The Sorn Experience
📸 The Sorn Experience
📍 56, Sukhumvit 26 Soi Ari, Klongton Khlong Toei
🇹🇭 Southern Thai cuisine
📖 22-Course Menu
💲 6,500++
👨🍳 Chef Ice
🗓️ June 2023
🏆 Michelin 🌟🌟 & No. 56 in World’s 50 Best Restaurants
In a restored 2-storey mansion, Sorn’s menu and gardens are inspired by the tropical forests of the south which consists of mostly seafood as the whole southern region is surrounded by water.
The team interprets southern Thai, mixing recipes with modern practices and local culinary, and sourcing ingredients from local farmers and fishers.
The sophisticated 22-course menu is mostly slow-cooked, starting with small bites and progressing to shared mains.
Sorn is allegedly the most difficult restaurant to book in Thailand and there is a reason why: it offers impeccable service.
📖 SORN MENU
AMUSE BOUCHE
Guava jelly and crispy squid. Young mangosteen with coconut, palm sugar sauce and crispy krills
Gayu (cashew nuts – pounded with chilli and shrimp paste) Comes with cucumber with cashew nut butter.
Dry scallop fried with green onion leaves, fried with curry mixed. Sprinkled seaweed powder to enhance the flavour.
PRELUDE
The beach – Sand mole crab / ming aralia / seaweed powder
Soft cuttlefish marinated with palm juice and palm syrup
Trevally with spicy cashew nut and banana sauce
Phuket lobsters with fish sauce watermelon and spicy green mango
Jorang – Tapi river prawn / prawn fat / coconut milk and herb (Kaffir lime, lemon grass and Garcinia) / grilled rice cracker
Torch ginger flower sorbet, lime & salt
SORN’S SIGNATURE
Gems on crab stick – Live blue crab / mud crab roe / yellow chilli paste
Coconut milk for coconut juice. The sweetness comes from the angel leaves, dry shrimp and roe paste. Comes with coconut meat with dried scallop oil. – Southern plant / dried squid and shrimp
VEGETABLES
2ND SIGNATURE DISH
The sea that holds the forest – Southern herb / turmeric rice / fermented anchovy dressing
Roti – Southern Beef Curry
8-9 year old milk cow, cooked beef with curry. Jelly fish salad.
THE RICE
Southern jasmine rice – cooked by charcoal in clay pot / Ranong mineral water
MAIN COURSE
“The Southern Classics” with vegetable pairings
String bean – Charcoal grilled string ben / salted cat fish / pork rind
Nakhon St Thammarat temple fair – Grouper / stinky bean / pickle garlic / cashew nut / bird’s eye chilli
Crab curry – Live blue crab
Bamboo shoot – Clear soup
CONDIMENTS
Chili paste / Hat Yai fried chicken skin / fermented soybean coconut
Milk dip / sweet pork / fish sauce and chilli
Vegetable – yellow ginger goes with coconut milk with rice.
SWEETS
Sago boiled in young coconut water – Longan ice / logan jam / frozen coconut milk / grilled coconut
SEASONAL CANNED FRUIT
Palette Cleanser – Fresh watermelon infused with watermelon juice, Watermelon sorbet and watermelon jelly
PETIT FOUR
Southern style thai tea Silon tea with condense milk
Madeleines
Coconut cream
Sea rice with coconut jam and raw coconut
3 colours jelly – mango, roselle and turmeric
Sugar biscuit
Pineapple cookies
Black sticky rice
Coconut pancake
VERDICT:
Well executed and unique. You probably would not find anything comparable to Sorn for their Southern Fine Dining concept.
In my opinion, Sorn still can go a bit further to fully earn their 2 stars. Price to value for me is abit under. I expected another level of dishes, atmosphere and service at this price.
OVERALL:
Food: 🌟🌟🌟
Aesthetic: 🌟🌟🌟
Service: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Value: 🌟🌟🌟
Must Try in Bangkok:🌟🌟🌟
(Out of 5 Stars)
