Now I know there are a large number of places that do a decent rice & curry in the area, and I haven’t by any means tried them all, but near the mosque on Bauddhaloka Mawatha near Bambalapitiya Junction is my contender for the bath kade that sells one of the best budget lunch packets in Colombo 4 (what the ...
We recently complained about the poor service at Roots and received a few comments saying Juiceez is much better. We thought so too, but decided to go back just to double check. Juiceez is pretty good. The staff are quite sweet and obliging, and the fruit is fresh and generally high quality. The menu when compared to Roots, however, is ...
The Bloom Room is a high-end florist on Ward Place. It’s one of those places where you give them your budget and they select a matching amount of flowers, but it’s of good quality and with competent service and responsive management. For day to day errors, transgressions and occasions we recommend the cheaper florists along Dean’s Road. However, for the ...
There was a positive review of the Chill Crab at 168 by LT’s Gourmand so I decided, perhaps ill-advisedly, to take a Singaporean visitor to try it out. It wasn’t entirely foolhardy – taking a Singaporean (Land of the Chilli Crab) to try the same preparation in Sri Lanka because we were going to the source – apparently the owners ...
Pasco Food Blush is a new eatery that has recently come up on Pannipitiya road in Battaramulla. It’s only a few meters away from where Coco Citrine used to be (they’ve been replaced by La Trattoria – a fancy new Italian restaurant). If you’re driving past Food Blush in the night, it’s pretty hard to miss – there’s a bright ...
December. In Colombo the word isn’t synonymous with snow, mistletoe or mulled wine – its bright lights, bold bass and deep drinks. From the prelude of beachside raves and Colombo concerts to the climactic (or not) NYE celebrations, December is one big social binge. It’s that special time of the year where family and friends from across the seas ...
The Sri Lanka Association Of Software And Services… whew, that’s a long one. Basically, this group of Sri Lankan IT industry professionals is organizing a meet-up with similar types from the diaspora. If you’re into tech and business (like we at YAMU are) it should be interesting, and we’ll be there. It’s at Bayleaf from 5 to 7 PM on ...
The annual Galle Children’s Festival is a free festival for school children of Sri Lanka. From the 11th until 14th October 2012 Galle will be taken over by children’s literature, drama, music, dance and art. Programme - Thursday 11th October - Opening Parade, Ceremony and Puppet Show for Families Friday 12th October - Schools’ Day – Children’s Hope Saturday ...
The original Don’s was an institution. The new establishment on Marine Drive, however, seems to be still finding its legs. Don’s Deli has a great location and a range of stuff you can order in advance (crab, pasta). What they have on immediate offer, however, is rather limited, for now. We should note that Don’s Deli is very new and ...
The K-9 is, I think, Colombo’s only attempt at a comprehensive pet store. They sell a whole bunch of pet related products like cages, leashes, chew toys, shampoos and, strangely, adult diapers (?). You can purchase items for mosts house pets – birds, cats, hamsters, etc – but the shop seems better catered towards the eponymous canine. The lady who ...
So much of the attraction and appeal of any city lies int its subcultures. New York’s sprawling Caribbean neighborhoods, London’s Bengali Brick Lane, the Gothic Lolitas in Tokyo’s Harajuku. While its certainly no world city even Colombo’s 15 postal codes conceal several worlds within worlds- Slave island’s Malay labyrinth, Pettah’s mind boggling eco-system, Wellawatte’s high-rise Little Jaffna. However the ...
Bollywood Express is a decent enough Indian restaurant on Galle Road in Bambalapitiya. We went around lunchtime and had, can you guess what? That’s right, the chicken biryani. While it wasn’t quite as good as the biryani at Elite Indian Restaurant, it was pretty good; tasty rice, tender chicken, and all nicely presented. It was marginally more expensive than the ...
Punchi theatre is a little hard to miss. It’s just past the intersection in Borella & honestly looks like a gigantic ant hill. An artistic interpretation of ‘The Factory’ perhaps? Within these cocoon-esq halls the founders, Namel & Malini, produce their own plays & teach art. Punchi is the theatre you go to for more than just musicals. They’re not afraid to lend their space to ...
In this era of supermarketization YAMU encourages the people of Colombo to give the old Kollupitiya Market a try. For first time users here’s a guide to a 25 minute shopping spree. Ice cream faluda at Bombay Sweet House, during the mixing 1. Brace Yourself At Bombay Sweet House Brace yourself for the sights, smells and bargaining with an infinitely more relaxing five minutes at the Bombay Sweet House – just three doors down ...
It’s apparently Japan Cultural Month in Sri Lanka & the Japanese embassy has organised some interesting events, like a dance performance in the Peradeniya gardens & a film ‘festival’. The festival’s not on consecutive days and ends on 7 September so most of its already been missed by the public, which is a shame to be honest, but you can catch the last film at the Sri Lanka ...
These guys come up a lot on our YAMU Facebook page with scores of people recommending them as one of the best places for Biryani in the city. So today at some point in the afternoon a starving YAMU crew with a big biryani-hole to fill set out to see if Big Bite really was Colombo’s saffron rice spot of ...
Nihonbashi is one of Colombo’s most famous restaurants – they serve the best sushi in the city, fact. This is the place for Japanese fine cuisine. Their flagship restaurant, Honten, is on Galle Face Terrace, and the menu here is both extensive and expensive. But it’s a beautiful venue, with Japanese style seating and a carefully cultivated zenlike ambience. The ...
Sen Saal is another one of Colombo’s quick eat places. Like Fab, they serve short eats, cakes, dessert and lamprais. But the Sen Saal menu is more extensive than Fab – and they visibly do lunchtime rices (at Fab you order this off a menu, here it’s all laid out in front of you), as well as breads, waffles and ...
