Welcome to this week's update on Colombo's meal deals, food delivery and events. We hope that everyone is well and finding some food, drinks or entertainment to enjoy. There are some more in-person events starting (there are two salsa nights this week). We are still listing online webinars and chats and also some international ones: comedy nights, travel experiences and others. Do please let us know what you enjoy, what online events are of interest to you. We list meal deals and offers and you can see these under the deals page or go straight to breakfast, lunch, high tea or the dinner page which is now reactivated. We also list happy hours and of course delivery offers. Next week we hope to get the day-by-day listings reactivated too. We hope that you find some things here of interest; clicking the blue links will take you to more information (in case you didn't know that already!) 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 Brunches are back! Another weekend brunch has just restarted: Pranzo at Water's Edge. They have a brunch on Sunday from 11.30am to 2.30pm with outdoor seating and a view over the lake. For lunches, Caviar Sri Lanka offer a variety of cuisines and daily specials for delivery including Japanese, Thai, Western and of course Sri Lankan, at reasonable prices. For a budget lunch, Mom's Kitchen offer a selection of Sri Lankan dishes including cheese kottu with sausages for Rs550 and a simple curry & rice for Rs200. You need to order by 10am for lunch. Weekends of course is family time and the Galadari are now offering a Weekend Family Lunch in their coffee shop, which is available from 12.00pm to 2.30pm. | | |
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High Tea and Dinner: High Teas are popular and the Four Leaf Clover have a high tea includes sweet and savoury treats plus tea or coffee and is available between 3pm and 6pm daily, priced at Rs1,840 for two. Fans of dinner cruises will be glad to hear that Garton's Ark is back in action. They offer a two hour cruise with dinner buffet on Saturdays and Sundays and also some Thursdays priced at Rs3,000 per person but they are currently offering a 15% discount on beverages. They also offer sailings on Tuesdays at a special price of Rs2,300. Fridays just got better, as the Ramada Hotel have restarted their Friday evening Moghul Buffet Dinner. This is in their Alhambra Indian Restaurant and available from 7pm to 11pm. If you enjoy Indian snacks, then you might want to visit The Chaat Co who have a midweek offer of unlimited Chaat and Jalebi between 3pm and 6pm on weekdays. | | |
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Happy Hours & Ladies' Night Can't get to the usual 5pm to 7pm happy hours? Not a problem. The rooftop bar at the Colombo City Hotel have an all-day 1+1 deal on Tiger Beer pitchers or towers and several bottle plus bite deals. These are available all day, every day. Ladies: this Thursday 29th, the Bro Lounge (at Bro Pub) are holding "Lioness Night" with a free welcome cocktail for all ladies plus 25% discount on further cocktails and free bites with every pitcher. Butler's Pub on Park Street have restarted their Ladies Nights on Tuesdays with offers on their signature cocktails between 7pm and 8pm plus a bottle and bite deal on Rockland Gin. Still at Butler's, they are also one of the very few places to offer a Gentlemen's Night, which is on Thursdays from 7pm to 9pm. Gents can enjoy buy one, get one free on whiskey shots and select cocktails, as well as bottle and bite deals. | | |
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Live Music and DJs There's more bands playing this week as some venues are adding more days - thank you Honey Beach Club and SunsetBlu! On Thursday, Aquarius are at the Curve Bar and Dillon at Honey Beach Club. Friday is busier than it has been for a long time. Magic Box Mixup are at SunsetBlu, Dream Caravan at Honey Beach Club, Aquarius are at Shore by O, Warehouse Project at Asylum, Muru at Banjos by the Lake, and of course Dillon at Playtrix for Ladies' Night. On Saturday, OiC are at SunsetBlu, Warehouse Project at Honey Beach Club, and V3 at Banjos by the Lake On Sunday, The Notion will be back at Honey Beach Club and Cold Sweat will be at Sunset Blu for an unplugged evening. | | |
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Other Events Last week there was an Open Mic and there is another this week, on Thursday at The Irish with Gavin and Kani. This week we see the return of Salsa Nights and not one but two! On Thursday it's at Playtrix, accompanied by 1+1 deals on margaritas and cuba libres, and on Saturday it's salsa at The Irish with a 1+1 on selected cocktails. Webinars this week include The Green Economy and Career Pathways on Thursday at 4.30pm, and the weekly Tech Times talk on Saturday which this week features Ishani Pathinayake. Continuing the series of discussions of bullying and harassment, this a panel will discuss sexual harassment in a webinar, "I Never Said Yes" on Thursday at 6pm. The weekly "Spill the Tea" chat and Fashion Entrepreneur talks have not yet been announced this week, but if you are interested please check our website periodically as they will be added as soon as we hear. For the Armchair Travellers, this week we have found a tour of Venice, taking place on Thursday at 6pm. There's a couple of online festivals too. a Korean Film Night series starts on Thursday at 11.30pm continuing until the early hours of Sunday morning. There's also the National Bhangra Festival 2021 which will start online on Saturday at 9.30pm More events are being added to our diary almost daily so keep checking back and see what's new. | | |
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Looking Ahead It's wonderful to be able to enjoy going out, a happy hour, live music and now also salsa dancing! Capacity restrictions are still in place so we do recommend calling ahead and reserving a table. We will keep bringing you ideas for 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. 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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