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Volti UPS the ante
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 18/12/2019
» Like the best architecture of Italy, the more water that flows under Volti's ponte the more iconic it becomes. While the software, from the cuisine and cocktails to the scheduling and service, gets ever smarter, the décor, one bold brushstroke at a time, gets ever more lux.
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.
Germ of a gem
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 31/12/2015
» Looks like Water Library Hospitality Group's (WLHG) gone and done it again. Its latest iteration – a sustainable straw sphinx arising from the ashes of The Water Library Thonglor after its home was redeveloped – is virtually reservations only after just a couple of months.
Game changer
Noel Maclean, Published on 01/12/2014
» Don’t laugh. Or rather, please do. Strange as it may seem, scads of Silicone Valley techies get their after-work kicks in the wifi-free world of the likes of Dominion, Battlestar Galactica, Pandemic, Takenoko and other amazing board games with a lineage that goes back to well before colour TV, let alone cyberspace.
Let's go to Mexico!
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 12/12/2013
» Mexican cuisine has come of age in Bangkok with Senor Pico's recent revamp. It's more authentic, modern, immersive and classy. If you tried it before and thought ho-hum, you might want to take another look.
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.
From Pattaya with panache
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 25/12/2012
» With its chic decor and Escoffier-inspired menu, Flare takes fine dining in Pattaya to a whole different level.
Two Icons one mission
Life, Noel Maclean, Published on 06/12/2012
» Why settle for less when you can have it all? If only for an evening, don't you deserve, at least now and again, the bare-hearted best?