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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
The Dutch Expats Club Pattaya (NVP)
has a meeting the last Friday of every month in the Sea Breeze Hotel, Jomtien
Beach Road, next to Soi 10. They also have groups for bridge, computers, Thai
language, fishing, literature and much more. For more information email: [email protected]
The Pattaya International Ladies Club (PILC) will
host their September coffee morning at the Siam Bayshore on September 21
from 10.30 a.m. till 2 p.m. Members and guests are welcome. Be sure to
reserve your seat. Call Rita Cromwell on 09 818 2268 or email:
[email protected]
Scandinavian Expats Pattaya meets the second Sunday of
every month. For details contact John A. Tel: 01 523 6080 or Per Tel: 07 083
3834.
Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC) will hold its regular
Sunday morning meeting at Henry J. Bean’s Restaurant at the Amari Orchid
Resort on the north end of Beach Road. 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
Game is in season, and as every
year Hans at the Paradise Restaurant offers various game specials for
lovers of those delicacies. They include deer fillet, Swiss style venison
stew, wild boar stew, rabbit stew in red wine sauce, kangaroo stew and ostrich
fillet with three sauces. All dishes are prepared from traditional recipes.
Don’t miss it! For those who look for something really different, the
Paradise Restaurant is Pattaya’s first and only casual dining restaurant
specializing in exotic food, including ostrich, kangaroo, emu, crocodile frog
legs and grasshoppers, a dining experience you won’t regret or forget. 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 Casa Pascal’s gourmet set menu and
pamper yourself with fine touches 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).
Promotion of the month: Catch of the day! During the
month of September, Hank’s goes fishing! He will serve you the freshest
seafood in town straight out of the sea across the road! Simply delicious at Henry
J. Bean’s Restaurant, Amari Orchid Resort Pattaya. For reservation
please contact guest relations at 038 428 161.
Shenanigans special menus: Monday Night Special - soup
or salad, followed by fried red snapper, sweet corn, garden peas & salad
B. 199. Tuesday Chop Night - home made soup, followed by a Shenanigans
pork chop with braised cabbage & mashed potato B. 150. Wednesday Night
Stake Out - home made soup or salad, a 400 gram. T-bone steak, pile of
french-fries, salad, & grilled tomato B. 195. Thursday Pasta Night or
Curry Night - A pasta buffet or curry buffet on alternate Thursdays.
All-U-Can-Eat B. 250. Friday Bangers Fry Up - a bursting carvery with 8
different sorts of a sausages, cooked to order with accompanying vegetables,
soup & salads. All-U-Can-Eat B. 255. Saturday & Sunday the
famous Shenanigans carvery B. 395. Shenanigans Pattaya, Pattaya Second
Road, in front of the Marriott Resort & Spa.
Dine-around dinner: Experience delicious cuisine at all
the bars and restaurants at the Amari Orchid Resort during only one
dinner. Start with a cocktail at the lobby bar. Enjoy a starter at the Orchid
Terrace and then have your main course at La Gritta Restaurant, finishing the
evening with a dessert at Henry J. Bean’s Restaurant. Every evening 449 baht++
per person. For reservation please contact guest relations at 038 428 161.
Throughout September the Benihana (Japanese-American
Steakhouse) has their juggling chefs providing world renowned beef from
Japan, Australia and Argentina, cooked and served to your liking with garlic
butter sauce, teriyaki sauce, red wine sauce or peppercorn sesame sauce. For
further information call the Pattaya Marriott Resort & Spa Tel. 038 412
120.
The Rice Mill (Chinese restaurant, 2nd floor of the
Royal Garden Plaza) offers a dim sum buffet lunch Friday to Sunday, 12 noon to
3 p.m. 249++ baht per person. For further information call the Pattaya
Marriott Resort & Spa Tel. 038 412 120.
Education
Indian By Nature is proud to
present sitar and tabla lessons at the 2nd floor Durbar Lounge. Lessons
to be conducted by Maestros Imran Khan and Ayub Khan, musicians from the Royal
Courts of Umaid Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur. For more information please contact Av
Khanijou @ 01 8629452, Rajni Khanijou 09 205 3020, Daryll Gonzalvez on 07 147
3417 or Indian By Nature 038 36 4656. Live sitar and tabla performances
every evening. Lunch performance by prior request.
Entertainment
Pattaya’s latest English style pub is now open on
Soi Yodsak (6). When you walk through the doors of The Lord Nelson, you are in
fact taking a step back in time. The decor is all things nautical from brass
lamps and fittings to pictures of Nelson and his ship H.M.S. Victory. The bar
is serving all your favourite drinks at sensible prices along with soup and
bar snacks. Upstairs the nautical theme continues in the rooms but with nice
comfortable beds rather than hammocks! All rooms have air-con and fan, cable
TV, DVD, fridge and are provided with free tea and coffee. So me old
shipmates, sail on down Soi 6, pop in and ask for Bosuns Mate Ray and have a
drink, a game of pool or darts or just a yarn at the bar.
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 marked on
the card) and don’t miss the in house band Re-bounce. Always a fun
night out at the Moon River Pub, Thai Garden Resort, North Pattaya Road.
Been in the Queen Victoria Inn (Soi Yodsak 6)
lately? It’s had a full facelift and although they’ve lost the pool table,
they now have a new lounge area where you can relax with a cold beer or enjoy
one of the many bar meals. On Saturday’s, as Tiger beer is now one of the
sponsors of the Premier League, they’ve decided to sponsor Tiger! Get your
Tiger beer served by one of the Tiger girls at only 45 baht per bottle during
the matches. Sunday of course still sees the best value carvery in town, with
home made soup, prawn cocktail, roast rib of beef, roast turkey, ham and pork,
all the bit’s and pieces and sweet all for only 290 baht. All that
along with great rooms from only 550 baht per night makes it the place to eat,
drink and sleep! Just In! Strongbow Draught Cider - The UK’s No. 1 draught
cider now being sold in Pattaya’s No1 U.K. pub, only 190 baht per pint.
Events
Mermaids Dive Center is
sponsoring a reef clean up on the September 18th as part of the
International program. The event is designed to promote a clean up of trash
and debris from the beaches and coral reefs around the globe. Mermaid’s
supports promoting eco-friendly diving, and all of us in the community benefit
from these activities, helping to keep our beaches and waters clean of trash.
In addition to helping maintain a clean environment for the animal kingdom
that lives here in the Gulf of Thailand. For further information contact
Mermaids Dive Center Tel: 038 232 219, email: mermaids @loxinfo.co.th or visit
the website: www.mermaiddive.com
The Charity Club of Pattaya and the Queen Victoria
Inn are holding a Hawaiian Night on Tuesday September 21 from 7
p.m. in the Queen Victoria Inn (Soi 6). Tickets are 300 baht (from the bar)
and include buffet, live music and a donation to charity. All proceeds from
the night will go to the Pattaya Deaf School who will provide a display of
Hawaiian dancing Thai style! And the Wat Pong School, Huay Yai Mook. So, with
Guinness giving out prizes for best Hawaiian shirt and biggest belly in a
grass skirt, it’s sure to be a great night.
Health and
Fitness
Healthy September! at Pattaya Marriott Fitness Club.
Start the month with “Yoga Flow” an energetic, moderately active class
combining yoga asanas linked together with breathing techniques in a series of
flowing sequences for both strength and flexibility. Come & experience the
Yoga flow every weekend at the Pattaya Marriott Fitness Club (Sat. 4-5 p.m.
& Sunday 10-11a.m.). For further information call the Pattaya Marriott
Resort & Spa Tel. 038 412 120.
Promotions
Door 2 Door have really gone
overboard this month with a special triple promotion. Not only can you receive
10% off from the Globetrotter Restaurant, 1/54-55, Beach Road, Central Pattaya,
if you order over 500 baht you receive a free can of coke, and you can also
stimulate your taste buds by receiving 2 samosas free with all food orders
over 1,000 baht from The Raj Indian Restaurant, 3rd Road. Cash in on this
special triple promotion, simply call 038 720 222 and one of their friendly
drivers will deliver a free menu to you. Or visit them on
www.door2doorpattaya.com
Siam Bayshore Resort: Plan to refresh your body and
soul with a special 2 nights’ package that will guarantee to recharge your
batteries. The package includes 2 nights deluxe accommodation, buffet
breakfast, and BBQ dinner. You’ll probably tingle just to read this:
US$150++ (single), US$175++ (double) plus lots of pampering. Until December
24, 2004. For more information, please visit the website www.siamhotels.com or
call the hotel for reservations.
Bangkok and
beyond
AustCham Thailand invites you to
watch the Australian Rules Football (AFL) Grand Final, one of
Australia’s largest annual sporting events at the Royal Orchid Sheraton,
Saturday, September 25. Tickets are 2,000 baht for adults and 650 baht for
children and include breakfast, lunch, beer and wine from 8.30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This is celebrated in grand style beginning with breakfast, followed by a
traditional Australian lunch of meat pies and sauce, hot dogs and chips, and
including free flow wine, beer and soft drinks throughout the day. The big
game is to be shown on six 20 square-metre screens positioned around the
function room, so there is no way you can miss any of the action. For more
details and to book this event, call (0) 2210-0216-8 or fax (0) 2675 6696.
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