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.
Announcements
The Charity Club of Pattaya is building a classroom
to house 40+ Children at the Wat Wang Wa School. The school is situated just
outside Klaeng, South of Rayong. Until the end of November, with the help of
the following establishments, various pub nights will be held with the
proceeds being donated to the Charity Club of Pattaya. Dates and venues
involved in the project are as follows: October 14 at Shenanigans; October 27
at Kilkenny’s; and the finale will be held at the home of the Charity Club
of Pattaya: The Queen Victoria Inn Soi 6 on Sat. November 11. All the Pub
Nights will be holding a charity raffle as well on the night. Watch the local
press for the confirmed dates. Hope to see you all at every venue! Contact
charityclubof [email protected] or Malcolm 09 7441040, or Christina 09
5454185.
Mabuhay Diving Club needs diver-volunteers to do
underwater clean-up of Pattaya Bay every Saturday. All equipment, boat, food,
etc., provided. Please call Steve at 0-4725-3230.
Clubs
The next meeting of Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC)
will be on Sunday, September 10th. The Club meets every Sunday morning at
Henry J. Bean’s Restaurant on the north end of Beach Road in the grounds of
the Amari Orchid Resort. The program starts as usual at 10:30 A.M. with a
buffet breakfast available from 9:30 to 11 A.M. The PCEC extends a warm
welcome to both residents and visitors of all nationalities. This week our
speaker, Dean Barrett will be making a welcome return. Dean is a prolific
writer and author His latest books on Thailand are ‘Murder at the Horny
Toad Bar & Other Outrageous Tales of Thailand’ and ‘The Go Go Dancer
who Stole My Viagra & Other Poetic Tragedies of Thailand’. This will
be followed by the regular Open Forum and update on happenings in and around
Pattaya. For more information about the Sunday meeting and the other weekday
activities of the PCEC, please see the Club’s website at www.
pattayacityexpatsclub.com and learn more about the many and varied activities
on offer.
The next meeting of US Navy League Thailand
will be on Saturday Sept 16 at 4pm. The club meets at Cafe New Orleans at 2pm.
Everyone is warmly welcome. Each meeting a speaker will provide an informal
talk on a wide range of topics relating to Navy League here in Thailand as
well as ships visits and hosting groups. This will be followed by the usual
open forum and update on happenings in and around Pattaya. For more
information about the meeting and the other activities of the Navy League
Thailand see the website at www.navyleaguethailand.org and learn more about
the many ways you can join, sponsor, assist sailors, or even visit a ship that
comes to port when available.
The Charity Club of Pattaya meets most Sundays at
the Queen Victoria Inn Soi 6. Contact Malcolm on 09 7441040 or Christina on
095454185; [email protected]
New to Pattaya at Tropical Bert’s (2nd Rd opp
Bangkok Bank): every Sunday lunchtime, 1 to 5ish, the U.K. Ex Forces
Club meets. It matters not what service you were in, as the idea of the
club is to meet over a few drinks and have a good yarn. Free bar snacks and
discounted drinks will be provided to members. Trips out to local military
displays will also be arranged at cost, such as the River Kwai and Remembrance
days at members’ embassies. The club will also have a charity side that will
help our Thai counterparts and their families who have been killed or injured.
For more details phone Bert on 09 8072335 or call in the bar.
Dining
The Pattaya Marriott Resort & Spa offers
you Pattaya’s only Cooked To Order Buffet: Fresh, hot and beautifully
presented; Main courses cooked to order as part of the nightly BBQ buffet at
the Garden Cafe. Enjoy fresh crisp salads, cold cuts, BBQ Seafood’s and more
while your main course is cooked to order. A dazzling main course selection of
Australian lamb, tender sirloin, Atlantic salmon and other Mediterranean style
dishes ensures we have variety and choice that is sure to satisfy. Price 750
Baht, open 06:00 – 23:00 at the Garden Café. Call 038 412 120 for
details
Theme Buffet Evenings at The Montien
Hotel, Pattaya: Tuesdays - Verandah Coffee Shop, Reef &Beef”
International BBQ Buffet Dinner, 6.00p.m-10.00p.m; Wednesdays - La Mer
Restaurant, Mediterranean Buffet Dinner 6.30p.m.10.00p.m; Friday - Verandah
Coffee Shop, BBQ & Seafood Buffet Dinner 6.00p.m-10.00p.m; Saturday -
Verandah Coffee Shop, International Buffet Dinner 6.00 p.m.- 10.00 p.m. Pamper
yourself with the exceptional variety of all-you-eat favourites, dazzlingly
laid out for an evening of leisurely dining. Bring you family and friends. Sit
back, relax and enjoy. For reservations please call 038-428155 ext 1620, 1621,
E-mail; [email protected]
Café New Orleans, a culinary landmark for over 9
years on eclectic Pattayaland Soi 2 is expanding its Fiesta Filipina menu
and adding an Additional Special Menu including imported black
angus tenderloin steak, succulent lamb tenderloin, scallops, assorted dinner
crepes and chocolate souffl้ for dessert. You can order anything from
its famous rack of baby back ribs and imported steaks to special gourmet entr้es,
side dishes and deserts. Chefs coming from some of the top restaurants in
Manila prepare Filipino dishes such as sinigang, adobo, pancit, crispy
pata, bangus, tinolang manok, bistek, dinuguan, lechon kawali, menudo, lumpia.
Café้ New Orleans means “Fine Food at Affordable Prices” … with
the emphasis on “Affordable”. For more information or to make a
reservation call 038 710 805, fax 038 710 784.
Mantra Restaurant and Bar, Pattaya – now open! Dynamic,
stylish and seriously cool … Mantra Restaurant and Bar is now open on Beach
Road in Pattaya. The restaurant is open from 6 p.m. and the bar; equally as
impressive and provocative, opens from 5 p.m. till 1 a.m. Enjoy a pre-dinner
or post-work drink before settling in to enjoy a fabulous culinary journey
through various mouthwatering Asian and Mediterranean cuisines. For more
information please contact +66 (0) 3842 9591 or email [email protected]
and visit www. mantra-pattaya.com
Amor Restaurant, Pattayaland Soi 3. South Pattaya is
now offering a Traditional English Afternoon Tea from 5 - 7 p.m. daily.
For more information call 038 710680 or visit http://www. amorrestaurant.com
Come enjoy Casa Pascal Restaurant’s gourmet set
menu: Terrine of Chilean Sea bass, baked Tomatoes and Capsicum, Shrimp
Ravioli in Citrus Butter Sauce and for main course Gratinated Alaska
Scallops เ la Proven็ale served on Potato and Onion Tart or Filet
Goulash Stroganoff and truffled Noodles. Pattaya 2nd
Road in front of Ruen Thai Restaurant. For reservation (038) 723 660, fax
(038) 723 659, e-mail: info @restaurant-pattya.com. For more information: www.
restaurant-pattaya.com
Dusit Resort, Pattaya’s The Peak
Chinese Restaurant feed your crab cravings this month with a luscious
assortment of crab dishes prepared a la carte by our talented Chef Chi Tak
Lai. Shell-free and convenient to eat, chunky and succulent crab claws are
prepared Hong Kong style either saut้ed with XO sauce or saut้ed
with black pepper. Either way, you are assured the crab claws lend a luscious
flavor to Chef Chi’s modern Chinese cooking. The Peak is located on the 9th
floor of Dusit Resort, Pattaya with a panoramic view of the bay, and is open
every day, 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. for lunch & 6:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. for
dinner. For reservations, please call 0 3842 5611-7 ext. 2276.
Hard Rock Hotel Pattaya recently
launched ‘Eat to the Beat’, the hotel’s main dining attraction
for dinner at Starz Diner. To mark the launch of the new buffet, Eat to the
Beat will have an introductory price of THB 550++ per person from Sunday
to Friday and THB 700++ per person on Saturdays for a limited period only.
Located on 429 Pattaya Beach Road. For more details call 038 428755.
Jameson’s the Irish Pub has a host of daily
specials including on Mondays fillet steak special, a fillet steak served on a
sizzling metal tray with french-fries and vegetables for baht 165. On Tuesday
it is the turn of the gammon steak with french-fries and veggies at baht 165.
Wednesday it’s deep fried bread-crumbed chicken with french-fries at 165
baht. Thursdays is two kebabs loaded up with beef steak, pork, liver and
bacon, chicken, kidneys, pineapple, green pepper, tomato, onion and mushrooms
served with fried rice on a chopping board for 165 baht. Friday is fish and
chips for baht 165. All the specials are served with a bowl of home made soup
to start with and home made ice cream or fresh fruit as dessert. As always
Jameson’s serves its all day and night carvery at the weekends, as much as
you can eat for 350 baht. Speckled Hen beer on draft is back in stock as well
as bottled Newcastle Brown Ale.
Mercure Hotel Pattaya presents P&P all
you can eat pasta and pizza at the Cappuccino Terrace every Wednesday night.
Soi 15, 2nd Road, South Pattaya.
For more details call 038 425 050.
The Premiership Football Restaurant currently has a
special 99 baht promotion running. Choose from shepherd’s pie, pork chop and
mashed potatoes, large cheeseburger or bangers ‘n’ mash. There are also
200 other items on the main menu including traditional English, European,
Mexican and Thai food. Located at Soi Diana Inn opposite the Sawasdee Hotel.
Tel. 07-802-7088. Open 24hrs.
The Queen Victoria Inn’s Sundays just get better
and better! Not only can you tuck into the Sunday Carvery, 3 courses for 320
baht, but you can also be entertained by The Copy Cats band live from 1 p.m.
– 6 p.m. Come and have a great Sunday at the Queen Victoria Inn Soi 6.
Shenanigans Irish Pub nightly specials: 12 noon –
11 p.m. Monday Spaghetti Night (160 baht); Tuesday Chop Night (150 baht);
Wednesday Steak Night (195 baht); Thursday Curry Night 6 p.m. – 11 p.m. (250
baht); Friday Schnitzel Night (195) 12 noon – 11 p.m.; Saturday Carvery (395
baht) 6 p.m. – 11 p.m.; Sunday Carvery (395 baht) 12 noon – 11 p.m.: The
famous Shenanigans Carvery, a choice of 6 different joints, 9 vegetables &
potatoes, prawn salad & home made soup, as much as you can eat.
Shenanigans the Irish Pub 218/2-4 Moo 10, Royal Garden Resort, Pattaya 2nd
Road. Email: [email protected], Phone: (038) 710 641, www.
shenanigans-pattaya.com
Tropical Bert has English and American breakfasts
all served with thick cut toast and free tea or coffee refills, home made pies
and pasties, a full range of pub grub and daily specials, Sunday lunch of home
made soup, roast beef, pork or lamb with all the trimmings and dessert at only
250 Bt (if you want more just ask!); and they also serve Thai food
and serve it very well indeed. Bert’s cooks are of course Thai and love
nothing more than serving you what they do best and doing it to suit your
pallet, so don’t worry about it being too hot, we have a chili meter! And
parking for 100 cars. Tropical Bert’s: 2nd Road Opp Bangkok Bank, Soi 6
Branch.
Entertainment
Jameson’s Irish Pub now has a new Daily Happy
Hour: Draught Heineken and Tiger Beer for 45 baht a half pint and 80 baht for
a pint from 12 noon till 4 p.m. daily.
Maggie-May’s free football special,
Saturday and Sunday, we have all the football channels, and again this season,
we will pay your check-bin if our selected live game finishes as a
draw, 2-2, final whistle. Start your session at any time, includes all drinks
and our famous super-sized home baked pies! No limits! Soi Chiapoom/X-Zite,
3rd Road. Bring the family!
On Sundays Jameson’s the Irish Pub will be having
magic shows starting at 2 p.m. with the PR Magic Show hosted by Dr Magic and
Son. There will be three half hour shows during the afternoon with the
children having their own room in the bar, their own free children’s buffet
attended by staff to look after them and their own magician who will be doing
tricks all day long. There will also be cartoons on the television. In the
main bar will be Pop’s Pattaya All Stars playing acoustic music in a jam
session which welcomes all musicians.
A La Turca Restaurant has recently opened their
second branch opposite 7-11 on Walking Street. Buy 1 beer and get 1 free
during Happy Hour from 5 - 7 p.m. and try some of their delicious cocktails,
buy 2 get 1 free, made by Alfie, their professional bartender, trained in
London.
Enjoy live music and entertainment at Ray’s Place
jazz bar at the Mercure Hotel Pattaya. Happy Hour every day from 6 p.m.
to 8 p.m. Pattaya Second Road Soi 15, email hotel @mercurepattaya.com
The new taste of entertainment at the Tide Resort
begins with the ‘Club Sea’, their recently opened lobby bar. A
perfect hangout with food, drinks, live jazz, and easy listening music open
from 7 p.m. - midnight. For more information please call 038 399200.
Events
Niddy’s Nook is proud to present a Birthday
Bash for the legendary man behind the fastest growing bar/cafe in Pattaya.
On Wednesday, September 13th, Niddy will be celebrating his day of birth, and
wants to share the party with all of Pattaya. He will be arranging a delicious
free buffet of all your Nookie favorites to thank you for your wonderful
patronage over the past 10 months since our opening! Please visit our website
at www.niddysnook.com to find out all about Niddy’s Nook.
The Pattaya Modern Art Center, Soi 4 Pratamnak
invites you to “Absent”, ‘The Asian Male, Concentration on the Nude’
by M.P.D. The exhibition runs until September 16. Everyone is welcome. For
more details call 038 251 806, email [email protected]
Other Art Exhibitions in Pattaya: Gallery Opium Showcase
at Sheraton Pattaya, 437 Pratamnak Road, Pattaya. Group exhibition of a
selection of works from Gallery Opium’s resident & guest artists.
Exhibition is on-going with new pictures introduced on a quarterly basis. Gallery
Opium Showcase at A-One The Royal Cruise Hotel, 499 North Pattaya Beach
Road. Group exhibition of a selection of works from Gallery Opium’s resident
& guest artists. Exhibition is on-going with new pictures introduced on a
quarterly basis. Contact: Alan Kirkland-Roath, tel. 038 303 040 (Gallery);
tel. 050 847 947 (English), or tel. 099 922 266 (Thai), email:
[email protected] url: www.galleryopium.com
Promotions
Enjoy an enlivening experience
at the Royal Garden Spa: An enlivening body revival starting with our
Aromatic Salt Scrub followed by an Aromatherapy massage and a pampering
Relaxing Facial: Special Promotion Price Baht 4,100 ++. Promotion period: 1-31
September, treatment available from 10:00 – 22:00 daily. For reservations
please call 1711
Door 2 Door September’s promotion. A great
offer from Globetrotter Restaurant, located at 1/54-55, Beach Road, Central
Pattaya, receive free delivery on all orders anywhere in Pattaya also ring now
to get your copy of the new Official Thailand Survival Guide & Pattaya
Business Telephone Directory delivered to your door for only 250 baht. To
receive your free Door 2 Door Menu (2006 Edition) just simply call 038 720 222
& one of their friendly drivers will deliver a free copy to you or visit
them on www.door2doorpattaya.com
Dusit Resort Sports Club is inviting all
international school teachers to try its Academic Year Membership promotion
tailor-made to their requirements. Understanding that teachers will be away
for 2 months out of the year, Dusit Resort Sports Club came up with Academic
Year Membership offer. It is a 10-month calendar membership, valid from 1
September 2006 to 30 June 2007. For further details and membership
information, please call 0 3842 5611-7 ext. 2226.
The Moon River Pub continues their draft beer
promotion. For every liter of draft beer ordered, receive one stamp in your
“Beer Card”. Collect nine stamps and get one liter of beer free. In front
of the Thai Garden Resort, North Pattaya Road. |