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    New year's revelation

    Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 17/12/2020

    » Do yourself a Thai flavours favour and book your New Year’s Eve dinner at Front Room, the Waldorf Astoria’s vibrant, high-ceilinged, lower lobby level Thai restaurant.

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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.

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    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.

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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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Exquisite festivities from Italy

    Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 11/12/2017

    » As they say in Italy, “Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo” (Merry Christmas and Happy New Year). And for those who have reservations about roast turkey and can’t countenance Christmas pudding, it’s the sound of salvation. Even in Bangkok, all you have to do is join the in-crowd at Jojo for your celebratory lunch or dinner, and have a wonderful time steering well clear of culinary clichés.

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    Friends, Bangkokians, Countrymen!

    Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 01/12/2016

    » In the crowded field of Italian restaurants, especially upscale authentic-centric ones, Jojo at the St. Regis Bangkok differentiates its dishes on three points: their artistry and delectability, the standard of service and stimulating décor, and, the surprisingly moderate price that buys all that, especially in the case of its Mercato Italiano (Italian Market Weekday Lunch) a la carte buffet lunches.

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    Let there be LUCE!

    Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 09/12/2016

    » LUCE -- Italian for "light" -- with the 'e' pronounced 'e'' as in cafe' -- Italian Restaurant at 14 fl., Eastin Grand Hotel Sathorn Bangkok (Surasak BTS) is well-named in many ways.

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    VIU Halloo!

    Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 15/12/2016

    » The most impressive thing about VIU, the ritzy St. Regis Bangkok Hotel's level 12, every-epicurean dining room, is the exquisite balance it achieves in its cuisine between underplaying and overstating.

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