GOURMET NEWS
Buffet bonanaza Where to enjoy a gourmet feast this month
Something for the weekend
WESTIN Grande Sukhumvit’s buffet restaurant, Taste, now offers a weekend feast featuring changing highlights, appetizers, meats, and seafood, for just B1,990 per person. Highlights include rock lobster, snow fish, Australian beef tenderloin, lamb cutlets, and foie gras prepared to order. The buffet is available on Fri and Sat only. ☎ 02 207 8000 :westingrandesukhumvit.com
Antipasti lunch at Jojo
ST Regis Bangkok’s popular Italian restaurant has introduced a new Antipasti Lunch Buffet priced B695++ with a soft drink. Available daily from 12pm-3pm, the buffet is a good option for a quick and light lunch. If you’re feeling more peckish, though, you can also add a main course and dessert (two course menu is B695++ with a soft drink; three courses is B850++ with a soft drink). ☎ 02 207 7815 :stregis.com/bangkok
Seafood and Asian favourites
THE recently renovated Party House One (see our review on page 56) at Siam@Siam Design Hotel & Spa is now back on the scene with two new buffet nights. Visit on a Wednesday night and you’ll find the Asian Buffet, featuring over 80 dishes from around the region, for B750 per person. Visit on a Friday, and a Seafood Buffet offers a wide range of deep see bounty at B1,499 with a glass of wine. 02 217 3000, 0 2217 3070 ☎partyhouseone.com
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Halloween Treats
ON Oct 31, The Square restaurant at Novotel Bangkok on Siam Square will serve up a spooky international dinner buffet featuring all kinds of Halloween inspired creations alongside its usual international fare. Dinner is B950++ with a “scary” welcome drink. All kids in Halloween costumes will receive a special gift. ☎ 02 209 8888 :novotelbkk.com
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Chefs on the move
Our gourmet spies track the comings and goings of chefs in Bangkok • Inaki Aizpitarte, chef and owner of Le Chateaubriand in Paris, France, is coming with his team to cook their bistro-style cuisine at La Scala, The Sukhothai Bangkok, from Oct 23-27. Recently Inaki’s restaurant was named 15th best in the world, in The S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2012. • Michelin Star Guest Chef Laurent Peugeot will pair his award winning Burgundian cuisine with the region’s top wines at The Reflexions Restaurant, Plaza Athenee Bangkok, from Oct 23-27. Set dinner is B6,500 (go as two diners and you’ll get a complimentary bottle of Burgundy).
☎ 02 650 8800 :fb.bangkok@lemeridien.com
• Chef Ringo and Chef Wan from the Michelin-Starred Mira Hotel Hong Kong will prepare their cuisine at Loong Chinese Restaurant, Swissôtel Le Concorde Bangkok, from Oct 24-30. An All-You-Can-Eat A-La-Carte menu will be B685.
☎ 02 694 2222 ext 1540
• CONRAD Bangkok has appointment two new chefs to its culinary team: Executive Pastry Chef Frédéric Legras from Lyon, France; and Japanese Chef Kenji Shindo. Prior to joining the hotel, Chef Fr Frédéric worked at a luxury hotel in Ireland where he was in charge of the hotel’s overall pastry needs, which included The Gordon Ramsay Restaurant. Chef Kenji, meanwhile, has many years’ experience cooking his native cuisine, and he’s already added a host of new dishes to DTER’S menu, including his delicious signature ‘Snowfish Sasamushi with Black Truffle.’
Tables’ special dinner promotion ■ FROM now until the end of November, Tables at the Grand Hyatt Erawan is featuring its signature dishes in a special dinner promotion. The deal, priced at B2,200++ per person, is part-buffet and part-set menu with a choice of mains. Created by Chef Michel Eschmann, Tables’ Signature Dinner starts with Seafood on ice, followed by unlimited appetizers presented tableside including Serrano Ham, Scottish Smoked Salmon, Caesar Salad, Lobster Bisque and Champagne Risotto. Next are the main dishes. These include Steak au Poivre, Grilled Australian Lamb Chops, Duck Leg, Sea Bass, and Flamed Tiger Prawns with Pernod. For an additional 300 baht ++, diners can enjoy Beef Tenderloin with Duck Liver and Black Truffle, Dover Sole Meuniere, and Boston Lobster Thermidor. Desserts feature a choice of a European cheese selection or Tables Dessert Platter. Wines begin at B320++ per glass. ☎ 02 254 1234 email: tables.bangh@hyatt.com
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