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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.

Clubs

The next meeting of Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC) will be on Sunday, February 25th. 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. Everyone is warmly welcome. This week the guest speaker will be Christopher Moore, the well known author. This will be followed by the lively Open Forum and update on happenings in and around Pattaya. A full report appears each week in Pattaya Mail. For more information about the Sunday meeting and the other weekday activities of the PCEC, see the Club’s website at www.pattayacity expatsclub.com and learn more about the many and varied activities on offer.

Pattaya Ex Servicemen’s Club (soon to be the Royal British Legion Pattaya Branch) are holding 2 major events in the not too distant future. In April - travel to the River Kwai for the ANZAC Day Parade, this is an overnight visit. In June - head for Ipoh in Malaysia to attend the service for those who lost their lives in the 1948-1966 campaign. This will be a long weekend break. Anyone interested or who wishes to join the club please call in to Tropical Bert’s, 2nd road Opp Bangkok Bank next to Soi 6/1 or phone Bert on 089 8072335.

The Charity Club of Pattaya meets most Sundays at the Queen Victoria Inn Soi 6. Contact Malcolm on 09 7441040 or Christina on 095 454 185; charityclubofpat [email protected]

The U.K. Ex Forces Club meets at Tropical Bert’s (2nd Rd opp Bangkok Bank) every Sunday lunchtime, 1pm to 5ish. For more details phone Bert on 09 8072335 or call in the bar.

Dining

Come enjoy Casa Pascal Restaurant’s gourmet set menu: Entrees: Fresh marinated sardines with gazpacho Tatar and apple layered sour cream, lobster bisque with cognac, roasted porcini mushrooms and artichokes on eggplant and mozzarella tart, orange sherbet in spiced cinnamon liquor; Main Course: Chicken Ballotine stuffed with black truffles and apples, brie cheese and garlic mashed potatoes or pan–fried venison medallion, caramelized chestnuts and braised red cabbage; Dessert: Griottes cherry in 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: info @restaurant-pattya.com. For more information: www. restaurant-pattaya.com

Jameson’s Irish Pub is introducing a new Wednesday three-course ‘Quick Service’ Special for 185 baht starting from Wednesday February 21st: Home made soup, mixed salad, or mussels ‘Vinai’ (cooked in their shells with butter, garlic & herbs). Steak and mushroom pie (cooked in a beer sauce) with crisp french-fries followed by dessert - a choice of two items, depending upon the chef’s mood! This new three-course Wednesday Special is served from 12 noon till 11pm. Other daily specials include on Monday: Fillet steak special 175 baht; Tuesday: Breast of poached chicken with white wine sauce 175 baht; Thursdays is kebab special night 175 baht; Friday is fish and chips 165 baht. All the specials are served with starter & dessert (except on Thursday). Start from 12.00 noon until 11.00 p.m. As always Jameson’s serves it’s 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. Jameson’s Irish Pub, 80/164 Soi Sukrudee (Soi AR), Pattaya, Tel. 038-361-873-4, email info@jame sons-pattaya.com

Oliver Twists Old English Pub, Central Road (opp. Nova Lodge Hotel), invites you to dine with us: Monday: Homemade steak and ale pie, mashed potatoes and vegetables only 150bt; Tuesday: Steak Night: Prime rump steak 10oz. 250bt; Wednesday: Ladies Night; Thursday: Pint and a curry. Choose from our excellent selection of draught lager and ale; Friday: Traditional Friday night favourite! Battered cod, chips and peas. 175bt; Saturday: Free! International style buffet served between 2pm and 6pm. Sunday: Where else to eat an English Sunday roast! Choice of beef, pork or chicken. 250bt. Entertainment Tuesday and Sunday evening with Rose. For further information please contact Oliver Twist Bar on 038 429 262 or Louise on 086 909 9202.

Enjoy Benihana Sunday Brunch at Pattaya Marriott Resort & Spa. Benihana is the perfect place for gathering family member and friends for Sunday brunch in Pattaya. Have a really long and lazy lunch with fantastic food and all the enjoyment of watching our juggling joking chefs at work cooking just for you at your Teppanyaki table with great jazz songs performed by resident band. The price is just only baht 1,100++ per person inclusive of soft drinks, cocktails and wines. Benihana restaurant is located on the second floor of Royal Garden Plaza Pattaya, opens daily for lunch from 12.00-14.00 Hrs, dinner from 17.00-22.00 hrs and Sunday Brunch from 11.00-14.00 Hrs. For more information and reservations, call 038 412 120 Ext. 1395.

Amor Restaurant is tempting its customers with a slew of strawberry creations for the strawberry season. For main courses Amor is offering strawberry pork fillet or chicken breasts with fresh strawberries, brandy and black peppercorns served with vegetables and potatoes. For dessert there is fresh strawberry cheesecake and strawberry shortcake, strawberries with yoghurt and Chiang Mai honey and lots more. Amor also offers sugar free desserts, currently available, sugar free raspberry pie, as well as, sugar free vanilla ice cream and forest berries sorbet. Amor Restaurant, 244/15 Pattayaland 3, South Pattaya: Tel. 038-710-680 or 081-945-5396.

Ace Cafe BBQ Night in Jomtien. Every Monday is BBQ party night! Come and enjoy a platter of grill steak, sausages, baked potato, corn on the cob and mixed salad, all for only 159 baht! Tickets on sale all week with one lucky winner eating free! Grill fires up at 6.30pm. Don’t be late! Ace Cafe, Hanuman Corner, 089 990 9342.

Patrick’s Belgian Restaurant Presents: Monday: "Osso Bucco" with mashed potatoes. Tuesday: Australian lamb chops (400g) 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 flyfrog@csloxinfo .com

Café New Orleans, a culinary landmark for over 9 years on eclectic Pattayaland Soi 2, has expanded its Fiesta Filipina menu and added an Additional Special Menu including imported black Angus tenderloin steak, succulent lamb tenderloin, scallops, assorted dinner crepes and chocolate soufflé for dessert. You can order anything from its famous rack of baby back ribs and imported steaks to special gourmet entrées, side dishes and deserts. Chefs coming from some of the top restaurants in Manila prepare delicious Filipino dishes to suit all tastes. For more information or to make a reservation call 038 710 805, fax 038 710 784.

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 in Naklua serves delicious English, European, Mexican and Thai food: 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, Tel. 038 425 418.

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 baht) 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.shenani gans-pattaya.com

For great tasting Thai food pop along to the Salt and Pepper Restaurant next door to the Flamingo Hotel behind Tuk-Com City on South Pattaya Road (opens Mondays to Saturday from 9am till 10pm). 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 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.

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].

The Kilkenny Irish Pub & Restaurant under new management situated in the heart of Pattaya’s vibrant nightlife Walking Street: Our daily promotions include - Monday: fish & chips 199 baht; Tuesday: beef & Guinness pie 199 baht; Wednesday: cottage pie 199 baht. Thursday: Cornish pastie & chips 199 baht; Friday: pork chops & chips 199 baht; Saturday: roast chicken, chips & veg 199 baht & Sunday: roast pork & apple sauce 249 baht with a complimentary glass of wine. Also you can’t go past our Kilkenny Breakfast 99b before 2pm, a great way to cure your hangover. The new Ocean View Terrace is now open ideal for private functions or just relaxing by the water. Live music Monday to Saturday with the popular resident band Metropolis. For details check the website www. kilkennypubpattaya.com

Sunday at Tropical Bert’s – ‘Horses for Courses’ is how the saying goes and you get 3 of them along with 3 choices! Home made soup, your choice of beef, pork or ham along with all the bits and pieces, home made desert all for only 250 baht. During the week bubble and squeak with roast beef on Monday, your choice of meat pie on Tues, midweek roast on Wed, home baked ham on Thurs, cod and chips Fri and the favorite on Sat, Bert’s cottage pie, all at great prices (Tropical Bert’s, 2nd Rd., Soi Yodsak/1, Opp Bangkok Bank), tel. 09 8072335.

Eat to the Beat at Starz Diner, Hard Rock Hotel Pattaya. Eat to the Beat at Starz Diner continues to satisfy choosy diners with the freshest seafood cooked to your liking, international specialities, Hard Rock Hotel Pattaya’s award-winning dishes with free-flow of wines, beer and soft drinks. A whole spit-roasted pig is available every Saturday in addition to the wide selection of sumptuous dishes on the buffet. Eat to the Beat is available Sunday to Friday from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. at 590++ baht per person and on Saturdays from 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. at 690++ baht per person.

Entertainment

Mantra Sparkling Charity: 14th Feb - 21st April 2007, Get your glad rags on, do the perfect do and sashay on over to Mantra Restaurant & Bar, where Moet Chandon is being served by the glass and by the bottle, as well as in exciting Champagne cocktails. Proceeds from sales will be donated to the ‘Baht for a Better Life’ Foundation, to further the education of and build schools for underprivileged children in Thailand. Crack open the bubbly with Moet Chandon and feel great, then feel even better, as you realise you’re doing your bit for charity! Mantra Restaurant, next to Amari Resort & Hotel, Beach Road, Pattaya.

Oliver Twist Ladies Night: Louise (O.T.’s expat manageress) offers the fairer sex a haven from Pattaya’s sports lounges and go-go bars. Every Wednesday is Ladies Night, complete with special cocktail promotions. Meet with friends and colleagues in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere. Oliver Twists Old English Pub, Central Road (opp. Nova Lodge Hotel). For further information please contact Oliver Twist Bar on 038 429 262 or Louise on 086 909 9202.

Live music at the Premiership Football Restaurant - Mondays & Thursdays: All your favourite hits with Rose & Yo Yo from 7:30pm. Tuesday’s Frank Sinatra & Tony Bennett Tribute Show 7:30-10:30pm. Wednesday & Saturday, 8:30-9:30pm the Elvis Show. Fridays, 8:30-9:30pm the Bee Gees Show. The Premiership Football Restaurant is located on Naklua Rd. (opp. Woodlands Hotel), 2 mins from Dolphin roundabout. Tel. 087 141 0309.

Events

The BCCT in co-operation with Blue Wave Watersports Asia Co Ltd and Art Cafe Pattaya invites you to a Networking Evening on the Eastern Seaboard on Friday 23rd February 2007 from 6.30 p.m. at Art Cafe Pattaya, 285 Moo 5, Soi 16 Pattaya Naklua Road. Tel 66-0-38 36 76 52. Blue Wave Watersports Asia Co Ltd is sponsoring selected beverages and snacks on a first-come, first-served basis from 6.30 p.m. All other beverages are at standard prices as will 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 - rungjit@bcc thai.com with the names of those attending.

The charitable organization, Mercy Center is holding a luncheon on Monday, February 26, to announce the launch of a year-long Capital Campaign to raise 15 million baht. The funds raised will be used to purchase a permanent home for the children and projects of the Mercy Center. The luncheon will be held at the Mercy Center, located at 7/11 Moo 11 Niong Yai Soi 8, Sukhumvit. If you would like to attend the luncheon, or find out more about the Mercy Center and how you can help, please email doell @loxinfo.co.th, or go the website at www.mercy pattaya.org

Liam’s Gallery invites you to a new exhibition: "Conflicting Spirits" by Warawoot Intorn - An expressionist journey by this 25-year old artist from Ladkrabang Institute of Art. The exhibition opened February 17th and will run till March 10th. At Liam’s Gallery, 352/107 Soi 4 Pratamnak Road, Pattaya. Tel 66-0-38 25 18 08. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Sunday, 10 a.m. till 7 p.m.

Gallery Opium Art Exhibitions in Pattaya include: Showcase at Sheraton Pattaya, 437 Pratamnak Road, Pattaya. The exhibition lasts throughout 2007 and features both international & Thai artists. All artworks on display are for sale. Contact Pathira Nakngam Riley, Marketing Communications Manager, Tel: 038 259 888, Fax: 038 259 899 or email: pathira.riley @sheraton.com

Promotions

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.

The Kilkenny privilege card has arrived for the local punter. The cardholder will be entitled to Guinness & Kilkenny Pints 165b & local bottled beer 79b all day every day. Sign up by emailing Stewart at the pub’s website www.kilkennypub pattaya.com or drop into Kilkenny’s on Walking Street.

Door 2 Door February’s special promotion receive a 10% discount on all orders from L’Ami Pierrot Bistro French Restaurant, opposite Pattaya Sports Club, 3rd Road, North 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 (2007 edition) just simply call 038 720 222 & a friendly driver will deliver a free copy to you, or visit www.door2door pattaya.com