February 2014
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VAI VIA
Order over 599 THB and get a 2 Free Home Made Cookies
Order over 599 THB and get a FREE Pasta Arrabiata
Breizh crepes
GOVINDa
The Black swan
Order over 499 THB and get a Free Crepes
Order over 599THB and get Free Pizza Margherita
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Le Petit Zinc
The Swiss Choice
Order over 499 THB and get Free Crème brûlée
Order over 499 THB and get a Free Potato and Cheese Salad
BEIRUT
Order over 599 and get a Free chicken Shawarma Sandwich
Olive
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FEATURED RESTAURANT Sunrise Tacos
“The decor is a colourful as often seen in Mexico but in a modern style. Mexican food in the US
Greg Lange runs many other restaurants but it
comes in Cal-Mex and Tex-Mex, we offer both,
was a friend who inspired him to open Sunrise
We also have some authentic Mexican food that
Tacos. “Mexican is my favourite food,” says Greg.
is normally only found in Mexico.
“It’s the first thing I would eat when I went back to the US, the lights went on and I thought, Why
“Around 40% of our ingredients are imported,”
not bring good Mexican food to Thailand?.” He
he says. “I wanted to bring a real Mexican dining
opened his first Sunrise Taco on 15th April 2007
experience to Bangkok we had to serve authen-
in Bangkok on Sukhumvit Rd between Soi 12 and
tic corn tortillas, not the processed corn torti-
Soi 14. Today there are six outlets in Bangkok, one
llas that are found in the markets and used by
in Pattaya and their first international branch in
many restaurants. That is why we source your
Phnom Penh.
corn from 100 years old Scoular Company in Ne-
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FEATURED RESTAURANT SUNRISE TACOS
corn tortillas. They have top grade equipment to make sure the corn kernels are high quality and safe from foreign objects. We cook our corn chips freshly throughout the day using trans-fat free rice bran oil.” “We also import avocados, San Marcos chipotle peppers, Cholula hot sauce, American cheddar, Mozzarella and Monterey Jack cheese, some Mexican spices and our beef; Australian Waygu 500 day grain fed beef and USA Black Angus grain fed beef,” he adds. “The difference this buying decision makes is the difference between night and day in taste. The taste would
Of our local sourced produce Pork shoulder and
be nothing like Sunrise Tacos if we did not use
chicken is supplied by CP Group in Bangkok, fish
high quality ingredients.
from the Royal projects and Makro
We guarantee the freshness of our food by buy-
Sunrise Tacos is the number one Mexican res-
ing our ingredients from businesses committed
taurant in Bangkok with over 80,000 fans on
to sustainable practices and to providing only
Facebook and the largest Mexican restaurant
high quality products.
brand in Thailand. Their main goal is to satisfy
FEATURED RESTAURANT SUNRISE TACOS
La Cantina Tel 0-2229-4851 Email info@sunricetacos.com www.facebook.com/sunrisetacos www.sunrisetacos.com
Sukhumvit Rd between Soi 12 - Soi 14 Opening Hours : 24 hours
our guests by providing nutritional, healthy and delicious Mexican food. They offer a culinary trip to Mexico without leaving Bangkok! “Thais are now really into Mexican food,” he adds, “their favourites are the first three in our top four dishes.” Topping the list is USA Cowboy Tacos, three crispy tacos stuffed
Emporium Mall, 5th Floor, Park Food Hall, Sukhumvit Rd, Soi 24 Opening Hours : 24 hours
with ground sirloin beef, cheddar cheese, lettuce onions and fresh
Silom Rd, Corner of Soi 4 Opening Hours : 24 hours
be added with a supplement payment.
Terminal 21 Mall - 4th floor, Sukhumvit Rdand Asoke Opening Hours : 10am-10pm
of tortilla chips topped with Monterrey Jack and Cheddar cheese.
Promenade Mall, 2nd Floor, 589 Ram Inthra Rd Opening Hours : 10am-10pm
jalapeño and sour cream.
Siam Paragon Mall Gourmet Super Market kiosk for your Mexican ingredients for home Opening Hours : 10am-10pm Pattaya - Jomtien Complex Opening Hours : 10am-12pm Cambodia - 171 Street 63 , Phomn Penh Opening Hours : 10am-11pm This April they will be opening in two more locations Siam Square1 and Khao San Road
tomato salsa. It served with a choice of Mexican rice and beans, salad or hot home made tortilla chips. Sour cream or Guacamole can Nachos Cheese Supreme with Chicken served on a large mountain It’s loaded with black beans, pico de gallo, cilantro, chopped onion,
Grilled Chicken Fajita, grilled chicken breast marinated in fresh citrus and chillies, served on a sizzling skillet with lightly seasoned sautéed onions and bell peppers accompanied with fresh flour tortillas, Mexican rice, refried beans, pico de gallo, sour cream, lettuce and cheese Chicken Quesadilla Perfectly seasoned chicken with melted cheese and tomato salsa, on a large homemade tortilla folded and grilled. Served with a side of sour cream and Sunrise salsa. Echiladas Suizas (Tomatillo and Cream Sauce), three hand rolled soft flour tortillas filled with slow cooked pulled chicken with a fresh cream sauce and melted cheese served with Mexican rice and refried beans.
personality of the month “Before moving to Thailand my wife and I were living in Lille, France which is close to the Belgium boarder,” says Francois. “I was an IT Manager, she was a marketing Manager. When we were on holiday in Bangkok in 2010 we met Thomas and Muriel Dazard who had just opened their Le Petit Zinc in Sukhumvit Soil 23. Like them we had reached the stage in life that we were looking for a new adventure. We were looking for something based on conviviality and gastronomy, so a restaurant was our first choice. Having kept in touch with the Dazards after we had gone back to France, we decided to open a second branch of Le Petit Zinc, as we had identified that their brand was recognised and would be immediately identifiable with our target customers. “Our objective was to share our passio for French cuisine,” he says, “ to build a place where you can meet friends and enjoy good food for an affordable price. The food style is a concept originating in Paris known as Bistro, small restaurants serving simple yet quality meals in a modest setting.” “The main challenge was explaining to Thai customers exactly what French food is,” he says. “Many have an image of French food as being complicated, stiff and expensive. A misconception they like our key ingredients such as duck, lamb or salmon. Rather than using French which most don’t understand we use a pictorial menu to show them exactly what we serve.” “For a restaurant to survive it has to appeal to local customers,” he says. “Thais like to share every dish so we adjusted our dishes to be
Francois Lecouvez Le Petit Zinc
easily sharable. As they like fish we have added more salmon, snow fish and tuna to our menu. Francois favourite dish is Duck confit put simply a preserved leg. The meat is first salted, cooked then stored in large amounts of fat. “It’s very tasty and tender inside and crispy outside,” he says, “I particularly like it when it’s served with roasted potatoes.” “The challenge is to find local people able to product great ingredients for reasonable price,” he says. “For example our cheese supplier who makes the products, offering great creamy cheeses that we can put on our menu at an affordable price. We are currently sourcing 30% of our produce locally. “Our wines are from France, Chile New Zealand and Spain,” he says.”the challenge is finding suppliers who can offer nice quality wines at an affordable price, not the big names from Bordeaux but smaller chateaux. What differentiates the Yen Akart restaurant from the one in Sukhumvit us that serve salted and sweet crepes. Salted crepe is a specialty from Brittany in Western France. They use buckwheat flour to make great tasting crepes with ham, egg and cheese. The taste is very great. You can mix a lot of product in your crepe. The most popular crepe is Ham, Egg and Cheese. Foie gras and scallop Crepes are popular with Thai customers who are showing interest in their new Crepes made with tuna or black pudding.