Issue 35

23 September

Breakfast and Lunch

We haven't found any new breakfasts this week, so wanted to do a "Throwback Thursday" and remind you about Asylum, one of the first places to offer breakfast delivery. We suspect that they have fixed many a hangover this year! Asylum offer a wide choice of breakfast, from a simple avocado toast or a bacon & egg salad to a full classic big breakfast. They even offer  okonomiyaki, a Japanese noodle omelette. They deliver from 9am to 9pm.

Pizza Lunch? There are a couple of good deals. Mama Louie's have a midweek deal from Monday to Wednesday, two large pizzas for Rs2490. This is applicable for three varieties of pizza. Another deal is available from Smoke Bricks: Buy one large pizza and get a second half price; buy any two large pizzas and get a third free. You just have to share - or have a huge appetite!

If you're a more traditional, curry & rice person, then check out Spiced Up's daily lunch menu from Rs480 including a chicken or fish curry, rice, and 3 or 4 side dishes. They also have a standard Everyday menu, with chicken curry at Rs500 for two, and Dahl or Polos for two at Rs200. These all need to be ordered in advance.

Big Plate have brought out an "8 in One" combo offer of 4 shawarmas, 2 colas and 2 chocolate brownies for Rs2,299. You can choose from five types of shawarma, or go for a mixed one. This is a limited time offer so grab it while you can.

And one more new lunch idea, for if you can't decide or if several of you want different tastes. Pink Platter offer a range of burgers, sandwiches, cutlets, shawarmas and finger food like patties and rolls. They also have some ice creams, cakes and desert jars. 

 High Tea and Dinner:

We found some more Indian snacks that would make a great high tea. The Chaat Co are offering a Dahi Puri, Samosa Chaat and a Jalebi or Gulab for Rs600. Alternatively, if you prefer something a bit more substantial, you can get 6 Pani Puri and Dahi Puri, a Samosa Chaat and a Gulab Jamun for Rs990. 

For a more western Afternoon Tea, Bakes by Bella have introduced an afternoon high tea box with 7 savoury items including panko shrimp mac & cheese balls and soft shell tacos, and 8 sweet items including pavlova and fudge brownies, plus scones and jam. This treat is priced at Rs3200 for two people and is available daily except Monday.

Do you like salmon?  If you answered yes then check out Momo's "Salmon Menu". It includes salmon linguini, baked salmon, terikiyaki, even salmon pizza!

Back to Indian food and Chana's have launched a "buffet in a box" containing three starters, curry, biriyani and nan and a dessert. It's priced at Rs2790 for two people or Rs4890 for four and is available for another two weeks.

King of the Mambo are now delivering! So if you've been craving some South American or Cuban food, you can now get it brought to your door. And, you get 20% off if you order direct from them!

There's also a couple of "buy one get one free" offers: Chicken Chopsuey Rice from China Express or Grilled Chicken Cubes ad Sausages on Mongolian Rice from the Sizzle - the latter is available until 26 September. 

Happy Hours & Ladies' Night

With lockdown this week there are sadly no options for happy hour, ladies' night or even gentlemen's night.

We hope that we will be able to enjoy these again, when it is safe to do so.

Live Music and DJs

It was great to see several livestreams last week and there's a few good ones set for the days ahead as well.

Minesh D held his usual weekly live-stream on Wednesday night and hopefully should be back next week to give us some more.

There's a couple of online gigs coming up. Rockland White Rum's "Live Sessions" continue on Friday with a live performance by Dillon Manuel starting at 7pm.

An hour later OiC will host a livestream with music and chat from 8pm.

There is some DJ music on the way too as Island Pulse host DJ Ace as he presents Lockdown 125 on Saturday at 10pm.

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

Other Events

We've found online events from around the world taking place over the weekend.

A big topic at the moment is Climate Change. You can join a discussion about the IPCC report, titled "Code Red for Humanity" on Thursday at 11.30pm.

There's a couple of events that may be helpful for job hunters. From the UK, "Four Steps of Interviewing to Get Your Next Job" is on Friday at 9.30pm then a little later at 11.00pm there is an "Interview Skills Workshop" from USA.

The "Science in the City" Festival from Malta has gone online this year. It starts on Friday at 9.30pm and ends on Sudnay night at midnight and is packed with science, nature, music and more.

There's a couple of business webinars coming up. The International Chamber of Commerce are hosting a discussion about Sri Lanka's Debt Sustainability on Friday at 4pm.  Next week on Tuesday at 7.30pm McKinsey Consulting discuss "Returning to Corporate Travel" and on Wednesday the subject of Global Sustainable Tourism Standards will be discussed at an ECCSL webinar at 4.00pm.

If you've ever contemplating growing your own herbs, there's a seminar on Saturday at 7.30p on this very subject, "Growing and Preserving Culinary Herbs" And for the thespians, and budding actors, there is an Online Drama Workshop from the UK on Sunday at 2.30pm.

For the armchair traveller this week we invite you to join a tour of Sri Lanka's own Wilpattu National Park. You can join the afternoon tour on Friday at 4pm or the early morning tour on Sunday at 7.30am.

Events are being added to our diary almost daily so keep checking back and see what's new.