24 hour supermarket on Havelock Road
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…
they offer some very attractive fabric and fabric-based items at more attractive prices than either Barefoot or Selyn.
AV Store is a new online shop for audio visual equipment. They have a lot of products for professionals - audio mixers, microphones, professional speakers - and a lot of entry level products as…
Unique pieces of art by a known artist for a few hundred dollars;
Situated opposite Colombo Jewellery Stores, under a blue board with the aforementioned title in purple letters, sits the city’s finest DVD retailer. Something of a haven for cultured film enthusiasts, New…
On Hospital Road in Dehiwala, there is a somewhat awesome Feng Shui shop. Here you can get huge, weighty laughing Budai, dragon or pagoda statues, or amulets (including exam amulets) and books…
for bespoke clothing, at a reasonable price from a central location Raheema's is a pretty good option.
Rainco has a big shop in Dehiwala selling everything from (expensive) patio furniture and awnings to affordable camping equipment and umbrellas.
If you're looking for cheap sunglasses, the Galle Road is perhaps the best place. Right across from Majestic City there's a stall which sells reliably cheap sunglasses (Rs. 200-500, depending on…
laptop.lk is a website, but also a series of physical branches where you can buy a range of laptops. YAMU needed a laptop for coding and we managed to find one within our specs for Rs. 53,800. Which…
As far as getting to touch, feel and buy the latest phones and tabs, the Etisalat HQ is the newest and best on the block.
Christmas is coming so here's a random gift idea - buy your loved one/child/friend a telescope.
This is somewhere my grandmother remembers buying bits and bobs from 50 years ago, I saw their sign and expected to find the place empty and derelict but amazingly it's alive and almost well.... sorta…
The Supun Arcade on Galle Road is probably Colombo's cleanest and emptiest mall. It's actually eerie because the stores are fully stocked, computers, phones and (inexplicably) Chinese vases on the first floor;…
While it's not quite as charming as Maradana's second hand strip it's much better laid out and the books seems to be curated- classics at the back, pulp and pop towards the front and a box of…
Gandhara is more a high-end decor empire than a shop. Along with its off shoots and affiliates the store occupies an entire swathe of Stratfrod Avenue. Inside the many-floored, several-roomed…
If you ever need a giant calculator, or something more ordinary like blank CDs or printer cartridges, Unik Creations in Unity Plaza is a decent place. It's not necessarily cheap - a huge calculator costs Rs.…
It pays not to overlook HoF - you often end up saving and well even if you came in looking for a pair of jeans and found only horrifying besequined specimens you might yet leave with the rs…
Its a bit of a lucky a dip but sift through the dusty collections for long enough ask the enthusiastic vendors enough questions and after 30 mins scouring you're sure to find something you like.
The K-9 is, I think, Colombo's only attempt at a comprehensive pet store. They sell a whole bunch of pet related products like cages, leashes, chew toys, and, strangely, adult diapers (?). You…
For high-end but not unaffordable Sarees check out Aashkii. There are also dresses and random bits of home-wear available in the split level premise on top of Maitland Crescent though these…
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 books, your local stationer or someplace like Sarasavi is…
