If Srina Palace is the king of Fancy Gift Items (see Borella Underpass and The Souq as well), the Lover is the queen – ie.

Eating at Forty Forty Foods, a low-key lunchtime rice and curry spot down a tiny alley opposite Unity Plaza on Galle Road, feels just like lunching

Amirthaa is a cheap, clean, pure-veg South Indian restaurant in Bambalapitiya that serves a good thali and various fried South Indian and Sri Lankan snacks

Anusha Handicrafts, just outside Kollupitiya Market by Liberty Junction, is an odd place and something of an overwhelming experience, crammed as it is from floor

The Great Bambalapitiya Biryani Hunt continued last week with a visit to Elite Restaurant, a well-established Indian place opposite the big HSBC on Bauddhaloka Mawatha

It’s hot these days – I don’t mean Colombo’s normal tropical heat – as drought rages in the north and east and reservoirs run dry

Shanmugas is probably the best place for South Indian food in Colombo (they serve North Indian as well, but this isn’t their strength). It isn’t

The Tree of Art is a tiny little shop in Nugegoda – so tiny we didn’t even know it was there. We came across it

We recently complained about the poor service at Roots and received a few comments saying Juiceez is much better. We thought so too, but decided

Suki’s Wok is one of the oldies when it comes to Chinese eateries in Colombo. Nowadays they’re mostly into delivery, so we tried it, and