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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
That Old Thai Magic
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 08/12/2017
» This New Year’s Eve, Baan Khanitha will be plying up-river to beyond the Grand Palace and returning downstream to its point of embarkation/disembarkation by the gay godowns of Asiatique the Riverfront, including the local branch of the illustrious Baan Khanitha Thai fine dining restaurants.
Blessings in disguise
Holiday Time, Noel Maclean, Published on 12/12/2017
» Isn’t the real point about Christmas and New Year to have fun and feel great? But that doesn’t just happen. You need a runway, momentum and lift-off.
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.