up improve the speed
Absolutely pathetic service. Had to wait for nearly half an hour upon ordering a beer tower. Plus they made a huge blunder in preparing the bill. They have added 2500 more, might have assumed we were too high to realise. The staff shouldbe much more professional.
Lovely place , But Grrrrrrrr … servers are "boru busy" and managers are trying to look cool.Seem like they haven't figured out how to handle the operation.
Mount beach needs this place ; I really hope they will improve the service standards.
We heard so much about Shore and had to try it out. The verdict - an utter disappointment.
Firstly the waiter did not know the menu and I had to explain to him what was in their own menu. This was after having to put in a lot of effort to get his attention in the first place.
Secondly, they took an eternity to bring our drinks and food (approx. an hour) and it was only a Monday night. I ordered a club sandwich with fries and after waiting over an hour they brought half the order. After another half an hour they come and tell me they can't serve fries because their deep fryer is not working. With the greatest of difficulty I managed to get some sort of discount on my meal. This is not to mention the burger that we ordered and never saw the colour of.
But this was the cherry on top of our already miserable night. I asked to speak to the manger at least 7 or 8 times and after being there for almost 3 hours I didn't even see his face. According to the waiter, he is in the kitchen and is too 'busy' to take 2 min to meet with a customer. What the heck is the manager doing hiding out in the kitchen?
In short, staff need to be trained and there must be a more professional approach when handling customers. All that stress was not worth some mediocre food and a few drinks.
I can safely say, I will not be visiting Shore again :)
The worst service I have experienced in my life! Took about ten mins to give the table clean plates to share the food (how hard is it to bring clean plate to the table?!) and after getting the order wrong the wait staff spent 5 mins trying to convince me that chicken Fried rice was prawn Fried rice (it was chicken!!). Also the calamari was atrocious - totally rubbery! I would suggest going here for beer and bites only. Service at places like this give Sri Lanka a bad name!! (yes, the service was that bad!)
Terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE service. Just thought I'd say it thrice to make people understand how bad our experience was. They didn't get our initial orders right, took almost an hour to tell us our desired choice of food was unavailable, forgot our second orders, miscalculated our bill, and a host of other incompetencies! Don't bother.
@MJ , this is a pub we are talking about , if you are looking for halal go find somewhere else.
Nice place, but poor service and Food is really good(tasty and get a huge potion) . Make sure to double check the bill.
Nice place. Sloppy service. Short staffed. Over-crowded and they can't even attend to the crowd. Food and drinks were pretty good but it took more than an hour for the food to arrive. Some dishes never came to the table. And it took around 20 minutes to get the bill but they've added things we didn't even order. Don't think I wanna go there again.
Nice atmosphere and wonderful crowd on Fridays and saturdays and pretty good place for down time on weekdays but service is horrendous! Waited over 2 nd a half hrs for Hot butter cuttle fish!…
Tip: police trap on top of college avenue generally on fridays and saturdays
Inspire of the negative comments I thought of give it a go. Place was excellent, food was great and service was good. Lot of crowd since Saturday night. For 2 people Three imported beer mugs, 1 coke, mixed rice and fish and chips came for 2,600 with
vat and service charges. Do your costing according to you. Worth another visit according to my opinion.
All i know is their Pork chop is good!(Last I checked was about a month ago) But Its not enough I always get two of those… & Drinks are alright! Pretty good place to go in the evening and relax.
"mug of lion larger can be had for just Rs.150 which is less than other bars during Happy Hour" is incorrect. You math needs to include that there is at least 2 mugs in Bottle.
Mushroom Carbonara is delicious 550… Burger was big and was 550… penned marinara was also good! Nice place to dine b it! Will visit again…
Went there last night around 9.30pm and was a big disappointment. Well it was totally crowded but however we got our place around the dancing floor outside. Yes with the big damn speaker to your ear. We spotted stacked tables and chairs and requested the waiter to set up a place a lil far from the sounds and it was a BIG FAT NO !!!!!! I loved the place whatever their prices high taxes and service charges are, yet for the first time had to walk out without even being apologized for the thing. The only thing the waiter said was everyone is complaining about the loud music and he can't do anything. And they should also seriously consider table for two people since many coupled up people were sitting on four chaired tables. Well can't complain the customer but the restaurant.
Terrible service for average food at exorbitant prices.
As I write, my friends and I have waited 45 minutes for two dishes.
In this time we could have-
A) Driven to Dehiwela and back (we have good drivers in our group)
B) Played about three chess games
C) Read the Lord Of the Rings Trilogy
D) Waited for the the Star wars sequel.
The stewards keep dismissing our humble requests to be satisfied. We are famished!
O the humanity :@ what we've tasted so far is average and hunger does little add to taste.
3/5
AdamG
Food is decent. Just don't go on weekends. Then you can avoid the disappointment of slow service.
5/5
Nishadha
I read the comments before going and was reluctant to go but I found the place to be wonderful. I went there on a Tuesday so that might be one of the reasons. The place was great with a very relaxing atmosphere. The food was also great and very reasonable priced. The service was also excellent and we had a waiter near us almost all the time.
5/5
TheShoreByO
Thank you for your review. The Management of Shore, wish to sincerely apologize for your unfortunate experience.
We will look into this issues, in an attempt to improve our service and look forward to another opportunity to host you at Shore by O! in the not too distant future.
Please send us your contact details to “theshorebyO@gmail.com