Hey everyone Sorry for the lack of update last week. The extended power cuts and evening outages made it rather difficult, but we're back now! Thanks again to everyone who gave us feedback on the newsletter. We've listened and tried to make some relevant changes. We've kept the feedback form open so do please take a minute, click a few boxes in this form and help our weekly new evolve for the better! After a relatively quiet week for events and an even quieter, stay-at-home weekend, it's remaining rather quiet this week but there's a few events restarting. We've found a few new deals, a couple of changed offers and of course music - though many places have been slow to announce what's on this weekend. Enjoy the rest of the week, keep safe, stay well! |
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Breakfast, Brunch and Lunch The Colombo Court Hotel and Spa serves daily breakfast at its poolside restaurant, starting from 7.00am. So if you fancy a nice, poolside breakfast on your way in to work, now you know where to go. The ME Colombo has an international lunch buffet at weekends in their MY Dining restaurant. Available from 12.00 midday to 3.00pm, on Saturday and Sunday, it is priced at Rs2750 per person. Momo have a good lunch deal at the moment: a kesel kole bath with three curries and accompaniment wrapped in a banana leaf. Fish is priced at Rs350, chicken at Rs375 and pork at Rs400. | | |
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High Tea and Dinner No time, or appetite, for a full high tea but you want something with your afternoon coffee? ME Colombo have launched "Coffee Time at ME" with an offer of a cup of coffee with a snack for Rs700. For the snack you can choose from around ten items including sliders, sandwich, slice of cake, cupcakes or cookies. Thuna Paha restaurant at Water's Edge offers a daily Sri Lankan dinner buffet in an outdoor setting, Priced at Rs3750 for adults, or Rs1900 for kids under 12, it's available from 7.00pm to 11.00pm. The Gardenia at the Ramada hotel is now open 24/7 and have introduced their "Night Owls" menu for late night dining. With both Sri Lankan and international dishes, it is ideal for late night stop-outs, after a gig or clubbing, or indeed for those starting very early in the morning, perhaps on the way to the airport. | | |
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Happy Hours & Ladies' Night We haven't found any new happy hours this past week, but wanted to remind you that Asylum still has one of the longest daily happy hours, 3 hours from 5.00pm to 8.00pm with special rates on selected cocktails, wine and bottles. (and they have some great cocktails!) There's a new Ladies' Night and it's adding variety by being on a Thursday. The Mansion Bar at the Movenpick is offering for ladies a 1+1 deal on signature cocktails all evening, from 6.00pm to midnight. | | |
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Live Music and DJs This weekend seems a bit quiet after the musical extravaganzas of the past weeks. There's no big live music festival and many of the venues have still not yet announced their gigs for the weekend and even the ones that we know about may be uncertain. We keep our Live Music page up to date with all the gigs that we know of and it is updated daily. Some highlights of the gigs that are planned for Friday include Black back at Curve Bar after some time. Footprints on the Moon will be at The Joint, Cold Sweat will be at SunsetBlu and Daria at Allstar. on Saturday, Aquarius will be at Curve Bar, and OiC at SunsetBlu. As for EDM and DJ music, the big news this week is the soft opening of Zouk, a new nightclub, and they have a great line up of DJs for the occasion: on Friday. Lady Marris, Just:Because, Dr Green, Haranya, Ludispex and Binu on sax. On Saturday, they have Berry Linn, Davis Machin, BabeOnDaBeat, Sushan and Ludispex. They are open from 6.00pm, Other than that, it's Thirsty Thursday at the Travelling Bruncher with DJ Henricus and, if you bring your protest placards, you'll get a soft drink and portion of fries on the house. Meanwhile DJ Trev D will be at Re.pub.lk. And on Friday, it's retro night at Butlers with Nick and Kapila, and on Saturday it's progressive ride with Waya at Bro Club. | | |
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Other Events Advocatalk is a series of online discussions arranged by the Advocata Institute. This Thursday 7th April they are hosting a discussion on "ÏMF/Debt and What's In Store for Sri Lanka" which will be on Instagram Live at 5.00pm. HaHa Lanka is back with "Ado No" at The Local By Doc on Friday evening. Enjoy food, fun and comedy, starting from 6.30pm. Wondering what to do with the kiddos next weekend? Here's an idea - Cafe Kumbuk have created a DIY Easter Cookie Kit, with cookies, icing and decor, for kids to decorate their own cookies. If you were planning to go to the Happy Market this Sunday, sorry to say it has been postponed until May. A new date will be announced soon. However the Avurudu Pop-Up Sale at The Grove on Saturday 9th April is going ahead, starting at 10.00am. . | | |
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Looking Ahead We will keep bringing you ideas for meals, drinks, parties, music and events as well as some deliveries and online events. Please feel free to DM us, or email us; tell what you would like more of, or less of. And of course if you know of something interesting, please send it to us so that we can share with others who might enjoy it. 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. We share information about F&B, drinks and other suppliers but make no guarantee of the quality of product or service. |
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