Gourmet luxury travel - Malaysia and the world
Imagine a week filled with nine of the world’s most famed chefs, hand-picked from San Pellegrino’s 50 Best Restaurants, crafting indulgent beverage paired dinners and interactive cooking demonstrations, a Champagne lobby, sake and cocktail tastings, and an …
Located in centre of one of the worlds’ most exciting cities, Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel is not only in a convenient location but is a truly luxurious stay. Art and nature combine in elegant design to form a beautiful retreat, resembling more of a resort than a hote…
The World Gourmet Festival recently hosted by Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel culminated in a magnificent Sunday Brunch. Headed by celebrity chef Bobby Chin with dishes contributed by nine world renowned chefs also in the buffet line up, saying guests were spoiled …
Words and photos: Monica Tindall Recently in Bangkok for the World Gourmet Festival hosted by Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel, it wasn’t just celebrity chefs showing off their finest, Executive Chef Nicolas Schneller, usually a man behind the scenes, offered a me…
Words and photos: Monica Tindall Chef Ana Roš, one of the stars profiled on the Emmy Award winning documentary Chef’s Table and famous for her “Cook it Raw” technique recently delighted guests with a wine paired dinner as part of the World Gourmet Fes…
Care. It’s the single word that sums up our recent stay at Banyan Tree Bangkok. Arriving mid afternoon, after a long taxi ride that has left me drowsy with all the stopping and starting in Bangkok’s seemingly endless stream of bumper to bumper traffic, my first cont…
The sun is on its decent as we take our lounge seat by the window at Vertigo TOO. Tan leather seats and deep lavender cushions glow as the fingertips of the last rays of sunshine reach into our space. DJ music bounces off the black structures, and lines of golden […]
Style, location, food and comfort, the VIE Hotel Bangkok MGallery by Sofitel promises much for contemporary travelers, but do they deliver? Style Designed by renowned French architect, J.H. Boiffils, this 5-star hotel is a member of the MGallery by Sofitel col…
Soft tunes elegantly struck on piano keys draw me into La VIE, French Restaurant, VIE Hotel Bangkok MGallery by Sofitel’s creative French cuisine restaurant. Elegantly dressed wait staff see me to my table, and I can’t help but feel swept up in the romance of the s…
Yellow Tail Sushi Bar, better known at YTSB, has gained a reputation for serving the “best sushi in Bangkok”. With an overwhelming number of choices of Japanese restaurants in Bangkok, this is no easy feat. Where “freshness” is something many premium sushi bars i…
You’ll Never Want To Leave The Peninsula Bangkok Words: Han Sen Hau Photos: Monica Tindall It’s half past nine on a Saturday night, and I’m but a capricious hotel guest wishing to take a ferry across to the famed Asiatique whose bright lights twinkle like stars r…
Revisiting Decadent Oriental Exoticism at Kom-Ba-Wa Words: Han Sen Hau Photos: Monica Tindall Marked only by its large glass windows concealed behind trees that filter the amount of sunlight illuminating its ostentatious interior, Kom-Ba-Wa is easily mis…