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Embassy Room Dives Deeper Into Modern European Culinary Euphoria
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 27/12/2018
» 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.
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.
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.
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.
Happy Shogatsu at Yamazato
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 20/12/2017
» It’s a lesser-known fact (among non-Japanese) that New Year is the biggest annual festival in Japan. One thinks of all those “visits to the shrine”, the Sapporo Snow and Cherry Blossom festivals, and assume that their New Year’s is merely a gracious nod to the Western Gregorian phenomenon.
Blue Sky at night, revellers’ delight
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 15/12/2017
» If you live in Chatuchak, Bang Khen or Huai Khwang, or even Bang Kapi, Hua Mak or Pak Kret, you’re lucky. You’ve a perfect solution to where to celebrate virtually on your doorstep. No vexing vehicular or sardine can train ride to a cool party venue for you.
Zen and the Modern Art of Festive Afternoon Tea
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 06/12/2017
» For those who hold that pictures are paramount and frames and settings should be supportive and unassuming, the place to escape with an afternoon break this festive month, or any on given day, is Up and Above Bar, The Okura Prestige Bangkok (BTS Phloen Chit).
Forza Volti!
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 19/12/2016
» You don't need an excuse to 'take it to the river' in Bangkok. Anytime an emotional lift is in order, reducing your distance from the mighty flow to a matter of metres does the trick.