Sri Lankan performer D’Lo will be treating peeps at the Punchi Theatre with ‘D’FunQT’ – a “one-person stand-up storytelling show”. Ie, a funny narrative monologue. The show is tonight (Friday the 21st at 7:30 PM). According to Facebook D’Lo is a “queer Tamil Sri Lankan-American who wears many a hat in the creative arts industry. Having grown up in a ...
The New Colonial Hotel is at the high end of dodgy bars. Upstairs is a functional hotel (single for Rs. 1000, double for Rs. 1500) with spare but clean rooms. Downstairs is a high-ceilinged bar with bad food but decent drinks and a nice ambiance. What sets the New Colonial apart is that it’s essentially a dive bar in a ...
We’ve listed Silani Flora, but there are many flower shops on Dean’s Road, near the ODEL roundabout. While these flower shops traditionally serve funerals (indeed, many Sri Lankan funeral homes are called florists), these are still flowers, and they’re cheaper and afford you more freedom than the posher flower shops. Seriously, Shirohana and the Bloom Room offer great arrangements, but ...
YAMU needed an office computer see as a dog at the other one (the charger at least). So, we tried a few places, looking for the cheapest deal. A new desktop (including monitor) seems to be about Rs. 38-45,000 at, say, Unity Plaza. You can, however, get one fresh off the boat from Canada for about Rs. 22,000. So that’s ...
Rama’s Tea House is a new… something in Battaramulla, near the Kotte Road turn-off. I saw something because it’s a weird and not entirely satisfying mix of tea house and English pub. The tea based drinks, for example, are affordable, innovative and at times excellent. The food, however, is jarringly out of place – fish and chips, fried sausages, chicken ...
Shanmugas is probably the best place for South Indian food in Colombo (they serve North Indian as well, but this isn’t their strength). It isn’t too cheap, but the food is authentic and quite tasty – if you like South Indian cuisine, that is. While South Indian food is hugely popular in, well, South India, it doesn’t seem to have ...
Rockland Distilleries sells a rather posh looking beverage called Ceylon Arrack. We’ve been wanting to try this for a while, but doesn’t seem like it’s that widely available in Sri Lanka – despite being sold in the UK (at Harvey Nicks!), Germany and France. We recently came across a bottle. Fundamentally it looks quite nice – rectangular and a ...
This is a great weekend for music. Friday night there’s the Big Ears concert at Music Matters. This is an intimate jam session with some of Sri Lanka’s best artists and an international guest, Darren Moore. Starts at 8 PM. Saturday, during the day (from 12 PM to 2 PM) Darren Moore is conducting a workshop on Carnatic Rhythms, ...
Visited the new BreadTalk on 33 Park Road. The place is spiffy and nice but has precious little actual baked goods in it, but that may just be for now. This is just a review of one item, the Rs. 390 Green Tea Bread, which sucks. The best bread in Sri Lanka is paan or roast paan, which costs ...
Harpo’s is our go-to pizza place, so we were interested to hear that they’ve got new flavors. I’ve personally tried almost everything on the menu so it was good to hear about the new flavors – the pizza kheema, the cajun crisp, the farmhouse and the caprese. So how do they stack up? Please note that all of these pizzas ...
We recently had a couple of friends down from England who wanted to buy some cashew nuts to take back with them. Being students they didn’t want to spend too much money, and had so far only looked in places like Keells and ODEL which were apparently quite expensive. So where do you go to buy affordable cashew? Well, cashew ...
The Good Market is a weekly food fair, featuring local arts and crafts also. It takes place in the refurbished area around Water’s Edge, a beautiful space with room for walking and lots of stalls. The first market is today, December 6th, from 12 – 8 PM. The food is all certified organic by accredited bodies and poison-free/sustainable by their ...
Where’s good to eat in Nugegoda? There’s a McDonald’s, KFC, Pizza Hut and Domino’s, but that’s basically it; the culinary highlight of Nuge seems to be their Fab outlet. But today we discovered that all hope might not be lost. At the point where Jambugasmulla runs into Old Kesbewa Road lies AMRO Vegetarian Cafe, a little oasis of calm amidst ...
Scarcely two decades ago the Colpetty (now its Kollupitiya) market was virtually the only place in Colombo to do your grocery shopping. Now your options have expanded, but the Kollupitiya Market remains a fascinating place. It’s pretty much your standard Asian wet market – this means it sells vegetables, meat and fish and is perpetually wet with whatever drips off the various produce. An assortment of vendors selling everything from ducks and turkeys to scallops and Nuttella occupy little stalls, and after
‘Fragments Of The Ordinary’ by Daniel Valentin is a photography exhibition being held at the Saskia Fernando Gallery between the 16th and 30th of November. I hadn’t heard of Daniel Valentin before, but here’s what the website says: “Daniel Valentin holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a major in photography from William Paterson University in New Jersey, United States. ...
After a rather under whelming meal at the Angler we walked the 10 or so meters to La Rambla(Spanishish/Mediterraneaish restaurant) to grab some dessert; the blackboard advertising crème brulee parcels and tropical fruit pavlova proved irresistible. I have a soft spot for La Rambla on account of its location- cafe style in the front section of an airy old house ...
Park Street Mews is pretty sexy. Consisting of a series of old warehouses converted into party/concert/exhibition venues and a restaurant, the Mews is one of Colombo’s trendiest, artiest, hipsterish hangouts. Any public event hosted here is popular (especially the jazz evenings) and full of people – and I suppose it’s not hard to see why. There’s hardly any other venues ...
