The city has a fairly wide range of places to eat, encompassing all eating options from roadside stalls to sleek upmarket specialty restaurants. Most of the large five star hotels in Colombo have good value-for-money buffets and coffee shops, besides specialty restaurants that offer cuisine from classic French to Indian and Lankan.
A number of stand-alone restaurants dot Colombo, serving good western food (including German and Italian), Chinese food, and of course, the popular curry-and-rice Sri Lankan food. If you are really on a shoestring budget and willing to rough it (which means being ready to sit out in the open on a wooden bench – an experience which also has a charm all its own!), then you can go to Galle Face Green, where any number of food stalls sell cheap and palatable food.
Colombo’s night life centres around the discos, casinos and nightclubs in hotels and other establishments. Some of the larger hotels have regular cultural shows featuring traditional artistes, and sometimes there are events such as concerts by well-known groups or other entertainers. The option of theatre (Sinhala language) or movies (Sinhala, English or Indian) is always there.