Archive for the ‘Bangkok’ Category
The Australian Pub & BBQ, Wine Tasting, Oct 29, 2009 – Bangkok
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Diplomat Bar, Conrad Hotel – Bangkok
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
87-3 Wireless Road, Nonthaburi
Tel. +66 2 6909999
Attire: Smart Casual
Opening Hours:
Mon.-Thurs.: 10:00AM to 01:00AM
Fri. & Sat.: 10:00AM to 02:00AM
Sun: 10:00AM to 1:00AM
Happy Hours: Buy 1 Get 1 Free from 4:00pm-6:00pm; Longest Friday Happy Hour: Buy 1 Get 1 Free from 12:00pm – 6:00pm
Afternoon Tea: 2:30pm-5:30pm
Credit Cards: All Major
Prices: Moderate-Expensive
A comfortable bar room in the midst of Bangkok’s embassy row. Over the years it consistently attracts a mixed crowd of business and embassy people both expat and Thai. The room’s modern and contemporary look is enhanced by touches of Thai design. The adroit placement of back-lighting behind artifacts and decorations along with the use of silk upholstery in soft tones, make the room appealing as well as comfortable; quality acoustics combined with a top jazz singer, performing every night except Sundays, make this a very satisfying experience.
Brown Sugar Jazz Club – Bangkok
Monday, October 26th, 2009
Brown Sugar The Jazz Boutique
469 Phrasumen Rd. Banglumpoo
Bangkok, Thailand.
+66894991378, +66818057759
http://www.brownsugarbangkok.com
http://www.facebook.com/brownsugarbangkok
Brown Sugar has moved to its new location above.
Since 1985 Brown Sugar, although the old location was a shophouse with a minuscule stage, has been graced by some formidable jazz musicians both local and international. It has now moved to a new location on 469 Phrasumen Rd. Banglumpoo, Bangkok. They have to compete with other jazz venues in the large hotels who bring in top international jazz names. The music is good at Brown Sugar and you probably will enjoy it.
Niu’s on Silom, Jazz-Blues Bar, Restaurant – Bangkok
Saturday, October 17th, 2009
Pictured above: Looking at Niu’s from the courtyard
661 Floor 1-2 Silom Road, Silom, Bangrak, Bangkok 10500
Tel. 02-266-5333-4
Fax. 02-266-5335
email: reservation@niusonsilom.com
website: http://www.niusonsilom.com
The Concerto Restaurant is a short walk up a circular stairway to the floor above Niu’s on Silom, the fashionable jazz bar on the ground floor, it is a comfortably furnished room with all tables having a bird’s-eye view of the tree-lined square below, and features a treo of musicians playing very subdued light music; they are hidden up in the front to the extreme left, and provide the perfect background music for enjoying dinner.
Above: The dining room at Concerto Restaurant at Niu’s on Silom
Above: Piccata of Dutch veal
Above: Spaghetti vongole with bottarga
Chef Marco Cammarata presented me with an exquisite amuse-gueule, an assembled medley consisting of small dishes of fresh crab, foie gras & mango, and Scottish salmon with fennel and this, I thought, was a good start for what was to come. An uncomplicated menu of spaghetti alle vongole topped with some bottarga to begin, followed by a very hard to come by, at least in this part of the world, genuine Dutch veal prepared as scaloppini piccata. Both dishes were flawlessly executed. When the dinner was finished, the waiter suggested that I order dessert and grappa at the jazz bar downstairs and that turned out to be a very good idea!
Pictured above: Another view of Concerto’s dining room at Niu’s on Silom
The bar room is exceedingly well put together and oozes sophistication and good-breeding, you may choose to be seated in a comfortable leather chair or sit at the bar to listen to one of the rotating vocalists, which on this particular evening was Tessie, who was backed by the accomplished house band with Steve Lowry on trumpet; while I slowly worked on a vanilla and coffee Panna Cotta and sipped a lovely red wine, Montemoro, Special Selection 2003, from Alessandro Puri’s, Wine Merchants Co., Ltd., Bangkok. The club has a state-of-the-art sound system and the entire room, and even the plate-glass windows are soundproofed, this new club gives some serious competition to the Bamboo Bar and other jazz venues in town. Just outside Niu’s bar where live jazz is performed nightly is a relaxed, informal outdoor dining area, seating can expand into the courtyard as required and there is also an outdoor-bar, it is the perfect setting for the cooler evenings of the winter season that is fast approaching.
You may find the schedule of who is playing on any given evening at Niu’s on Silom by going to their website: http://www.niusonsilom.com
Pictured below: Live jazz at Niu’s on Silom bar on the ground floor
Italasia Wine Tasting at Jim Thomson’s House – Bangkok
Saturday, October 17th, 2009
Above: Ms Chiara Lugarotti CEO of the famous vinyards from Torgiano in Umbria represents Lungarotti at the Italasia Wine Tasting.
Many fine wines were exhibited and poured at the Italasia Wine Tasting at Jim Thompson’s House on Friday 16 October, 2009.
An excellent selection of the finest salumi and many different cheeses from different regions in Italy from mozzarella di bufala from Campania in the south to raw cow’s milk cheese from Piedmonte in the north.
Above: Mr. Andrea Bizzarri of Italasia who helped arrange this elegant wine tasting, pictured with one of his employees.
Spanish on 4, Grand Opening Party – Bangkok
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Spanish on 4 had its Grand Opening party last night Wednesday, Oct 14th, 2009. The place is easy enough to find being just a short walk from the Saladaeng BTS Station and is directly across from Soi Convent on Silom Road.
From the sinous tapas and regular bar combo the bartenders were kept busy pouring white and red wines, San Miguel beer, with plenty of mini tapas circulating upstairs and down, and Sangria, of course! Both Spanish chefs Xavier and Raul were back and forth between the kitchen upstairs and the refrigerated display cases at the tapas bar. The place was jammed but the knowledgeable staff and easy-flowing design lent itself to handle whatever this wall to wall crowd could give it and more; with the help of the upstairs dining room and terrace seating outside in the front.
They will make paella to the order (it takes 40 minutes) and the price is between 700 – 800 baht depending on what you choose to be in it.
Lord Jim’s, Mandarin Oriental Hotel – Bangkok
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
48 Oriental Avenue, Bangkok 10500, Thailand
Tel. +66 (2) 659 9000
Opening Hours:
Buffet lunch:
11am-3pm
Sundays
11:30am-3pm
Saturdays & Public Holidays
12pm-3pm
Monday – Friday
Dinner:
7pm-10:30pm (last order)
Dress Code: Dressy Casual
Credit Cards: All major
Prices: Expensive
Over the years, Lord Jim’s, with its great glass windows overlooking the Chao Phraya River, has always maintained quality cuisine and service. The restaurant now specializes in seafood, where you will find some of it displayed on ice as you enter, and this restaurant is also known for its outstanding preparations (a choice of three different styles) of foie gras. We started with oysters flown in from France, and grilled lobster. I finished with an amazingly fresh and delicious Black Halibut. In addition they also offer the following selections as well as many more for your dining pleasure:
Fresh White Crab Meat with Avocado
Rémoulade dressing and crisp lettuce leaves,
chilled avocado soup with lemon cream
Lord Jim’s Iced Seafood Tower
Rock lobster, tiger prawns, selection of sushi and sashimi, fish tartar, fresh oysters, selected mollusks, crab claws, scallop ceviche, wild smoked salmon, Hiyashi Wakame salad (for Two Persons)
Seared Duck Foie Gras and Fresh Mango
Young rocket leaf salad with an orange-balsamic duck jus
Grilled or Pan-Fried Whole Dover Sole
Buttered spunta potatoes and Champagne cream with steamed vegetables
Whole Boston Lobster
Crushed green peas, thyme croquette potatoes and Vichy carrots with a green pea cappuccino
Sindustry Ladies Night, Launch Party, At The Tunnel – Bangkok
Monday, October 12th, 2009
Featuring “Lady of the Underground” Dominatrix Dancers, Spanking you all night long!!
Dress Code: All Black, Latex, Rubber, Whips, Chains & Chickens
WARNING:
THE TUNNEL is sure to blow-up your mind and Burn-up your braincells with this legendary party! (The Only Afterhours Ladies Night in Bangkok)
LADIES FREE ENTRY ALL NIGHT & A CHERRY LIPS MARTINI!
For table reservations or to annoy Fred call: 0875940641
Are you up for this? Ladies Night Every Wednesday at the Tunnel, Soi 5, Soi Lang Suan, Bangkok
Wednesday nights are Bangkok’s first after-hours “Ladies Nights” that cater to the ladies and the place rocks. Stop in and have a look, the crowd starts to arrive en masse after 2am!
D’Sens, Dusit Thani Hotel – Bangkok
Sunday, October 11th, 2009
A week-long special, gastronomic extravaganza at D’Sens, Dusit Thani Hotel, Bangkok. Wine and Champagne pairings organized by French Sommelier, Yannis Kherachi. Tasting Menus, Tea presentations, pastry exhibitions, cooking demonstrations and the launch of the Pourcel Brothers, Chef Jacques and Laurent’s new book with the rather complicated title “Transparences En Duo Verrines, Petites Cuillères & Snackings”.
The Chefs that participated were: Chef Kotaro Hasegawa, Sens & Saveurs, Tokyo, Japan; Chef Erwin Eberharter, Exec. Chef, Dusit Thani Bangkok; Chef Philippe Keller, Exec. Soous Chef, Dusit Thani Bangkok; Chef Julien Lavigne, Chef de Cuisine, D’Sens, Dusit Thani Bangkok; Chef Slawek Golaszewski, Exec. Pastry Chef, Dusit Thani Bangkok; Sommelier Yannis Kherachi, Le Jardin des Sens Montpellier, France.
Above: Jacques & Laurent Pourcel
