COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS

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Community Happenings is an opportunity for all clubs, businesses, hotels, restaurants and entertainment outlets to inform the Pattaya Mail’s readers what new “happenings” are coming up. Send us your happening by email to: [email protected] or by fax 038 427 596.

Dining

The Amari Orchid Resort will celebrate Swiss National Day in the surroundings of their beautiful gardens on August 1.  Enjoy raclette, roesti, mistkrazerli, emmentaler lammvoresen and other delicacies from new executive chef, Flemming Schulthess from Switzerland at only 550 baht ++.  Swiss wines and schnapps will also be available.  For reservations or additional information, contact: [email protected] or phone 038 428 165.

Mango mania has hit Amor 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 at tel. 038 710 680.  Amor is between Soi Pattayaland 2 and 3.

Couscous Festival at the Art Café!  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 typical couscous dishes - merguez, lamb, and chicken andharissa.  The Art Café 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 Café, open daily from11 a.m. till late.  Reservations are appreciated.  Phone: 038 367 652, fax 038 367 653,email: [email protected] or visit www.artcafe-thailand.com

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 Cafe 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.  Cafe 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.  Cafe 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.

 Events

 The El Coyote Yacht Club and Mariner’s Rest Serviced Apartments are celebrating their Official Grand Opening this weekend with a huge function in Jomtien at the Yacht Club. If you present the flyer in this week’s Pattaya Mail at the door you’ll go into the draw for lucky door prizes and much more. The live band Twin Sounds will be playing all night long in the spectacular garden courtyard and those for a penchant for some top quality imported tequilas and imported spirits are in for a pleasant surprise.

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-Café, 216/51-52, Moo 10, 20260 Pattaya.  Call or fax: 038 720 300, 01 687 2410 or email: [email protected]

 Entertainment

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

Spicy Girls, Pattayaland Soi 1 is holding a birthday party for regular customer Texas Nick on Monday, July 28. Cold beer, food & spit on a pig. Friends & customers welcome, balloon chasers will be shot. Fun starts 7 p.m.

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.

Shenanigans Pattaya has live music with Pop’s Band every Wednesday night.  Rock on in and listen to great R & B, Rock ‘n’ Roll and all time favorites.  Shenanigans Pattaya, Pattaya Second Road (in front of the Marriott Resort & Spa.) Open daily from 8.30 a.m. till late.

 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: [email protected]

 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 are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday - Friday 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.

 Shopping

 The Candle Shop, previously located on the corner of Second & South Pattaya Road, has now moved to the first floor of the Royal Garden Plaza, and has a new name: 'Candle Art'.  There are now hundreds of designs of beautiful candles to choose from - check it out!