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Announcements

Swim for a Cause: All physically fit swimmers and big-hearted sponsors are invited to join the 3rd Cross Bay Charity Swim on Sunday, 22 October. Dusit Resort, Pattaya together with the Rotary Club of Jomtien-Pattaya are organizing the 3.5-km swim starting at 1 pm from Sea Rescue, near Bali Hai Lighthouse, and ending at Dusit Resort’s Chaba Beach, where sponsors and the children of the Ban Jing Jai Orphanage will be waiting to cheer the contestants. For contest application, sponsorship and enquiries, please call Graham Hunt Crowley at 08 1340 8852.

The Charity Club of Pattaya are having two pub nights one at Kilkenny’s on Walking Street on Friday 27th October and on 11th November we will be at the Queen Victoria Inn Soi 6 to raise funds for a Christmas party in December with Gifts for the Children at the Camillian Centre. Contact charityclubofpattaya @yahoo.com or Malcolm 09 7441040, or Christina 09 5454185.

Clubs

The next meeting of Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC) will be on Sunday, October 22nd. 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 11am. Everyone is warmly welcome. Each week, a guest speaker will provide an informal but interesting talk on a wide range of topics. This will be followed by the usual 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, see the Club’s website at www.pattayacityexpatsclub.com and learn more about the many and varied activities on offer.

The Pattaya International Ladies Club November lunch will be held on Wednesday, November 1st, 2006 from 10:30am at Gian’s Italian Restaurant, Thappraya Road, Tel. 038-364934 or 08-60005303. There will be a performance of the Japanese dance “Tokyo O-N-DO” by some of the members. Reservations required no later than 2.00pm, Sunday 29th of October. Please contact Kavita on 081 377 5171, kavita_singh00 @hotmail.com, or Stephanie on 089 544 4842, stephaniemoor [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]

Dining

Recently opened Manhattans Steak House is already establishing itself as one of Pattaya’s finest restaurants with a reputation for first class food and service. The menu features only certified Angus beef from the US and Australia which is known for its tenderness, flavor and leanness. To reserve your table please call reservations from noon: 038-259790 or 06-103 4497. Located in Nirvana Place Condos, Thappraya Road. Dress code, Valet Parking and limousine service

Casa Pascal’s popular Sunday Brunch Buffet is back: 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 béarnaise-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 – Very veggie - with the Vegetarian Festival occurring this month, our creative Benihana chefs have devised a special Veg-teppan-ble menu, cooking garden-fresh vegetables and mushrooms along with tofu in Japanese styles such as teppanyaki and tempura to present you with a wide selection of tasty vegetarian food. Benihana has a lunchtime special offer – ‘Buy One Get One’ Ichiban Set during October only! Benihana is located on the 2nd Floor of The Royal Garden Plaza, Open 12:00 – 22: 00 hrs. For reservations please call Pattaya Marriott Resort & Spa at (66) 38 412 120

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. Café 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.

Snow in Thailand? Ok so it’s not really snowing in Thailand, but equally as exciting is what’s on the menu at Mantra Restaurant & Bar, the newly opened dynamic restaurant in Pattaya. Discover the delicious Snow Fish Chef’s Special. A melt-in-the-mouth experience with steamed snow fish fillet in superior soy sauce, simply and gently laid on saut้ed Hong Kong kale and scallions. For more information on Mantra Restaurant and Bar please contact +66 (0) 3842 9591 or email us at [email protected] and visit www. mantra-pattaya.com

Amor Restaurant, is once again holding its famous Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursday November 23rd. Amor will be tempting diners with New England Clam Chowder, Home Made Corn Bread, Roast Turkey, Sage and Onion Stuffing, Goblet Gravy, Cranberry Sauce, Mashed Potatoes, Brandied, Orange Sweet Potatoes, Fresh Vegetables and Home Made Pumpkin Pie. Amor serves its Thanksgiving dinner family style, which means that the waiters bring all the main course dishes to the table in platters, fresh and hot from the kitchen, and guests get to help themselves to as much as they want of everything. The waiters keep coming back with more as often as guests would like. All this plus Tea or Coffee for Baht 900.00 + per person. There are two sittings 7:00pm and 9:30 pm, Reservations highly recommended

Come enjoy Casa Pascal Restaurant’s gourmet set menu: Entrees: Poached Rock Lobster on Potato and Truffle Salad, Avocado Cream Soup with Sesame Shrimps or Tian of Crabmeat and Tomatoes with Basil Oil Main Course: Chilean Seabass and Rattatouille Lasagne on Honey and Balsamico Jus or Roasted Lamb Chop and Eryngee Mushroom with Polenta; Dessert: Mille Feuille of fresh Berries and Fruits with Kirsch Zabayone 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

Introducing Wednesday Pasta Night at The Bay: The Bay Il Ristorante Italiano proudly unveils the ultimate pasta experience, Wednesday Pasta Night, making its debut on 11 October. There are no less than 16 different pasta sauces – it’s almost like a pasta party from 7 p.m. till 10:00 p.m. at only Baht 290++ per person. Select from a huge variety of pastas & 16 different pasta sauces and order your favorite dishes to your heart’s content! Dusit Resort, Pattaya is located on the north end of Pattaya Beach Road, near the Dolphin roundabout. For reservations, please call 0 3842 5611-7 ext. 2270

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 590++ per person from Sunday to Friday and THB 690++ 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: shenang@ptty2. loxinfo.co.th, 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.

And Now For Something Completely Different: For those of you who like Pattaya Mail’s “ Life in Fun City” and great tasting Thai food pop along to “The Salt and Pepper Restaurant” next door to the Flamingo Hotel behind Com-City on South Pattaya Road. (Opens Mondays to Saturday from 9 a.m. till 10 p.m.) You will have a laugh while you tuck into wonderful food. This is only a small place but well worth searching for. You will see a New Exhibition by Pattaya Mail’s cartoonist M.J.B. which you can buy (every baht goes to the Pattaya Orphanage), plus for each person who eats a meal and tells the management they have read about this restaurant in the Pattaya Mail can pick up one cheeky cartoon postcard FREE of charge.

Entertainment

The Moon River Pub Celebrates its 10 Years Anniversary this October. For 5 successive nights from 17th to 21st you are invited to sample our buffet and enjoy happy hour pricing for all beverages from 18:00 to 22:00 hours nightly. See our juggling bartenders, sample our food, you might win the lucky draw and most of all enjoy the Power Jam show band. We look forward to having you help us celebrate. Please contact Brigitta Herkner, Guest Service Manager at 038-370614-8 ext. 6666 for more details.

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 [email protected]

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

BCCT Eastern Seaboard Networking Evening: The BCCT in co-operation with TICON Logistics Park Co Ltd invites you to a BCCT networking evening on The Eastern Seaboard on Friday 20th October 2006 from 6.30 - 8.30 pm at Shenanigans Pattaya, Pattaya 2 Road. TICON Logistics Park Co Ltd is sponsoring selected beverages and snacks on a first-come, first-served basis from 6.30 pm. All other beverages are at standard prices as will all the drinks be once the sponsored supplies have run out. Entry is free of charge for representatives of BCCT member companies. However, non-members must pay an entry fee of THB 500 per person. BCCT members may book on-line in the normal way. Non-members should email - [email protected] with the names of those attending. Hope to see you there!

A German artist provides lessons in silk painting for beginners at Ursula’s Antiques in 3rd Road. The course takes place in 3 days, each with two hours lesson on October 30th, November 1st and 2nd, from 11 to 13 hours. Fee including silk and colors is 1.000 Baht. Information and registration with Monika, tel. 0818270813 or email: [email protected]

Liam’s Gallery Pattaya is proud to present “Urbanization”, an exhibition by Komkit Mekmok, 8-29 October.

Promotions

Door 2 Door’s October 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