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Meat Me in Manhattan
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 19/12/2018
» Arguably the definitive Manhattan grill room, the movie-set ready Bull & Bear at the storied Waldorf Astoria New York, is also now wide awake and in the finest of fettles at the pinnacle of uptown Bangkok.
Elephant evolution
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 02/12/2014
» Believe it or not, there are still some solvent Bangkokian fans of Thai food who've never been to Blue Elephant. That's the Thai restaurant and cooking school whose skin is that remarkably restored century-old mansion that stands sentinel in stark contrast to the sheer black-glass tower behind that is the headquarters of its landlord, the Thai-Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and a manicured lawn away from the equally incongruous stanchions of Surasak Skytrain station.
A little piece of Paris in Bangkok
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 21/12/2012
» Ah yes, I remember it well. I fell under the spell of Parisian apartments when I joined a friend on a cross-channel visit to a distant cousin of his and found myself inside one around the corner from Pigalle, surrounded by young arty types. This was how life should be, I strongly felt. But I'd never had the opportunity to repeat the experience until I recently visited L'Appart, Sofitel Bangkok Sukhumvit's top-floor restaurant bar conceived in the same spirit.