With its ancient coffee grinding equipment, fragrant sacks of substandard local coffee and scant business, I’m not sure how this place still survives. I suppose

The Floor By O! has been around for a while now, we’ve been there before and we find ourselves going back more. With very reasonable

NOTE: The Galle Face Pool is now closed to non-hotel guests. Sadness. Well you really can’t do one without the other – the Mount Lavinia

Street food. This is a bit of a buzz word and today there are hour long TV programs dedicated to Thai papaya salad, Taiwanese pancakes,

Sea bathing at Mount Lavinia was an old colonial tradition and for over a century the Mt Lavinia hotel has been the place for an

The Full Stop has the highest quality stationery in Colombo, at the highest price. If you want regular paper or a few pens and exercise

One of Wellwatte’s non-vegetarian heavyweights, Mayuri is a well established venue for Tamil meat curry classics- which actually means Seafood and Goat Meat curries.  Often

If you have a taste for local designer made clothing, this is a good spot. I really love the stuff in Melaché mainly because I

There are plenty of places to purchase alcohol in Colombo. Supermarkets, dodgy little wine stores, large liquor shops, ‘special’ delivery services, and so on. Thank

As far as street food/kades in Colombo go, the Yarl Eat House is one of the best. They do a good rice and curry with