The Opening Day!!

Two months of planning, forecasting and tasting were finally over and we had fifty bottles of champagne to commemorate the occasion.
Niroch and Priyan’s mother even flew all the way from Sri Lanka to help out .The whole team was at Whitelys before 8am and before long the people started to show up. Niroch and Priyan were in a zone the whole day.
Between setting up the Cafe and making sure the staff (Dimitri) was not eating the food they had their hands full. The rest of the team was also very busy….flirting with the customers, downing glasses of champagne and nibbling on the canapés when Priyan was not looking.
The displays and the champagne attracted quite a crowd but it was the food that made them stay. The sandwiches were a huge hit and the Sri Lankan curries were sold out half way thought the day. The friends and family we invited seemed to be impressed by what we had put together but we insisted they gave us feedback. Their suggestions included making the curries spicier, serving soups and having a life size picture of Niroch wearing a dress on the Gastro Café sign like at Kohlu’s in Colombo (I for one am a huge fan of this idea).
A big thank you for everyone that stopped by on Saturday. Having our friends and family there to share in the birth of the café was important to all of us.
Your support and feedback was very much appreciated. From the bottom of our hearts we just want to say – THANK U!!!