Cuisine: International
Address: 29/2-3 Soi 31, Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok, Thailand 10110
Tel: (02) 259 4845
Open: Daily. Closes at 9pm.
Payment: VI, MC & cash
Web: Nil
Remarks: The restaurant used to close on Mondays. It has changed.
Originally posted: November'2008
A forum friend, Isan, has this to say about the restaurant after looking at the set of photos, "Looks like dine-in at Harajuku JUST reminding me few years ago. Nice atmosphere with tastily."
I do agree that the place looks über chic and with a hint of zen inspirations. But we had a mixed feelings for their foods. The rocket salad and my partner's squid ink pasta with salmon were above average. Despite of the uninviting color, the squid ink pasta was eye-pleasingly neat and glistering! (I've seen the same dish that's dull and dirty-looking elsewhere) I couldn't say the same for the ham pasta that I had. The ham was terribly done, so much so that it looked and tasted raw. The pungent smell from the raw meat totally put me off.
Table for two: No details.
Recommended dishes: Rocket salad and squid ink spaghetti with salmon.
In a nutshell
Likes:
> Austere and yet chic interior
> Rocket/roquet salad
Dislikes:
> Speak little English
The restaurant ...
Our order ...
PS: Incidentally, there is a column, 'Cheap & Good', in today's (23/11/08) The Strait's Times features a Pizza Bar along Singapore's Ghim Moh Road. The writer picked a SGD17 (about THB390)
squid ink spaghetti. Yes, for that
cheap price in Singapore, you get the pasta with nothing else.
Cuisine: International
Address: 39 Sukhumvit Soi 16, Bangkok
Tel: (02) 663 0495
Open: Tue - Fri, 10am - 1030pm. Close on Mondays.
Payment: VI, MC & cash
Web: Nil
Remarks: Check out the life-size coffee roaster at the cafeteria.
Originally posted: October'2008
Last updated: November'2008
Our first visit to Kuppa was some 3 years ago. We arrived at the industrial-like restaurant on a hot sunny afternoon. Perhaps it was on a weekday and well past the typical lunching hours. We almost had the entire place to ourselves.
The entrance leads to the front lobby which also serves to segregate the classy white-table cloth dining area (on the left) from the laid back cafe (to the right). We picked a welcoming table by the full height window. Menu was promptly presented to us and the server was not pushy while we were carefully browsing the menu. The ordering part was done entirely in Thai by my partner which, I believed, made her more comfortable than if she would have from me.
For obvious reasons, both of us hardly dine in restaurants that serve Western food. He is a Buddhist which restricts him (and therefore, me) from taking beef. I prefer Thai food to anything else (with the exception of coffee and cakes). Hence, in all occasions, we always ended up having some fish as our main course. The problems with having fish as a main course in a Western dining setting are, the serving portion is mostly pathetically small and yet obscenely expensive. Then I also find slicing steamed or baked fish fillet such a dreadful chore, as they disintegrated in to pieces so easily!
I was sure that our main course were pretty well done, but that was only this much I could write about them. With a slab of mashed potato on each of our main course, the half-hearted presentation was less than zealous. Saving grace, the veg salad served in an over-sized wooden bowl was very impressive. The greens were so crispy as if they were fresh from the veg farm. *thumbs-up*
After the meal, we made ourselves comfy on the homely 3 seaters not far from the coffee roaster machine. We completed our brunching experience with creamy slices of cheesecakes topped with blueberry spread.
Table for two: No details.
Recommended dishes: fresh salad, fragrant coffee and luscious cheesecakes
In a nutshell
Likes:
> Good coffee and cheesecakes
> Conducive ambiance
Dislikes:
> Poor garnishing & food presentation
> Where's da website!?
The restaurant ...
Our order ...
About THAIoholic
THAIoholic, the blog, is setup with the initial intention of keepsake. As time goes by, I find it harder and harder for my gray cells (of what left) to remember traces of great places we have been to, good foods we savored but missed, details that I should remember but they slipped away unknowingly.
Then, we have also friends and folks asking little details I thought I should blog them here, because my pea brain is simply no good at recollections.
My partner is a devoted Buddhist, his religion forbids him, and therefore me, from taking beef. As such, it's unlikely that there will be any info about beef dish found in this blog.
About BODYholic
BODYholic, also known affectionately as
moo ooan (a.k.a fat pig) by his little kratai noi (a.k.a little rabbit), has intense interests in Thai foods, traditional Thai architecture, coffee and cheesecakes. I've to add that I'm not a prolific blogger.
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