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Extraordinary indulgences
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 06/12/2013
» Among the restaurants with a well-earned reputation for catering the big international festivals just right, Marriott Cafe{aac} must certainly be on the short list. You always know that its Christmas buffets, for instance, will compare favourably with any Christmases one has experienced in the past, including those celebrated at home.
Down Under on top
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 06/12/2013
» While it's taking a while to convince naysayers of Australia's aspirations to be considered Asian, when it comes to cuisine, the Lucky Country's chameleon characteristics cannot be denied. Aussies'll eat anything from anywhere so long as it tastes good and the old staple cliche of steak and fried eggs just doesn't wash anymore.
Sathorn Thai transformer
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 06/12/2013
» The new Thai restaurant just opened at Mode Sathorn"fashionable lifestyle hotel", simply named Rice and Chilli, dares to be different and, at the end of the day, pulls it off in some style.
Prancing courses
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 05/12/2013
» Remember how every late autumn, chiming with the annual influx to Silom of scads of barn swallows migrated from Mongolia, how a little piece of Trevi would suddenly appear on a terrace in a riverside corner of a certain grand old dame formerly known as The Oriental?
Paint the town brown
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 05/12/2013
» Like an Indian aunty who's been at the booze, Maya is almost over-eager to show guests a good time. Not content with tickling your taste buds with Indian cuisine fit for a metro maharaja, she's learned to mix cocktails, hired a DJ and commissioned a trendy designer to deck out the dacha. It would be churlish to resist her beguiling advances.
Thai Flare
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 04/12/2013
» Level 15 of the Hilton Pattaya hotel is no longer a bastion of Continental fine dining. All the gourmet surf 'n' turf thrust has decamped 19 levels above, to Horizon, the fashion-forward rooftop restaurant and bar.
Fabulously French
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 03/12/2013
» Operating a French restaurant in Bangkok isn't something one gets into lightly. The cuisine isn't high on the hit parade of the mass of local diners, so pile it high, sell it cheap won't fly.
A legend is reborn
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 02/12/2013
» After embarking on an intensive refurbishment programme that in the end cost some US$4 million, Shang Palace at Shangri-La Hotel Bangkok has now unveiled its new take on authentic Cantonese cuisine with the makeover being much welcomed.
Italian as you like it
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 02/12/2013
» Now starring at Brio, the ever-indulgent Italian restaurant ensconced amidst Anantara Bangkok Riverside Resort & Spa's manicured jungle, culinary mastermind Danilo Sangrigoli does not stop at creating divine dishes. He's an old-school Italian chef who believes in personally extending warm-hearted hospitality to guests, even table-hopping a pizza dough swirling show that speaks to the Pizza World Champion medals he has won among others: for speed (he's in the Guinness Book of Records for cooking 540 pizzas in 103 minutes), acrobatics (his party trick), and most importantly, QUALITY.
Dreaming of a white bed solution
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 26/12/2012
» It isn't always your caffeine intake, stress level or sedentary lifestyle that causes you to toss and turn in your bed some nights. When you just can't seem to get comfortable in any position, the cause could be something as easily remediable as your bed whites ensemble.