It has been a wonderful month of wines for the Dining Out team with wine dinners at the Dusit Thani, the Dicey Reilly’s Pub at the Marriott and the Sheraton…
The Dicey Reilly’s pub under the Marriott Resorts Garden Café burst back on the wine appreciation scene with a dinner happily called the Dicey Reilly’s Wine Series. It had been…
Read the heading again - the most outstanding new restaurant in Pattaya, and I wrote that without any reservation. Open for only one week when we visited, and every member…
The Bay restaurant in the Dusit Thani Resort in Pattaya was the venue for a spectacular Wine Dinner last week. Featuring Santa Carolina wines from Chile and some amazing dishes…
Many businesses on Second Road have recently found that redevelopment was happening, with their shops going to be knocked down in the name of progress (or the pursuit of greater…
One very popular family dish is potato wedges. They are also good to serve with pre-dinner drinks, but this recipe adds just a little something more to the oven fried potato, with the addition of capsicum and lime. Ingredients Serves…
With the year almost half gone, the Dining Out Team decided to look at the reviews done this year up till June, and when we wrote them down, there was…
This Malaysian soup is not to be confused with the Thai Tom Kha Gai, or Gaeng Gari Gai. They are quite different, and this recipe calls for the thicker coconut cream from the can, not the thinner coconut milk. You…
Desserts in Thailand tend to be very cloying, but this dessert is a very different dish, coming originally from Japan. It is a light and sweet dessert and the presentation of this is important, as it is with most Japanese…
There are those readers who imagine that it must be a wonderful life to be a restaurant reviewer. After all, dining in all those five star hotels and up-market restaurants…
A few years ago now, I had the pleasure of meeting up with the famous Colombian chef, Arturo Boada, who was over from Texas as the invited chef for the Royal Garden (Marriott), to prepare some new recipes for the…
With the four year anniversary of Café des Amis coming up shortly, we suddenly realized that it was almost two years since our last review. On making contact with Blu,…
We are in the hottest part of the year, but here is a soup to cool and refresh. This soup is noteworthy in the fact that it is served cold. This makes it the ideal hot weather starter for any…
The Pattaya Hilton Hotel produced a daring experiment for the food and wine lovers of Pattaya - a dinner featuring five meats, five mustards and five merlots. To my knowledge…
This is probably the definitive Thai dish, and one of the commonest staples in Thailand. Khao Tom (rice soup) can be found anywhere, and most city blocks will have at least one local ‘restaurant’ that specializes in this dish. Khao…