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World of fusion at Raffles
If you want to get a taste of new world fission cuisine - a blend of eastern and western flavours- then a visit to the Raffle's Restaurant is in order.
Housed in a colonial old house, surrounded by a spacious garden, Rafffle's Restaurant has been in business for the last two years much to the delight of many a food lover.

In addition to the Restaurant, Raffle's catering has been in operation since 1999 and has been going from strength to strength catering to the upper echelons of the food market. Raffle's catering can today boast of been caterers to some of the top embassies in Colombo. It is also into industrial catering providing breakfast and lunch to 3,000 clients per day of some of the lading companies in the country, the Restaurant's Manager Tony Bohoran said.
This is done in the form of on site catering where the Raffle's staffers make the dishes there it self.

If you visit the Restaurant, you can enjoy from a verity of dishes as its menu consists more than 60 items inclusive of desserts which included variety of imported and local meats as well as seafood and vegetarian dishes.

Some of the dishes you can savour are baked crab, home smoked seer with garden greens, spicy crab croquette with ginger sauce and roasted duck with ham salad. There is also an array of soups such as chilled mangaspacho, tom yam, curried lentil coup with bacon and tomato and cream of wild mushroom soup.

For vegetarians there is Greek style moussaka vegetaria, vegetable Kiev with garden greens, Moghalai vegetable biriyanui, Fettuccine Primavera to name some of the items on offer.

Te main sea food dishes include tempered prawns with spring onion, sautéed tiger prawns, Grilled Fillet of seer dish with Cajun spices and Lobster Americaine.

For those of you to want to enjoy a drink, there is a selection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, fresh fruits, cocktails, mock tails and wines from even different countries.

The Restaurant also offers facilities for private functions and you can be sure of a hassle free party at raffles. The Restaurant also has a daily lunch buffet which is a blend of eastern and western food.

Raffles has indeed grown in leaps and bounds since 1999 when it started out with two persons. Today it has over 140 employees and is a limited liability company with employees enjoying all benefits as EPF and ETF coverage. Raffle's Restaurant is situated at No.35, Bagatalle Road, Colombo -03. - Chandani

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