Chaophraya In Glasgow
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Chaophraya is
located in what is known as “The Townhouse” on Buchanan Street, and iconic
building in Glasgow and offers Thai/ Chinese cuisine. The organisation also has
a bar located at the bottom of the restaurant, which offers beautiful cocktails
in a sort of lounge type venue.
My Sk’s birthday was last week and I couldn’t think
of a better opportunity than this to visit Chaophraya.
I scouted the menu first before I made a booking to
make sure we both liked at least one dish before I booked it. It sounded
delicious, I made the booking online through their website weeks in advance.
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| Date night at Chaophraya. |
We were running late on the day and after calling to
see if I move the booking to an hour later the restaurant were really helpful
and co-operative.
Looking from the outside to the restaurant it doesn’t
do it any justice. It’s not until you are inside the building and see the venue
itself that you can really appreciate the artwork and décor, it is
breath-taking.
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| Steamed chicken and crab meat dumplings. |
We were shown to our table and provided with three
menus, all from which we could choose from. Every menu had its own reason such
as a la carte or a set menu. Our booking was at 18.00pm; it was quite early as
we had planned to go out for drinks afterwards yet I couldn’t believe how busy
the place was- it was jumping!
The restaurant has a set theme, which is obvious with
Buddha statues everywhere. The staff are dressed in traditional Thai costume
and put together with the artwork and history of the building itself it creates
a magical and relaxed setting.
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| Chicken spring rolls. |
Our dinner was delicious. Absolutely amazing! To
start Mr Sk had chicken spring rolls and I had chicken and crab meat steamed
dumplings. For our main course we both chose the pineapple with prawn garnished
with honey pork. It was literally half a pineapple cut out with turmeric rice
inside it. It had squares of pineapple through it and was topped with prawns
and honey pork. It was delicious!
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| Pineapple with prawn and honey pork. |
We ventured downstairs for cocktails before going out
for the night.
Our experience of Chaophraya was
amazing, such a lovely date night for Mr Sk’s birthday. I cannot wait to go
back, it was that good I’m thinking of going back next week when we have another
date night to celebrate the end of uni for the summer.
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| Cocktails |
I completely recommend this venue, it’s a beautiful
night out whether its simply dinner or a start to a party night.
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