Welcome to this week's update on Colombo's meal deals, food delivery and events. So, another week of lockdown and there are rumours that it might be extended further. We hope that we have helped you to find some new ideas for meal deliveries and that you have enjoyed what you have tried. We have also been looking for online events of interest and have suggested a wide variety of online learning, exploration, entertainment and other events. We keep looking for more local events - livestreams from local musicians, comedians or others but we have not found many. If you know of any, please do tell us and we will help them to reach a larger audience. Also do let us know what online events you enjoy and what you would like to see more off - comedy, cookery, travel or something different. We enjoy any and all feedback and want to give you ideas that you would most enjoy. 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 We found another breakfast that looks good. The Peppermint Café have several breakfast options including an omelette, sausages and spinach but their menu has quite a few more choices from oats to croissants and waffles. The recently opened Ceylon Curry Club have launched their delivery menu. Naturally it is centred on curry and rice but as well as the classic chicken curry you will find vegetable, pork, egg, calamari and more, all priced from Rs475 to Rs595. The menu is suited to lunch but is also available for dinner. If lunch for you is more pizza than curry, then you might try one from S39 Pizzeria. They are offering two large pizzas for Rs2500 or two extra large for Rs3200. Apparently they bake their pizzas in a cinnamon wood fired oven which sounds fantastic. if you have tried one, let us know what they are like! Or... Bento Boxes? The classic Japanese Bento Box lunch is now available from Kami Maki, Monday to Thursday, from 11a to 3pm. | | |
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High Tea and Dinner: Cakes and Bakes have introduced a new dinner deal of two large paratas, two egg roti, chicken curry, dhal curry and a salad, for Rs490 available for delivery. Several of the restaurants at Food Studio are offering deals this week; Tokyo Shokudo are offering a free chicken karage with every chicken katsudon; China Express offer buy one, get one free on chicken chopsuey rice; Shiok offer buy one, get one free on Singaporean chicken fried rice, or a chicken laksa with any chicken rice; and Suksamran Thai offer a free Thai Omelette with a chicken set menu. The Regent are offering several feast menus for four or six people. There is a choice of an Indian, Middle Eastern or Western feast, priced from Rs2800 for 4 up to Rs6000 for 6. Like fast good? Check. Like Chocolate? Check. Well after a nice dinner, for desert how about.... a chocolate burger? Mr Burger have created a burger that consists of a chocolate brownie patty, with chocolate sauce, a tangy mango relish and chocolate sprinkles. Again, we would love to hear what it is like! | | |
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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. We hope that we will be able to enjoy these again, when it is safe to do so. | | |
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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. ABBA fans? Yes, we know that there are a lot of us! On Thursday at 10.15pm, something is happening. Some places describe it as a livestream concert, others as "historic announcement". We'll find out soon enough and, whatever it is, you can watch it here. From Sweden to Iceland and Bjork will be livestreaming a concert, with choir and organ, on Sunday at 3.30pm. We would love to include some online gigs or even chats from any of the many great bands in Colombo. If you are planning one, please let us know. If you would like some help in putting one together, again let us know and we would love to help. | | |
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Other Events Miss clubbing? On Friday night there is a chance to join, virtually, the New York club scene with three DJs playing from 01.30am Saturday morning till 6.30am. On to business webinars and, in times of challenge, it can be inspiring to learn from how others have survived and thrived. On Thursday at 7pm we can hear about the resilience and success of Sri Lanka's apparel industry. This week's Wildlife and Nature Protection talk, on Thursday at 7pm, is about technological advances that are helping with protection and conservation. A little earlier, at 5.30pm, we can join the Save Our Seas talk, in the Distinguished Speaker series, where two experts on Manta Rays will be speaking. This week's photography workshop is also relevant to wildlife, in that it covers photography of Nature and Wildlife. This is on Friday at 8.30pm. For cookery enthusiasts, on Thursday at 10pm you can follow along with a class in making Creamy Thai Basil Chicken on Thursday at 10pm, and on Friday at 10pm you can cook Chicken Cacciatore. If you enjoy serving wine with dinner but are not sure if you are serving the right wine for the dish, you can join a talk by award winning drinks writer Natalie MacLean on five wine and food pairing mistakes, on Sunday at 10pm. There is another spoken word open mic night, for writers and poets, on Saturday at 10.30pm, And the Armchair Traveller this week can visit The Louvre on Thursday at 10.30pm; or Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas, on Friday at 11.30pm, or the Botanic Gardens and Queen's University in Belfast on Saturday at 2.30pm. 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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