Issue 46

08 December

Breakfast and Lunch

For those making an early start in the morning, Tea Avenue's breakfast menu  is available from 7.00an to 2.00pm - so it can be breakfast or brunch. The menu includes pancakes, waffles, eggs benedict, omelettes or a full English or American breakfast.

If you're a person who eats lunch alone, then cheer yourself up with Crystal Jade's Lunch Deal for One. Choose two meat and one veg item, for Rs1000. Available for take away or delivery, 12pm to 3pm on weekdays. 

For a nice, traditional lunch, Walawwa Kade offer daily lunch specials such as beef, chicken, fish or prawn curries with rice and sides like dahl, kiri kos and more. They also have some kotthus and string hoppers.  

If you've read the last few newsletters you'll know that we almost always include a burger offer. Not because we love burgers (though, let's be honest, most of us do!) but just because there is always  someone, somewhere, with a burger offer. And this week is no exception! The Hungry Foodie offer a loaded chicken burger or loaded beef burger, two burgers for Rs990. They are available 5pm to 10pm until 15 December, pick up or delivery.

High Tea and Dinner:

There's another festive high tea on offer, this one from Nuga in Rosmead Place. They have a three tiered Festive High Tea platter with savouries like sandwiches, quiche and sausage rolls, with two layers of sweets such as cup cakes, doughnuts and cookies. It costs Rs4,500 for two.

There's also a Festive Menu available at Park Street Mews Restaurant for lunch or dinner until 19 December. For a change these are not the typical Christmas dishes but are international dishes from around the world - not a single turkey dinner in sight!

There's a new seafood night, on Saturday nights at the ME Colombo rooftop. You can enjoy a grilled seafood platter for two, for Rs3,900 and you can also enjoy the extended happy hour with deals on shots, wines, cocktails and beers.

Happy Hours & Ladies' Night

We found several more happy hours this week. 

The Avenue offers 50% off wine and draft beers, 20% off selected cocktails. They also have several beer and bite deals -to choose from, such as a pitcher of beer with tacos, or buy a beer tower and get a free pizza. These are available daily from 5pm to 7pm and then there is another, late night happy hour from 10pm to 11pm.

For sundowners on the beach, Sugar Beach have also reintroduced their happy hour from 5pm to 7pm daily with buy one, get one free on selected cocktails and beers.

The Honey Beach Club have also brought back their happy hours. They too offer buy one get one free on selected cocktails and beers from 5pm to 7pm daily.

There is also a new happy hour at Kuuraku Japanese restaurant, for one hour from 6pm to 7pm, Sundays to Thursdays. The offer varies daily; On Sundays and Thursdays it's 25% off selected cocktails and sake cocktails; on Mondays 25% off spirits; Tuesdays it's buy one, get one free on beer and Wednesday it's 25% off selected wine.

On to ladies' nights and the Urban Grill in Pelawatte has reintroduced its ladies' night, with a difference - it's all day long! From 11am to 11pm ladies can enjoy a free cocktail on arrival and then 50% off selected cocktails all day long. 

There's also a ladies' night on Wednesday at Kurumbar, where ladies can enjoy buy one, get one free on selected cocktails between 6pm and 8pm, as well as other offers. 

Live Music and DJs

For a complete list of gigs please see the gig guide on our website; it is certain that more gigs for Friday and Saturday will be announced on Thursday. However the highlights so far are:

On Thursday you can catch Magic Box Mixup at Curve and Believer will be back at The Steuart.

On Friday night, Dream Caravan will be at Allstar, Silk will be providing the tunes for Feelgood Friday at Asylum, Mintaka will be at Curve and Dark Fire start a regular Friday gig at The Steuart.

Saturday will see Aquarius back at Curve Bar and Silk back at Fox Den.

For DJ music, it's Thirsty Thursday at R&B with DJs Moonkillexx and Capital C plus a live performance by Dis & Dat.

On Friday it's "Cat in a Hat" night with 4 DJs at Drunk Panda.  Over at Ask For Fern it's two spaces, two vibes, with Triple Trouble at Fern with 3 DJs.

On Saturday "We All Start As Strangers" at The Attic has four DJs, starting from 10pm.

Other Events

Christmas is getting close and it's time to switch on the Christmas lights at Park Street Mews. You can join and watch this on Thursday at 7pm.

Are your kids budding chefs? Would they like to try their hands at making pizza? They can, this Sunday at The Avenue between 12.00pm and 5.00pm. They will be provided with the base and the toppings and they can add the toppings however they wish and the pizza will be baked for them.

Do you like chocolate but want to try something a little different? How about  "chocolac" hot chocolate? It's a chocolate ball that you put it in a mug, pour hot milk over it and stir... and you have a cup of delicious, creamy hot chocolate. You can get chocolac from Buddy's Delight and it is available in five different flavours.

With barely two weeks until Christmas, there's just a few opportunities left to pick up some gifts and support local, small businesses at the same time. If you're up in Negombo, Cafe Zen are hosting a Christmas Market from 10am to 6pm with Christmassy treats on offer.

It's salsa night at Playtrix on Thursday; lessons from 6.30pm to 8.30pm then from 8.30 you can put into practice what you have learned.

If you want to try a different type of dance, Kizomba, El Mambo are holding a lesson for beginners on Saturday at 4pm, at Trainyard in One Galle face.

Looking ahead to next Sunday 19th, the Happy Market takes place once again at Havelock Sports Ground, starting from 11am, with entertainment from Colombo Sunday Jazz during the afternoon.

These are just a selection of the events that we have listed. Check our home page diary for more information and remember that events are being added to our diary almost daily so keep checking back and see what's new.