Atmosphere
French Restaurant & Bar à Vin
141C, Bld Norodom
Monument de l’indépendence
Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh – Cambodge
atmosphereresto@yahoo.fr
Atmosphere French Restaurant & Bar à Vin has a casual feel to it and the cooking is very good. They offer the choice to grill most items, that adapt to this style of cooking, on their outdoor grill (pictured below) on the front terrace. I enjoyed this establishment immensely and in fact, I dined there on three different occasions on our week long visit to Phnom Penh. The owner, Didier Finot, was very cordial and treated us very well; he has managed to keep the same staff for fifteen years, this means he certainly is doing something right.
Steak with marvelous pomme de terre sauté
Soupe de poisson
Starters: including foie gras and escargot en croûte
Chicken fricassée
Christmas at the Raffles Hotel Le Royal
The pool with the Landmark building (circa 1929) behind
The State building behind the lovely trees
Hallway leading to the Monivong dining room
An example of old and new; the old, dial telephone is fitted with push buttons
The check-in process is painless with a drink in front of you; no necessity to stand at a registration counter
A view of the pool through Plumeria trees from our room
Restaurant Le Royal
Culinary Tidbits . . . managing partner, Noah Ellis, of Red Medicine Restaurant, a new Vietnamese restaurant in Beverly Hills, California took a snapshot of Los Angeles Times food critic, S. Irene Virbila and refused her party service, he then told them to leave. Ellis kept them waiting for 45 minutes before taking this decision, and as an added insult, he posted her photo on their Tumblr website (now removed, but not before the blogosphere got a hold of it) and said, “Our purpose for posting this is so that all restaurants can have a picture of her and make a decision as to whether or not they would like to serve her. We find that some of her reviews can be unnecessarily cruel and irrational…”
