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Bangkok Bar Show returns
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 07/10/2025
» The Bangkok Bar Show returns from Oct 10-12 at the Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel, marking its biggest edition yet.
The largest gourmet fest in Thailand returns
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 26/08/2025
» Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel has announced the full programme for its annual "25th Annual World Gourmet Festival", which will be held from Sept 22–28, with its most ambitious and prestigious edition to date.
Coming in hot in 2024
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 03/01/2024
» To welcome 2024, here’s a round-up of what to look forward to outside the country we call home.
Childhood memories
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 11/03/2022
» Dario Busnelli, chef de cuisine of Ciao Terrazza, a trattoria-style restaurant, has brought his Italian roots and childhood memories to the menu at the Mandarin Oriental's seasonal restaurant.
Fabulous is needed
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 21/12/2018
» Benjawan Wisootsat, is the founder and managing director of Fin – Fabulous is Needed, Thailand's first distributor of sustainable, organic and biodynamic wines from boutique wineries from around the world. The company was born out of Benjawan's passion and love for food, wine, events and travel. Her experience and career beginnings in the MICE industry led to the Optimum Group almost three decades ago, along with Fin.
Now accepting reservations at 80/20
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 21/12/2018
» 80/20 reopened yesterday after a complete renovation. Chefs Napol "Joe" Jantraget and pastry chef Saki Hoshino bring their know-how, personal journey, passion of Thai cuisine and local ingredients through a nine-course tasting menu (B3,000++ per person).
The new black gold
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 24/08/2018
» Canadian Blake Dinkin is the creator and owner of the world's rarest and most expensive coffee, refined naturally by elephants — Black Ivory Coffee. Partnering with Ban Taklang in Surin and the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation, Dinkin produces "elephant dung coffee". However, production of Black Ivory Coffee provides valuable income for elephant care-giving families, as well as students who are taught how to wash and dry the coffee. The mission of Black Ivory Coffee is to take a negative situation, namely human-elephant conflict and turn it into a positive one by creating a luxury product that helps not hurts elephants, as Dinkin tells Guru.
From seedling to bar
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 22/06/2018
» MarkRin Chocolate was born out of the love for chocolate by Assoc Prof Dr Sanh and his wife Kanokked "Thip" La-Ongsri, who also created it as a long-term research project in Chiang Mai. Sanh found that the agricultural geography of Thailand qualified for planting cacao trees. The first cacao plant in Chiang Mai, Sanh crossed two cacao varieties and created his own hybrid called "I.M.1". He and Thip formed MarkRin Farms, to support and form a cooperative, so cacao farmers have a stable occupation since cacao is a monocrop and intercrop. Sanh and Thip also studied and researched cocoa beans fermentation together to develop chocolate from premium quality dried beans.