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Dining

Mango mania has hit Amore Restaurant. With the mango season in full swing Richard and his team have created some very special dishes to tempt your taste buds. Sample some West Indies chicken breasts with rum, fresh mango, banana, raisins and cashew nut in light curry sauce. Be sure to book your table on phone 038 710 680, Soi Pattayaland 2.

Couscous Festival at the Art Caf้! Couscous, the traditional culinary relish from North African countries such as Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria will be available until Monday July 28 in many different flavors. Guest Chef Jean will introduce some of his very own favorite Couscous dishes that are typical with merguez, lamb, and Chicken Andharissa. The Art Caf้ Pattaya in Soi 16 off Pattaya Naklua Road offers a wide range of Mediterranean cuisine in an impressive colonial style house. Experience dedicated hospitality in the ambience of the good old days, only at the Art Caf้, open daily from11 a.m. till late. Reservations are appreciated. Phone: 038 367 652 fax 0 3836 7653,email: [email protected] www.artcafe-thailand.com

El Coyote has pre-launch specials where everyone gets to sample some of the best Mexican food in town at excellent pricing. On weekends El Coyote is open from Midday till late, and Friday night is the “Manager Mingle” where those who want a stylish place to talk business after dark. Give them a call on 038 303 644 or Clarisse directly on 01 864 2328.

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 Caf้ 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. Caf้ 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. Caf้ 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 flamb้, Hans and his team at the Paradise Restaurant offer several sensational flamb้ 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 flamb้ 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.

Events

The second Pattaya Charity Boxing Dinner evening will be held on Saturday July 26 to raise money for the Camillian Center for HIV/Aids patients in Rayong. There will be 5 fights (3 Muay Thai and 2 English style fights, plus show, demonstration and entertainment). The event will take place in the Regent Marina Hotel, Beach Road (Soi 0). For sponsorship or reservations or for further details contact Patrick’s Belgian Restaurant-Caf้, 216/51-52, Moo 10, 20260 Pattaya. Call or fax: 038 720 300, 01 687 2410 or email: [email protected]

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.

Entertainment

Moon River Pub still has their Beer Promotion going on. Every guest gets a beer card for each liter of beer they buy. After consuming 9 liters of beer you will get one liter free of charge. The card is valid for 3 months. This promotion is only valid for draft beer and not for bottles (every liter of beer that has been ordered will be marked on the card). The Moon River Pub, Thai Garden Resort North Pattaya Road.

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.

Health and Beauty

Visit the Devarana Spa during July and experience a variety of body scrubs at special prices. Choose from a salt body scrub to remineralise and smooth your skin, Thai herbal body polish to improve the circulation and smooth away dry roughened skin, rice body polish which is suitable for even the most sensitive, or to activate cell renewal with ‘marine body scrub’. For reservations and enquiries, call Devarana Spa, Heaven for Spa Lovers at Dusit Resort Pattaya at 038 371 044, email: pattaya@ devarana.com

Packages

Art Classes at the Art Café! Kittikoon Sirichantr, a young artist who graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Chiang Mai, offers art classes for children during the school holidays. Techniques include pencil, water paint, pastel scratching and more. The hours are10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday - Friday starting on Monday July 14, and include all working materials as well as lunch. Spoken language is English. For registration or further information, tel. 038 367 652 or email: [email protected]

Learn from the Masters! Royal Cliff School of Thai Culinary Arts at the award-winning Royal Cliff Beach Resort offers exclusive Thai cooking classes conducted by master chefs. Only 990 baht net per person per 2-hour class inclusive of welcome drink, set lunch, gift basket of special herbs and spices, chef’s hat and apron. Participants will be presented with certificate upon completion. Contact 038 250 421 ext. 2037 or 2037 for reservations.

Royal Garden Plaza Weekend Special, from now until July 31st, receive 10%-15% discounts on food and beverages when dining at any participating restaurant located in the shopping plaza. This special discount can be enjoyed every Monday through Friday (except public holidays) from noon till 5 p.m. For more information on this promotion, please contact the Royal Garden Plaza at 038 710 294.