The cattle are lowing… at the BMICH There’s a farm in the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall grounds. I know that sounds odd as the BMICH is the nation’s principal conference center and located in the center of Colombo, so not really what you’d think of an as agricultural spot, but nevertheless someone has installed rows of fruit trees, vegetable ...
…they let us bring our dog in. And they brought him a bowl of water. This was a nice, friendly gesture on the part of the staff. I don’t think Dutch Hospital has an official stance on dogs, but the guys at O! were still quite happy to accomodate us providing there was no trouble. And we were outside ...
Yesterday I needed to fill some space on a wall so I trotted off to the side of Viharamahadevi Park, along Green Path (aka Ananda Comaraswamy Mawatha aka Nelum Pokuna Mawatha) opposite the National Art Gallery where you see generally young artists and art students selling their wares. While this roadside art sale started off as a weekend market nowadays ...
This little coffeeshop on Fife road is really a breath of fresh air. More accurately, a breath heavy with the scent of freshly brewed coffee. It’s really just a hole in the wall but its lack of pretension, excellent local coffee and reasonable prices (Rupees 100-200 for any conceivable sort of coffee) are a slap in the face to Colombo’s ...
This Italian restaurant imports the best ingredients (including an amazing pizza oven) and is manned by actual Italians. Top it off with a beautiful, verdant location and intelligent staff and you have a real treat hidden in Colombo 7.
The latest exhibition at the Saskia Fernando Gallery begins October 3rd and will feature the works of the well known Sri Lankan artists Chandraguptha Thenuwara and Jagath Weerasinghe. Thenuwara and Weerasinghe are among Sri Lanka’s foremost artists and their artistic dialogue spans the last three decades – key years spent bolstering the emergence and grounding of the country’s contemporary art ...
This is the video from our lamprais taste-off. For the write-up, check out the full post. This video takes you through our somewhat unscientific tasting process, which was to mix up the lamprais, label them with numbers and eat them. As a bonus, here’s some sidebars on lamprais and Burghers in general. What Is A Lamprais? A lamprais is ...
A rainy afternoon browsing through eclectic piles of old books. The particular bouquet - must, dry dust, fading ink, a touch of mold- of long unthumbed chapters, a grand old theater crumbling in the background, and street life buzzing all around you. It’s all a little Lantin Quarter but in fact its high-street Maradana(the theatre is the Elphinstone) and arguably the best street in this ...
If you're ever in Bentota, we highly recommend Eatalian. It's part of a chain of Italian restaurants (branches in Genoa, Milan, Caserta and Prague) and they serve up the same excellent menu here. From presentation to taste to ambience, it's world class. Also expensive, but we think it's well worth.
The Tree of Art is a tiny little shop in Nugegoda – so tiny we didn’t even know it was there. We came across it quite by accident, having ventured into Nuge in search of a fast food joint called The Meat Locker. Unfortunately The Meat Locker looked as unappealing as it sounded, so we made a hasty retreat sans ...
One of China’s most celebrated children’s dance troupes, the China Nanjing Little Red Flowers Dance Troupe will be performing at the Nelum Pokuna theatre on Sunday & Monday. Here to celebrate Children’s Day & the 63rd anniversary of the founding of The People’s Republic of China, the event will be free of charge to all & organiser Faqiang exhibits an endearing sentiment about ...
Streat360, a cosy new restaurant that’s just popped up down Ward Place. It's got interesting decor and it's a fun place to hang out. The food is alright, sometimes enough to pique your interest, but not gratifying for the really-hungry.
I am not a habitual protester. In fact for the most part I have a fairly well developed sense of laissez-faire sri lankaise ie what to do? There’s a war- what to do? journalists keep disappearing – what to do? etc. But the other day I was traveling down Reid Avenue and saw, well… the standard mob from the ...
Lamprais In The Daily FT. The annual (well it will be annual) YAMU lamprais taste-off took place this week. For the good of all Colombars a crack team – A Cause Untrue author David Blacker, Cassandra Mascarenhas (Daily FT), Indi Samarajiva and Savan Wijewardene – engaged in a thorough degustation of six of the city’s most popular lamprais. This was no ...
White Horse has had two distinct eras. The first, and apparently best, was when it was located at Fort and dominated by students from the Overseas School in Colombo. The second corresponds to the change in venue – when White Horse moved to Navam Mawatha and the OSC kids put down their glasses and lamented the close of what would ...
If you want to sit in a comfortable environment and wait an hour to get something printed, Softwave Gallery is the place. If you’re missing the sarcasm, this is not the place to go, ever. Softwave are good printers, but their Gallery is an abomination. Softwave Gallery has evolved over the years, first spinning off from the more professional Softwave ...
