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Sit down Sunday brunch
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 05/12/2012
» Whatever the impression given by Bangkok hotels, nowhere is it written that a brunch must be a buffet. The key feature is a meal that segues from breakfast into lunch and combines the two. It's a concept that might make more sense, therefore, if you were to make a meal of your Sunday by starting your dining when you wake up after your lie-in around 10 am, say, and then just chill at the table through to mid-afternoon, nibbling on this and that while chit chatting with a procession of people. At that point one might ease oneself up to take a mild constitutional to get the circulation going again, burn off some calories and move into a different phase of the day, catching a movie, cruising the mall or hitting the links once conditions get cooler.
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Trails from the riverbank
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 06/12/2012
» Under the midday sun, the view from Trader Vic's multi-ethnic cuisine restaurant is of a broad reach of river flowing fast to the sea such as inspired Joseph Conrad's tales of hapless expats getting lost in translation. The Chao Phraya - River of Kings, if you will - feels steeped in history and continues to evoke an age of romance. Forgetting the condos rising along its edge and focusing instead on high-gloss rice barges turned gin palaces moored closer by, just the sight of it makes you feel like rowing out to a schooner moored midstream and setting sale for the fictional Vic's spiritual home in Polynesia. One might also imagine the legendary bon vivant stepping ashore and emerging between a riot of waxen foliage with his mates, like an earlier age Anthony Bourdain in search of exotic culinary sensations with which to treat his compadres on his eventual return home. The welcome, a Thai-style orchid garland hung around your neck in a thin rendition of the Hawaiian custom, adds more to the atmosphere.
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Two Icons one mission
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 06/12/2012
» Why settle for less when you can have it all? If only for an evening, don't you deserve, at least now and again, the bare-hearted best?
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Islands in the seascape
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 06/12/2012
» With all due respects to Tiffany, the best show in town when you're in Pattaya is the bay. Some of the city scenery may be a mite unsavoury but its geographic inheritance still trumps all. The only challenge is finding somewhere that measures up to the view from which to drink it in.
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All dishes on deck
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 07/12/2012
» There's something about being on or right beside the river that always seems to put life in a better perspective. As the water races purposefully to the sea, so one's cares feel washed away.
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Sitting at the top of the bay
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 07/12/2012
» From 14-34 floors above Beach Road, no further explanation than the half-moon, palm fringed bay is needed for Pattaya's perennial popularity among travellers from near and far. In golden afternoon sunshine, the sparkling salty turquoise expanse bears testimony to the efficacy of the seaside city's expensively procured water treatment infrastructure, as do not a few stick figures bobbing around colourful buoy-bordered swim areas cordoned off against darting jet ski bounders and bouncing speedboats trailing high-holstered paragliders or fast-ferrying day-trippers to pristine isles on the near horizon.
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Nice venue for A wine wedding
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 10/12/2012
» At first encounter, I'd surmised that Chatrium's inaugural wine dinner, held at its chilled-out pool terrace commanding panoramic infinity river views far upstream and down, was all set up for an ensuing society wedding, complete with silver and gold photo op and speech stage topped with a maid of honor arch.
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Tabling the emotion
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 11/12/2012
» To dine at Tables, Grand Hyatt Erawan's ravishing redoubt of creme de la creme continental cuisine, is to be completely immersed in a fantasy of fine dining.
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Altitude with Attitude
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 12/12/2012
» Horizon is a bar/restaurant with star quality. Its restaurant serves some of the tastiest cuisine in the Kingdom and with its breathtaking open air bar it's a destination that you haven't 'done' Pattaya yet if you haven't at least chilled out there over a 5-star cocktail.
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Here's to beautiful cuticles
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 13/12/2012
» Free-flow mixologist-mixed martinis make for much more interesting manicure and pedicure experiences at eforea: spa at Hilton Pattaya
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