De Vos Cafe - Kolonnawa

This cafe is part of the hotel.The coffee is good. The service excellent. A good place to have a quick coffee.

The hottest table in colombo right now and, refreshingly, one that doesn’t take itself too seriously. As in, it does take its food seriously but knows to have fun with it. The service is great, the ambience is refreshing and food is lip smacking. So take a date, a friend or even your parents – whoever you’re with, they make sure you leave with a full tummy and a big smile.

It 's a cozy little place that you could easily miss, if you don 't keep your eyes open while passing that way. now, that is the kind of place that gets my attention. the food menu is just a one pager, and that 's quite cool too. after all, who has the time to browse through an entire library? and get lost? so you can order quick (a lot of thought gone into the timing there . but they 've got everything covered... beef eaters, the chicken types and the vegetarians (that 's the sandwich corner . the mains will give you a choice of something like naked chicken taco (that 's is a bit of a tongue twister if you want to order it. watch out! , they 've got fish and chips and of course our favourite rice curry, and as i remember, some toast with some avocado twist or something... they have some salads too... not many, about 3/4 as I remember. they 've got a 'select ' bunch of desserts and some curious beverages (if you want to skip the usual lattes . the seating is simple but well planned. there 's the 'hanging out ' kind of usual seating area in the front, and then in the larger area are the comfy chairs and a little open air area, if you like to outdoors. tasteful music will keep you company while you wait for the order and while you eat. i chose the 'french dip ' (sandwich although I 'm not a fan of beef, simply to satisfy my curiosity as it mentioned a broth. the broth served as a dip and it was really nice. of course there was a serving of chips too. it is this twist and imagination that makes the cafe a place for the curious eater. the people behind it do seem to have some cool imagination. and of course, they seem to know their food. after the satisfying baguette sandwich (which I ate like a true local, dipping it in the broth, like a 'hodda ', i polished it all off with a 'Nutella Kimbula Banis (yes, a Kimbula with Nutella, which they call a Choc Croc it was a handsome serving of Nutella inside, and if you go there around 3 pm, you can have it fresh off the oven . so, if you are looking for a place with a huge menu, don 't go to De Vos Cafe, but if you do have some curiosity, and appreciate some imagination, as well as some quiet conversation, or some solitude tasteful music, it will definitely be your kind of place. make no mistake about the menu. these guys have covered a variety of palettes with the select menu. overall, the menu has got 'taste ' and imagination. the prices are reasonable too! btw, they do serve an 'all day breakfast ' too...

At present it's always the experience. Days back we look how good the food is and just come and eat. Now it's all about the atmosphere, how good the service is, what they offer, how good the food is. It's an experience that is sold now. I think these guys did an amazing job with that. Love the mock-tails they have custom designed. Amazing staff and great food... variety is there! Also follow their FB pages it's currently trending.

When we went for dinner to De Vos Cafe, our first impression is that the cafe is completely overstaffed but everyone looked a little lost. Since a few things happen, let me explain in a list formate: 1. it took them about 15min to just take our order. 2. When our order was taken, the table which was not yet cleaned up from the last customer(s) was not re-set for another 30min until we asked them to. 3. The food arrived about 90minutes later, this is probably not the cafe's fault because there was a special menu that night (collaboration with someone else), however when we asked for another bottle of water, no one brought us one until we decided to pack up the rest of our dinner (which was still not ready) and just head home. 4. When we finally did get our food they forgot a few items. The food that night, which again was not the cafes was really terrible but combined with the service it was just a disaster. I have to say, the one thing I did appreciate coming from the service industry is how apologetic the staff were and how they offered us compensation, they followed the industry rules of listening to the customer, apologising to the customer and providing a solution. My review is that the staff CLEARLY needs training, it just seemed chaotic, but the staff were capable and kind, they are just not guided correctly. Another part which I am a little reluctant to say is that they gave us some dessert to apologise for everything and the deserts were... not good. Just because of the way the staff handled the apologies I will maybe one day, reluctantly give this place another shot and hopefully, I can update my review.