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Avirate Café by Paan Paan serves up vegan and vegetarian delights
By Marianne David The Avirate Café by Paan Paan on Maitland Crescent is a lovely little space filled with lots of goodies, offering several tasty and value-for-money options for plant-based food lovers. While the pastry counter is always filled with sweet and savoury delights, the café also serves up freshly-made sandwiches and offers frozen…
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Nuga Gama serves up some of Sri Lanka’s finest plant-based food
By Marianne David One of the best possible places to enjoy a holistic Sri Lankan culinary experience in the heart of the city of Colombo, Nuga Gama at the Cinnamon Grand offers guests an all-round experience encompassing food, entertainment, and ambience, along with an emphasis on sustainability. The restaurant features an extensive buffet, action stations,…
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Coffee, Juice, and Vegan Delights at Black Cat Cafe
This week Meatless Monday revisited Black Cat Cafe to observe and review any changes in the operation that may have occurred over the years. The first thing that struck us about this cafe was the courteousness of its staff members. They were all incredibly friendly and welcoming and seemed genuinely interested in ensuring that we…
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Thalis Restaurant Review
Indian Vegetarian restaurants are very common dining options to everyone. Many Sri Lankans are very familiar with the common dishes such as dosa, masala wada, parippu wada, idly, parata, puri etc. But it is important to understand that Indian restaurants have much more to offer. If you are at an Indian restaurant there’s always an…
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Wok to Box: good prices, great portions and speedy delivery
By Marianne David Meatless Monday checked out Wok to Box this week, a restaurant that positions itself as a ‘box-to-mouth restaurant specialised in Asian food with delicious localised toppings’. Based in Dehiwala, it offers dine in, pick up, and delivery options and is open through the week. We got some food delivered, which comes in…
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Eating on the Kos Kele stretch: hot roti, vegan food, and thieving monkeys
By Marianne David Wherever you go in Sri Lanka, you can always find some roti—for example, on the “Kos Kele” stretch of the Dambulla-Kurunegala main road stretch in Melsiripura, where food is available at all hours. Located in the Kurunegala District in the North-Western Province of Sri Lanka, the Kos Kele food outlets stretch is the…
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Plant-based Poya buffet launched by Cinnamon Red
By Marianne David Lean luxury hotel Cinnamon Red Colombo now features a plant-based Poya Day buffet every full moon day, serving up an expansive dining experience featuring over 50 dishes. Positioned as a ‘plant-based feast,’ the property decided to launch the food feature to highlight the importance of adopting a plant-based diet, while focusing on…
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Plant-based entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka:Dinali Dandeniya and Anushka Kahawela share their experiences
On 21 June 2022, SLYCAN Trust conducted an online webinar with speakers from the food systems cohort of the EthicalX Accelerator Programme. The speakers were Dinali Dandeniya – the Co-founder of Cafe Kumbuk and Founder of Mama D’s vegan artisanal range – and Anushka Kahawela, from Veganly Life. SLYCAN Trust’s EthicalX team conducted this…
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‘What makes any business ethical is your mindset’:A chat with Dinali Dandeniya
Sustainability takes many forms and people can find different aspects of sustainability that work for them, says Dinali Dandeniya, Co-founder of Mama D’s and Cafe Kumbuk, emphasising, however, that what makes any business ethical is one’s mindset. “I think it’s our inner voices; the will to do things the right way. With everything we…
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‘Addressing the gap for core plant-based food’:A chat with Anushka Kahawela
The Veganly life venture was born out of love and empathy towards animals and later turned into inspiration for the climate and the planet, said Anushka Kahawela, in an interview with the SLYCAN team. The home-based family-run business serves up vegan food items including cakes, bakes, and savouries and the core of the brand…