Issue 37

07 October

Breakfast and Lunch

We found a new breakfast this week, from Pause Colombo. They have a couple of choices including eggs on toast or a roast paan breakfast with eggs and sausages. They open at 9am and offer delivery through EatMe or UberEats. 

What do you get if you mix a lamprais with a kothu? We're not sure but Cakes & Bakes have the answer: a Lampkothu. And if you want to try one for yourself, you can order one from them direct.

In case you didn't get enough burger offers last week, Full'r have offers at the moment: any two of their chicken burgers for Rs1275 or any two beef burgers for Rs1400, Limited time offer so don't delay.

Big Belly have launched a range of Bento lunch boxes. There's a choice of four priced at Rs1100 and another four prived at Rs1600. 

If you like chicken fried rice then you're in luck as there's a couple of great deals for you! China Express are offering buy one, get one free on their Chicken Chop Suey Rice and Shiok have a similar buy one, get one free on their Singapore Chicken Fried Rice. Both are limited time deals.

If you order a Chicken Katsu Don from Tokyo Shokudo, you will get a free portion of Chicken Karaage as a bonus.  The Sizzle are offering a free portion of Chicken Lollipop when you buy a Grilled Chicken Mongolian Rice.  And If you buy a Ginger Fish with Seafood Rice or Noodles from China Express, they will add a portion of Hot Butter Cuttlefish for free.

High Tea and Dinner:

Back in the day when we could go out to restaurants, Water's Edge used to do a nice weekend high tea buffet. Well they can now bring a "High Tea Decadence" to you. Available for 2, 4 or 6 people, they offer vegetarian or non-vegetarian options.

Calamari have introduced some new "CSP"s, "Calamari Snack Packs" which actually are chicken dishes, not calamari. There's a Healthy Snack Pack of chicken and salad, a Gym Junkie Snack Pack with fries and salad, and a Cheesy Snack Pack for two with fries, cheese and sauces. 

Pappa Rich have a buy one, get one free offer on four food items and three drinks. These include Kampung Fried Rice, Sambal Omelette and a Milo Dinosaur and is available for delivery or takeaway.

Nus Rath have a special dinner set menu offer, comprising Pepper Chicken, Chicken Masala, Chana Curry and two Butter Naans all for Rs1300. This is available for delivery until 16 October.

Have you been missing food from some of the restaurants in Dutch Hospital? Foodo is a new food delivery service offering se of the best loved dishes from The Dutch Pub, Aliya Lounge, Colombo Bistro and Kings Pizza as well as the British Pub. 

Do you like Iranian cuisine? Ustadi's Iranian Restaurant iin Wellawatta offers a selection of meals, kebabs and set menus. We haven't tried the ourselves yet; but we will soon. If you have, then please let us know what you recommend!

Happy Hours & Ladies' Night

Venues are not yet able to open for dine-in, or drink-in, so no Happy Hours or special nights yet, but watch this space, we'll let you know as soon as we do.

Live Music and DJs

Sadly it seems that our excitement at the return of live music was premature; we have to wait another week.  But it seems to have taken not just us by surprise as there are very few music livestreams planned this week: band, musician or DJ.

The fantastic Minesh D hosted his regular Wednesday live stream this evening, as he has virtually every week during lockdown, and the wonderful OiC are planning to hold their regular Friday evening livestream around 8pm, but those are the only two that we have found so far this week.

There is also a DJ livestream: on Saturday night, Kurumbar presents Bar Code, an evening of old school and RnB DJ music from DJs J Stefan and Nimz, starting at 6pm.

Keep an eye on the gig diary, we'll add music events as soon as we hear of them.

Other Events

As usual, we've been looking for online events that might be of interest from here and around the world.

For small businesses, a webinar on "Building Your Business With Social Media" might be helpful; that's on Friday at 8.30pm.

Do you know those awkward moments when a conversation just fades away, whether at work or socially? A webinar on Connectworking, "Conversation CPR" will discuss how to reengage the conversation when this happens.

For the job seekers, we found a couple of sessions to help with the job hunt. The first step is to get a good CV or Resume, and you can join a "Resume Writing Workshop" on Sunday at 1230pm. The next step is the interview, and there is a session on "Preparing for the Interview" on Saturday at 7.15pm.  By the way, if you're looking for a role in the hospitality industry, check our Instagram Story as we share any posts that we find advertising roles in restaurants, hotels etc. 

It's important of course to take care of your wellbeing, especially in these times, and on Thursday there is a workshop from the UK on "5 Ways to Wellbeing". This is at 5.30pm.

From caring for ourselves to caring for our planet and this week's WNPS lecture is on the subject of Nature Protectors, specifically on how to reduce single-use plastics. This is on Friday at 10.30am.

Laughter is often said to be good for our wellbeing, so you might like to join "How to Get Laughs from Life", a workshop learning how to write and present stand up comedy. This is on Saturday and again on Sunday at 8.30pm.

Finally, if you've heard people talking about Cold Brew coffee and have ever wondered what it's about, there's a talk on "How to Make Cold Brew Coffee" on Friday at 6.40pm. 

Events are being added to our diary almost daily, especially now as restrictions are easing, so keep checking back and see what's new.