Welcome to this week's update on Colombo's meal deals, food delivery and events. Thank you to everyone who supported the "Buy a Meal" day last week and ordered a meal from a local restaurant. Every meal ordered supports not only the restaurant and the staff who work there. It also supports their supplies; the dairy who supply the milk, the farms who supply the vegetables, the fisheries who supply the seafood; the delivery drivers and many more. We are planning some further events over the next two to three months, to support the restaurants, the bands, DJs and others who have been struggling for some time. We hope to be able to share more details soon. In the meantime, please do continue to support the hospitality businesses, order a meal from time to time. It doesn't have to be expensive. Our deliveries page has around 100 suggestions for deliveries starting from as low as Rs200 for a lunch box. #EveryMealHelps. This week of course, with the curfew and travel restrictions, there is little happening in the way of happy hours or entertainment. However we have found a number of online events that might be of interest, both local and international. This includes international comedy, cookery classes, workshops. We've also updated the Deliveries page, and the special offers page, so hopefully you will be able to find some new ideas and deals. Keep Safe and Stay Well . If you like this, please sign up below and forward it to your friends to subscribe. |
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Breakfast and Lunch Surely a nice, cooked breakfast arriving at your door in the morning will be a good start to any day, lockdown or not? Well there is another possibility now: Gastromania by Dr T offers an a la carte all-day breakfast, including muesli, waffles and eggs and more, which is available for delivery as well. Commons Coffee also have a cooked breakfast available as well with two eggs, sausage or bacon, beans or mushrooms and toast, which can be delivered. The Mandarina have launched a set menu to help energise and revitalise. The menu offers soup, a sandwich, pie and a fruit salad and is available in vegetarian or non-vegetarian option. Roast Paan, better known for their, well, their roast paan, have introduced a lunch menu offering rice, noodles or pasta with all dishes priced between Rs450 and Rs600. All are available for delivery. If you have a yearning for a classic pie, you might like to try Hershleys. They offer a selection of pies including chicken, steak or shepherd's pies as well as a few other treats like lamb shank or lasagne. | | |
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High Tea and Dinner: The newly opened Fox Den in De Vos Avenue have now started offering delivery. Their Foxy Snacks are available including coconut prawn, chicken yakitori and sticky drumlets; they also have main dishes including rice and curry, baked pasta and chilli pork. The Fish and Chips Colombo have a new offer this week. Again it's a Buy One, Get One Free but this time on several of their pasta dishes such as Penne Arrabbiata, Penne Pesto and Spaghetti Napolitano. The offer is for this week only. Indian Summer have another offer this week too, this time for two free naan bread with every curry ordered. This offer is valid until 5th September. Several places are offering family platters good for 4 or 5 people, such as The Regent's Indian Feast or Marine Grill's Seafood Selection. One that is a little different is from Pork Strait who are offering a pork mixed grill and a plate of bacon rice for Rs3200, including a free bottle of ginger beer. Hilton Colombo have a "Rice of the World" promotion with 9 different rice-based dishes, each from a different country. This includes Paella from Spain, Plov from Uzbekistan, Jollof from Nigeria and more. For a sweet treat in the afternoon or evening, Mithai Cafe offer a selection of Indian sweets, available in gift boxes and variety packs. They also have some other Indian snacks. | | |
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Happy Hours & Ladies' Night With lockdown this week there are sadly no options for happy hour, ladies' night or even gentlemen's night (thank you Allstar, Butlers and King of the Mambo for hosting gentlemen's nights during normal times!) | | |
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Live Music and DJs With places closed, there are of course no live music options this week, at least not in person. There are a couple of live stream concerts coming up this weekend which might be of interest. On Saturday morning at 05.30 you can watch a free livestream of Pearl Jam's show at Moline on 17 October 2014, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Ten and the 25th anniversary of No Code. We hope to add some more music events to the home page diary in the days ahead so keep an eye out. All online for the moment of course. Wherever you go, do take care. | | |
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Other Events There's a few business webinars this week that might be of interest. On Thursday there is a masterclass on "Social Media That Works, for Restaurants and Coffee Shops". This free workshop is at 2.30pm. Later on Thursday, there is a talk in the "Trailblazer" series, meeting men and women who "got it done". This week's speaker is Dr. S. Dharmavasan, who will speak at 7.00pm. We all know that the pandemic has made us change the way we do many things. Do you ever wonder if we can use it to make positive changes? Tune in on Saturday at 6pm to hear about how we might be able to use the pandemic to unlease our untapped potential. There's a couple of events for the cooking enthusiasts. On Thursday at 11.30pm you can learn how to make Kimchi at home and on Saturday at 3pm there is a class on Cooking with Red Wine. Photography enthusiasts might enjoy an online workshop on the Basics of Landscape Photography on Thursday at 10.30pm. Open Mic Nights tend to be musical, but for fans of the spoken word there are a couple of events this week. On Thursday there is an Open Mic Poetry Night at 11.30pm featuring Maya Chowdhry and on Saturday at 10.30pm a Spoken Word Open Mic for all forms of spoken word. This week's Armchair Travel on Thursday at 11.30pm takes us to India to experience the Best-kept Secrets of Wilderness and Wildlife. Events are being added to our diary almost daily so keep checking back and see what's new. | | |
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Looking Ahead With stricter regulations now, there won't be any live music or late nights out for a little while. But let's take it easy for now, enjoy online events, order some food (because #EveryMealHelps !) and in a few weeks things will be better and we can have fun again. We will keep bringing you ideas for outdoor dining, meals to be delivered, and online events that might be of interest. And of course if you know of something interesting, please send it to us so that we can share with others like you who might enjoy it. test Visit HappeningColombo regularly to find out what is happening. It's updated every day! |
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Final Words If you enjoy our site, these newsletters, please share tell your friends. If you'd like to see more, or less, of anything please tell us! We'd love to hear more from you, if you don't tell us what you want then we'll give what we want! Please send us your feedback to HappeningCMB@gmail.com or via facebook or instagram message. See you next week, with even more events to enjoy! Disclaimer: deals can change at any time; the deals and news here is is based on what we know at the time of writing. |
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