Good food and fellowship at MLH

Swiss Food Festival 2010 :

It seems that the Swiss Food Festival gets bigger, livelier and more crowded by the year. To celebrate the Swiss National Day, Mount Lavinia Hotel took the initiative to make it a week of great food, spirit and fellowship

The Swiss Food Festival from July 26 to August 1 at MLH is not only a chance to try new products, savour Swiss wines and watch celebrity chefs out in force, but also the opportunity to forget about your waist lines and indulge in whatever crosses your path.

Here are the top highlights of the opening night of the Swiss Food Festival when the press in Sri Lanka were invited to enjoy an evening of fellowship.

Yakitori evenings at Nihonbashi

Anyone who takes an evening strolling through any busy city in Japan will probably come across the clouds of aromatic smoke of yakitori wafting and the sound of laughter, coming from establishments crowded with people pouring each other saké and eating yakitori, a popular after-work meal.

Nihonbashi's flagship restaurant introduces yakitory evenings for those who love the pleasure of after work relaxation enjoying fine Japanese cuisine.

Yakitori, a dish of char grilled, bite-sized pieces of fresh chicken on bamboo skewers, is not so much of a full meal as it is an accompaniment for beer and sake. One feature of yakitori is that all parts of the chicken, including the organs and tail meat, can be used, not just the thigh and breast. With these different meaty textures, lightly charred and flavored with a fragrant sauce or salt, everything goes down easily, and one ends up polishing off quite a lot.

Nihonbashi's yakitory menu range include spectacular chicken wings and other chicken specialties as well as non-chicken grilled items such as Tomorokoshi (grilled corn), ebi shio yaki (salt grilled prawn).

Nihonbashi is the only restaurant in Colombo to use hard wood charcoal (not fuel induced briquettes) every night. Using charcoal is simply not a barbeque; with a heat that gas or electric cannot match. It is this heat that seals anything that is cooked and makes it more juicy and tender when cooked right.

The restaurant is open from 6.00pm to 10.30 pm for dinner.

Irresistible pizza at the Galadari

The ultimate solution for all you pizza lovers:

If you love a buttery, flakey crust, sweet and tangy tomatoes, gooey mozzarella cheese, perfectly seasoned sausage, and other fresh ingredients- you would be at the right place as we have the perfect Pizza for you. Galadari Hotel pride themselves for making each handmade pizza just the way you like it.

Their Pizza's was such a huge hit last year with customers of all ages that they wanted to give everyone another chance to enjoy a variety of delicious pizzas they have added to their pizza menu.

Enjoy the innovative pizzas with friends and family and they're excited in dedicating to giving pizza fans more of what they want."

The Cheesy Pizza's are designed to give customers the experience of pulling and popping the irresistible cheese-filled bites into their mouths before digging into the pizza slices.

They have also designed small, regular and family pizza's to accommodate each ones need and all pizzas will be served with a chilled bottle of Coke to complete the meal.

The Cheesy Pizza promotion will be held from August 2 to the 8 from 11.00 am to 11.00 pm at the Coffee Shop. There's something for everybody so try their cheesy juicy pizza's.

A little piece of India at Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo

The Mumbai Jig returns:

This August 7 Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo brings back the Mumbai Jig at the Poolside where it will transforms into a buzzing Indian street for a night, complete with food stalls and a music selection imported all the way from India from 7.30 pm to 11.30 pm.

Stop at one of the stalls and select from typical roadside snacks like aloo chaat, channa chaat, mixed chaat, papri chaat and bhel puri.

The idea here is to pop these miniature treats into your mouth and savour the effects of the contrasting flavours, from tangy to spicy, as they hit your taste buds just seconds apart. Move on to either a chicken or vegetarian biryani with mutton rara gosht, mumtaji vegetables, palak paneer, aloo bonda, lasooni murugh tikka, mathi tikka, tandoori murugh, raita, mint chutney and oriental marinated seer medallions and have them with an assortment of naan or tandoori roti on the side.

No matter what you select, save a little space in the tummies for the Indian desserts on offer this special night. Do not leave without trying the gulab jamun, gajar ka halwa or the rice kheer. Order a tall glass of faluda or lassi and it doesn't get more Indian street than that!

In the midst of all the excitement, if you can't control those dancing feet, head to the dance floor and go Bollywood under the stars! The DJ will bring the sounds of Bollywood to your ears.

Cream Puff Paradise

Goodies at Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo has something special in store for its patrons this August. The Pastry Chefs have introduced some melt in the mouth Cream Puffs with seven tempting fillings.

The Chocolate Cream is a classic and a favourite, while the Blueberry Cream Puff adds a lightly tarty edge to the sweet cream filling. And how often does one get to taste a cream puff with a crunchy cream filling?

These delightful varieties of cream will be filled into the delicious choux pastries that make up the Cream Puff lineup at Goodies this August. The pastry team at the Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo will be busy piping the creamy fillings into the soft shells every morning so that by 10.00am you will be able to get your first taste of a Goodies Cream Puff for the day until closing time at 9.00pm.