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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.

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. Remaining 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 charityclubofpattaya@ yahoo.com or Malcolm 09 7441040, or Christina 09 5454185.

Mabuhay Diving Club, a non-profit diving organization is inviting scuba divers to participate in an underwater clean-up at Koh Larn every first Sunday of each month. All welcome. To sign in, please fax 038-415-262 ext 428, email [email protected] or call 08-1177-7905. You can also visit our website at www.diversthailand.com

Clubs

The Pattaya International Ladies Club October Lunch will be held on Tuesday, October 3rd from 10.30 am at Indian By Nature, Chateau Dale Plaza, Thappraya Road, Tel 038 364 656. Lets celebrate the ‘Diwali’ Festival and watch PILC members from different nationalities perform the folk dance ‘Dandiya’. Reservations required no later than 2.00pm Saturday 30th of September. Please contact Kavita on 081 377 5171, [email protected], or Stephanie on 089 544 4842, [email protected], or [email protected]. Members and guests, ladies of all nationalities welcome

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

Casa Pascal’s popular Sunday Brunch Buffet is back, starting Sunday, October 01: Delight with an extensive selection of Cold Appetizers, International & Thai Salads, Breakfast Items, Great Desserts and a glass of House Champagne. Do not forget to reserve your table! Adults 650++ baht, Children (under 12) 450++ baht, 10am – 3pm. For reservations: (038) 723-660 / 01-983-4182 (Kim), www .restaurant-pattaya.com

Patrick’s Belgian Restaurant Presents: Monday: “Osso Bucco” with mashed potatoes Tuesday: Australian lamb chops (400g) chops with b้arnaise-and mint sauce, veggies and Fries Wednesday: Côte a’l Os or Prime Rib (800g) (2 persons) with beurre Maitre d’Hotel” and potato croquets Thursday: “Ostrich” Filet Steak “Archiduc” veggies and potato croquets Friday: Moules-Frites (Mussels Belgian Style) Saturday: “”Cocq au Vin” (Chicken casserole) with Fries or potato croquets. For reservation call Patrick 08/16872410 or e-mail [email protected]

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 Caf้. 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, Adults Baht 650++/Children Baht 350++; Wednesdays - La Mer Restaurant, Mediterranean Buffet Dinner 6.30p.m.10.00p.m, Adults Baht 550++/Children Baht 300++; Friday - Verandah Coffee Shop, BBQ & Seafood Buffet Dinner 6.00p.m-10.00p.m, Adults Baht 650++/Children Baht 350++; Saturday - Verandah Coffee Shop, International Buffet Dinner 6.00 p.m.- 10.00 p.m, Adults Baht 550.-++/ Children Baht 300++. 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. Caf้ 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 mouth-watering 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: Entrees: Carpaccio of Veal Tenderloin and Goose Liver, Artichoke Cream Soup with Sun dried Tomatoes and Pine Nut Kernels; Main Course: Roasted herbed Salmon with Truffle Jus and Celeriac Mousse or Filet Mignon of Pork and potted Pears in Roquefort Sauce; Dessert: Chocolate Mousse in Passaya Soup or Premium French cheese. Pattaya 2nd Road in front of Ruen Thai Restaurant. For reservation (038) 723 660, fax (038) 723 659, e-mail: [email protected]. 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.

Enjoy delicious English, European, Mexican and Thai food at the Premiership Football Restaurant in Naklua: 200 menu items to choose from in Pattaya’s theatre of sports – with 3 huge projection screens. Located on Naklua Road (opposite Woodlands Resort), 2mins from Dolphin roundabout. Tel. 038 416 670-1, 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

The Charity Club of Pattaya is holding its “Charity Gala Dinner, Grand Prize Draw & Auction 2006” on 30 September 2006 (Saturday) at Dusit Resort, Pattaya’s Napalai Convention Hall, from 7:30 p.m. until midnight. Enjoy live music, grand prize draw and the auction of myriad items including antique furniture, holiday packages and other memorabilia. Ticket price is 1,800 Baht. Proceeds from this dinner will go to the Camillian Center, and to the charitable institutions nominated by the Rotary Club of Pattaya and Freemason West Winds. For reservations, please contact Mr. Malcolm 097-441-040 and Mrs. Christina Boden - 095-454-185 at tel. nos. and, or email charityclubofpattaya@ yahoo.com

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

Bangkok Hospital Pattaya presents World Heart Day on September 30, 2006 from 9:30 am - 2:00 pm at the Lobby area (Building A). The first 100 participants are entitled to receive free EKG (Electro Cardiogram). For reservation and inquiries, please contact at 1719 or 038-259999

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 October’s promotion receive a 10% Discount on all orders from the Continental Restaurant, 315/158, Thappraya Road 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, 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.



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