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Henry Severs -
3 months ago
Got the babysitter in and took my wife out for dinner here at the weekend. The different bottles of olive oil available were fantastic though the bread wasn't especially fresh. Smoked scallops starter was genuinely excellent, with an amazing mixed of smoke and acidity making it one of best and unique starters I've had in Bangkok.
The two pasta dishes were great, and I had food evy over my wife's choice of the crispy Italian sausage Tortellini. For secondi my wife had beef tenderloin and I had lamb cutlets. Both were very well put together, though greater consideration of vegetable accompaniments to the mains would be been welcomed.
There clearly is an attempt at the fine dinning experience here, with the range of taster menu options available, which we will probably return to test out at some point.
Of course their USP is their absolutely vast wine collection, from light table wine through to exclusive limted edition bottles from the owners private collection with prices that go up to really whatever you're willing to spend! The range can be quite daunting (even for those who fancy themselves as connoisseurs!) but owner was excellent at making wholly reasonable and well considered pairing suggestions with the dishes we'd ordered.
Overall, excellent, 4.5/5 although the only issue is that any top end Italian restaurant in Bangkok inevitably ends up getting compared to La Bottega di Luca... and on ingredients, menu concept, portions and price-point, Enoteca didn't quite take their crown! Though granted a few more visits are needed to make that comparison. Service was excellent.
I seem to recall for 2 starters, 2 pasta dishes, 2 mains and a shared dessert + two bottles of mid-range Italian red wine came to a little under 14000THB! So definitely pricey!.
My sense is they would probably do well to reduce their menu to handfull of superbly executed dishes (like the scallops!) and keep the taster menus to 1 or 2 max. But we'll certainly be back once I've taken out a small mortgage! ????
