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New year's revelation
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 17/12/2020
» Do yourself a Thai flavours favour and book your New Year’s Eve dinner at Front Room, the Waldorf Astoria’s vibrant, high-ceilinged, lower lobby level Thai restaurant.
Volti UPS the ante
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 18/12/2019
» Like the best architecture of Italy, the more water that flows under Volti's ponte the more iconic it becomes. While the software, from the cuisine and cocktails to the scheduling and service, gets ever smarter, the décor, one bold brushstroke at a time, gets ever more lux.
Sky’s the limit steaks
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 21/12/2018
» For the giddy heights of grilled slabs of boutique meat, and all the fancy frills that go with them, the Penthouse Grill takes some beating.
Embassy Room unveils new state of contemporary European culinary art
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 18/12/2018
» Great food, marvellous wines, gracious service and beguiling back-stories are the permanent signatures of Embassy Room, Park Hyatt Bangkok's 9th floor homage to good taste. But never settling for anything less than mesmerizing, its French-led chefs team exists in a state of continuous culinary evolution that periodically achieves quantum leaps. Its newest menu, unveiled in November, can therefore be described as Embassy Room Mark III; not a revolution but a still-ongoing flowering of fabulous food and drink experiences.
Shanghigh
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 14/12/2018
» It’s wiggle room only at street level on Surawongse but ascend to Yào Restaurant & Rooftop Bar’s high-flying lair at levels 32 of Bangkok Marriott The Surawongse, and you feel free and see far as a bird.
Crouching classics, Hidden Innovations
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 27/12/2017
» If you’re the sort of Cantonese cuisine fan who doesn’t handle change well, you have nothing to worry about at Shang Palace, the Shangri-La Hotel Bangkok’s 2nd incarnation restaurant of that ilk: it’s never going to stop perfecting its ha gao with whole shrimp, Peking duck or monk jumped over the wall soup. But fads and fashions come and go, and inevitably some dishes fare better than others over the long haul.
When only delectable will do
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 19/12/2017
» I don’t know who should be lauded more: the team behind The Reflexions modern French restaurant’s consistent culinary virtuosity and recent rise to new heights? Or its customers, who evidently recognise exceptional cuisine when they taste it and take the trouble to appraise others of their delight on that friend to some, foe to others arbiter of the good, bad and ugly in various dimensions of hospitality, TripAdvisor?
Indian Sunday brunch munchies requited
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 02/12/2016
» Some surprising things emerge from a Sunday brunch-time visit to Rang Mahal, that much-awarded bastion of elite Indian cuisine and culture, enhanced with sparkling 26th floor city centre views.
Super Steaks and Seafood Every Flaming Time
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 18/12/2015
» At New York Steakhouse, tucked inside level 2 of the JW Marriott Hotel Bangkok (Sukhumvit Soi 2), beef and seafood grills aren’t just dishes you eat; they’re frenzied obsessions.
Don't cry for me Angelini
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 17/12/2015
» Fans of the Shangri-La Hotel Bangkok's famous and much-decorated in more senses than one Italian restaurant, formerly known as Angelini, may have greeted with consternation the recent news that it no longer is. But on closer inspection, all is well now that the hallowed bastion of the best of Italian cuisine is called Volti Ristorante & Bar instead.