My travelling married adult man has been writing again, this fourth dimension close some of the nutrient together with places he has eaten inward on his numerous visits for function to Bangkok. If you lot similar what you lot read you lot tin follow him on Twitter, @asksirstamford
I conduct maintain travelled to Bangkok many times, ever staying inward the rest hotel (the Novotel at Ploenchit), which is a perfectly reasonable 4 star hotel amongst a puddle together with inward a reasonably practiced location. An added payoff of the hotel is its proximity to a make of neat restaurants together with a duet of practiced bars.
Coffee Bean past times Dao
On ane of my showtime trips to Bangkok, whilst I worked for a regional banking concern inward Singapore, a colleague took us to ane of her favourite restaurants. Looking at the bill of fare I was amazed to come across that it was a selection of Thai together with Italian inspired dishes, as good equally an enormous selection of cakes together with buns, I know, it’s a foreign combination, I ever become for the Thai dishes. I cannot vouch for whatever of the cakes equally I produce non conduct maintain a sugariness molar together with conduct maintain never sampled whatever of them. Now, on my visits, I rest at the terminate of the street together with become to the eating seat regularly.
I normally club a starter or appetiser, the Thai Fishcakes, the prawn balls (minced prawn, deep fried together with served amongst sugariness chili sauce) or the spicy chicken wings are ever fantabulous winners, followed past times a principal course of didactics amongst steamed rice. The mains I normally conduct maintain are frequently based around the Thai curry theme, ruby / greenish / massaman / jungle amongst beef, chicken or duck. The curries all characteristic a practiced degree of spice but niggling chili oestrus (perhaps I am immune these days, therefore don’t accept my discussion for it) together with the oriental season shines upwards from the pristine plates together with bowls. For something a niggling chip different, why non endeavor the soft-shell crab (I ever experience guilty eating a crab that was inward the procedure of moving house), it’s crunchy, sugariness together with real tasty.
Price-wise, the eating seat is reasonable, the inward a higher house repast normally costs betwixt 600 together with 800 baht, amongst a duet of Singha beers.
Baan Glom Gig
This is a eating seat I would never conduct maintain flora on my own, equally it nestles at the bottom of a dimly lit street, simply off the principal Ruamrudee Soi, that serves a street nutrient marketplace during the solar daytime together with a paradise of nutrient scraps for the local stray cats past times night. Once off the street you lot pace into an oasis of calm amongst both outdoor together with indoor dining areas (there is a business office room upstairs), amongst the decor existence white together with receive clean amongst interesting artifacts / photos on the walls (there is a statue of Chairman Mao, I am non certain why). Having discovered the place, I come upwards hither on every trip, normally to a greater extent than than once, but why? Simple the nutrient is really excellent. As amongst Coffee Bean, I normally club a starter together with a principal (two starters together with a principal is means equally good much for ane person, delight believe me). My starter of selection is a de-constructed chicken drumstick, amongst the chicken minced together with combined amongst drinking glass noodles together with and therefore moulded dorsum into the variety of a drumstick together with deep fried. This is real tasty together with a little unusual, it puts KFC to shame. Mains are normally the aforementioned curries but on my final trip I selected the large river prawn dish, really fantabulous but non that salubrious equally it is cooked inward rather a lot of delicious garlic butter, amongst the fish’s flesh existence sugariness together with flavoursome (it is a monster prawn).
Hyde & Seek
Hyde & Seek is a gastrobar (whatever a gastrobar is) at the exceed of the Soi, adjacent to the Plaza Athenee Residences together with Hotel together with unopen to the BTS station at Ploenchit, serving western fashion dishes together with a practiced make of beers together with wines (including the ever pop Beer Lao). Just earlier final Christmas I had to pass a weekend inward the urban centre together with decided to conduct maintain Lord's Day tiffin inward the bar. Choosing the rack of lamb amongst roasted potatoes although at that spot is also a creamy dauphinoise potatoes option. The lamb was perfectly cooked, real pinkish for me together with was followed upwards amongst a few chilled out beers on the exterior terrace. If you lot tumble out to endure hungry, I’d suggest against ordering the scallop dish (although it is fantastic), equally it contains only ane only breadcrumb encrusted mollusc, served inward the vanquish (this does withal salve room for much to a greater extent than booze).
