Overall Score 8/10
Taste 4/5
Ambiance 5/5
Service 4/5
Value 2/5
VIU International Restaurant at St. Regis Hotel on www.bumres.com
The Viu is an international restaurant in the St. Regis hotel @
Ratchadamri Road. The hotel just opened
recently (I reviewed on the 20 June 2011, the hotel was quite completely
finished at the time and still didn’t have the Grand Opening). In the St. Regis Hotel, there are two
restaurants; one is the Viu, the formal international restaurant and the Jojo,
the Italian restaurant located near the Lobby of the hotel.
After taking time to decide and seeing the menus of both, I felt
that VIU appeared to be more interesting than the Jojo. Also the view of the VIU was much better with
the spanning glass window that revealed the bird’s eye view of the RBSC
(perhaps the main reason to choose this one).
Being an elite restaurant in the five stars hotel, interior decorations and
the customer service could not be complaint about. And in fact, this international restaurant
did possess the high class contexts and well deserve to be in this highly crowned
pricey hotel. This branch of the VIU
differed from the other ones that I had gone to. Their distinctive opened kitchen was
something that I had never seen at other VIU restaurants. I didn’t have a chance to enjoy the cooking
show since my table located across the hall from the fiery corner.
The VIU @ St. Regis call themselves the International Restaurant
in which I would not disagree since their menu featured dishes that were rare,
creative, and international. And they
didn’t overly expand their menu to too many choices of international
dishes. Details of the menu can be found
in the tab menu. I have listed a
complete one for all of you. Since I
went there for lunch and they also had the special Lunch Set deal, I had to go
with the special. In the set, you can choose
3 courses for 790 Baht.
Two appetizers were available to choose. My pick was the Caprese Salad; delicious but
not as good as the Giorgio's @ Royal Orchid Sheraton that I had recently
reviewed. The other choice was the Beetroot
and pumpkin dice mixing in salad dressing.
This one was just not delicious – am I too honest? LOL… The first main
dish was the jasmine rice with lamb shank and green curry. I liked this one a lot and could not believe
how well the lamb meat complimented the Thai green curry. In my opinion, this dish would be perfect if
there was more of the curry sauce over the rice. As you all know that a lack of curry on the
rice can be frustrating- more sauce please! Another main dish was the Sea
Bass piling over veggies with some sauce. It was really good but I had no
idea what nationality it was or how it was done. Good fish- too good to be Sea Bass.
There were four of us and we wanted to try another main dishes in
the menu, so we ordered Australian Prime Rib to further satisfy all of us. The VIU prepared this one excellently,
grilled perfectly to our request and the meat was heavily marinated because it
was so juicy and exploding with flavors (Too bad there was no matching side to come
along- we had to order extra from the menu).
Our sweet touch in the end was the ice cream with Crème Brule (see
photo). My friends really enjoyed this
one but I was never big fan of dessert, so it wasn’t as touching for me.
For
our chill lunch at the VIU @ St. Regis – Ratchadamri, we each spent 1,200 Baht
approximately, with the Evian for 270++ and the Aussie’s Steak for 980++ in addition to the Lunch Set of
730++. Surely we were all impressed with
the meal; really high quality and delicious food, well prepared and presented, attentive
and professional service staffs, and lastly the gorgeous and picturesque view. OMG – How could I ever afford this high
society spot several times a week? This ideal lunch could not get any better (only
if it was free, I guessed).
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