Issue 51

12 January

Breakfast and Lunch

Breakfast is now available at Clove Bistro. We've not tried it ourselves (yet) but we have had dinner from them a couple of times recently and it was good. They are open from 10am to 10pm.

If you prefer to graze, pick and choose at a buffet (or if you just want an earlier start) there's a new international breakfast buffet at the Mandarina. Priced at Rs2,000 per person, it's available daily from 7.00am to 10.30am.  

And for another all-day breakfast option, option, The Steuart offers a full cooked breakfast all day. 

Sunday Brunch can be one of the meal highlights of the week and so it's good to know that the Kingsbury's Sunday brunch us back at their Harbour Court restaurant. It's available on Sundays (of course) from 11.30am to 3.30pm and is priced at Rs4,500 person or Rs7,200 with bubbly.

Here's an interesting dish from Junction Ten48: Lunch in a pot. With chicken, fish or beef, it comes with red or white rice and it comes with two vegetable curries, cucumber salad and popadum, all in a pot. Priced from Rs500, it's available from 11am to 3.30pm as dine-in or delivery.

This Friday is Thai Pongal and there's a few special meals, buffets and more. There will be a vegetarian buffet lunch at Thali's Restaurant from 11.00am to 3.00pm. It's Rs1,500 person and kids under 8 are free.

There's also celebration buffets at Ayu, at the Movenpick this weekend. It's the 5th anniversary of the Movenpick in Colombo and they have special buffet lunches on Saturday and Sunday and dinners on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Priced at Rs3,500 for lunch and Rs3,900 for dinner, this weekend only.

High Tea and Dinner:

Tea Avenue at Jawatta is now offering a high tea. They have a choice of regular, vegetarian or vegan. All have five savoury items and three or four sweet items. It's priced for two people at Rs3300 for vegetarian, Rs3400 for vegan and Rs3450 for regular.

Barbecue is getting increasingly popular (and more manageable now that there is less rain!) and Nuga Rosmead has a nice, casual Barbecue and Roti dinner on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings, from 5pm.

And another BBQ offer, this one for the hungry! Barbecue Avenue offers a daily "all you can eat" deal for lunch or dinner barbecue, grilled for you.

We found another dinner buffet! Tides Restaurant at Marino Beach Hotel has a n international dinner buffet from Thursday to Sunday, from 7.00pm to 10.00pm, priced at Rs2,750 per person.

If your idea of dinner time is Pizza Time, then Grand Slam still have their Buy 1 get 1 free offer. Buy any Large pizza (except Margherita) and you will get a regular margherita pizza  FREE.

Happy Hours & Ladies' Night

Movenpick Hotel has a daily happy hour in their rooftop Vistas bar and the ground floor Mansion bar. They offer buy one, get one free on selected cocktails, house wines and beers, from 6pm to 7pm. However, as part of their 5th birthday celebrations, happy hours are extended from 5pm to 8pm, until 16th January. So make the most of it this weekend!

Kurumbar has a Ladies' Night with free cocktails for ladies but, like most of them, it's on Wednesday. 

Playtrix still has a ladies' night on Friday, with buy one, get one free on selected cocktails and a free dessert with your first cocktail. 

For regular weekly ladies' nights you can check our website Ladies' Night page. 

Live Music and DJs

This week seems a bit quiet compared to last week with two festivals, but gigs are coming through and we're seeing a couple of bands that we haven't seen for a while.

On Thursday we welcome a new venue, Uncle's Bar who are starting their music with Jerome Speldewinde.  On Thursday we also see Aquarius make a welcome return to Curve Bar, while down the road Cold Sweat will be making their debut appearance at The Irish. The Notion will be rocking it at The Long Bar,

On Friday, OiC will be at Colombar, The Redeemers at Curve, Dillon will be at Playtrix and Aaron Nonis will be at Manchester.

On Saturday The Notion will be at Taphouse, Warehouse Project at Curve and OiC at SunsetBlu.

As always our gig guide is HERE and is updated daily - which is good as a lot of gigs aren't announced until the day before or even the morning of the gig!

For music from the decks, on Thursday Botanik are hosting "Butterfly" with DJs Brown Boy Magic, Maria Zdrok, The Music Director and Clifford Isaac.  Over at The Love Bar, it's "Fly Me To The Moon" with DJs Ruki, Hitch and Trev D.

On Friday Club it's "Friday Mayhem" at Club Lavix.  At Asylum, this week it's "Retro Friday" with DJ Liam Cooper.

For details of Saturday, keep an eye on our home page or follow us on Instagram at @HappeningColombo21 for updates when we get them. 

Other Events

It's Salsa Night on Thursday at Playtrix, a chance to burn off some calories.  If you would like to get a bit of practice first, there's dance classes on Saturday in Nugegoda and Sunday in Battaramulla.

We promised to mention some wellness and fitness sessions. On weekdays at 08.30am there's fat burning workouts at Nuga Rosmead, and Boxfit classes on Mondays at 5.30pm. They also have yoga classes at various times during the day and a yoga class for kids on Saturdays.

Prana Lounge also has a variety of yoga and wellness classes through the day and Om Wellness Centre also has yoga classes most mornings at 08.15am and some evenings. 

On to other events and there is an Open Mic night at Drunk Panda on Friday.

On to art and an exhibition of art by Pramith Geekiyanage, titled, "Contingent", is opening ot the Paradise Road Galleries on Thursday at 6.00pm.

On Friday, the Lionel Wendt theatre will host the world premier of the Tharana Sigiri Opera by Sagra Wijesinghe, starting at 7.00pm.

And finally, on Sunday there is a blood donation taking place at the Parish Hall of St Lucia's Cathedral, Kotahena in Colombo 13, from 9am to 3pm. So if you can, please consider going and giving some blood; you could save a life.