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The Kingsbury, trading as The Kingsbury PLC, formerly the Ceylon Continental Hotel Colombo and the Ceylon Inter-Continental Hotel, is a nine-story hotel located at 48, Janadhipathi Mawatha in the city centre of Colombo, Sri Lanka. It was built by U. N. Gunasekera, and is owned by Hotel Services (Ceylon) PLC, which is a subsidiary of Hayleys PLC ...
The hotel has 300 rooms and suites with either ocean or city views. [12] The hotel has six restaurants, Navratna, an Indian restaurant, Golden Dragon, a Chinese cuisine restaurant, Crab Factory, the hotel's seafood restaurant, Ports of Call, a buffet and à la carte restaurant, and Pebbles and Lattice, two lounges that serve finger food.
On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, The Cinnamon Grand was targeted by the suicide bombers along with the Shangri-La Colombo and The Kingsbury hotels. [3] Around 9:10 am the perpetrator went to the breakfast buffet at the Taprobane restaurant and set off the bomb in his backpack, killing twenty people. [4]
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The hotel is located adjacent to the Galle Face Green and next to Shangri-La Colombo and Taj Samudra hotels. It is ITC Hotels' first foreign investment. The hotel is 140 metres (460 ft) tall and accompanied by a 224 metres (735 ft) tall Sapphire Residences building. The two buildings are connected by Ahasa One, a 55 metres (180 ft) sky bridge.
In Japan, a buffet or smorgasbord is known as a viking (バイキング - baikingu). It is said that this originated from the restaurant "Imperial Viking" in the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, which was the first restaurant in Japan to serve buffet-style meals. Dessert Vikings are very popular in Japan, where one can eat from a buffet full of desserts.
The Cinnamon Grand Colombo, trading as Asian Hotels and Properties PLC and formerly called the Hotel Lanka Oberoi, [3] is a luxury five-star hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka. [4] The Cinnamon Grand is located at 77 Galle Road, Kollupitiya , Colombo.
The Grand Hotel is a four-star boutique hotel [2] in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka, that was built in the style of an Elizabethan-era manor house. [3] The hotel has 154 rooms, including three presidential suites, four junior suites, including a governor's suite that have been maintained to preserve the traditional design. [ 3 ]