The Salvage Christmas Sale will be held from the 12th till the 20th of this month at Rosmead Place, Colombo 7. With a range of new products including bags, jewellery, Christmas cards and gift items to offer, this is the perfect place to start your Christmas shopping with only a couple of more days for the big day. The proceeds ...
Commons has been around for a while now. Located on the lovely Flower Road, the once house now turned into coffee shop is a pleasant enough place to sit down for a coffee or dessert. They’ve got a leafy, sun dappled garden at the back if you like dining alfresco – or just want a smoke – and there’s comfy ...
On the fateful day of our lamprais taste off the Dutch Grocer’s stuffed banana leaf finished second. Still a notch below the long-reigning lamprais champion, the DBU. Like any spirited second place finisher of course the proud people at 82 Stratford Avenue have been hungry for a rematch. Well today we gave them that chance. Dropping in to feed the ...
The Goethe Institute is hosting an evening of classical music (Bach) on Saturday November 24th. It’s chamber music, so it should be intimate and moving. J.S. Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080 (The Art of Fugue) (arranged for string quartet by Richard Klemm and Dr. Carl Weymar) The “plus” part of the evening will be a spoken word presentation ...
Fork is an interesting cafe concept on Marine Drive which serves up good sandwiches, pizza, and middling pasta. A few fixable things, however, keep it from awesome status. Cleanliness is a bit lax and the seating is a tad uncomfortable for long periods. Overall, however, it’s worth a visit on the increasingly booming Marine Drive. Fork was originally a place ...
The Bellagio is a casino, but not like its Vegas counterpart. This casino is basically one bright, large room full of mostly Chinese, Indians and a lot of bored looking prostitutes. If you understand blackjack or poker you may have a chance at some fun here, but that is unlikely. The house almost always wins, which is why they serve ...
Maharaja Palace is an authentic north Indian restaurant located opposite Royal College. Maharaja Palace. The recently opened authentic north Indian restaurant opposite Royal College used to be home to one of Colombo’s niche Chinese Restaurants, Hong Kong Orient. The former restaurant space looked vastly different to what it is now; the walls had the occasional streak of mould and the ...
Is this where the ghost busters chill out? cos it looks like it. Except this isn’t in NYC, it’s at the bottom of Chatham street, in Fort. For an upcoming bit of Yamunism we are documenting the wonders of our city’s once fortified heart, trying to put pictures and names to the centre’s various faded but fantastic ancient buildings. ...
Machan is something of a godsend if you don’t reside within happy proximity to Colombo’s more central drinking establishments (see O! Bar, Sugar, Castle Hotel, Floor by O!, Dream Land) – tukking up to Fort or Colpetty from the lowly ‘burbs can be an expensive, exhaust-filled drag. Machan’s also a godsend if you’re reluctant to lay too much of your ...
Established in 1952 there isn’t anything new about it. However this really lovely old-world tailor/curio store down Chatham Street is still owned by a second generation Sri Lankan Chinese, Mr Chang, who somehow saw the place through the dark days (15 years worth of dark days) when reaching Fort and Chatham Street was a checkpoint riddled ordeal. By the ...
Restaurants in Colombo come and go. They spring up amidst a flurry of hype, fawning press features and breakfast table chatter - “Have you been to the pizza-gela-chinese-etaria?” “Oh it’s wonderful- the choco-parata-sprinkles-oreo-ganache is divine” – then fall into rapid decline. Service standards plummet, kitchen staff are poached, and the amount of chocolate in the ganache grows ever smaller. ...
The Big Ears music series takes place at Musicmatters every other Friday. The students at Musicmatters are talented and skilled. The setting is cosy – it’s a small room but you can bring your own drinks, sit on the floor and chill to good sounds. Everyone’s pretty friendly and it’s always nice to try something a bit different. This Friday ...
With or without the delayed monsoon, children of all ages can be seen roaming the streets with colourful and bright kites these days. Harin ‘Boycy’ Fernando tries his luck. School holidays and some spare time mean that flying a kite is an interesting, low cost and rewarding experience for many. Without doubt Galle Face Green on Colombo is a ...
This is just a preview, we'll update it soon.Shore By O! was officially opened this Sunday. It is a huge bar replacing the old Golden Mile - right in the
