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    Merry Tea Time Everyone!

    Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 18/12/2019

    » 'Tis the season to take afternoon tea to a higher level of indulgence. At least so it is at Peacock Alley, Waldorf Astoria Bangkok's plush lobby lounge and bar boasting wraparound windows scoping the emerald greensward of the Royal Bangkok Sports Club.

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    Merry Tea Time Everyone!

    Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 02/12/2019

    » 'Tis the season to take afternoon tea to a higher level of indulgence. At least so it is at Peacock Alley, Waldorf Astoria Bangkok's plush lobby lounge and bar boasting wraparound windows scoping the emerald greensward of the Royal Bangkok Sports Club.

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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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    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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    Rossini’s ups the ante

    Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 14/12/2018

    » What a difference a Plate makes. Especially if it’s “L’Assiette Michelin” aka Michelin Plate where the international restaurants bible’s incognito inspectors “have discovered quality food”.

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    Same Same Festive Feasting

    Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 07/12/2018

    » Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, and will soon make a fleeting appearance on Goji “live” (no chafing dishes) gourmet buffet restaurant at Bangkok Marriott Marquis Queen’s Park’s Christmas Eve and Christmas Day buffets, and possibly New Year’s Eve as well. Plus much besides.

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    A LEGEND in your lunchtime

    Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 28/12/2017

    » Let’s be clear: Hamilton’s Steak House, the over 36-year-old stronghold of gourmet surf ‘n’ turf dining at the illustrious Dusit Thani Bangkok Hotel, is named after Hamilton King. His Eponymousness was United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Thailand during King Chulalongkorn’s reign around the turn of the 20th century and after retiring from a long tour of duty during which he came to love the place, lived out the remainder of his days in Thailand.

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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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    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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    When only delectable will do

    Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 19/12/2017

    » I don’t know who should be lauded more: the team behind The Reflexions modern French restaurant’s consistent culinary virtuosity and recent rise to new heights? Or its customers, who evidently recognise exceptional cuisine when they taste it and take the trouble to appraise others of their delight on that friend to some, foe to others arbiter of the good, bad and ugly in various dimensions of hospitality, TripAdvisor?

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