Hey Happeners, Hope you're having a good week, and that you have power and gas! Events seem to be a little slower this week. If we send the mail on Wednesday, we often see a load of weekend events announced just after we click "send" but if we wait then we're late for Thursday's events. Oh well, c'est la vie! Keep an eye out for a competition soon, on Instagram but we will of course send details by mail to our subscribers too. Enjoy the rest of the week, keep safe, stay well! |
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Breakfast, Brunch and Lunch Seed Cafe have an all day breakfast menu including their Big Breakfast, which is available from 8.00am to 5.00pm daily. Darley Road have just launched a Set Menu Lunch which offers four different set menus such as Szechuan Chicken with Mongolian Noodles, Chili Paste and Prawn Crackers. These are priced from Rs850 to Rs1000 and are available from 11.00am to 3.00pm, seven days a week. For the ultimate "Yum Cha" lunch, Shang Palace at the Shangri-La offers a weekend brunch with authentic Chinese dishes including dim sums, seafood, meats and noodles. Available Saturday and Sunday from 12.00pm to 3.00pm. | | |
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High Tea and Dinner This month you can enjoy Belgian Waffles and Crepes, with tasty glaze and fillings, at Cinnamon Grand from 3.00pm to 6.00pm every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The High Tea buffet at the Mandarina is available on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 3.00pm to 5.30pm. The buffet offers a total of 15 different items and is still priced at Rs1990 per person. Barbecues are quite popular at the moment (maybe because they don't need gas?) and The Garden Fusion Café has a BBQ evening on Fridays, complete with live guitar music. | | |
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Happy Hours & Ladies' Night Thursday is 5th May, "Cinquo de Mayo" and there's a Mexican party at Vistas, the Movenpick's rooftop bar, with Mexican food and Margarita or Mojito cocktails by the glass or pitcher. There is also an extended happy hour from 5pm to 7pm. It's also Thirsty Thursday at Asylum and every lady who visits will receive a free welcome cocktail. It's also happy hour all evening, from 5pm, and there's live music with Dillon from 6.30pm. Happy Hour is "Golden Hour" at the Taj Samudra's "Yumi" Japanese resto-bar. Every day from 6.00pm to 7.00pm you can enjoy buy one, get one free on a range of golden drinks such as beers, whiskies, tequilas and cognacs, and also selected vodkas and gins. | | |
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Live Music and DJs On Friday there's "House Full", a mini festival at Colombar featuring Chithral, Ashanthi de Alwis and Marians. For the full list of which band is playing where, please see our gig diary. However, some highlights: On Thursday, The Notion are at Long Bar and Warehouse Project at Curve. On Friday, Footprints on the Moon are at Re.pub.LK, Dis & Dat at The Joint, Mirage at The Irish and Cold Sweat at SunsetBlu. On Saturday OiC will be at The Joint, Warehouse Project at SunsetBlu and Bourbon Blues at Sugar Beach, For music from the decks, very little has been announced yet for the weekend. On Thursday it's "TGIT" at Zouk with DJs Ludispex and Jadon Fonka. On Friday, Shrimp Daddy is hosting "People Power", a Disco Shrimp evening with DJs Mango Boom and Kevin Fernando. At Zouk it's "Friday Night Funkin" with DJs Dirty Dzn, Ace, Babe on da Beat and Scorpio joining Ludispex and Jadon Fonseka. On Friday and Saturday, DJ Resh will be on the decks at Kava Bar. | | |
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Other Events Salsa Dancing: it's Salsa Night at Playtrix on Thursday from 8.00pm. If you want to get a lesson or some practice, Claves by Ruban will hold a Salsa and Bachata class there at Playtrix from 6.30pm. They will also have a Beginners' Class at Prana Lounge on Saturday afternoon. Art: a new exhibition titled "Tribe", of art created from scrap metal by Prageeth Manohansa, will open at Paradise Road Galleries on Friday at 10am. This will run until 26May. If you are in the business of exports, you might want to tune into an AdvoChats discussion about "The impact of the Economic Crisis on Sri Lankan Exporters". This is on Thursday evening at 7.15pm online. And on Saturday of course the Good Market will be at Colombo Race Course from 9.00am to 5.00pm, come rain or shine, with stalls by local small businesses, entrepreneurs and SMEs, Don't forget Mother's Day on Sunday. There's quite a few specially themed brunches, lunches and high teas, some offering special gifts for mums. You'll find these listed on our website. | | |
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Looking Ahead We will keep bringing you ideas for meals, drinks, parties, music and events as well as some deliveries and online events. Please feel free to DM us, or email us; tell what you would like more of, or less of. And of course if you know of something interesting, please send it to us so that we can share with others who might enjoy it. 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. We share information about F&B, drinks and other suppliers but make no guarantee of the quality of product or service. |
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