„ FIVE-STAR DINING
Prices do not include service charge and applicable government tax unless stated “net’’.
SUKHUMVIT
Bangkok Marriott Sukhumvit (02-797-0000)
Tomorrow: A new dining concept, Electronic Brunch, is featured at Octave Rooftop restaurant. Held every other Saturday, from 1-7pm, the six-hour experience features a wide range of a la carte options, with highlights such as watermelon gazpacho, oysters and burrata, Hangover Burrito, the Massive Burger, Australian tomahawk steak, pan-seared snow fish and cinnamon-oatmeal pancakes. Vegan options are also available. Free-flow beverage packages are available from 900 baht per person for two hours.
Bangkok Marriott Marquis Queen’s Park
(02-059-5999)
November: Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening and Saturday and Sunday brunch, Goji Kitchen + Bar’s international buffet restaurant features a special cuisine from Italy’s Sardinia island. Highlights include a selection of octopus salad, Alghero-inspired grilled fresh river prawns, classic spaghetti aglio olio with shaved bottarga (Sardinian fish roe), traditional gnocchetti sardi pasta with sausage and fennel ragu, handcrafted seafood pizza and a sweet ricotta tart with honey. Prices are 2,299 baht per meal per person for dinner, Friday to Sunday, and for lunch on Saturday. Sunday brunch costs 2,600 baht per person. Meanwhile, Siam Tea Room features a new selection of southern Thai cuisine dishes. Dishes include herbal rice salad with fresh vegetables, fluffy fish and fermented fish sauce; sour soup with fish stomach and fresh vegetables; stirfried prawns with wild sataw beans, chilli, garlic and shrimp paste; and stir-fried baegu leaves with egg and caramelised shrimps; and southern-style pork stew. Prices start from 150 baht per dish.
Carlton (02-090-7888)
November and December: Tuxedo Espresso Bar presents a new festive afternoon tea at 1,380 baht for two persons including tea or coffee of your choice. The set includes items such as pina colada Boule De Noel, caramel log cake, Christmas stollen, foie gras pie and pulled pork mille-feuille.
SATHON — WITTHAYU — LANG SUAN
Athenee (02-650-8800)
November: Dishes prepared with imported Chinese hairy crabs are highlighted at The Silk Road restaurant. Three cooking styles, each priced at 2,000 baht, include steaming with Chinese tea leaves, stir-frying with egg white and braising in a superior thick soup.
Eastin Grand Sathorn (02-210-8100) November: A newly updated Italian menu is featured at Antito resto-bar. Options include organic tuna tartare on spicy flat bread; marinated Southern squid with fennel and cucumber salad and spicy vinaigrette; pizza fritta with caramelised onion, pancetta, Parmesan cheese and balsamic; Italian sausage and truffle on grilled ciabatta bread with mushroom ketchup; spaghettoni with Hokkaido scallops and black truffle butter sauce; Phuket lobster ravioli with leek and truffled lobster cream; and caramelised hazelnut praline panna cotta with dark chocolate. Meanwhile, The Glass House grand weekend buffet, available for Saturday dinner and Sunday lunch, highlights prime seafood including fresh king crab, sea crab, oysters, river prawns, New Zealand mussels, snow fish and cheese-baked lobster as well as a selection of sushi, sashimi and tempura is available at Japanese corner and an array of pork porchetta, Wagyu beef picanha, roasted Australian lamb shoulder and baked teriyaki salmon. The price is 1,950 baht net per person.
Children under 12 years of age receive a 50% discount. Hotel Indigo (02-207-4999)
November: Char restaurant launches an all-new menu to celebrate its new Mexican-born chef de cuisine Jaime Rojas. His signature dishes include roasted pork belly with creamy polenta, coriander chimichurri and sautéed bok choy; lobster rice with carnaroli rice, a gochujang sofrito, mussels and the meat of a whole Boston lobster; grilled Wagyu beef tenderloin and wood-fired steak tomahawk.
SURAWONG — CHAROEN KRUNG
Capella (02-098-3814)
Nov 30-Dec 2: Chef-owner Mauro Colagreco from the French Riviera will be taking over the kitchen of Bangkok’s Michelin-starred Côte for three nights. The special nine-course “Carte Blanche” wine-pairing menu will be on offer at 12,000 baht per person.
Mandarin Oriental (02-659-9000)
November and December: Kinu by Takagi kaiseki-style Japanese restaurant presents a special caviar promotion, showcasing Japanese haute cuisine of the autumn season with a variety of premium sturgeon caviar from Sturia, France’s high-end caviar producer. Dishes include slowcooked Hokkaido scallops and snow crab tartare served with beetroot, lotus stem, pumpkin puree and Sturia Oscietra caviar; chestnut compote with fried somen noodles, persimmon-shaped salmon sushi and grilled kamasu fish with nine-monthaged Sturia Origin caviar; sea bream and turnip Hakata-style with Kyoto red carrot and Sturia Primeur caviar; Hokkaido oyster with sake jelly and Sturia Vintage caviar; soft yuba bean curd tempura with sticky dashi sauce and Oscietra caviar; and a rice bowl topped with Hokkaido Bafun uni and Sturia Origin caviar. Prices are 4,000 baht per person for a five-course lunch and 8,000 baht per person for a 10-course dinner.
Royal Orchid Sheraton (02-266-0123) November: From Thursday to Sunday, Thara Thong Thai restaurant features a wide range of regional Thai dishes, including traditional tom yum goong, southern-style massaman beef curry and pomelo chicken salad, served amid classical Thai dance entertainment. Giorgio’s restaurant features Northern Italian cuisine with dishes such as veal osso buco with rissotto alla Milanese; agnolotti pasta with goat cheeses and Piedmontese pine nuts; spatzil with crispy prosciutto and sage; wild shrimp scampi with cherry tomatoes, garlic and bread crumbs; baked sea bass in Liguria pesto; and chicken saltimbocca wrapped in prosciutto Aosta.
Shangri-La (02-236-7777)
November: Next2 international restaurant highlights its Sunday brunch buffet, priced at 2,900 baht net per person. Highlights include fresh seafood on ice, pan-seared foie gras, eggs Benedict, barbecue meat and seafood, Japanese sushi and Indian cuisine dishes. The price includes a glass of Prosecco or mocktail and one lobster Thermidor per person.
PHLOENCHIT — RATCHADAMRI — RATCHAPRASONG — RAMA I
Anantara Siam (02-126-8866)
November: Madison steakhouse launches a new menu that celebrates its new chef de cuisine Christian Caluwaert. His menu includes American-style slowcooked Wagyu brisket; a Steak Diane flambéed with cognac; Ibérico Joselito pork cheeks in red wine gravy sauce; tomahawk steak; and grilled Boston lobster with garlic herb butter. Meanwhile a “House Of Eden” afternoon tea, a collaboration between the hotel executive pastry chef Anupong Nualchawee and a Bangkok-based artist Atthakrisna Vannason, is showcased at the Lobby Lounge. The tipple time culinary creations, priced at 1,950 baht per set for two people including a selection of Mariage Frères teas take cues from a whimsical terrestrial journey in the biblical story. Expect to find delicacies such as Envy Apple and Earl Grey macarons; “naked” apple tartlet with chestnut leaf; beetroot and crabmeat rillettes; and scones with a choice of apple and cinnamon and cream cheese butter flavours.
Centara Grand at CentralWorld (02-100-6255)
November: A variety of Basque Country’s “pintxo” tapas is featured throughout the month at Uno Mas restaurant. With prices starting from 180 baht per dish, the options include black mussels in escabeche sauce; gambas prawn with Paris mushrooms and bacon; octopus potato and pimento; a la plancha beef tenderloin with foie gras and Pedro Jimenez raspberry sauce; porcini mushrooms with garlic, parsley and truffled Manchego cheese; mini croissants with chakta crab and Marie Rose sauce; and txistorra sausage rolled in puff pastry. Meanwhile at Red Sky restaurant, Alba white truffle is the seasonal highlighted ingredient. Dishes include Fassona beef tartare with white truffle and tome de Savoie cheese, white truffle cappuccino soup with white truffle shavings, white truffle tagliolini with butter and Parmesan cheese, Glacier 51 snow fish with Jerusalem artichokes velouté, Nantaise sauce and shaven white truffle and pan-seared veal tenderloin with porcini mushrooms and white truffle.
Grand Hyatt Erawan (02-254-1234)
November: Spasso French bistro highlights flame-baked tarte flambée prepared to the Alsace tradition. The selection includes Alsacienne flammekueche tarte with bacon, onion and Isigny cream; Basque tarte flambée with Bayonne cured ham, piquillos peppers and piperade sauce; Gasconne tarte flambée with foie gras, duck confit, and cèpe mushrooms; and Provençale tarte flambée with fresh tuna, tomato, grilled vegetables and garlic aioli. Prices start from 240 baht per piece.
Siam Kempinski (02-162-9000)
November and December: A new seasonal menu, dubbed Winter Journey, is featured at Michelin-starred restaurant Sra Bua by Kiin Kiin. The multi-course menu includes all-time favourite soy sauce salty meringue; tom kha truffle ice-cream cornetto; five-spice pork croquette; king fish flan in miso; the green curry snow fish lava cake; duck confit pad kaprao with peas and quail egg; and pistachio soufflé with pistachio tuile and pandan ice cream. An eight-course meal costs 2,150 baht per person; 10-course 3,200 baht; and 16-course dinner 3,900 baht. Additional wine pairings are priced from 1,700 baht to 2,900 baht.
St. Regis (02-207-7777)
Nov 26-28: Michelin-starred Igniv Bangkok presents special gastronomic events to celebrate the three-day residency of its founding chef Andreas Caminada. On Saturday and Sunday, the experience will be offered as a part of the four-course Autumn sharing menu, which encompasses a total of 18 dishes and is priced at 6,900 baht per person. On Monday, Caminada and Igniv Bangkok’s head chef David Hartwig will join hands with twin chefs Thomas and Mathias Sühring of two Michelin-starred Sühring restaurant. They will showcase a dexterous marriage of modern Swiss cuisine and innovative German fare through a very refined, multi-course dinner. The eight-hand collaboration dinner costs 9,900 baht per person.
RATCHADAPHISEK — VIBHAVADI — CHAENG WATTHANA
Asawin Grand (02-159-5888)
November: Sarasawadee all-day-dining restaurant recommends its international daily buffet lunch, priced at 590 baht net per person. Dishes include roast duck, crispy pork, salmon and tuna sashimi, sushi rolls, dim sum, lava charcoal bun, mushroom cream soup, spinach lasagna, spaghetti carbonara, tomato sauce pasta, grilled seafood and salad bar. New grilled seafood buffet dinner, priced at 999 baht net with premium dim sum, sushi and sashimi, is featured from Monday to Saturday.
Emerald (02-276-4567)
November: Hong Kong-style suckling pig and dishes prepared with hairy crab are highlighted at Yok Chinese restaurant. Prices are 2,800 baht per pig and 990 baht per crab. Meanwhile, stewed pork leg is a recommended dish at the Emerald Coffee Shop’s international lunch and dinner. An a la cart pork stew inclusive of rice and Chinese steamed buns is also available all day long at 399 baht per set.
Miracle Grand (02-575-5599) November: Premprachakorn restaurant offers an international buffet at 490 baht net for daily lunch and 590 baht net per person for dinner Sunday to Wednesday. The menu includes smoked duck breast, roast pork with plum sauce, sushi, pasta, spaghetti, som tam, pork larb, miang khum and salad bar. Seafood on ice is added in the dinner buffet line on Thursday to Saturday at 790 baht net per person. Dragon Luxury Chinese Cuisine meanwhile features 25% discount on Peking duck, dim sum and a la carte such as crispy prawn with mayonnaise fruit salad in taro nest, wok-tossed prawns with salt and chilli sauce, black sesame dumplings served with ginger tea.
BEYOND BANGKOK
Cape Panwa, Phuket (076-391-123)
November: Panwa House restaurant recommends Andaman Seafood Mountain sharing platter. Priced at 2,900 baht, the platter includes crab, lobster, tiger prawn, oyster, salmon and tuna accompanied by a selection of seafood sauces and dipping.
Classic Kameo, Ayutthaya
(035-212-535)
Nov 28-30: The Orchard restaurant presents Japanese Food Festival buffet dinner at 730 baht net per person. Children under 12 years of age receive a 50% discount.
Hua Hin Marriott Resort & Spa
(032-904-666)
November: Big Fish & Bar restaurant highlights dishes prepared with fresh Phuket lobster. Featured menu includes charcoal-grilled lobster served with spicy seafood sauce and garlic fried rice; classic lobster thermidor with truffle mashed potatoes and sautéed vegetables; stir-fried lobster with cashew nuts; stir-fried lobster with black pepper, garlic, peppercorns and spring onion; and Italian-style squidink spaghetti aglio e olio with lobster. Prices start from 2,800 baht per dish.
Kimpton Kitalay Samui (077-951-999) Today and tomorrow: An exclusive pop up event with a seven-course dining experience by chef Joe Napol Jantraget and chef Saki Hoshino from Bangkok’s Samlor restaurant is featured at Boho Thai Lifestyle Café. Dishes include marinated local fish crudo with citrus vinaigrette and chilli oil; curry crab chawanmushi with fermented chilli; grilled Wagyu striploin; and glazed oyster with baked rice and kale. Price is 2,500 baht per person for food only. An additional wine pairing costs 1,800 baht per person.
Meliá Chiang Mai (052-090-699) November: Laan Na Kitchen all-day dining restaurant recommends its seasonal four-course Mediterranean menu prepared with fresh, organic and sustainably-harvested ingredients. Dishes include green hummus salad with grounded smoked paprika, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, carrots, celery and pita bread; a chilled cream of cucumber and sesame paste soup with natural yoghurt and dill; beet paella with Iberico ham trimming, tomatoes, grilled mushrooms and Parmigiano Reggiano; and Chiang Mai orange pot de crème. The set costs 699 baht net per person.
CAPRICORN Dec 22-Jan 19
Some people may have the day off, but some don’t. If you must work today, you might start falling behind if you take time out for social exchanges, or you may become impatient with those who refuse to be serious.
AQUARIUS Jan 20-Feb 18
Test the strength of your convictions. If you choose to uphold the highest standards, be sure you can live up to them. A friend might introduce you to ideas and possibilities you never considered before.
PISCES Feb 19-March 20
You may be vulnerable to deception if you try to mix business with pleasure. The person who wines-anddines you might have ulterior motives. Steer clear of anyone who invites you to attend a secret meeting.
ARIES March 21-April 19
You may win someone’s instant trust and admiration. This can be a good time to appear in public places. If you are already paired up in a romantic relationship, this is an excellent time to show your affection.
TAURUS April 20-May 20
You might think you are at your best when you are intently focused on material success. If you take this to extremes, however, you might upset a partner or loved one who wants the attention that money cannot buy.
GEMINI May 21-June 20
A loving partner may brighten your day with demonstrations of devotion. Pay attention because otherwise you might miss a chance to improve your situation. Your hard work can bring you admirable results.
LEO July 23-Aug 22
You may not find the answer just yet — be sure you know the question. Love can be the most powerful force known to mankind but also the most difficult to define. Enjoy being with someone you care about.
CANCER June 21-July 22
Doom scrolling can be depressing. If you concentrate on the worst or most negative events you might overlook a happy conversation or the positive outcomes that occur. Don’t dwell on anxieties or troubles.
VIRGO Aug 23-Sept 22
Enjoy family fun or local social activities. You may need to stand strong and uphold boundaries when dealing with partners or business contacts to avoid being pushed, prodded or led into making an unwise change.
LIBRA Sept 23-Oct 22
Friendly flirtations or conversations may tweak your interest and propel you into a beneficial relationship. Be cautious about expressing sudden impulses when handling work-related matters or taking unexpected phone calls.
SCORPIO Oct 23-Nov 21
Count your blessings rather than your money. A tranquil heart and peace of mind might be one of your most important assets. You may wish for more privacy to work on a creative project or to enjoy a romantic activity.
SAGITTARIUS Nov 22-Dec 21
The force of love can draw two people closer like a tractor beam on a sci-fi starship. This could be a fine time to make a romantic commitment or take a few steps towards forming a closer relationship.