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It's hip to drift
News, Noel Maclean, Published on 01/12/2014
» With all due respect to Tiffany, the best show in town when you're in Pattaya is the bay. The only challenge is finding somewhere that measures up to the view from which to drink it all in.
Harrods Tea Room celebrates with special menus
News, Noel Maclean, Published on 01/12/2014
» Harrods Thailand is celebrating its 1st anniversary of Harrods Tea Room together with the festive season with newly-created authentic British menus and festive decoration.
Ta-ke relief massage at The Okura Spa
News, Noel Maclean, Published on 01/12/2014
» The Okura Spa now offers a traditional treatment, based on the principles of acupuncture that unlocks the mysterious properties of Japanese bamboo.
What's new at Next2?
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 31/12/2013
» If ever there was a buffet that lucked out in the gene pool, this is it. Picturesque riverside location? Check. High-end design that at once delights the senses and serves vast volumes of freshly-prepared food without anyone's toes getting trodden on? Uh ha. And what of said comestibles? Are they truly top drawer? Well duh.
Bistro heaven
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 31/12/2013
» Bistro culture is big business in Bangkok, burgeoning like the coffee house and Irish pub crazes before it. The recipe is simple: Continental comfort food, chic surroundings and strategic location relative to the locus of everyday human enterprise, thereby providing a convenient point at which to be relieved of some of that hard-earned cash in return for feel-good food and drink indulgences.
Fabulously French
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 31/12/2013
» Operating a French restaurant in Bangkok isn't something one gets into lightly. The people you need to run it must be experts in probably the most difficult cuisine and have a passion for it to-boot. Getting hold of the ingredients to make it authentic is hardly a cake walk either.
RIM in the New Year
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 27/12/2013
» If the idea of wrapping up the old year and launching into the new one on both a figurative and literal high tickles your fancy then Red Sky should tick your boxes. Fifty-five floors above terra firma, there's a palpable air of optimism in this split-level eerie-elevation restaurant and bar complex that is unburdened by any intermittent convulsions down below.
'A really good Thai place'
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 27/12/2013
» One answer to the question oft-asked by visitors to Bangkok, "do you know any good Thai restaurants?", could be Palm Cuisine, tucked 50m inside Thonglor Soi 16 (opposite J Avenue, Soi 15) on the left.
Above and beyond at the heart of Bangkok: The Roof @ 38th Bar
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 26/12/2013
» A fashionable new rooftop lounge and tapas bar has arrived, soaring into the starry night sky way up on Level 38 of Mode Sathorn Hotel, managed by Siam@Siam.
Growing older gracefully
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 25/12/2013
» Since it opened on Songkran 1983, the rather quaint Thai restaurant nestling a quiet corner of the Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok's open-air Parichart Court garden & upscale dining, shopping & art exhibition arcade, has been a leopard that has proudly stood by its spots.