Hilton Colombo Commemorates 25 Years with Street Cooking Festival & Live Performances

Hilton Colombo will be commemorating its 25th anniversary with a special culinary treat for guests. The hotel invites all food lovers onto one street for their inaugural Street Cooking Food Festival featuring stations serving flavours from around the world, with 60 of the hotel’s finest chef’s cooking up a storm at the event.

The much anticipated food festival will take place on the 25th of August from 6pm to midnight down Bank of Ceylon Mawatha, offering a variety of mouth-watering eats. Entrance for the food festival will be free with the delicious eats priced at Rs.200/- upwards.

“At Hilton Colombo, we are committed to providing our customers with the opportunity to experience a range of cuisines from around the world, at an affordable price without any compromise on taste and quality. In celebration of our 25th birthday, we would like to invite all food lovers to join us in a culinary journey across the globe for this event,’’ said Rudolf Trõestler, General Manager, Hilton Colombo.

Hilton’s Street Cooking Festival will offer tantalizing dishes from a range of countries across the world including local specialities such as hoppers and kottu to Chinese Szechuan fried rice with chicken and assorted fried dim sum, Thai satays to Japanese sushi and tempura and Arabic shawaramas. Also available on the evening will be appetizing giant German bratwurst which will be cut and served on request, large American 25 cm submarines and 2.5kg Giant South African Chicken boerewors. Stalls will also offer fresh juices and a Long Bar will be set up to serve refreshing cocktails.

The evening will include a line up of leading Sri Lankan acts with an array of performances by best known contemporary artistes from the likes of Iraj, Bathiya & Santhush, Lahiru and Coreen Almeida & the Beat Box adding to the dazzle of the evening. Further entertainment acts for the evening will include Jananath and his band of drummers and the Hilton Colombo’s very own award winning Flair Bartender Dain who will be displaying his bartending skills.

This is a unique initiative by Hilton as they celebrate their 25 years of service excellence, continuing to be the trendsetters in the industry and delivering on Conrad Hilton’s vision of spreading the light and warmth of hospitality, in Sri Lanka.

THE STALLS @ THE STREET COOKING FEST

Austrian

American

Arabic

Chinese

English

German

French

Japanese

Indian Italian

Mexican

Thai

Sri Lankan

South Africa

Swiss

Cocktail Bar

Fresh Juice station

Upcoming Events: Come indulge at the Hilton Colombo with an authentic Malaysian Promotion at Spices from the 5th to 15th September. Following on to Oktoberfest on the 1st to 10th November leading up to the hotels big extravagant New Year’s Eve “Silver Ball” back after 4 years at the Grand Ballroom with Purple Rain and Black Velvet serenading the night away. For more details and reservations, please call 2544 644 extension 2012 or visit www.colombo1.com.