The 1st of February 2013 marked World Cancer Day, and we were happy to join the Cancer Society of Maldives in rising for the occasion.

The event included a walk/run on the roads of male’ followed by kid’s events in the evening, and Live music from local supporting artist at night. The evening events included special exercise programmes for kids, yoga demonstrations, and question and answer sessions on cancer issues. Healthy snack and drink stalls were setup in the location.

We would like to thank the wonderful team from the Cancer society of Maldives for doing an excellent job in organizing the event at artificial beach, and helping raise awareness and funds for this noble cause.

A big thanks to all those who dropped by our fruit stall and donated to the cause by having a healthy fruit snack.

-Cafe Al Fresco-

Happy New Year dear friends! It’s been a hectic and kinda frantic year and we sincerely thank all of you, our loyal members, for your support and good company throughout 2012.

With every New Year comes hope for better times, resolutions for kicking bad habits, and adopting a healthier lifestyle. This is the perfect time to reset, so make the changes necessary for a happier turn.

We’ll be seeing a few changes for the year 2013 at Al Fresco as well;
-Al Fresco will be a smoke free zone starting Jan 1st- (good news for non smokers and those resolving to quit.)
- Reward points for Loyalty member will be increased to 6% for every transaction.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, Open your heart to a fresh new year and get ready to write your 2013 story.
Here’s wishing that the year ahead is better and brighter!

-Al Fresco-

Welcome to Al Fresco’s very first newsletter-Café Talk. Living in the era where our social lives revolve around the Internet, we’ve decided to add the Al Fresco newsletter to your cyber news feed. We are excited to sit down and have a little chat with you so please join us in this new tradition of having a cuppa Al Fresco every fortnight.

As you watch the news feed of your Facebook and tweets updating the going ons in your circle of friends, we at Al Fresco too have our fill of updates everyday from 9am to 11pm with interesting interactions from countless coffees under the Al Fresco umbrellas; some humorous others of more serious and pressing tones but all in all stories and ideas we wish to share with you all whether they are short reviews on the what’s hot on the menu, new trends in the café industry, community news or just random tidbits and inspiring thoughts to lift up your day.

We also decided to take this as a wonderful excuse to spend more quality time with the real craftsmen of Al Fresco; We believe that here at Al Fresco you meet a variety of interesting characters with remarkable experiences to share, so we are entertaining the idea of featuring some interview pieces titled – ‘Meet the real craftsmen’ every once in awhile in our newsletters.

Real is something that stands for all who make up Al Fresco, from the internal operations to our customers. This has always been a place where open mindedness is encouraged allowing everyone to express their real selves. Hear at Al fresco, you meet and become part of a group of people who are real and true craftsmen at what they do. It could be the one who’s perfected the craft of making that delicious cup of coffee, or found the best way to balance out their work, social life and health even in stressful times, a businessman or artist, an entrepreneur or environmentalist…so hopefully we’ll be getting to share thoughts from many of you in our future newsletters.

Here’s to all Al Fresco Members- The avid coffee drinkers and serious businessmen who know the importance of taking a break from work and catching up with friends, those who stimulate and inspire thoughts and actions. And lucky for us, loyal friends of Al Fresco, without whom we wouldn’t be who we are today.

THANK YOU and cheers; let’s enjoy our first cup of Al Fresco!

To view the full Café talk issue 1, go to:

Al Fresco Café talk issue 1

-Café Al Fresco -

Welcome to Al Fresco’ EURO special Loyalty promo, all loyalty members, get ready to play this season coz it’s time again to score and win!

All Loyalty Members get to enjoy 8% discount during all euro game times, so get your Loyalty cards out and start collecting reward points and make it your goal to win our special EURO Loyalty promo prize – a cOOl iPad2!

Every time you use your Loyalty card, 5% worth your bill amount will get added as reward points, so keep on adding. The top scorer will win the Loyalty match this EURO! The promotion will run from June 9th till July15th 2012.

Kick up the Euro fever with AL Fresco, drop by and catch the games on our 65” Panasonic screen and cheer on with your friends. Come win the Euro Promo & take home the iPad2!

You can visit our website http://www.thealfresco.com/club and check who is on top with the reward points throughout the promotion period. If not a member you can sign up for you Loyalty Membership card through our website.

Best of luck

The Alfresco Club

Panasonic Football Fever - Predict & Win

This football season Le Cute Lifestyle Electronics kicks off their ‘PANASONIC FOOTBALL FEVER’ by giving you all a chance to win some neat Panasonic products to enhance your entertainment lifestyle. Al Fresco joins in the excitement by welcoming you all football fans to come watch the games live, at Al Fresco on the Panasonic big screen presented by our new audiovisual sponsor – Le Cute Lifestyle Electronics.

With already 2 rounds of predicting the match scores, we got two happy winners who sent their scores to FB and twitter (@lecuteLE) walk away with Panasonic Noise Cancelling Headphones of superior quality. So keep tuned for many more great nights of cheering on at Al Fresco and winning with Panasonic this season!

-Al Fresco -

Audio / Visual sponsor- Le Cute Lifestyle Electronics

Welcome to a new phase of Al Fresco’s entertainment front. Before introducing our new sponsor, we’d like to thank Reefside for the Audio Visual support these past years. We have had many great years of entertainment systems at Al Fresco all thanks to Reefside.

Our new sponsor powering the Audio Visual setups for Al Fresco is ‘Le Cute Lifestyle Electronics’. We look forward to enjoying many live games on the big screen and super surround music with the cool Hi Fi atmosphere created by Panasonic and KEF entertainment systems. A Big thanks to our new Audio Visual sponsor- Le Cute Lifestyle Electronics for helping keep Al Fresco moving ahead with the best.

Look out for the upcoming new promotions that we have lined up for you together with Le Cute Lifestyle Electronics, for sure the winning prizes are going to be something to enhance your lifestyle greatly.

-Al Fresco-