Colombo Restaurants

  1. Delifrance

    This busy café, on the ground floor of the very popular Odel Unlimited store, is delighted to siphon off your shopping change. There's also an outlet in Crescat Boulevard.

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  2. Fab

    Upper-middle-class Colombo residents fill the Fab in the afternoon for tea, pastries, cakes and Western and Eastern snacks, all of which are cut above the similar fare at Green Cabin and Pagoda Tea Room. There are four other branches around the city, but this is the original and the most popular.

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  3. Paradise Road Cafe

    Part of the shop of the same name, this café serves great coffee, milk shakes, cakes and light meals (such as quiche and spaghetti) in an airy veranda-style atmosphere upstairs. It's just southwest of De Soysa (Lipton) Circus.

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  4. Raffles

    Formerly known as Kafe Kent, this cosy restaurant includes several sitting areas for a drink, and multiple dining rooms upstairs for a quiet dinner. It's a good spot for women travellers.

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  5. YWCA National Headquarters

    The busy cafeteria at this hostel offers a wide variety of dirt-cheap eats.

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