| A short 10 minutes to the airport, almost across the street from the vast weekend Chatuchak flea market, and directly linked to a huge shopping market and Central department store, this place is convenient. As of August, you can catch the new subway from here, as well. Not only that, the hotel holds Bangkok’s record for the most expat chefs, each presiding over their own signature restaurants. We especially loved the antics of chef Alberto Bruni, who presides over arguably the city’s best Italian eatery, Don Giovani, or Gio’s for short. The hotels’ executive chef Vittorio Bertini harks from the same village in Liguria, although they didn’t really know each other until they met in Asia. Chef Bertini gives Alberto rare praise indeed, when he boasts, “If you awarded stars to Giovanni’s, you would need to give it 5 stars plus." At the hotel restaurant’s Vietnamese eatery, the chef trained in Hanoi at the famed Metropole hotel under Didier Corlou.Dynasty’s chef harks from Hong Kong, and on our last vistit he excelled in "flower clams" or geoduck at this always-full-for-lunch restaurant. The “neck” is sliced paper thin into ribbons, then steamed bunched like a flower, and accompanied with a soy and wine dipping sauce. But best of all, the hotel restaurants here really attract the locals, instead of farang tourists. |
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