Announcements

The Charity Club of Pattaya’s clothing appeal continues: In preparation of the cold weather hitting the north of Thailand, the Charity Club of Pattaya is collecting clothing, shoes and blankets for the people and children of Esarn. Please make sure your donation is bagged and clean. You can leave your donation at The Queen Victoria Inn, Soi 6 or you can contact Malcolm on 089 744 1040 or Christina on 089 545 4185. If you would like to be kept informed about our forthcoming Gala Dinner or any other club events please leave your contact details in the bag or contact us via email charityclubofpattaya @yahoo.com

Clubs & Associations

The next meeting of Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC) will be on Sunday, October 28th. The Club meets every Sunday morning at Henry J. Bean’s Restaurant on the north end of Beach Road in the grounds of the Amari Orchid Resort. The program starts as usual at 10:30 a.m. with a buffet breakfast available from 9:30 to 11 a.m. This week, the PCEC welcomes Helmut Buchberger of ABE Accounting & Law who will talk about living in nearby countries such as Cambodia and Laos and will cover topics such as visa requirements, general costs, safety, and status of their laws. This will be followed by the ever lively Open Forum and update on happenings in and around Pattaya. A full report appears each week in Pattaya Mail. For more information about the Sunday meeting and the numerous other weekday activities of the PCEC, see the Club’s website at www.pattayacityexpatsclub.com and learn more about the many and varied activities to which everyone is welcome.

Rotary Club of Jomtien-Pattaya welcomes you to their Wednesday meetings in the Rotary Room Royal Cliff Grand Hotel: Time 18.30 for 19.00. Contact Lloyd Jones (membership) 0878043943.

For the past 28 years the Samaritans of Thailand have been providing confidential crisis intervention services over the telephone. The English-speaking unit, Samaritans English Help Line operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to provide support to the expatriate community. English-speaking staff, trained in crisis intervention will provide active, non-judgmental and empathetic listening services on the phone. All calls will be handled on an anonymous basis and are free of charge. Please call (02) 713-6791 (24hrs a day, 7 days a week).

The Royal British Legion, Chonburi Thailand Branch is now up and running at Tropical Bert’s. You do not have to have served in H.M. armed services to join as long as you support the principles of the Legion you are more than welcome. All members receive a 15% discount every day at the bar and we have a get together every Sunday lunch (free food). Future trips are Burma, Remembrance Day at the British Embassy and perhaps a day on the ranges. Contact Bert 089 8072335 or call in to Tropical Bert’s 2nd Road Opp Bangkok Bank.

Rotary Club Pattaya Marina meets every Friday at 7pm at the Balcony Restaurant (Pattaya North Rd). For further information call President Nicolas Demet on 081 983 4082.

Chess Club players meet every day at "Margarita Madness" by Soi 10, Jomtien Beach Road, directly across from the Sea Breeze Hotel. Everyone welcome. Call 087 008 9951 for details.

The Dutch Expat Club meets the last Thursday of every month at Chateau Dale on Thappraya Road at 6pm. For full details please check out the website at www.nederland severeni gingpattaya.org or email albertmartin26@yahoo .com. New members are always welcome.

Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in Pattaya: The Pattaya Group meets Monday & Thursday at noon; Monday, Tuesday & Friday at 5pm and Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday & Sunday at 7:30pm at the Satree Pattana Center, Soi Skaw Beach (2nd Rd): Contact Jim on 087 927 0437. The Good Morning Pattaya Group meets every morning 9am at the Highlander Guest House, Soi Skaw Beach: Contact Mike 081 741 3166. The Jomtien Group meets everyday at noon at Jomtien Long Stay Hotel: Contact: Jerry 086 141 7748.

Dining

The Sheraton Pattaya Resort invites you to a Special Sake Dinner at Mez restaurant on Saturday, October 27, from 7pm - 9:30pm. Executive Chef Matthew Woolford will continue to tempt diners with "Taste The Future of Asia Today" at the resort’s fine dining Mez restaurant. Discover and experience the future of Asian dining, within the "Signature Restaurant" of the resort. Cuisine in Mez is more of journey rather than a meal period. The cuisine can be explained as taking traditional Asian techniques and combining them superior global produce with a contemporary style of presentation. Mez is a choice for someone wanting a "Modern Asian Cuisine." For more information or reservations, please call 038 259 8888 or e-mail to sheraton .pattaya@ sheraton.com. This is a unique event and space is limited!

Fine dining at the Dusit Resort, Pattaya: Enjoy Phuket lobster and prawn gourmet season at The Peak Chinese Restaurant. Winner in ‘The 15th International Chefs Gathering’ at the International Food and Hospitality Show (IFHS 2007), The Peak Chinese Restaurant’s Chef Chi Tak Lai, shows his winning style in his sublime Phuket lobster and prawn specialities as sautéed Phuket lobster with XO sauce and noodle. The Peak is open every day for a la carte dining, 11:30 am – 2:30 pm for lunch and 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm for dinner. For reservations, please call 0 3842 5611-7 ext. 2276. Enjoy Perfect Pasta at The Bay Il Ristorante Italiano: Fresh off the IFHS 2007 win, The Bay’s Italian chef highlights some of the best-loved pasta creations in October. Order a la carte delectable pasta dishes as rigatoni with sea scallops and broccoli pesto. The Bay is open every day, 11:00 am – 2:30 pm & 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm. For reservations, please call 0 3842 5611-7 ext. 2270. The newly renovated Dusit Gourmet recently opened after a multi-million baht facelift. Double the size of the old bakeshop, Dusit Gourmet now offers a plethora of finest bakery items to complement a wide selection of gourmet teas and premium coffee. Looking out the hotel’s Atrium, this welcoming pastry corner offers freshly baked breads, cakes, pastries, cookies, and sandwiches. Guests can take them away or sit comfortably at the main lobby while enjoying your favourite drink and pastry. Dusit Gourmet is located at Dusit Resort, Pattaya’s main lobby. Open every day from 7:00 a.m. to 10 p.m. For more information, please call 0 3842 5611-7 ext. 2497.

Indian By Nature is bringing you another exclusive Diwali Dining Experience on Friday November 2; a delicious seven-course sit down extravaganza. Relax over an innovative welcome drink, the Bad Badshah and choose from a main course of spice crusted parrot fish with tomato and lemon sauce, chicken kashmiri or paneer shashlik. Indulge Maharaja style: price: 990+ per person. Bookings will be divided into two sessions: 6pm to 9pm and 9pm until midnight. Reservations are highly recommended and can be made at 038 36 46 56 (after 4.30) or 081 862 9452 or 089 205 3020 or 081 588 4453.

New and only at Moon River Pub! The After Work Club, Sunday through Thursday, 7 pm to midnight, offers guests a Western or Thai evening menu. Groups of 30 people may choose from the European and Thai all you can eat buffet (booking 1 day in advance). The all you can drink (wine, beer, juice, soft drinks, whiskey, tequila, etc.) counts for both offers. Price per person: 1,000 baht each. The Moon River Pub is located in front of the Thai Garden Resort, North Pattaya Road.

Amor Restaurant, serving fine food in Pattaya for over 13 years, offers a Daily Special set menu throughout the week. The specials are a follows: Mondays, American meatloaf; Tuesdays, baked ham; Wednesdays, roast fillet of beef; Thursdays, roast chicken; Fridays, country beef stew; Saturdays, roast leg of lamb; Sundays, roast loin of pork. These specials are offered as either a three-course set menu or a two course set menu, for those with a smaller appetite. Amor also offers an extensive a-la-carte menu with over 200 Western and Thai dishes as well as a large selection of great home made desserts. For the health conscious Amor has many low cholesterol dishes, sugar free gelato ice cream and a home made sugar free fruit pie. They also have brown rice and whole-wheat pasta available! Visit www.amorrestaurant.com, tel. 038-710-680 (Open 5pm to midnight).

October Mushroom Madness at Mantra: They’re wild and untamable - get wild mushroom fever this October at Mantra! Titillate your taste buds with the luscious flavours of this versatile ingredient. In a variety of shapes, textures, colours and flavours; you’ll be wild about the marvellous mushroom madness happening in super chef Supachai’s kitchen! For more information on Mantra Restaurant & Bar please contact +66 (0) 3842 9591 or email [email protected] and visit www. mantra-pattaya.com

Come enjoy Casa Pascal Restaurant’s gourmet set menu: Entrees: Salad of rock lobster and baby clams with white asparagus and French beans, dill flavored, chilled cucumber soup with walnuts, poached oysters in crab roe enhanced Champagne cream sauce, pink guava sherbet in Champagne; Main course: roasted prawns with garlic- and Ceylon tea oil or flamed beef filet mignon on mushroom cream sauce and buttered noodles; Dessert: flamed banana and mascarpone ice cream toped with almond sauce or assorted cheese plate. Food only 1,450 baht net, menu with unlimited beverages 2,900 baht net. For reservation (038) 723 660, fax (038) 723 659, e-mail: info@ restaurant-pattya.com or for more information: www.restaurant-pattaya. com. Open Daily 11:00 ~23:00 / Sunday Brunch Buffet: Every Sunday 10:00~ 15:00.

Shenanigans Irish Pub is now open at its new location on the first floor of the new, upscale ‘The Avenue’ shopping mall, Pattaya 2nd Road, Opp. Soi Post Office. For details of all upcoming events and dining choices check the Web site at www. shenanigans-pattaya.com or email: [email protected]

Jameson’s Irish Pub’s Wednesday three-course ‘Quick Service’ special for 185 baht continues: Home made soup, mixed salad, or mussels ‘vinai’ (cooked in their shells with butter, garlic & herbs). Steak and mushroom pie (cooked in a beer sauce) with crisp french-fries followed by dessert - a choice of two items, depending upon the chef’s mood! This new three-course Wednesday special is served from 12 Noon till 11pm. Other daily specials include on Monday: fillet steak special 185 baht; Tuesday: pork Vienne served with chips, vegetables, lemon slice, & gravy; Thursday: beef rolls, beef stew stuffed with carrot, pickle, celery, & bacon served with mashed potato & gravy sauce; Friday is fish and chips 185 baht. All the specials are served with starter & dessert. Start from 12 noon until 11 p.m. As always Jameson’s serves its all day and night carvery at the weekends, as much as you can eat for 350 baht. Saturday 5 pm – 11 pm and Sunday 1 pm – 11 pm. Cider on draft is back as well as bottled Newcastle Brown Ale. Jameson’s Irish Pub, 80/164 Soi Sukrudee (Soi AR), Pattaya, Tel. 038-361-873-4, email [email protected]

Poseidon Restaurant in Jomtien Complex is holding a BBQ Party on Friday & Saturday, October 26 & 27 from 6pm onward. The cost is only 700 baht for as much you can eat (food only): beef tenderloins, pork ribs, chicken drum sticks, chicken wings, prawns, squid, fish, sausages and nice vegetables to grill like sweet corn, potatoes, egg plants, zucchini etc, big selection of salad bar and much more: House-made Sangria (1 liter pitcher / 500 baht). Come with comfortable dress. Call 038-303-300 now for your reservation before it’s too late.

Enjoy "The Chocolate Room" at the Pattaya Marriott Resort & Spa. Beni’s Brunch on Sundays is proud to introduce the Brunch Chocolate Room as part of the long and lazy Sunday Brunch at Benihana. Beni’s brunch on Sundays features simply the best of show cooking, abundant cuisine, selections that capture simplicity, purity and freshness of regional foods, plus smooth live jazz from our resident band. Selected beverages plus half a bottle of wine per person are included in the brunch package. Price: 1,100++ baht includes selected beverages. Every Sunday from 11.00 - 14.00 hrs. Location: Royal Garden Plaza, 2nd Floor. For more information and reservations, call 038 412 120 ext. 1395.

Café New Orleans, a culinary landmark for over 9 years on eclectic Pattayaland Soi 2, has expanded its Fiesta Filipina menu and added an Additional Special Menu including imported black Angus tenderloin steak, succulent lamb tenderloin, scallops, assorted dinner crepes and chocolate soufflé for dessert. You can order anything from the famous rack of baby back ribs and imported steaks to special gourmet entrées, side dishes and deserts. Chefs coming from some of the top restaurants in Manila prepare delicious Filipino dishes to suit all tastes. For more information or to make a reservation call 038 710 805, fax 038 710 784.

The Queen Victoria Inn’s Sundays just get better and better! Not only can you tuck into the Sunday Carvery, 3 courses for 320 baht, but you can also be entertained by The Copy Cats band live from 1 p.m. - 6 p.m. Come and have a great Sunday at the Queen Victoria Inn Soi 6, tel. 038 425 418.

For great tasting Thai food pop along to the Salt and Pepper Restaurant next door to the Flamingo Hotel behind Tuk-Com City on South Pattaya Road (opens Mondays to Saturday from 9 a.m. till 10 p.m.). You will see a new exhibition by Pattaya Mail’s cartoonist M.J.B. which you can buy (every baht goes to the Pattaya Orphanage), plus each person who eats a meal and tells the management they have read about this restaurant in the Pattaya Mail can pick up one cheeky cartoon postcard FREE of charge.

Theme Buffet Evenings at the Montien Hotel, Pattaya: Wednesdays - La Mer Restaurant, Mediterranean buffet dinner 6.30 p.m. - 10 p.m., adults 595++ baht / children 325++ baht. Friday - Verandah Coffee Shop, BBQ & seafood buffet dinner 6 p.m. - 10 p.m., adults 695++ baht / children 375++ baht. Saturday - Verandah Coffee Shop, international buffet dinner 6 p.m. - 10 p.m., adults 595++ baht / children 325++ baht. Bring your family and friends. Sit back, relax and enjoy. For reservations please call 038-428155 ext 1620, 1621, e-mail [email protected]

The Kilkenny Irish Pub and Restaurant is situated in the heart of Pattaya’s vibrant nightlife on Walking Street. Open daily from 10am, pub breakfast is only 99 baht before 2pm and the menu offers large portions of all your pub favourites at very reasonable prices. Pattaya’s longest happy hours offer great deals on draught and bottled beers and house spirits and Kilkenny is home to the 99 baht pint. The ocean view Beer Garden is great for a peaceful drink or can be booked for private functions where a BBQ or other catering options are available. Drop into Kilkenny’s, just 200m along Walking St or look at www.kilkenny pubpattaya.com

Entertainment

The Green Bottle Pub on Pattaya 2nd Road, next to Diana Inn is holding a special Halloween Party on October 31. There will be 2 live bands plus a bartender show, Halloween dancing, best costume competition and games and a prize draw. For details call 038 429 675.

For the cheapest draught beer in the most beautiful surroundings, you need look no further than the luxurious Jameson’s Pub where from 4.30 p.m. until 7 p.m. you can relax in leather bound sofas and chairs, with Tiger and Heineken draught beers at an incredible 45 baht for a half pint, and just 80 baht a full pint. Jameson’s Irish Pub, 80/164 Soi Sukrudee (Soi AR), Pattaya, Tel. 038-361-873-4, email [email protected]

Salsa Amante Dance Studio holds a dance workshop from 8 till 9 pm every Friday followed by free dancing in the studio from 9 pm till 1 am. Every Sunday is "salsa Matinee" featuring free dancing to South American music from 4 till 10pm: For information about dance events check www.salsaamante.com or call 038-73 69 82: Salsa Amante Dance Studio, 268/5 Soi Photisarn, Naklua, Pattaya North.

Oliver Twist Ladies Night: Louise (O.T.’s expat manageress) offers the fairer sex a haven from Pattaya’s sports lounges and go-go bars! Every Wednesday is Ladies Night, complete with special cocktail promotions. Meet with friends and colleagues in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere: Oliver Twists Old English Pub, Central Road (opp. Nova Lodge Hotel). For further information please contact Oliver Twist Bar on 038 429 262 or Louise on 086 909 9202.

Events

Amor Restaurant will be holding their annual Pattaya Gay Festival Charity Dinner on Sunday October 28 at 8pm. A full 3-course menu will be on offer at a cost of 1,500 baht net per person and 400 baht of the dinner price and 20% of all drink and wine sales will go to the PGF charities. There will be a grand raffle to raise money for the charities, the first prize is one a week holiday in Phuket, including accommodation at the Absolute Sea Pearl Beach Resort, courtesy Club Absolute, and round trip air Bangkok-Phuket-Bangkok for two, courtesy of Massic Travel. There will also be many more prizes. Tickets are available at Amor Restaurant and at the Ambiance (see Jim). For further details call 038-710-680, email [email protected] or go to the web site www. amorrestaurant.com

Gallery Opium announces the "Sea within Me", an exhibition by Ingrid Van der Heyden on Saturday, November 3 at 6:30pm at Gallery Opium, 315/26, Thepprasit Road, Pattaya. Dress Code is Smart Casual. Please call 038 303 040, 0850 847 947, email: [email protected] for further details.

Liam’s Gallery, Pattaya Art Centre is showing paintings from Thai and international artists. Open House with wine and snacks is every Friday between 6:30-8:00pm: Liam’s Gallery, 352/107 Soi 4, Pratamnak, Pattaya, Tel. 038 251 808.

Promotions

Door 2 Door’s October double promotion from Ahaar Indian Restaurant, Soi Post Office, 2nd Road, receive a free onion bahji with all food orders over 850 baht plus also receive a 10% discount from Delifrance, Royal Garden Plaza. To receive your free Door 2 Door menu (2007 edition) call 038 720 222 and a friendly driver will deliver a free copy to you, or visit www.door2doorpattaya.com

Hard Rock Cafe Pattaya Party Pack - Fab Four! - Choose four dishes from Hard Rock’s six-pack offering. Party pack includes 1 jug of Singha beer and 1 jug of soft drink plus 1 classic Hard Rock Cafe Pattaya tee shirt and a complimentary photo at only THB 1,600 net. For more information & reservations please call 038 426 635.

The Kilkenny privilege card has arrived for the local punter. The cardholder will be entitled to Guinness & Kilkenny pints 165b & local bottled beer 79b all day every day. Sign up by emailing Stewart at Kilkenny’s website www.kilkennypubpattaya.com or drop into Kilkenny’s on Walking St, opposite Soi BJ or check out www.kilkenny pubpattaya.com