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Wine Connection Beach Rd Pattaya

November 30, 2018 by David Herd

Excellent food & wine at a reasonable price,

Wine Connection Beach Rd Pattaya

Wine Connection Beach Rd Pattaya

Wine Connection Beach Rd Pattaya has finally arrived in our city by the bay. Opened November 28 2018 & a friend & I dined there the following day.

Welcome to Wine Connection

Wine Connection Beach Rd PattayaA nice warm welcome awaits your arrival. 🙂

Relaxed friendly atmosphere

Wine Connection Beach Rd PattayaThe restaurant is quite large, I’m guessing it would seat 100 people.

This is what makes Wine Connection different & unique.

Wine Connection Beach Rd PattayaThe wine cellar is part of the restaurant & you can browse & select your bottle to enjoy with dinner. As you can see there are wines from all over the world starting at a low B500 or $15 USD, which is good value in Thailand where wine prices are ridiculously high.

Australians are so lucky they can buy very good low price wine for $4 Aud or $3 USD. Just last year Coles took home the title of best wine under $20 from Australia and New Zealand at the Winestate Wine of the Year Awards, with their $5 James Busby Big & Bold Shiraz 2015.

Recently an $8 Aldi rose was named one of the best in the world — catch was you couldn’t get it in Australia.

However another Aldi wine has won big at the Melbourne International Wine competition & a bottle is going to set you back only $6.99! Here is a selection of their best wines for under $10 AUD.

The guys behind the bar are ready & eager to look after you.

Wine Connection Beach Rd PattayaWe found all the staff here were eager to please & very friendly indeed.

Spanish Style Gambas.

Wine Connection Beach Rd PattayaMy favourite dish at  Wine Connection, cooked to perfection. 🙂

Caesar salad was excellent.

Wine Connection Beach Rd Pattaya The two entrees above are the perfect way to start a meal. 🙂

Wine Connection Beach Rd Duck Confit

Wine Connection Beach Rd PattayaAnother excellent dish, Duck confit is duck that has been cured with salt and then gently cooked in its own fat. The duck emerges meltingly tender with a rich, slightly salty but mellow flavor—there’s nothing quite like it. Traditionally, the whole duck is used for confit.

La pièce de résistance

Wine Connection Beach Rd Pattaya A 200 gram grilled Australian tenderloin cooked to perfection.

To finish I had the Cream Crème brûlée & my friend Ron Rigg from Hawaii had the chocolate cake.

Wine Connection Beach Rd PattayaCrème brûlée, also known as burnt cream or Trinity cream, is a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a texturally contrasting layer of hardened caramelized sugar. It is normally served slightly chilled; the heat from the caramelizing process tends to warm the custard producing a cool center. Wikipedia

Chocolate Lava Cake & ice cream.

Wine Connection Beach Rd PattayaSay no more. 🙂

Australian red wine

Wine Connection Beach Rd Pattaya

Billy’s shadow shiraz is B650 or $31 AUD, & Angus the bull B850 or $40 AUD. Billy’s sells for $7 in Australia & Angus $19.

Lots of staff on hand tonight

Wine Connection Beach Rd PattayaHere is a story that fits the theory of “six degrees of separation”, Eugene Chew was here from Wine Connection head office in Bangkok & he generously gave us complimentary deserts.  We were chatting about various subjects & my friend Ron Riggs who lives in Hawaii told Eugene he grew up in Manchester Michigan. Here is the surprise, it turns out Eugene was also born & raised in Midland Michigan only 2 hours north of Manchester. 

Also he went to college at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor which is only 30 minutes from Manchester, what are the odds? 🙂

Manchester to Midland

Wine Connection Beach Rd Pattaya

Thanks for visiting my Wine Connection Beach Rd Pattaya photo blog. I have also had the pleasure of dining in several of their Bangkok restaurants as well as Koh Samui.

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Arts Festival Beach Rd

February 5, 2017 by David Herd

Cartoon culture comes to Beach Road Pattaya.

Arts Festival Beach Rd

Arts Festival Beach Rd

 Pattaya Arts Festival Beach Rd 2017 is another of the “never ending” promotions designed to attract tourists to this popular beach side resort. The city council are to be congratulated for their efforts in providing entertainment all through the year.

Big bright colourful paintings

Arts Festival Beach Rd

A fun collection painted by Pattaya’s freelance artists.

Beach Babe

Arts Festival Beach Rd

 The festival theme is “New Sense”, The Sense of Art,  which is the sense beyond our five natural senses of sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell.

Happy faces on the beach

Arts Festival Beach Rd

The beachfront exhibition is more than a kilometre long from North Pattaya to Central Pattaya.

Skateboarding

Arts Festival Beach Rd

I’m guessing some of these people may have started out as graffiti artists. 🙂

Beach sculptures

Arts Festival Beach Rd

Not just paintings some nice sculptures as well.

I rather like this one

Arts Festival Beach Rd

Part turtle, part dog & pat bug I think. 🙂 

This one is nice as well

Arts Festival Beach Rd

There certainly is some talent here.

 A banana I think

Arts Festival Beach Rd

Or perhaps a banana bout that takes people screaming around the bay. 🙂

Introducing Snake Lek, whoever that is?

 

Arts Festival Beach Rd

Street artists invited to take part in the festival are Alex face (Thailand), Mue BON (Thailand), Gong (Thailand), A.m.p. (Thailand), Bonus (Thailand), GohM (Thailand), The Yok and Sheryo (Australia), Beejoir (U.K.), The London police (Netherlands), Ben Eine (U.K.), Ox-Alien and Edo Rath (Netherlands), Emmanuel Jarus (U.K.), Jace (France), Dotmasters (U.K.) and Shinny and Himbad and Code (U.K.).

Interesting shapes

Arts Festival Beach Rd

They really look like American Indian tepees without the canvass. I not too sure what the bales of hay signify.

Arts Festival Beach Rd

Baby Boy

Arts Festival Beach Rd

I’m guessing the painter may have just become a father. 🙂

Tribute

Arts Festival Beach Rd

A Tribute to His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

An excellent weekend art show & tribute to the late King.

Arts Festival Beach Rd

Congratulations to the organisers & many thank for visiting my Pattaya Arts Festival Beach Rd 2017 photo blog.

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Fabulous views, excellent restaurants & a very good room rate if you book through THIS LINK.

The building in the middle is the Holiday Inn, on the left is the Amari Hotel which is another very good five star hotel. Use THIS LINK to book for a very good room rate.

Sabai Wing North Pattaya

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The best Pattaya budget hotel, 3 pools & opposite Central Marina shopping mall. For a great room rate just book through THIS LINK.

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Bangkok Hotels Markets Shopping

May 21, 2016 by David Herd

Novotel Bangkok Platinum Pratunam

Bangkok Hotels Markets Shopping

Bangkok Hotels Markets Shopping

Bangkok Hotels Markets Shopping, Petchaburi Rd is surrounded by some of the best shopping in this great city. Everybody knows about Pratunam markets where you can buy clothes and accessories at rock bottom prices, now however there is much more competition at places like Palladium World and Platinum Fashion Mall which offer air conditioned comfort which you certainly don’t get at Pratunam markets.

For an excellent room rate at the Novotel Bangkok Platinum book through THIS LINK.

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Bangkok Hotels Markets Shopping

Right opposite Pantip Plaza the well known Bangkok I.T. centre. Book through THIS LINK for a discounted room rate.

Pantip Plaza

Bangkok Hotels Markets Shopping

Several floors of hardware and software, I have been shopping here for 20 years.

 Pantip Plaza

Bangkok Hotels Markets Shopping

Computer and camera shops are located on the 3rd floor, as well as hardware, RAM etc for sale. Some shops specialize in building computers to your specifications. The fourth floor has more computer and repair shops.

Platinum Fashion Mall

Bangkok Hotels Markets Shopping

 Platinum is a 5 billion Baht shopping mall in Petchaburi Rd Pratunam, almost next door to Pantip Plaza, which specializes in fashion clothes and accessories both retail and wholesale.

Baiyoke Sky Hotel

Bangkok Hotels Markets Shopping

 Baiyoke Sky Hotel was built in 1997 and is the 2nd highest building in Bangkok. For an excellent room rate book through THIS LINK.

I took this photo from the Red Sky bar above Central, on the right is the Novotel and Palladium World Shopping mall.

Amari Watergate Hotel

Bangkok Hotels Markets Shopping

 

The Amari Watergate hotel is a reasonably priced hotel in the middle of this shopping district, book through THIS LINK and you will get a discounted room for around $88 + tax.

Palladium World Shopping mall.

Bangkok Hotels Markets Shopping

Located on the corner of Phetchaburi Road and Ratchaprarop with the 3 gold domes, I believe it’s bigger and cheaper than Platinum Fashion Mall and has a bazaar type layout featuring long alleyways of tightly packed stalls.

Palladium World from street level

Bangkok Hotels Markets Shopping

It certainly does not look as spectacular as it does from the Red Sky Bar.

Foot massage at Palladium World

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After a couple of hours walking there is nothing like a foot massage. 🙂

Bangkok Hotels Markets Shopping a  25 minute walk to MBK.

Bangkok Hotels Markets Shopping

Or 5 mimutes in a taxi for around B40.

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