A PLACE AT THE TABLE

THE REAL FOODIES YOU SHOULD BE FOLLOWING

These days, there is no shortage of pointers that can direct you to the right eatery should your stomach start rumbling at whichever hour. Food pictures deluge the internet thanks to the torrent of food bloggers who make a living from “reviewing” restaurants and cafés.

Some Instagram accounts boast hundreds of thousands of followers, but there’s something insubstantial about their massproduced photographs and hasty descriptions that hardly go beyond the dish’s name and the credit-card promo available with it. How they praise everything (because their moneymaking depends on it) also makes a real food connoisseur’s skin crawl, so we’re obviously steering away from those commercial bloggers to give you something with a little more style and personality.

We’ve chosen five Thai accounts with a human face and voice, thus omitting any accounts that are a community or hidden behind a banner. Instagrammers with the word “guru” or “foodie” in their user name were also excluded from this list because it’s vulgar and unimaginative. Real, self-respecting gurus don’t need to label themselves as such. Some big players you may already recognise, but there are also insider, lesser-known names that are quietly moving and shaking up the industry behind the scenes. Not coincidentally, all of our selected bloggers work in the food-and-beverage industry, which is to say that they really know what they’re talking about and how food should be served and cooked, not just whether it tastes good or not. With their discerning, cultured palate and picture captions that give true insight, these foodies are the ones pinpointing the pinnacle of good taste.