Welcome to Café 1886, a one of a kind that blends the traditional Sri Lankan cuisine with a touch of fine dinning, glazed with a tantalizing range of seafood cuisine. The café is a manifestation of our vision to offer guests a 5 star gastronomic experienceoutside of Colombo and the opportunity to sample the very best of Sri Lankan seafood cuisine at affordable prices in Kandy.
The Café 1886 is a cultural outpost reminisce of a iconic mid century, high class establishment, located in the center of the bustling Kandy city, yet once inside, the calm and intimacy our home offers is overwhelming.
Our Master Chefs bring their wealth of experience to unify our guest’s culture and spirit with our own traditional cuisine resulting in a café with an array of “Café foods”, Western delights, healthy meal options and nostalgic Sri Lankan coastal village staples. We use carefully selected ingredients and adopt industry best practices in hygiene and food preparations. Our kitchens and bakeries are open for everyone to see and even to join us in preparing your dish just the way you want it!! So do visit us, sit back, listen to some old time favorites, open your favorite book, glance at the bustling city below,order your culinary masterpiece - What Grandmas cooked in villages are now at Café 1886!!
In 1876, a 16 year old from Panadura ventured into his first business in Kandy. After 10 years, in 1886 he opened his first bakery and thus began the story of MerennegeMathes Salgado and his empire M.M Salgado & Sons that expanded to a islandwide chain of bakeries, plantations, distilleries and hotels.
The Bakery business expanded to Nawalapitiya, Hatton, Talawakelle, Diyatalawa, Badulla and Kurunagala and was also a major contract supplier for the military during the world war. Besides the bakeries, the enterprise also expanded to chain of liquor stores and restaurants and also jointly owned the Royal Hotel in Kandy. The plantation business expanded to coconut, tea and cinnamon estates principle among them the Richarddale and Graceland plantations. The distillery business operated from Panadura where the main stores had a capacity of 50,000 gallons and carried out an island wide distribution.
The enterprise grew over time in the capable hands of Mathes’s two sons, Richard and Walter Salgado and expanded to a island wide chain of Hotels, Bakeries and Restaurants patronized and loved by masses from the country’s Prime Minsters to the common citizenry.
Since then it has been a saga of business entangled with the revival of Buddhism, fighting against the cast system and the freedom of our people. It has gone through glorious times, lost its battles, sailed past the rest and fallen behind the rest. It has gone through all and seen it all, yet it still stands to tell the saga of a 5th generation corporation deeply intertwined with the history of our land.
Café 1886 is both a celebration of the rich history of M.M Salgado & sons and Salgado Bakeries, as well as a statement of its resilience and its future.
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