Miss Terry Diner
A special wine dinner at Bruno’s
If you think that being a food and wine critic is an easy life, you are mistaken. We have to try and space...
A ‘Safron’ kitchen on Pattaya Klang
Every so often you can stumble across a previously hidden gem. One of those is the ‘Safron’ Kitchen on Pattaya Klang (Central Road)....
Diana Buffet
When the Diana Inn opened its Green Bottle Pub around 25 years ago, those who were “in the know” predicted that the business model...
Manhattans – reborn!
The Manhattans Restaurant and Bar at the top of Thappraya hill in the ground floor of Nirvana Place has had a troubled childhood....
Bodega Festejar at Pullman Pattaya Hotel G
There are people who think that East Pattaya is still “the Dark Side”, a strange place inhabited by aliens. Likewise there are those...
That was the year that was!
I sat at the computer and dialed up the Dining Out columns for 2012, all 52 of them, looking for stand-outs. And there...
Sugar Hut – the icing on the Thappraya cake?
Arriving at the portals of the Sugar Hut at the top of Thappraya Road is like arriving in a different world. You leave...
Dining around the Ambassador
A couple of months ago we went to the Ambassador City and enjoyed ourselves in their Italian restaurant Pasta Pasta with Chef Claudio....
Dining on the Roof of D2
The dusitD2 baraquda pattaya has always tried hard to carve a rather different niche for itself in Pattaya’s sometimes crowded marketplace at the...
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