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ringthebells
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mon dieu, the bone marrow appetizer was to die for.
beaulieu is superb, but un peu chere au soir.
rtb
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:43 am on Aug. 24, 2009
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bustyboy
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l'INDIGO on Soi Covent is a nice place with typical french atmostphere. Cons = the owner...
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 2:10 am on Aug. 24, 2009
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Deep File
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Deep File's Top 5
Philippe - Best all around combination of food, ambience, and service... top notch, and better than most French restaurants in France. Spendy, but some excellent values (set lunch b450) particularly the country style stews. Well balanced wine list at fair prices. Killer Valrhona chocolate (72% cacao) desert.
Beaulieu - Excellent and innovative food, a close second to Philippe but ambience weak (dominated by views of the kitchen). The help has a distinctly offputting attitude and the wine list is both poorly chosen and unnecessarily expensive. Convenient location and plenty of parking.
Vendome - Remarkable old house ambience, very good food and extensive menu but some dishes suffer from excessive innovation... trendiness over flavor. Broad wine list but weak on lower priced options. Top marks for romantic twosome dining. Best outdoor French dining beside a small pool. Valet parking.
Le Banyan - Solid classic French at fair prices in an old villa surrounded by gardens... unique and romantic colonial ambience, professional service but the eccentric owners can be tedious and the wine list is weak.
Indigo - Great casual ambience in an old villa off Convent with pleasant outdoor dining. Good rather than outstanding food... fine foie gras terrine but seafood dishes are spotty. Nice bar, smoking permitted in the bar and part of the dining area. Affordable prices with a decent wine list.
Other Good Options (no particular order)
Normandie - Over-the-top "haut cuisine" with plenty of nouvelle touches. Legendary ambience overlooking the Chao Phraya, perfect service, stratospheric prices... especially the wine list which is encyclopedic but starts at b2,000. Utterly unique with dishes ranging from sublime to puzzling... a "must try" venue but not a place for frequent visits. Set menu at lunch, with very limited options.
Aubergine - Pleasant ambience in an old villa with high ceilings and an awkwardly misplaced service bar in the middle of the dining room. Good food at reasonable prices and a workable wine list... garden area for smoking and outside dining. Tricky access via a narrow soi (1/1) off Saladaeng.
D'Sens - Modern but chilly ambience with a great view from the top floor of Dusit Thani hotel. Highly experimental French/Asian fusion food, with sometimes sublime but often erratic results. Massive wine list, outrageously priced.
Le Bouchon - Crowded and grungy little dump hidden on Patpong 2 that people either love or hate. Respectable cooking, awkward blackboard menu, casual in the extreme, waitresses are give-a-shit former bar girls. Very affordable, and always full of French patrons. Best steak tartare in Bangkok.
Cafe Siam - Satisfactory French and Thai food in a large old villa hidden on Sribumphen near Lumpini. Always quiet and slow moving with dining on overstuffed furniture upstairs and an outdoor terrace. Small but fair wine list. A mood place.
Mes Amis - Fishbowl cafe ambience, owned and managed by a Cordon Bleu graduate with impeccable French cooking skills, but unfortunately there are very few French items on the menu. Rack of lamb is one of them, and it’s excellent. No wine list, but BYOB welcome.
La Truffe - French in name only, menu very limited but surprisingly good food and an workable wine list. Trendy moderno ambience in the Maduzi hotel. Daunting security policy (no walkins permitted).
La Grande Perle - A large ambitious undertaking beside the Chao Phraya at River City. Owned and operated by the river cruise company of the same name. Food unremarkable, service spotty but spendid views of the river and the outdoor terrace is very appealing, even in warm weather.
Also Rans (better avoided)
Lyon - Quiet and stuffy ambience in a converted house on Ruam Rudee. Tired menu, very tired service, mediocre food and lousy wine selection. Long past its prime.
Le Pre - Located in the CBC on Narathiwas between Silom and Suriwong. Food very average, ambience awful.
Les Nympheas - Drafty ill-conceived space on the second floor of Imperial Queen's Park hotel. Average food that tries too hard and lofty prices.
Reflexions - Remarkably similar to Nympheas in conception and ambience, with equally unsatisfactory results. Meridien Plaza Athenee hotel.
Bonjour - Housed in a huge villa with spacious grounds near Ekamai, managed by a Michelin-starred chef but a dismal failure. Benchmark bad, easily the worst French restaurant in Thailand.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:07 am on April 10, 2010
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ringthebells
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merci.
philippe still on soi 39?? must try!!
rtb.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 2:53 am on April 10, 2010
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oreally
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Wow Deep File,
Thanks
I gotta print this!
Who has the best wine list? I would love a place like Le Bouchon. Excellent post Bro, thanks!
If my plan now goes as planned, I will be dating a honey from Pattaya (non-bar girl) and my trip number 6 (in August) will be staying at the Town Lodge while in Bangkok (RTB!) to get some passport work done (time for a new one).
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 6:21 am on April 10, 2010
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expatchuck
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We are fortunate to have Deep File's restaurant reviews. Nobody does it better.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 7:00 am on April 10, 2010
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magnum
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Quote: from Deep File on 1:07 pm on April 10, 2010
Le Bouchon - Crowded and grungy little dump hidden on Patpong 2...
... whoa!, Deep File!... well done!
... will offer additional commendation to Le Bouchon... a marvelous experience for out of town visitors.
... while the fare is enjoyable, what I find particularly delightful about Le Bouchon is the paradoxical expectations... walking there, through sordid Patpong, creates a certain quease and expectation visitors to BKK all recall... stepping across the restaurant threshhold, from the humid heat and sleaze, into a dark and chilled dining room is as stepping through a tear in the time-space continuum into some parallel universe.
... there in their entry sala, you almost expect to see Sidney Greenstreet and Humphrey Bogart leaning on the bar sipping Gin Gimlets and cigarettes fouling the air.
... over the course of the dinner, the feeling that you are amidst Bangkok slease is completely forgotten... then, BAM!... walking back into the oppressive evening humidity and heat, the cacaphony and smells and sleaze bars, you are again body-slammed by the shock and awe of it all... what fun!
... as to their menu and kitchen, fine... adequately covered elsewhere... but, the real appeal for me and guests I have hosted at Le Bouchon is the unexpected shift from the grime and sleaze of Patpong, to 1940's Left Bank, and then back again... it is marvelous.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 8:32 pm on April 10, 2010
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thaiaficionado
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How about Le Bouchon, with a Star of Light girl under the table?
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 11:36 pm on April 10, 2010
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Deep File
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Quote: from oreally on 6:21 pm on April 10, 2010
"Who has the best wine list?"
"Best" is particularly difficult to define in Thailand, where duty + excise taxes inflate the cost of imported wine by 400%. The Normandie has an excellent list... multiple vintages of Bordeaux first growths, etc... a veritable encyclopedia. But useless, unless you are prepared to be stupid with your money... it's like viewing the book collection at a library.
I prefer to think in terms of "workable"... with all the compromises that implies. If there is a decent Oz shiraz under b1,600... a list qualifies as workable. Not as "fair" or "reasonable" by real world standards.... but workable. This is why I rate Philippe higher than Le Beaulieu, even though the food quality is very close.
The thumbnail reviews make reference to the venue's wine list, in most cases. But I rarely order from the list... I peruse the list with interest, but I almost always bring my own bottle... that way I know exactly what I am getting, at 70% less than the list price.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 5:51 am on April 11, 2010
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phiijames
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Deep File,
Interesting reviews. My brief comments:
Philippe - I would agree that it's probably the best of the bunch, but I don't think it compares well to French restaurants in France (or even London).
Beaulieu - It gets a lot of good reviews, which I don't understand. I would rate OK. The wine list is pathetic.
Indigo - Haven't tried but has been recommended to me.
Vendome - Haven't heard of it, but looks very interesting.
Le Banyan - Haven't been for a long time, but remember it as very old fashioned.
Le Normandie - I would avoid this. The food quality just isn't there.
D'Sens - Unimpressed.
Bonjour - Only been once. I was reasonably impressed. I would put it in the same league as Philippe/Beaulieu.
Overall I feel French is not a cuisine where Bangkok shines.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 6:57 am on April 11, 2010
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