The T20 World Cup is proudly in Sri Lanka this year. How’s the food? It’s OK. It’s fine, and there’s beer, but there are very few vegetarian options for the many visiting Indians. Pepsi and it’s former company Yum! Brands seems to have the rights for everything, so it’s all their products – KFC, Frito-Lay, etc. And there’s Lion ...
Shoppers Stop on Marine Drive is a treasure trove of a mini mart that offers a great selection of imported goodies that you don't generally find at other places. The best part, they're actually cheaper.
It’s that time of year again… P&S have brought out the bruders, House of Fashion’s been fortifying the checkout lines and Keells is playing Wham! on loop. Christmas has officially come to the island. But what does Yuletide in the tropics bring beside brandy butter binges and skimpy nevergreen trees? Scary Sri Lankan Santa. The good St Nick as ...
Arabian Knights is a new and absolutely charming Syrian restaurant right by the sea. It only has about four seats and is more a takeaway joint, but if you walk in you’ll be glad you did. Everybody there is quite charming (I said it twice cause it’s true) and you can taste that they’ve put love and care into the ...
Jehan Aloysius founded CenterStage Productions a couple of years ago & since then they’ve been pretty consistent with their mission – to foster new talent & create original productions that educate & promote social change. ‘Rag’ is their latest attempt to invite a shift within our social conciousness. Centered around the intense peer abuse faced by new entrants in local universities, ‘Rag’ is an entirely original screenplay written by cast and ...
An Evening of String Quartet Music The Rotaract Club of University of Sri Jayewardenepura is organizing a concert featuring four illustrious members of the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka: Satish Casie Chetty, Violin Amal Abeysekera,Violin Mangala Abeysekera, Viola Amila Abeysekera, Cello The press release states: Bach to Beatles, the musical soiree of string quartets invites all music lovers in town ...
Colombo’s got a lot of great home bakers, so we recently set ourselves the tasty task of trying them all out (see Munchkin and Sweet Wishes by Vish). Sits Cakes and Desserts is one of the classics, and it’s our favourite by far. Her cakes, puddings, cupcakes, etc. are all excellent and you can expect consistently high quality. Sita does ...
Amirthaa is a cheap, clean, pure-veg South Indian restaurant in Bambalapitiya that serves a good thali and various fried South Indian and Sri Lankan snacks such as thosai, paratha, samosa, and wade. As far as I’m aware it’s part of a chain, or one of a couple of Amirthaa hotels in Colombo (though it could be another symptom of something I call ...
So another day in our quest for a restaurant (not a hole in the wall/buth kadai) that serves a good rice and curry meal. We had a hot tip on The Angler a small restaurant down Hotel Road just up the road from the Mt Lavinia Hotel. We heard they served up a good homestyle curry with an emphasis on seafood, so expecting delicious ...
In the time before YAMU I spent a fair while toiling in the Middle Kingdom. During this time I managed to pick up a bit of Mandarin- somewhere between I can communicate and low grade fluency. On my return to the island however I feared that my slight grasp of the 21st century’s language of power would slip so I ...
Sri Lanka’s biggest street festival! 27th September to 1st October from 4pm to Midnight at the Viharamahadevi Green Path and Amphitheater. Lasting for 5 days, this’ll be an enjoyable way to sample most of what Colombo has to offer the palate. Main Attractions Food Stalls Arts & Crafts Cultural Heritage World’s Largest Kotthu Colombo Green Walk Ice Carving competition School Brass ...
Mothercare is a shiny new store on Duplication Road (near Dickman’s Road) that has high quality baby and mother clothes and things. It is also really expensive for most items, though there are a few deals (like toys) and who’s going to say no to a pregnant woman anyways. Mothercare is a global (British) brand brought to Sri Lanka by ...
Double Rainbow At The Galle Face Hotel We’re doing a feature on swimming pools and we were lucky enough to catch this double rainbow over the Galle Face Hotel. It was a full one, though hidden by the clouds. You could see the other leg on the other side.
Perhaps the best place to get a drink anywhere in the city A wonderful old colonial building with a sprawling lawn, a low-lit chandeliered ball room, amazing wood floored balconies and a high ceilinged bar replete with an ancient snooker table. Half a dozen devoted staff serving home-made ginger beer, keeping track of your billiard balls, retrieving errant darts and ...
This is a sorta wall monument to… the truth. We think. This is a plaque in Borella which reads, in its entirety: The Foundation Of The Truth. The objective of the foundation is to establish irrefutable knowledge. So, any scientific interpretation of an entity should be based on a common sense understanding of the entirety. This means, mostly, the finite ...
The Sweet Tooth or TST, is a small home baker that specializes in jars full of baked goods. We tried a bunch of different jars (along with some other stuff) and they were all pretty great.
New Year's Eve is many things to many people. It can be a big club night (Kingsbury), a scene to be seen at (Cantaloupe, Hilton), a dress-up party (Gatsby at
