Issue 81

2 November

Meal Deals and Food Offers 

The Taste of Japan food festival at Water's Edge ends on Friday so if you want to try some authentic Japanese food created by visiting Chef Kanke, then there's only a couple of days left to do so.

The Regent Country Club is hosting a "Padduru Sajay" evening of traditional entertainment and dinner buffet. It's this Saturday 5 November from 7.00pm and the cost is Rs4,000 per person. If you want to BYOB, corkage is free.

The Mandarina Hotel have introduced a new weekly Chinese Dinner Buffet starting from this Sunday. This means they have a nice trio of dinner buffets, following from their International Dinner Buffet on Fridays and an Indian Dinner Buffet on Saturdays. Each is available from 7.00pm to 10.00pm and costs Rs4,350 per person.

Garton's Ark, who offer evening cruises with dinner buffet, are offering a lunch time cruise this Saturday. It's from 11.00am to 3.00pm with a one-hour cruise and an international lunch buffet, cost is Rs4,700 per person.

It seems like some time since we had a burger offer - but now we have one! There's a new Happy Hour at Mr. Burger with 20% off from 4.00pm to 7.00pm every day until 13 November.

Next week, the Western Breeze Festival takes place on Friday and Saturday on Marine Drive, with food, cultural show, live music, stalls selling arts and crafts and more. Further details to follow soon.

Drinks Deals

It's the last couple of days of the Oktoberfest at Hilton Colombo which ends on Saturday so if you have been planning to go, to enjoy classic Oktoberfest food, drinks and music, then don't delay.

Kami Maki have introduced a new cocktail deal: "5 for 5000". It is what it sounds: you can choose any five drinks from their classic cocktails range, for Rs5,000. This deal is available weekday evenings, from 5.00pm until 10.00pm (yes, that's for 5 hours!)

Ladies: if you missed your night out yesterday, no fear. There is a Ladies Night on Thursdays at Sugar Beach, where ladies can enjoy free drinks from 7.00pm to 9.00pm.

And on Wednesday next week, there will be a bar takeover at The Sanctuarii as Drunken Lankan takes over the Jungle Bar for some specially created drinks, from 7.30pm. 

Live Music and DJs

After last week's big band nights and all the Halloween gigs, this weekend seems quiet but there are a few live gigs and there's lots of DJ nights - and days!

Classic Rock Night Vol. 2 is on Friday at The Manchester, with three bands: Kalm, Altruist and Junkyard. The show starts at 6.00pm and tickets cost just Rs2,000. If you're a fan of classic rock, this should be a good night.

There's also classical music on this Friday night, with the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka performing a Chamber Music Concert at the Wendt, at 7.00pm.

Next weekend, however, there's lots of live music. The big one is on Saturday with "The Ultimate Band Show" featuring six of the most popular bands: Doctor, Daddy, 2Forty2, Line One, Taxi and Midlane plus one mystery surprise. Also on Saturday,

There's also "Bang Bang" with Wasthi, BNS, Jaya Sri, Centigradz and Kanchana performing with Infinity. And if that was not enough choice, the Rugby Rumble will have four bands playing: Slipping Chairs, Magic Box Mixup, Link and The Rugrats.

On to EDM and there's lots this weekend: On Friday, "Cosmogony" has eight DJs including Ultra and Echo Daft on the decks at Zouk. Outdoors, Gaia II has Jayy Vibes B2B Echo Daft and five more DJs at Sugar Beach.

The biiiiiig one this weekend though is the Electro Island Festival on Saturday. Here you'll find international DJs Nervo, Martin Jensen, Rave Republic, Coldroom and Autograf as well as numerous local DJs at Paradise Beach, from Dusk till Dawn.

Also on Saturday, "Voodoos" at SLECC features Navar and Weird Sounding Dude, with six local DJs and at Travelling Bruncher there's an SLC6 Showcase with D.J.Macintyre plus 10 more DJs.

If this is not yet enough and you want to keep tgoing, "Berghain" at Karma Beach kicks off on Sunday morning at 10am with nine DJs to take you through the day.

Other Events

Post Halloween weekend seems rather quiet, but we found a few things of interest, this week and next.

There's an Open Mic night at Arthur's Pizzaria on Friday evening at 7.00pm. If you want a chance to shine then do register in advance.

"Eternity" is the name for a new exhibition opening at Gallery Four Life, featuring paintings and sculptures by three artists; Tissa Ranasinghe, Laki Senanayake and Stanley Kirinde. The exhibition opens on Friday 4 November and continues through to 4 December.

For artists, the creators, or if you just think that peg dolls are cute! This Sunday you can learn about painting your own peg doll. Poms Island are holding a workshop to Paint Your Own Peg Doll at Cafe Kumbuk, from 9.30am to 11.00am. It costs Rs5,600 including refreshments and all materials are provided including even an extra peg doll to take home.

A date for the diary: The Wildlife and Nature Protection Society (WNPS) ae holding their monthly public lecture on 17 November, this time on the subject of "Living with the World's Largest Elephant Population". The speaker, Dr. Tempe Adams, has lived with the world's largest population of African elephants and will be sharing her experiences.

And looking even further ahead, the EPFS Community Christmas Fair is scheduled for 10 December at the Ceylon Riding Club in Port City. They are taking bookings for stalls now, so it you are interested, get in touch with them.