No. 33, Canal Row, Fort, Colombo 01
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Panorama is a bar cum restaurant that we don't love as a restaurant, though we have heard good things about the bar. Come here at sunset for the view and don't be too picky about anything else.
Colombo City Hotel is one of those hotels that somehow clung on through the war years, able to survive until bombs stopped scaring away the market.
Panorama is their bar/restaurant located on the fifth floor. You can get there by taking the helpful elevator installed for the purpose. It's relatively cheap and has a chilled out varendah that is cool and shady even on hot afternoons. They have great cheap coffee here, I had a decent cappucino for Rs. 210.
The Prawn Cocktail was a disgrace to prawn cocktails everywhere, and to prawns in general I would think. It is smothered in tomato sauce mixed with mayo (there's a place in hell where sinners are only served tomato sauce mixed with mayo). [Editor's note: I like sauce and mayo. But that is not cocktail sauce].
It was rather sweet to boot, and the soaked cabbage and the greens at the bottom were hard to access, assuming you would even want to.
Being hungry (no surprises there) I ordered the Steak Baguette. Again, it came soaked in too much mediocre sauce, and the beef could have used a bit more flavor. The texture a little on the hard side but good if you like your meat a little tough.
The Club Sandwich was again rather bland. The menu said it had beef, but it had no beef. The best thing I can find to say was that the bread was well toasted.
The tables are dusty and the waiters didn't bother to wipe them down before we sat. Also, the staff here are terribly difficult to get the attention of. So no points for service I'm afraid.
Oh and in case you're wondering, there is no WiFi here (still clinging to past authenticity in this regard) so drop the idea of popping into work here if you're sick of being cooped up in your office at the World Trade Center.
Panorama is a bar cum restaurant that we don't love as a restaurant, though we have heard good things about the bar. Come here at sunset for the view and don't be too picky about anything else.
Panorama is a bar cum restaurant that we don't love as a restaurant, though we have heard good things about the bar. Come here at sunset for the view and don't be too picky about anything else.
The fifth floor of this place is a bar+ resto, and is a highly underrated space.
While there's something faintly sleazy about the place it's still many grades up on your standard dodgy bar so women will feel comfortable(there are decent loos). Cheap booze, great views, reasonable prices what's not to like?
සිංහල වැඩි සෙනගක් නැතුව සැහැල්ලු සැන්දෑවක් ගත කරන්න මෙතනට යන්න
සිංහල ස්ථානයේ පුංචි අපිරිසිදුකමක් තිබුණත්, එය සාමාන්ය පහළ මට්ටමේ බාර්වලට වඩා මට්ටම් කීපයකින් ඉහළයි. කාන්තාවන්ට එතැන හොඳ පහසුකම් සහිතයි. දර්ශන සුන්දරයි. මිළ සාධාරණයි.
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Good place to go with family. But not a great place to booze
1/5
This place would be nice if not for the fact that the owners didn't discriminate against locals. Saw a local guy in shorts get kicked out due to shorts and slippers while foreigners wearing the same attire were undisturbed. Never coming back.
I go here quite often. The chilli chicken is quite good as a bite - can't say much for the hot butter cuttlefish however. Also one Friday they did up an excellent BBQ Chicken dish for 550 - 2 thighs, 2 baked potatoes and a bit of coleslaw which was delicious and I thought good value for money.
I know someone wanted to stay there once and their room rates were exorbitant. Good to know that drinks/food may not be that cheap. Might just try it out this Fri.
first thing is its not that cheap !! there is two types of taxes and service charge added so menu prices are cheap when it adds on it hits the correct price…… and the food is not great ,the waiter is drunk most of the time or only when i go.you tend to get a really bad crowd sometimes …. the only good thing is when your drunk and looking up if your in the balcony you feel like your in Singapore just for like 5 sec …after that you realize your in a not so great bar & you could have gone some where else.
a nice spot i agree wasted upon bad maintenance…. it was a lovely place to spend a few hours with a shot or two but not a great hangout with the type of crowd crawling in by night, no offence, its just that you cannot guarantee a great time with your girl friends!
Their pastry shop in the ground floor is great! Reasonably priced and in the morning you get hot hot fish buns (which actually has fish) that melts in your mouth!!! Craving for one nowww…
placeis awesome but it will take around 1 hour to deliver your order it will make fedup
1/5
ShawnColombo
This place would be nice if not for the fact that the owners didn't discriminate against locals. Saw a local guy in shorts get kicked out due to shorts and slippers while foreigners wearing the same attire were undisturbed. Never coming back.