Waraku

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Eat that display!

Waraku, at the downtown mega mall - Central World, offers Japanese cuisine with a European twist (yes, that means fusion!) and in an casual array. The food display at the shop front is gorgeous, sadly not the food itself! Their ambiance and service, on par with other dine-in fast food joints.

Waraku Japanese Casual Dining **1/2
7/F Zone A - Atrium, Cemntral World Plaza
Rajdamri Road
Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330
Tel.: 02.613,1750

Open daily : 10:30 am - 10 pm
Pay (food only for one): around THB 400

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Italian Tomato

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Bona fide fusion cuisine

When Italian meets Japanese, the cuisine becomes exciting. Italian Tomato, the decades old Italian restaurant and bakery chain with a Japanese twist, is renowned for its Italian + Japanese bona fide fusion cuisine in Japan, has also gained a certain popularity in Southern California with branches in food centers and supermarkets. Before I relocated to Bangkok, I used to visit an Italian Tomato cake shop at least once a month for her cakes, they are fluffy and soft, light and flavorsome, and it is the kind of cake I (exactly) like; but the food, is not on my 'like' list.

I always wish that Italian Tomato may (sooner or later) come to Thailand, and a long wait for more than a decade had become reality since last year. The first Italian Tomato cake shop has landed in Bangkok's Central World Plaza, followed by the Italian Tomato Restaurant & Cafe, a latest addition to the Central Plaza Ladprao.


gateau aux fraises THB 110++

chocolate cake THB 100++; fruit cake THB 110++

fruit cocktail tart THB 110++


bolograise THB 150++

tortilla chips (complimentary), chicken & mushroom salad THB 100++

curry rice with omelet THB 160++

Italian Tomato Restaurant and Cafe ***1/4
1/F Central Plaza Ladprao
Paholyothin Road
Jatujak, Bangkok 10900
Tel.: 02.541.1882

Open daily : 10 am - 9:30 pm
Pay (food only for two): around THB 700

Italian Tomato Cake Shop ****
7/F Central World Plaza
4 Rajmadri Road
Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330
Tel.: 02.646.1017

Open daily : 10 am - 10 pm
Pay (food only for two): around THB 300

Yumemiya

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Mission east meets west

Japanese east-meet-west cafe, Yumemiya, is from the family of pioneer Italian kitchens, Italian Tomato of Tokyo, which is renowned for its cakes and desserts, and is now available in Bangkok.


kino mushroom salad with shredded chicken THB 90++; amuse bouche

J-style ebi ika spaghetti with shrimp and squid THB 220++

pork cutlet with J-style curry on rice THB 220++
kinoko spaghetti with salmon in cream sauce THB 190++

Kamakura Yumemiya Japanese Cafe ***1/2
6/F Gochisou Street
Isetan Department Store
4 Rajdamri Road
Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330
Tel.: 02.255.9894

Open daily : 10 am - 10 pm
Pay (food only for two): around THB 600

On The Table

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Tokyo in Bangkok, Italian cuisine

In my eyes (and my taste-buds), mall food is pretty boring, especially non-Thai and fusion cuisine.

However, there are always exceptions. Recently I found there is an open-style restaurant in the middle of the atrium at Beacon Zone of the Central World Plaza; the food, Italian cuisine with a Japanese twist, is interesting and average. It is On The Table, the Tokyo Cafe. Since then I can get my next fix of Tokyo style western food without the cost of airfare and extra radiation.

Again, at On The Table it is about Italian food with a Japanese twist, so don't expect the food taste like those in Grossi and Bacco.



On The Table, Tokyo Cafe ***1/4
6/F Beacon Zone, Central World Plaza
4 Rajdamri Road (/Rama I Road)
Prathumwan, Bangkok 10330
Tel.: 02.613.1558

Open daily : 11 am - 10 pm
Pay (food only for two): around THB 800