The Doctor's House

The Doctor's House

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+94 76 642 2734+ Add website
Hours
Sun
7:30 - 11:0012:00 - 22:00
Mon
7:30 - 11:0012:00 - 22:00
Tue
7:30 - 11:0012:00 - 22:00
Wed
7:30 - 11:0012:00 - 22:00
Thu
7:30 - 11:0012:00 - 22:00
Fri
7:30 - 11:0012:00 - 22:00
Sat
7:30 - 11:0012:00 - 22:00
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4.0
4.0 of 5 bubbles

RATINGS
Food
4.5 of 5 bubbles
Service
4.1 of 5 bubbles
Value
4.3 of 5 bubbles
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CUISINES
Bar, Pizza
Special Diets
Vegetarian friendly, Vegan options, Gluten free options
Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Brunch, After-hours, Drinks
features
Menu


Does this restaurant have live music
About
The Doctor’s House is a 200 year old, former Dutch and ayurvedic hospital, situated on the south coastline of Sri Lanka. We are a couple of guys from down-under, whom openly admit to having zero experience in hospitality and simply aim to have a bit of fun hosting with a good vibe across our place and the village. We breakfast with real coffee and delicious juices from 7:30-10:30 daily and we serve wood-fired pizzas, snacks, desserts, good cocktails and the COLDEST BEERS in Sri Lanka from 12:30 - 9:30pm daily. We also have 2 dorm rooms (a 4 bed and a 6 bed). So come eat, stay, drink and play at The Doctor's House in Madiha!
CUISINES
Bar, Pizza
Special Diets
Vegetarian friendly, Vegan options, Gluten free options
Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Brunch, After-hours, Drinks
FEATURES
Takeout, Reservations, Outdoor Seating, Seating, Parking Available, Street Parking, Serves Alcohol, Full Bar, Cash Only, Free Wifi, Live Music
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4.0
4.0 of 5 bubbles215 reviews
Excellent
117
Very good
44
Average
21
Poor
11
Terrible
22

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Mario
Dubai49 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
Jan 2024 family
Nice place if you are in Polhena beach area . You can Enjoy a cold beer . Pizza needs better cheese Don’t visit busy hours because place is full with surfers and wannabe surfers . No table service . Normal prices .
Written 8 January 2024
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VLU2017
Rome55 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
Jan 2020 none
Live music followed by a nice DJ set (do not expect Ibiza style, though). Food is not bad - even the pizza is quite tasteful. The queue to buy food is pretty long and night finishes quite early (11PM!). But if you wish to continue to party it is sufficient to cross street. Overall the atmosphere is very nice and relaxed. Advisable to go before 6PM in order to wait in line and risk not to enter (usually they reach full house at 500 people).
Written 4 February 2020
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Nikol J
Prague9 contributions
3.0 of 5 bubbles
Jan 2020 friends
The first feeling is wow, looks very good but when you sit at the table there is no servise and you have to order by yourself. They have got a bar and food separately so you have to wait in first line and after that for drink in the second line. Non-alcoholic drink you can order until 5PM and after that only with alcohol. No coffee, water or anything else. At the end, we ordered a dessert per 1300LKR and we were wating almost a half of hour. Then after our announcement they brought us something different so we had to wait another time for the wishes food. Also self-service looks very messy as after ordering you get a number and the staff is searching you around all the area where you are sitting. Quite confussing and time wasting system.
Written 25 January 2020
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celina b
40 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Sept 2024 friends
This place is an impudence! 1000 rupees entrance fee per person and then you have to order your food at a counter instead of a good service 😂 the food is expensive and only small portions. We were all still hungry after our meal. Also, when two of us received their pizza, one of us had to wait 30 minutes for her food, and when it arrived, obviously the other two of us have already finished their Pizza. Not a word as an excuse came from the waiter! This is ridiculous. We would not come back, there are other places where you find the party vibe but get better food and service.
Written 18 September 2024
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lguide84
Moscow54 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Aug 2024 friends
Terrible service and expensive menu. 40mins after we ordered, we found out the dishes we ordered were not available. We're here to celebrate a birthday. They ordered pizza, ate all from the same shared plate without appliances or individual dishes. Pepper oil and napkins came after we were practically done with dinner. Tastes like nothing original. It's probably the best thing around, but not for that cost.
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Written 2 August 2024
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Soumya J
3 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2023 couples
Horrible food. Horrible service. No service actually. You have to go to different bars to order different things (food, drink) by yourself (what an inconvenient concept, right?) Pathetic attitude of the pizza oven staff. Got something as simple as veg nachos wrong. how? How can you make burnt and bitter nachos and then say it's made this way? When baking mistakes are pointed out, the pizza oven guy who baked the nachos says the food is made like this only. We asked him to change the dish and get us a pizza instead since he was from the pizza baking team and used the oven to bake the nachos, he says we can give you the same thing again, or PAY MORE TO GET A PIZZA, and continued to justify!! Water dripping out of the fish and chips - there's a rubbish justification for that too. Terrible terrible attitude. Never going back.
Written 28 February 2023
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Michael M
You don’t have to order at the different bars by yourself, you can take a friend, or a partner, or a family member or you can even take a big group of people you’ve never even met before. We honestly don’t mind how many people (or dogs, cats, peacocks etc) you decide to order with, that’s totally up to you! And ordering by yourself is not our concept, so it must be yours! Looks like you’ve only got yourself to blame on this one! so yeah we’d also appreciate it if you never come back… especially if you’re going to be brining your own inconvenient concepts with you!
Written 1 March 2023
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Adam W
Newcastle upon Tyne70 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Apr 2022 friends
Having been brought here by a tour group, raving about the place I have been left underwhelmed. Starting off having to order food in one place and cocktails in another at the overpriced prices, quoted in USD as this type of establishment prefers. Returning to my large group and seeing everyone’s orders arrive and just be dumped in the middle of the table to go cold and a useless waiter just turn and walk away uninterested. My food never arrived so on going up to the counter the waiter looked like he was about to fall asleep! Talking to another waiter who claimed to understand my order was missed he promised a delivery of nachos with pulled pork…. Plain nachos arrived obviously, given my group had now nearly eaten I just left it and carried on. On clearing the table the first disinterested waiter dropped a used fork on my lap covering the shorts in food…… and then proceeded to take someone else’s half finished drink and throw it in is basked. Only to try and fish it out when it was upside down to place back on the table when he was challenged. Avoid this establishment and go somewhere more authentic, don’t waste your cash and look after a local who needs it and will provide you with much better food, drink and service
Written 5 April 2022
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kate s
Rudersdorf11 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Jan 2023 friends
The place is quite fame but a total disappointment on the Level of Service The food is overpriced for SL and food isn't responding with quality. Multiple dishes which we ordered missed several Ingridients. comparing the photos on Google you might find out that you are fooled - they tried to lie that we didn't understand MENU. Never apologiesed moreover on a social media Feedback I Got a response to basically fck off - as far as they don't value the Experience of customer and care only about how to get your money.
Written 26 January 2023
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Lesyeux D
1 contribution
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Apr 2022 none
We read the comments about TheDoctorHouse and we saw lot of people being sick after eat Guacamole. We tough, it's happen once and they fix the problem. We ordered yesterday nacho with the (famous) guacamole. And surprise we were sick too. So we gonna talk as well of the price, that are excessive. And also of the awkward feeling that strictly any local were there...
Written 13 April 2022
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Hasi
Negombo29 contributions
3.0 of 5 bubbles
Dec 2019 business
quite good place to spend the afternoon by the view of sunset. Food prices are little bit expensive , pizza was good and we must order by walking up to the cashier. For one time it would be okay.
Written 2 March 2020
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chardhaj
Hikkaduwa37 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Mar 2023 friends
We were so excited to visit the place on Friday the 31st on March 23 since we are traveling to mirissa. We called the placed two times find out if they have and events or a DJ on the number mentioned in insta, staff confirmed that they have a DJ party on the upstairs from 6pm onwards and no reservation is required we can walk in anytime. Once we reached the place the security staff mentioned we are not allowed to enter, we inquired why and he said it t was a private party which was not the case we can see foreigners just walk in without any questions. We had the impression that they are not allowing us to enter the party are because we are two locals. And at the same time we went to the reception and ask from another bar tender whether we can enter the party, he mentions it’s possible. So we were on the way to the upstairs party and the security staff again stop us saying he needs to re-confirm and we were not allowed at the end without any explanation. Out night was ruined because of these miscommunication and we decided to leave the place as discrimination towards our own people is not a good sign. Disappointed.
Written 31 March 2023
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Mick Morehead
Racism and discrimination is something we have taken very seriously here from 2015/16. We accept full responsibly for this terrible handling of our venue and for your evening. From the owners and management, we whole heartedly apologise to you and any others within your group. Pretty ashamed and disappointed to be reading this honestly, as we have always had an open door, or open gate policy. In the last few years we have had to use contractors for security, although they are briefed about our policy it has clearly been missed in this case. In fact its not the first time also. We take ownership of any staff member here and their interactions with any customers, so again we apologize. Please contact us directly (contact in socials) as we personally want to make this right, because right now it isn't. From all of us here.
Written 6 April 2023
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Nina Ra
Moscow27 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Mar 2020 family
We arrived for lunch. First I had to ask to clean the dirty table, waited for 10 minutes. You have to order at the bar there. As i were with little child i asked to cook some simple pasta for him, still they refused and suggest to give him chips. We left, so have no idea about the food. Staff is terrible.
Written 9 March 2020
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Belinda M
3 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Nov 2020 family
We spent a week staying nearby with our 3 young kids and loved the friendly and relaxed vibe that greets you as you walk through the front gate. The local staff are an absolute delight and treated our kids with great affection which just comes so naturally to these beautiful people. We enjoyed our morning coffee post surf and were back again in the afternoon for sunset drinks and pizza! This place has it all!
Written 6 August 2021
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Nishan P
134 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Dec 2019 none
Yes it can be crowded some days, and a bit of a cliché backpacker / hipster hangout. But TDH is still a great place to grab a drink or just chill and listen to the ocean or some nice music. Its a huge space so you can always find your own corner somewhere. The food is pretty good as well. My only negative experience has been that service can vary from friendly and enthusiastic to somewhat cold. But overall one of the best places in the south for food, drinks and music.
Written 1 January 2020
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Tim Lawry
Gothenburg2 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2020 none
If you visit Madiya this is one of the best place to have fun. Although they don’t offer a variety of food like the 360 the pizza is at its best. Good crowd for the music. Fully packed. Good community. Service is bit slow as it is fully packed but really worth it with the amazing experience. Beautiful garden and designs. Good luck TDH.
Written 13 February 2020
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