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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