Lago Tropical Italian Bistro

Lago, Colombo City Centre

Our restaurant

Lago Tropical Italian Bistro

A taste of la dolce vita in Colombo.

Lago means lake in Italian — named for Lake Como, whose calm the room borrows. It sits on the ground floor of Colombo City Centre: Neapolitan pizza, fresh pasta, and the Italian classics, cooked with the same ingredients we import for every other kitchen on this site.

Where
Colombo City Centre, ground floor
Address
137 Sir James Pieris Mawatha, Colombo 00200
Booking
Online, or walk in

Our family legacy

One family, two countries, one table

Lago is the Ceccato family's own restaurant — the place where what we import stops being stock and becomes dinner. The same olive oil, the same Tipo 00, the same tomatoes that go out to hotels and restaurants across the island are the ones in this kitchen.

That is the whole argument of the business, served on a plate: quality ingredients, time-honoured recipes, and no distance between the two.

The name

Lago is Italian for lake. Lake Como, specifically — the calm the room is built around.

The kitchen

Neapolitan pizza, fresh pasta, classic Italian plates, and fusion dishes that bring Sri Lankan flavours in.

One family, two countries, one table

The menu

What comes out of the kitchen

Chef's specialities, built on the ingredients we import. The full menus live on Lago's own site.

Pizza Napoletana

Dough left to rise for forty-eight hours, so the crust comes out light, airy and blistered. Ingredients imported straight from Italy.

Fresh pasta

Made in house. Tagliatelle ai funghi porcini is the one people come back for.

Tropical Italian

Fusion plates that let Sri Lankan flavours into the Italian tradition — the reason it is a tropical bistro and not a copy of one in Milan.

Dolci

Desserts, and gelato made by the same hands that make it for Il Gelato.

Every Friday

Ladies Night

An Italian aperitivo and two hours of free-flowing cocktails, wine and beer. Fridays, 6pm to 8pm.

LKR 5,000 per lady. Prices are subject to a 10% service charge and government VAT.

Ladies Night

Visit

Reservations and walk-ins

Ground floor, Colombo City Centre, 137 Sir James Pieris Mawatha, Colombo 00200.

Walk-ins

Welcome, but space is limited — worth checking availability first.

Groups of six or more

Please book ahead. Set menus are available for large tables.