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  Starry starry new year’s eve

  Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 08/12/2021

  » New Year’s Eve at the breathtakingly elevated restaurant and bar brings on the stars from all directions.

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  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.

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  Ripe for revelry

  Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 14/12/2017

  » ‘If a festival’s worth celebrating, it’s worth celebrating thoroughly,” could be the motto of Bangkok Marriott Marquis Queen’s Park’s buzzing, still relatively new communal kitchen’s upcoming Christmas and New Year programs of exquisite excess.

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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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  And now for something completely different

  Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 30/12/2016

  » It's great to see the old Imperial Queen's Park Hotel back in business after a three-year, reportedly 3.5 billion baht rehab, as Bangkok Marriott Marquis Queen's Park.

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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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  Let them eat everything

  Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 04/12/2015

  » There's no need to dress this up really. To get Sunday Brunch at La Vue, classic French restaurant, whose eponymous view turns downtown Bangkok back to front, just imagine that its iPad menu malfunctions to automatically order everything while only billing three courses.

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  Wishing you a very gastro new year

  Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 24/12/2015

  » The prefix 'gastro', from the ancient Greek for stomach, was first used in combination with the word "pub", needing no introduction, in London in 1991. The conjoining marked the birth of a new trend of local boozers that aspired to serve food on a par with any on 'the Continent', i.e. Europe, as opposed to the usual fare too reminiscent of school dinners.

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  Extra special Thai cuisine

  News, Noel Maclean, Published on 03/12/2014

  » How can you make a great cuisine even greater? Be lavish. Be inspired. Be uncompromising. Present it beautifully and originally in a setting that transports all the senses, not just the taste buds.

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  Surf-turf and Champagne surge

  News, Noel Maclean, Published on 03/12/2014

  » You've got to hand it to Fifty-Five fine dining restaurant at CentaraGrand: it sure knows how to organise a successful invasion of airspace by seafood and meat on the hoof from deep beneath the rolling waves and ground zero way below and finish with a flourish.

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