Barefoot
Handicraft store, 706 galle road, colombo 03, kollupitiya. (http://www.barefootceylon.com). has a wide range of good quality souvenirs and handmade items: clothes, bags, and children toys, from some of the most beautifully-colored fabric you've ever seen.
Crescat Boulevard
89 galle rd, colombo 3, kollupitiya. an up-market shopping mall. though it is fairly small, it contains a food court on the basement floor.
Liberty Plaza
Ra de mel mawatha, colombo 3, kollupitiya. another shopping mall similar to majestic city however it is smaller in size. you can find various items such as clothing, cds and dvds.
Majestic City
In kollupitiya on galle road has a wide variety of clothing outlets - including a sub-branch of odel - at very good prices, as well as various electrical goods and toy shops. it's pleasantly air-conditioned and includes a food court on the ground floor.
Odel
(http://www.odel.lk/) no 5, alexandra place, colombo 7, cinnamon gardens. a stylish department store, with its very own delifrance outlet, clothing, houseware, sporting goods, books and movies, as well as delight â for sweet indulgences from chocolates to exotic nuts.
Lakpahana
(http://www.lakpahana.com), 14 reid avenue, colombo 07, cinnamon gardens. a non-profit organization run by the craftsman association of sri lanka with assistance from the government. offers all handicrafts and gemstone jewellery. unique metalware, wood carvings,silver jewelery,batik ,textile products and other crafts. only member in sri lanka of the world craft council and winner of several international awards therefore all our products come with an international guarantee.the only place where quality exceeds price.
Paradise Road
 213, dharmapala mawatha, colombo 7, cinnamon gardens. tel: 268 6043.open 9am-7pm. a shop with a small cafã© in a british colonial style building where antiques, home dã©cor items and art can be viewed or purchased.
The Pettah Market
This is the place to go for shopping for all kinds of things from fruits to clothes to electronics if you want to buy at wholesale prices. you have to bargain extensively and it is recommended that you take a local you trust along with you. even if you don't buy anything, pettah, or colombo 11 is an experience in itself being a very typical, loud and crowded oriental market place full of all sorts of odds, ends and junk. each street in the market has its own speciality, for example, in 1st cross street you can find electrical items, 2nd cross street has jewellery and so on. in the pettah market area, some street vendors actively ask passers-by, foreigners and locals to view products they are selling though polite refusal is generally accepted.