Foods

MAMA’s Gourmet Pasta

Nothing compares to home made food, and fresh factory produced pasta made to order by a mother-daughter duo can is a rather interesting concept.

The Shore By O!

A picturesque view of the bright blue Indian Ocean, sand seeping in between your toes, the soft sea breeze ruffling your hair, a drink by your side - seems terribly perfect, doesn’t it?

Recipe: Brownie Bars

We are definitely rushing headlong into the wonders of Christmas. With tinsel on every tree, ledge and mantle in your home and baubles of a multitude of colours glistening from every corner one cannot but in the festive mood.

Premium Quality Cheese

Premium quality cheese is certainly hard to find in Sri Lanka. And like me, if you aren’t a fan of boring old cheddar cheese, your choices tend to be quite limited.
 

Gold FM Presents The 70’s Show

After a sellout show last year, Sri Lanka’s Undisputed Number One English Radio Station, is gearing up for yet another extravagant and elegant event.

Christmas @ Park Street Mews

Park Street Mews restaurant is  ready to ring in the  traditional Christmas fun with  the decor, the ambience, the food

Christmas Love @ ChocoLuv

What better way to awaken those old memories and old associations; rekindling that flame of joy in your heart; than getting together with friends and family this Christmas Season!

The Startup Cook – Garlic Chicken

The pressure of your food pleasing someone else’s palette (besides your own) is too stressful for some. Hence dinner for one is always my favorite thing; especially when you’re experimenting with new recipes.

Apsara Bentota

‘Tis the season to be jolly in a private hideaway with your friends or family. In my mission to locate the most desirable holiday villas in Sri Lanka, I found ‘Apsara Villa’, a tranquil little place tucked away just an hour and a half from Colombo.

Dessert Rose the Trendy Bakery

Dessert Rose is the latest little baking business that’s making a big splash in Colombo’s social circles. 

Christmas Goodies

Here’s a list of what goodies are on offer for the season! Enjoy! 

Barracuda

When it comes to reasonably priced seafood, served in a pleasant and clean environment Barracuda down Wasala Raod on Marine Drive, in Dehiwala, is just the place.

Kami Maki

Kami Maki, meaning ‘divine roll’ in Japanese, is just two weeks old and has been nothing short of a positive response from customers.

Recipe: X-Mas Fudge

It is the season to start looking up old family recipes, taking stock of ingredients at hand and thinking about what to prepare for the big day.

Creamy Potato Gratin

Potatoes happen to be a favorite vegetable of mine.  You can cook it so many different ways. Mashed, fried, baked… it’s versatile. 

Chana’s

With the number of restaurants serving Indian cuisine in Colombo, there are some factors that will make a restaurant stand out, in my books. One of the main things I look for is that authentic Indian flavour which isn’t overpowered with tons of oil as well as cleanliness.

The Macaron Magazine

Aysha Ahmed loves a good challenge in the kitchen, especially if it involves making something as tricky and complicated as a macaron.

Penne with a twist

Pasta is one of those convenient and wholesome dinners anyone can make after a taxing day. It’s delicious and quite a favorite among everyone, especially kids.

How much TV is too much for Kids?

You have a tough choice, either cajol the child away from the TV or computer screen, or take all meals and conversation to where they’re engrossed.

Swirl Frozen Yoghurt

Frozen Yoghurt or fro-yo, seems to be catching up in Colombo as of late and the latest to the number of ‘Fro-Yo’ options is Swirl Frozen Yoghurt.

‘Meals on Wheels’

Has the need for tasty, reasonably priced and easily available lunch at offices ever bothered you? There is someone else who has felt the need too, and has come up with a tailor-made solution to your biggest workday need yet! ‘Meals on Wheels’ is a unique concept, the deal that you would have often dreamt of closer to lunch hours all through the

Mitsi’s Delicacies Opens shop

I’m tucking into creamy baked crab with a gooey layer of melted cheese on top, sitting alongside a huge mound of fragrant Arabic rice with fried vermicelli and sautéed chickpeas.

Recipe: Mini Brownie Pies

As a parent I tend to have quite a regimented day with meals at specific times, tedious school work and of course the final soul despairing bedtime routine, so it’s wonderfully refreshing to once in a while throw caution to the wind and indulge my taste buds in a dish that is so delightfully unpredictable, as in the form of a ‘Mini B