Eating and enjoying food at any time of the day or the night is very much part of Thai culture. Bangkok has an outrageous number of places where you can buy food. And I don’t call them restaurants on purpose. You can get food from street carts, garages-come-food halls and of course there are restaurants too.

On Saturday night I had the chance to enjoy dinner at one of the finest restaurants in town. Appropriately named Vertigo, the restaurant is at the roof top of the Banyan Tree hotel, that makes it a floor 61. I took some photos but my camera is crap at night so better put somebodyelse’s photo.

We weren’t too sure on how the food was going to turn out as some of the reviews we had seen online weren’t great, but the setting is so impressive that we had to try.
As well as an extensive a-la-carte menu with plenty of complicatedly named dishes they offer several degustation menus. Went for one of this and had some caviar, crab bisque, wild salmon, Kobe beef, and a few other things. Small dishes but delicious. Out of these delicacies what I enjoyed the most was the mashed potato that came with the salmon. Weird, I know, but I hadn’t had potatoes since I arrived and nearly had forgotten how much I like them. That’s not to say that the rest of the food wasn’t delicious. We enjoyed our dinner very much, it wasn’t at all as the reviews we had seen. May me we just got lucky :-)

And this is what some would call “proper” thai places, certainly you can get some amazing food providing you are not too fuzzy about they hygiene of your surroundings..