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Community Happenings is an opportunity for all
clubs, businesses, hotels, restaurants and entertainment outlets to
inform the Pattaya Mail’s readers what new “happenings” are coming
up. Send us your happening by email to: [email protected]
or by fax 038 427 596.
Clubs
Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC)
will hold its regular Sunday morning meeting at Henry J.
Bean’s Restaurant in the Amari Orchid Resort, on the north end of Beach
Road. Jake Needham, well-known author, lawyer, TV and movie
screenplay writer will speak at the Pattaya City Expats Club on August 1
about his book, ‘The Big Mango’ which is being developed as a motion
picture starring James Gandolfini of HBO’s hit series “The Sopranos”. As
always, an international and Thai buffet breakfast, catered by Amari Orchid
Resort, is available from 9.30 a.m. prior to the commencement of the meeting.
The meeting starts at 10.30 a.m. and finishes about noon. There is ample
parking available in the parking area across from the beach and next to Henry
J. Bean’s on the left side of Beach Road, just after the turn.
Dining
Pattaya’s newest, trendy coffee shop, Sunset Café
is now open. Located on Pattaya Second in front of the Grand
Sole Hotel and next to the 7 Eleven, they are now serving a wide range of
coffee, snacks, and breakfasts at reasonable prices. Open daily from 9 a.m.
till 3 a.m. (perfect for that late night snack). 370/4 Pattaya Second Road.
The Buffet Dee Light at Starz Diner, Hard Rock
Hotel Pattaya, Singaporean dishes add flavour to an extravagant spread of
130 dishes, many of which are specialties created especially for this dinner
buffet, and will always make the meal a delightful one. Enjoy it as often as
you would like and the price remains at only 250 baht++ at Starz Diner. Join
the fun nightly, with a Saturday recess, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. For more
information and reservations, please call 038 428 755-9, fax 038 421 673,
email: rooms.pattaya@ hardrockhotels.net, website: hardrockhotels.net
The Srisiam Restaurant, Sunbeam Hotel Pattaya,
invites you to enjoy specialty menus such as baked rice with dry
plums, baked rice with Chinese sausage, fried noodles with plakapong in brown
sauce and baked noodles with shrimps served in a pottery bowl, throughout July,
every day, 12 noon until 9 p.m. Call for reservations on
038-427-120-9.
Talk of Tokyo: A very special guest this month at
the Benihana Restaurant is Japanese beef specialist chef Suzuki Toshio,
visiting from Benihana Tokyo. He will present the culinary excitement of
Teppanyaki Zushi. On chef Suzuki’s menu are dishes such as roast beef glazed
in teriyaki sauce, sprinkled with gold dust; eel topped with horseradish
mayonnaise; and delicacies using Kobe and Matsuzaka beef. The guest chef is
also a licensed sake master, and will be making recommendations from a
selection of more than twenty fine sakes! Visit chef Suzuki Toshio at the Benihana
Restaurant, Royal Garden Plaza from now until July 24. For
reservations & more information please call 038 425 009.
Don’t miss Casa Pascal’s new gourmet set
menu, pamper yourself with fine touch of culinary art. Menu
only 950++ baht and menu with unlimited wine 1,900++. For reservations, please
call 038-723-660 or 01-983-4182 (Kim).
Pizza and Pasta Festival - For an Italian evening
in lush tropical gardens, Amari’s chef presents a wonderful buffet with home
style cooking. A full dessert buffet is also available and the house band will
entertain you all night long. From 7 p.m. in the tropical garden, 330++ baht
per person. For reservations please contact guest relations at 038 428 161.
The Friday special at Shenanigans Pattaya is ‘Popeye
Pie’. An earthenware dish, filled with ground beef in a brown sauce
on one side and creamed spinach with mixed vegetables, all covered in mashed
potatoes and grilled under the salamander. Served from 12 midday till 9 p.m.
for 150 baht inclusive. Shenanigans Pattaya, Pattaya Second Road, in front of
the Marriott Resort & Spa.
Head for Soi 6 and the Queen Victoria Inn for
Draught Guinness at only 160 baht per pint or Kilkenny at 180 baht. With the 4
course 4 joint Sunday carvery at 290 baht and daily specials at only 140 baht
it’s the place to be to eat and drink! Email: [email protected]
or call 038 425 418 for more details.
The Green Bottle Pub is offering special Thai
menus featuring delicious duck and chicken dishes from 19 baht and 45
baht from 11 a.m. till 4 p.m. throughout the month of July. Plenty of happy
hour choices are also available from 1 p.m. till 7 p.m. daily with bottled
beer at 50 baht and spirits at 45 baht. Another good reason to fall over and
back to the Green Bottle, Diana Inn Pattaya, Second Road. Call 038 429 870,
038 429 675 for more details.
There are many vegetarian food offers in
Pattaya, but most of them are Thai style or Chinese style; Pat’s Pies
have had numerous requests to expand their range of vegetarian food, so they
created Pat’s homemade vegetarian lasagna and broccoli base veggie pie to
add to the already popular giant Yorkshire pudding with stuffing, vegetables,
roast & mashed potatoes, baked potatoes with various fillings (bean,
cheese & onion and coleslaw) plus, with an advance order of 24 hours
notice, they can offer cheese & onion or broccoli & cheese quiche,
cheese & onion pastry and much more. All vegetarian meals are served with
vegetarian gravy! They also deliver! Call 038 072 3302.
Hans at the Paradise Restaurant is again offering frog
legs as appetizers or main dishes, cooked either with Provencal herbs,
with garlic and pepper or with basil. The tasty set menus have been very
popular and continue to be on offer. They include a meat and a fish lover, a
gourmet and an exotic meat menu. All set menus include Caesar salad, a soup,
the main dish and assorted deserts for only 495 to 595 baht. A small carafe of
house wine is also included with the gourmet set. Open daily from 10 a.m. to
10 p.m. Located opposite the Royal Garden Plaza and Marriott Resort, 215/62-63
on 2nd Road. Tel./Fax: 038 723 177
Don’t miss the theme buffet evenings at the
Montien Hotel Pattaya; Verandah Coffee Shop on Tuesdays: Asian
buffet dinner 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesdays at La Mer Restaurant its
Mediterranean buffet dinner from 6.30 p.m. to 10 p.m. On
Friday it’s back to the Verandah Coffee Shop with a BBQ
& seafood buffet dinner from 6 till 10 p.m. and on Saturday
don’t miss the international buffet dinner. For
reservations and information call 038 428 155 ext. 1620-1 or email: [email protected]
California Steak at the Orchard, the best steak
venue in Sriracha, is now offering a special steak buffet dinner
every Wednesday evening. Indulge your taste buds with delicious steak menus
including beef, chicken, pork and seafood only at 263 baht + per person (130
baht + for a child). Special on every Monday and Friday, you will get free
salad bar with any order of steak or a la carte menu prices over 140 baht. For
reservations or more information contact California Steak on 038 771 3900 ext.
225
Celebrate the Swiss National Day, August 1
with a superb buffet in the tropical gardens of the Amari Orchid Resort.
Their Swiss chef will pamper you with the best cuisine from his homeland. A
must for Swiss food lovers! From 7 p.m. in the tropical gardens for 590 baht
++ per person. For reservations please contact the guest relations at 038 428
161
Entertainment
American Wrestling shows are
held daily at The Market complex on Pattaya 2nd Road between Soi 5 and
Soi 6. Wrestling superstars from around the world will be competing nightly in
3 shows: 7 p.m., 8.30 p.m. and 10 p.m. This is the first time live wrestling
has come to Pattaya. Contact the Wrestling Box office on 038 488 196.
There is still time to enjoy Moon River Pub’s beer
promotion. Every guest who buys one liter of beer receives a beer
card. After consuming 9 liters of beer you will get one liter free of charge.
The card is valid for 3 months. Please note that this promotion is only valid
for draft beer and not for bottles (every liter of beer ordered will be market
on the card) and don’t miss the new in house band Re-bounce.
Always a fun night out at the Moon River Pub, Thai Garden Resort, North
Pattaya Road.
Events
Learn the art of fruit and vegetable carving
with a Thai carving master and receive a carving certificate after the course
at the Siam Bayview Hotel Pattaya. The course is open daily at the
Garden Terrace Caf้ from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. Call 038 423 871-7 or email:
siambayview @siamhotels.com for further details.
Under 5s playgroup at the Horseshoe Point. Monday
to Friday 10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Fun, games, music, swimming and lunch for
children up to 5 years old. The playgroup will run throughout the school
holidays until end of August. Only 200 baht for Club Aviva members (280 baht
non-members). Places are limited so please book on 038 735 050 ext 8002/ 0607
27012, or email: [email protected] - transport can be arranged
depending on numbers.
The Pattaya Gay Festival will hold a charity
dinner at 8.30 p.m. on July 25 at the Amor Restaurant, between Soi
Pattayaland 2 and 3. Richard and team will be preparing a fine gourmet dinner
for the night. Tickets are available at the Amor Restaurant (see Richard) and
at the Ambience Hotel (see Hugh), Soi Pattayaland 3, for 1,100 baht (400
towards PGF charities, including Heartt 2000). Phone 038 710 680, email:
[email protected] or visit the website: www. amorrestaurant.com
Health and
Fitness
Meditation Group, novice
or experienced, come and join this informal get together for anyone interested
in experiencing this wonderful form of relaxation to calm the mind. Maggie
Counihan and Gill Chrystina Dalton will be facilitating these informal
get-togethers every Thursday evening from 6 p.m. at Gill’s house. For more
information call Gill on 01 751 5012 or Maggie on 07 073 4237. Refreshments
provided and payment is by donation only with all proceeds going to Dawn of
Light, a project that will eventually be turned into a non-profit foundation.
Promotions
To celebrate Her Majesty the Queen’s 6th Cycle Birthday, Ripley’s
Believe It or Not! Museum Pattaya is inviting every mom who
was born in 1932 to visit Ripley’s Museum and watch simulator movies
in 4-dimensions free. From August 12 to 15, each eligible mom should present
her resident ID card to the attendant to verify the year of birth, and the
exploration into Ripley’s unusual world of oddities is hers. For other moms,
Ripley’s Museum is also offering a 50% discount at these two outlets. The
Museum is open daily between 11:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. and situated on the 3 rd
level of the Royal Garden Plaza. For more information, please call 038 710
294-8, ext. 332.
The Pacific Cigar (Thailand) Co., Ltd. an exclusive
distributor of all Havana cigars in Thailand announces the opening of Pattaya
Cigar Divan, Pattaya’s first and only cigar divan, located at the
lobby level of Pattaya Marriott Resort & Spa. Pattaya Cigar Divan
is a full service cigar divan that offers the widest selections of finest
Havana cigars and non-Cuban cigars, namely Davidoff, Griffin, Zino, Don Diego
and La Flor de Copan. Cigar lovers in Pattaya can now indulge in a 100%
authentic Havana cigar at Pacific Cigar. Their staff is well-trained cigar
consultants which will guide you to your favourite cigar. Along with fine
Havana cigars Pattaya Cigar Divan also offers the finest selection of rare
single barrel malt whisky, Lavazza coffee and fine smoking accessories.
Door 2 Door have gone overboard this month with another
special triple promotion: not only can you receive 10% off from Swiss Food and
receive a free can of coke for 500 baht orders, you can also please your taste
buds by getting free garlic bread from Fatties Pub & Restaurant, 2nd Road,
opposite Big C, with any order over 500 baht. To cash in on this special
triple promotion, simply call 038 720 222 and a friendly driver will deliver a
free menu to you. Or visit: www. door2doorpattaya.com
Come and celebrate the birthday of your loved ones or
friends at the Paradise Restaurant and enjoy a fabulous dinner
their in company. Make a reservation for 4 people or more and receive a
complimentary birthday cake. For a reservation of eight or more, Paradise also
offers you a bottle of their Pinot Chardonnay house champagne. For
reservations call: 038 723 177 (This special is not valid with other
promotional offers or discounts).
Both the Siam Bayshore Resort and the Siam
Bayview Hotel are offering a meeting package for groups of
20 or more at just 1,500 baht net per person per night (sharing a twin room).
The package includes: one lunch, two coffee breaks and use of new meeting
facilities and equipment (LCD, DVD, Internet). The single room supplement is
1,000 baht net per night. For more information, please call the corporate
sales department at 0 2247-0123, ext. 1914. Email: siambayshore@
siamhotels.com Website: www.siamhotels.com
Tours
New! Join the Amari Orchid Resort for a trip to the
local Pattaya markets every Thursday and discover what tourists will never
find on their own. See where locals do their daily shopping. See tropical
fish, fruit and delicacies that you will certainly never find back home! Upon
return to the hotel, delicious local specialties will be served at the Orchid
Terrace. Departing from the lobby at 10.30 a.m. and returning at 1.30 p.m.
followed by a delicious Thai lunch. 400 baht per person. For reservations
please contact the guest relations at 038 428 161.
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