The Art Café Pattaya in Soi 16 off Pattaya Naklua Road offers a wide range of Mediterranean cuisine in an impressive colonial style house, surrounded by a huge garden. Experience dedicated hospitality in the ambience of the good old days. In addition to the culinary relish the gallery as well as a very different house band both are points of attraction. Music plays every evening except on Mondays. Art Café is open daily from 11 a.m. till late. Reservations are appreciated. Tel. 038 367 652, email: [email protected]

The Kiwi Pub & Restaurant is alive and well in Bang Chang! A great Kiwi & Thai menu available along with a large range of cold beers & hot spirits. A pig on a spit or catering for larger groups available, a great spot for Pattaya golfers who frequent the Bang Chang area. The Kiwi Pub & Restaurant can be found in the center of Bang Chang behind the big Suzuki shop on Sukhumvit Rd. For bookings and details phone Lee on 01 457 1347 or Pete on 01 862 9832.

The Raj, Pattaya’s newest Indian restaurant has membership cards available to all their diners at no cost. Just bring your name card. This entitles you to a 20% discount on all food and drinks. On top of that, a special drawing is held every week for one bottle of wine with your meal.

Cafe New Orleans, one of Pattaya’s best known and most successful restaurants is offering a super treat for the early bird. Yes, they call it an Early Bird Special at Café New Orleans when they offer a 25% price cut on soup, appetizer, salad and ribs from Monday to Friday, 5.30 p.m. until 7.30 p.m., which includes the best BBQ ribs in the kingdom. Café New Orleans continues its weekend All You Can Eat BBQ Festival from noon until 4 p.m. - soup, pasta, jambalaya, garlic bread with Cajun whipped butter for starters and of course the all you can eat BBQ baby back ribs, BBQ chicken and BBQ fish. The restaurant is conveniently located in the heart of Pattayaland Soi 2, South Pattaya between the Royal Garden Plaza and Walking Street. Café New Orleans also delivers - everything and anything that your heart desires is just a phone call away. For delivery please dial 038 710 805 or 038 710 806. You can also call Michael at 038 710 619 for more information.

Every Friday from now on Shenanigans Pattaya will be having a “Pig & Clucking Carvery & Buffet” from 5.30 p.m. to 11 p.m. This will include home made soup of the day, roast chicken, boned stuffed & rolled chicken, roast loin of pork with crackling and apple sauce, ham hocks, roast leg of stuffed pork, a selection of vegetables and potatoes, with a choice of ice cream to follow. All for B. 195 as much as u can eat. Shenanigans Irish Pub, Pattaya Second Road, in front of the Marriott Resort & Spa.

As well as all the other outstanding features in the Queen Victoria Inn (Soi Yodsak 6) such as outstanding value rooms, great food, excellent drinks, big screen and free email, the Queen Vic can now offer customers a nice can of cold Blackthorn Cider along with perhaps a packet of Walkers crisps or a trip to the many local and distant tourist attractions in their new executive mini-bus. Really a great place to meet, eat, drink and stay. Call 038 425 418.

Visit the Old Speckled Hen, Jomtien Beach Road, Soi 9. A tasteful mix of English and Thai, this is a relaxing lounge style bar you can bring your wife or girlfriend to. Harleys, Hammers and Hash House Harriers especially welcome! Open from 10.30 a.m. till late - an extensive wet bar, great music, friendly staff, rock bottom prices and the most delicious high-calorie bar grub around. Burgers dripping with melted butter, BLT sandwiches with fried onions ‘n mushrooms and a full English breakfast where your eggs are actually served on top of buttered toast, with the best baked beans in town! Featuring “Somtam Sunday Specials”, ladies, bring the old man in for a drink and you get to eat as much of your favourite hot stuff as you like, free of charge!

For those who like tableside flambé, Hans and his team at the Paradise Restaurant offer several sensational flambé dishes throughout July. Including pork fillet with apples and prunes, flamed with Calvados, the drunken chicken seasoned with Mexican spices and flamed with tequila, lamb fillet with macadamia nuts and a mango salsa flamed with bourbon, or pepper steak Remy Martin. Bring your loved one or that someone special to the Paradise Restaurant and enjoy a delicious flambé dinner. Bon appetite. For those who like something different, the Paradise restaurant is Pattaya’s first and only casual dining restaurant specializing in exotic food. A dining experience you wont regret and forget. Don’t miss it. Open daily from 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. located opposite the Marriott Resort, 215/62-63 on 2nd Road, tel./fax: 038 723 177.

The German-Thai Chamber of Commerce will be hosting another Eastern Seaboard Stammtisch on Friday July 11 from 6 p.m. at the Moon River Pub, Thai Garden Resort. All are welcome to this event! You don’t have to be a member of the Chamber, nor even German to join. Fax your attendance confirmation with name and numbers to the German-Thai Chamber of Commerce on to 02 670 0607.

Pattaya Sports Club will be holding their Annual Summer Party for members and guests on July 12 at the Town Inn Town Hotel. Doors will open promptly at 7 p.m., no early birds. Tickets are required and will be available at the PSC office. Members tickets are free, one guest per member 600 baht. Issue and sale of tickets will stop at 420. As in the past besides a lovely international buffet there will be lots of beer and a variety of spirits, the ever-popular lottery to include that yellow stuff which excites all the ladies (gold) and other sundries.

The next Pattaya Gay Festival Charity Dinner will be held at the Amor Restaurant Pattayaland Soi 3 on Sunday 20th July. The proceeds from the grand lucky draw together with 300 baht from each 950 baht dinner ticket will go towards helping the work of Dr Phillipe at HEARTT 2000 in providing the necessary life-saving drugs for those unable to afford them in the HIV/AIDS related health program. Bookings and tickets are available at Amor Restaurant and the Ambience Hotel, Soi Pattayaland 3, phone 038 710 680.

Shenanigans Pattaya will host a DVD Festival on Sunday July 13. There will be a performance of Great British comedy, including shows from Fawlty Towers, Morecombe and Wise, Only Fools and Horses, Norman Wisdom, Black Adder, The Good Life, Dad’s Army, Red Dwarf, and Absolutely Fabulous. Starting at noon and carrying on (no pun intended) until midnight. Shenanigans Irish Pub, Pattaya Second Road, in front of the Marriott Resort & Spa.

Ritchie Newton the famous Elvis tribute artist is back in his Elvis Pub after a 2 month holiday. Pattaya’s only Thai Elvis, “Elvis Palad” rocks the crowd. All shows start at 9.30 p.m. The Elvis Pub is on Second Road opposite Big C.

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