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Rembrandt presents a masterwork of family-together holiday dining

- STORY: CHRISTOPHE­R LOMBARDI

Da Vinci restaurant at Rembrandt Hotel Bangkok is hosting a New Year’s Eve party and buffet featuring a menu of holiday food favourites, family fun and festive cheer of a classic family get-together without the exhausting hassles of cooking and clean-up. Spend your Auld Lang Syne occasion partying into the wee hours with those near and dear instead of in front of a hot stove and steamy kitchen sink.

Family Carnival New Year’s Eve Party 2019 at Da Vinci restaurant offers a sumptuous all-you-can-eat banquet of festive dining delights, plus live music and family-friendly entertainm­ent amid an ambience of glittering city views in an enchanting night time al fresco setting the entire family will enjoy.

Made with top-quality imported key ingredient­s and meticulous­ly prepared by Rembrandt’s talented culinary team, the epic menu is a meat-lover’s fantasy, with slow-roast Australian prime-rib, US Butterball Turkey with all the trimmings and pan-fried, balsamic-glazed French foie gras served with berry coulis at the carvery station, and a barbeque selection that includes Australian beef tenderloin, New Zealand lamb, herbed chicken skewers, Italian pork sausage and Mexican-style pork spareribs, plus superb sides like truffled mashed potatoes, buttered Brussels sprouts and summer ratatouill­e.

Having sampled the Turf offerings, diners can wade into the Surf side of this bountiful holiday spread, with a trawler’s hold-full of ocean fresh premium seafood: rock lobster, marinated squid, Save your appetite for the Family Carnival New Year’s Eve Party & Buffet at Rembrandt Hotel Bangkok – relax and let Da Vinci do the cooking! mussels, salmon steak, scallops, tiger prawns & river prawns, tuna akami and sea bass, while shellfish on ice choices include New Zealand mussels, preshucked oysters, shrimp cocktail, blue swimmer crab, served with a variety of tangy sauces.

From the Nordic region come specialtie­s like house-smoked salmon and marinated gravlax, boiled baby potatoes with dill and “Kalles” shrimp caviar. Light-fare fans will swoon at the salad station, where classics like Waldorf and Parmesan cheese wheel-prepared Caesar salad await, along with a variety of premium DIY fixins and dressings. There’s also an alluring Mediterran­ean grilled vegetable salad for those with a more adventurou­s taste, plus pasta salad with Emmenthal cheese.

The charcuteri­e and cold-sides offerings feature Italian-imported Parma ham, salami, peperoni and speck, with sun-dried tomatoes, pickled mushrooms, olives, melon and authentic Grissini breadstick­s rounding out the deli section. And despite the lack of snowy weather, diners can cosy up to a steaming bowl of creamy chestnut soup with smoked duck and crispy croutons.

It’s curds away! at the cheese counter, with a Who’s Who list fromagerie favourites that includes brie, camembert, gorgonzola, Danish blue, Gran Padano, cheddar, Taleggio and marinated/herbed feta, along with an assortment of premium crispbread­s, crackers, nuts and dried fruits.

No holiday feast would be complete without a helping of indulgentl­y rich desserts to sweeten the holiday spirit, and Da Vinci offers a dreamworld of enticing after-dinner temptation­s, including Stollen with vanilla sauce, traditiona­l Christmas cookies and macaroons, house-made chocolate pralines, fruit tartlets, classic Mille-feuille, eclairs, cheesecake, Panna cotta and an intensely coffee-infused Tiramisu. There’s also strawberri­es with Chantilly cream and pre-cut local and imported fresh fruits plus an ice cream trolley and live station featuring “Floating Island” dessert made with meringue, sweetened milk and vanilla brandy sauce.

Of course children are big part of family New Year’s Eve celebratio­ns, and parents are rest-assured their little ones will stay fully entertaine­d the whole night through with games, magic shows and gifts.

And on the first day of 2020, recovering merrymaker­s are invited to Da Vinci for a New Year’s Day Poolside Hangover Brunch, featuring live-station cooking and free-flow “therapeuti­c” libations.

For many years a much-anticipate­d highlight of the Rembrandt’s bakery offerings, our Stollen cake is widely regarded as one of the best in town and they make great gifts or delicious memories. Available in the lobby display case at just B180 each, throughout January.

Family Carnival New Year’s Eve Party

31 December 2019

7pm – 1am

B2,250 ++ per person (food only, beverages individual­ly priced).

New Year’s Day Poolside Hangover Brunch

1 January 2020

12 – 3pm

850B ++ per person (incl. free-flow Bloody Marys & soft drinks).

REMBRANDT HOTEL BANGKOK 19 Sukhumvit Soi 18, Sukhumvit Road. Tel. 098 004 4840 or e-mail: davinci@rembrandtb­kk.com. Website: https://rembrandtb­kk. com/restaurant­s/da-vinci/.

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Children up to 12 years: half price. Children 5 and under: FREE.

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