Including a list of delicious restaurants that have to wait and are known for having tight lines. And Chef Gordon Ol Ramsey’s boutique in Bangkok
At the time of bidding farewell to the old year and welcoming the new year like this, in addition to tourist activities to enjoy the colors of festivals around the world, finding a delicious restaurant to enjoy the atmosphere while enjoying delicious food with family is another popular activity. To make things even more special today, The Explorer has selected a list of popular stores that opened this year. It is famous for the difficulty in reserving seats, including the arrival of the famous chef Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant, which will open its first branch in Thailand next December.
Sushi Saito
Title : 300/1 Charoen Krung Road, Yanawa Subdistrict, Sathorn District, Bangkok 10120
Opens : Open Tuesday to Sunday from 12:00 to 14:00, 17:30 to 19:30 and 19:45 to 22:30, closed on Mondays.
Sushi Saito is a popular 3-Michelin-starred sushi restaurant from Tokyo known for its high-quality ingredients. Chef’s cooking skills including making reservations which are very difficult due to the table reservation system that receives customers from recommendations of regular customers. This makes the restaurant in demand among foodies who want to try it once and for all, and there are still only 3 branches around the world: Tokyo, Hong Kong and Bangkok, which have just opened in early 2023.
Chef Takashi Saito
Located in the grounds of the Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok, the restaurant serves Edomae-style omakase menus, where the chefs demonstrate their skills in making simple, exquisite Edo-period sushi, with an emphasis on the natural flavor of the ingredients. Flavors are kept to a minimum, under the supervision of Chef Makoto Maruyama, who previously worked at the flagship restaurant in Tokyo. As for the quality of ingredients, chef-owner Takashi Saito selects the best seasonal ingredients himself. It is sent directly from Japan to Thailand in order to maintain store standards as much as possible.
Crimson Zuke, red meat tuna and special sushi made from Kohada fish.
Meanwhile, the flagship store in Japan is currently only accepting customers who have been recommended by regular customers. Discouraging many new food lovers but in Bangkok even though you have to wait in line for a long time for a reservation, there is still a better chance of tasting Edomae style omakase with the same standards as Saito Sushi in Tokyo. And you don’t have to travel to Japan either.
| price : Lunch price starts from 5,800 baht++ per person / Dinner starts from 8,500 baht++ per person.
reservation : Ask for details and reserve seats at 02-0601999
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Fuego
Title : The Taste Thonglor, 2nd Floor, Thonglor Road, Khlong Tan Nuya Sub-District, Watthana District, Bangkok 1010
Opens : Open Wednesday to Monday from 17:30 to 24:00, closed on Tuesday.
A tapas-style restaurant that combines Japanese and Spanish food traditions and is full of creativity in creating its menus. Using high quality raw materials serving food under the concept of “Innovative Spanish and Japanese Tapas” that gives the delicate Japanese taste and Spanish boldness. The menu is constantly changing based on seasonal ingredients. Run by Spanish chef Roger Solé, it just opened last July.
Inside, the restaurant has a large bar counter with an open kitchen in the middle. Show your chef skills in using fire in cooking. True to the name Fuego, which means fire in Spanish, the dining is tapas-style, with 11 gourmet dishes and a menu for those who want a snack, hang out with friends, sip cocktails and listen to music. The atmosphere inside the restaurant is full of life due to the somewhat crowded guests. You must reserve a table in advance to ensure you get a seat. Because the entire store only had about twenty seats around the counter. There is only one dining table that can accommodate 4-5 people.
| price : Cost per person is approximately 1000-2000 baht / Set tapas menu price per set is 2600 baht per person.
reservation : Font: @fuegobkk |
Goksonchi
Title : Woodbury Common, 5th Floor, 15/3 Soi Romrudi, Lumpini Sub-District, Patmuan District, Bangkok 10330
Opens : Open Wednesday to Monday from 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM and closed on Tuesdays.
The first luxury Korean restaurant in Thailand. Serving authentic Korean food with a contemporary twist that you can’t find in other Korean restaurants in Bangkok, run by authentic Korean Chef Henry Lee, it opened in November 2022 and quickly came recommended by the Michelin star website.
*Image source from Facebook Juksunchae
Juksunchae serves a 12-course omakase-style meal. Traditional Korean dishes that many gourmets are likely familiar with, such as bibimbap, bulgogi, mandu, etc., have been creatively translated into beautiful dishes full of flavour. Get creative, like EO mandu, Korean pancakes that use fish instead of flour. Using minced pork and grilled kimchi as the filling, Seong-Gye-Al Bibimbap is an excellent bibimbap that uses uni or sea urchin as the protagonist. Elevate the taste to something special, or go gul bulgogi which changes from beef to oysters instead. It showcases Korean food culture in an exciting way. Delicious, you should book early because the restaurant only has 16 seats in order to maintain a special atmosphere for customers.
| price : Omakase 12 courses, price 3,900 baht / Wine pairing 4 glasses, price 1,700 baht |
*Image source from Facebook, a seasonal restaurant
Timikan
Title : 76 Sukhumvit 49, Khlong Tan Nuya Sub-District, Watthana District, Bangkok 1010
Opens : Open Thursday to Tuesday from 17:30 to 23:00, closed on Wednesday.
Seasonal Restaurant A Thai restaurant that introduces a new concept by bringing ancient Thai menus that are over a hundred years old to tell a new story in the form of fine dining by Khun Bui Tripradap Wangungwiwat. Restaurant owner and chef Pro Bornprom Laumanatsak are both in the fine dining industry at Michelin star level. It intends to serve Thai food under the concept of taking a time machine and going back in history to meet food that has a story and roots dating back hundreds of years.
*Image source from Facebook, a seasonal restaurant
Traditional Thai menu items that many people may not know about, such as crispy royal rice noodles or pan ratchetout noodles. Which contains the perfect combination of crispy fried rice noodles, crab meat and ginger. The menu is used to receive guests from the countryside, and its recipe has been around for more than a hundred years. Sampan dessert that has been passed down since the Ayutthaya period, Thao Thong Kip Ma recipe. But add a Western touch with cranberries, tangy biscuits or dried fish with watermelon, a menu from the early Ayutthaya period. Apply new eye makeup to make it look like a beautiful candy. But still retains the traditional taste. All of this has undergone extensive research by the chef team in order to deliver authentic Thai food that can delight gourmets with stories and flavors to the fullest.
Kiri Tsukim In by Tsuru
Title : 64 Soi Thonglor, Wattana District, Bangkok 10110
Opens : Open daily from 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM / 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Tsukemen is a type of Japanese ramen menu. It’s ramen with separate broth and noodles. The soup will be very concentrated. When eating, use the tongs method and dip the noodles into the soup. The noodles can be ramen, soba or udon.
Kiri Tsukemen is a new ramen shop in the Tsuru chain that opened this year. It is special because the restaurant serves fresh Tsukemen noodles as the main menu. But they are very authentic, especially from the store. Selected high quality raw materials from Japan. It takes so long to cook the soup that you can smell the rich aroma of chicken bones, pork bones and dried sea fish. Served in a stone bowl that keeps the soup hot throughout the meal, there are 6 types of soup to choose from, with Kiri Tsukemen being the restaurant’s signature menu. It’s a pork bone broth mixed with chicken bones, store recipe.
The store is only open twice a day and there are only 10 seats inside the store. With a good reputation there is a limited number of seats, which makes the queue in the restaurant very tight. Especially on Saturday and Sunday holidays, it is another delight that food lovers must wait to taste.
| price : All Tsukemen menu items are priced at 350 baht.
reservation : There is no reservation service. Use the queue in front of the store |
*Image rights from Facebook GoreDon Ramsey
Bread Street Kitchen & Bar/Pizza Street
The wait is over with celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s first restaurant in Thailand opening in December at Amsphere Shopping Centre, Phrom Phong District, with Bread Street Kitchen and Street Pizza. A casual dining style restaurant under the Gordon Ramsay brand, is poised to create a new experience of premium deliciousness in Thailand.
Chef Gordon Ramsay is known for his work on the reality cooking shows Hell’s Kitchen and MasterChef, and has multiple Michelin stars for all of his restaurants. It once received a maximum of 16 stars from over 58 restaurants around the world. The chef holds the third highest number of Michelin stars in the world.
Bread Street Kitchen & Bar is another Gordon franchise. Ramsay has opened restaurants in both Europe and Asia, such as his branches in Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai, which are open all day, serving his famous dishes such as Beef Wellington, Fish and Chips, Macaroni and Cheese and Sticky Toffee Pudding among others.
Street Pizza is another restaurant owned by Gordon Ramsay, and its highlight is the pizza made with fresh sourdough. Under the “Pizza Without Rules” concept, they offer a variety of pizza toppings, both traditional like the classic Margherita or pepperoni, and innovative toppings like Nduja and Courgette Pesto, which is vegetarian, or Corn & Chorizo, which contains corn and curry sausage. So, it is a Spanish sausage with many side dishes to choose from.
And this is the story of the delicious experience of bidding farewell to the old year and welcoming the new one in December, which The Explorer would like to offer readers, closing out 2023 and entering 2024 together.
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