City lights and star lit nights set the stage for Uber style weekends at Sky Lounge!

It’s Friday morning. The weekend anticipation starts building up as your coterie interchanges ideas for weekend entertainment plans. The debate is atypical. What do we do tonight? In the mood to go out but bored of the same old claustrophobic places, you wish there was a place you could go to, just listen to some good music and enjoy a lovely chilled evening with your friends. The Uber Nights at the hippest bar in Colombo, the Sky Lounge at The Kingsbury, might just be the answer to your dilemma.

Friday and Saturday evenings take on a different tempo with the Uber Nights at the Sky Lounge. As the stars come out, so do those eclectic few who want an evening away from the claustrophobic clutter of enclosed spaces and loud jarring music. The air is one of a quiet understated chic and elegance. The mood is slow and easy as the air fills up with quiet conversation broken here and there by the lilt of laughter and the sound of clinking glasses as friends toast the night and each other. The chilled out selection of DJ Yazz sets the mood. 

His repertoire of music is vast and diverse but his selection for Uber Nights reflects the sophisticated and mature preferences of the Uber Night regulars. The quiet buzz is at once scintillating and calming. It is just soothing for soul and the senses to sit out under stars with the cool sea breeze in your hair, sipping your glass of Champagne or that delicious cocktail, enjoying the conversation that flows as easy as the waves that gently lap the shore line of Galle Face Green. The city scape is vividly captivating by night. You find yourself watching the cars that whizz by in a blur of light and colour as the ocean spreads out as far as your eye can see. 

The music and company are just the appetisers. Over the subtle scent of cigars, the aromas wafting from the carvery station tempt and seduce all connoisseurs of good food. From roast chicken and beef Wellington served with red wine sauce to accompaniments such as garlic fried rice, grilled seafood including prawns, cuttlefish and fish flavoured with basil, spicy pork stew made to an authentic Sri Lankan recipe and crispy crunchy buttered vegetables. The carvery station always offers the choice of two meats and, along with the complimentary accompaniments and selection of bread buns, makes for a delightful buffet meal of just Rs. 2,300 nett per head. 

Executive Chef Kithsiri de Silva commenting on the spread says, “We change the menu every Friday and Saturday night, because we want our regulars to have something special to look forward to each night.” Not all opt for the carvery buffet, some preferring to stick with their Sky Lounge favourites. The regular Sky Lounge menu is replete with a selection of salads, side dishes, sandwiches, Sri Lankan favourites, mains and hot rock grill items. The creative comfort cuisine is reflective of the signature Kingsbury touch of classical grandeur with a modern cosmopolitan twist.  

Be it the rock star bagel with smoked Alaskan salmon, cream cheese and tomato flavoured with dill and capers, or the tempered dry Jaffna mutton curry pot served with rice or the Sky speciality of grilled white fish served with shrimp, cabbage and leek hash cake, or the salmon, shrimps and cuttle fish steaming hot from the hot rock grill served with garlic rice, seasonal vegetables and tangy saffron sauce, every dish is a gastronomic delight and adventure. The desserts are wicked and decadent, just impossible to choose from.

At around midnight the music tempo builds up a notch and as the mood carries them, some sit and sway in their seats and others get up and dance. And before you know it, what you planned out to be an early evening will gently unfold into dawn and you know that you have found your weekend sweet spot – Uber weekends at Sky Lounge, Every Friday and Saturday night – the invitation is open. 

For information please log on to www.facebook.com/thekingsbury.skylounge or call 077 108 77 20.