The Nusara Experience
📸 The Nusara Experience
📍 336 Maha Rat Rd, Phra Borom Maha Ratchawang, Khet Phra Nakhon, Bangkok 10200
🇹🇭 Family-influenced Thai cuisine
📖 12-Course Menu
💲 5800++
🗓️ June 2023
🏆 1 Michelin 🌟& No. 3 in Asia’s 50 Best Restaurant
Nusara serves traditional Thai cuisine with a modern update on the chef’s family recipes and culinary traditions.
The 12-course tasting runs through intricate snacks such as mackerel with coconut and cucumber, Hokkaido scallop with sweetcorn and cured egg yolk, and tom kla soup, plus a signature crab curry, presented on a crispy betel leaf with horseshoe crab roe.
There are larger family-style courses including Bumbai Neua, a tender beef cheek in a rich, Bombay-style curry with pickled cucumber.
📖 NUSARA MENU
1️⃣ Welcome drink – Pineapple sparkling juice
2️⃣ Starters
The meal starts off with a quick tour of the kitchen and the “living room” at the 3rd floor where you’ll be served 2 yummy amuse bouches at each venue. a bit gimmicky but it was alright.
SOUTHERN OF THAILAND - Shrimp head, with pork, beef chicken beneath
NORTHERN OF THAILAND - Crispy and creamy from coconut filled with lemon grass, gelatine made from the Fishball
3️⃣ Caviar south of Thailand inside Chinese dumpling with sundried fish.
4️⃣ Baked tomato skin wrapped with spicy beef tartar garnished with garlic flower, together with Vietnamese coriander
5️⃣ Smoked King mackerel / Tom – Som Broth
6️⃣ Squid / Cucumber / Heirloom Tomato / Edible Flower, Coriander
7️⃣ Blue Swimming Crab from the Southern of Thailand, Cooked with yellow colour, Horseshoe Crab Roe / topped with Betel Leaf
8️⃣ Hokkaido Scallop / Kaffir lime Kosho & Fish sauce
Sweet Corn Soup / Cured Egg Yolk (South of Thailand)
9️⃣ Jasmine Aromatic Rice / Paddy Field Crab Roe / Crispy Garlic / Thai Chimichuri
🔟 Tom – Kla Soup with Gourami Fish / Giant Ocean Snail / Slipper Lobster
1️⃣1️⃣ Peanut Relish / Seasonal Vegetables / Shrimp Paste Water / Served with sauce – Coriander leave, chilli & fresh lime juice
1️⃣2️⃣ River prawn / Ginger / Palm Sugar / Prawn Roe / Fresh Pineapple
1️⃣3️⃣ Kang – Ya Curry / Silver mullet
1️⃣4️⃣ Smoked Short Ribs / Red Basil Leaf
1️⃣5️⃣ Palette Cleanser – Beef wrapped in leaf, goji berry and slow cooked garlic
1️⃣6️⃣ Traditional Thai Popsicle, Thai calamansi, Seasalt & Ice. With Thai Calamansi for fragrant & aroma
1️⃣7️⃣ Sago boiled with fresh coconut juice. Steamed taro, young Coconut meat & salted coconut ice-cream & palm sugar poured with salted coconut milk and sea salt. Served with raw chestnut.
PETIT FOUR
VERDICT:
Overall a good restaurant to try once. However I felt that for 1/3 the price, you can have excellent restaurants (perhaps without the same creativity) with equivalent service. Yet it doesn't hit the absolute memorable levels of some 2 or 3 star Michelin restaurants, particularly given the price. Desserts would need to work on improvements.
Was unable to make out some of the explanations of the dishes, but other than that service was prompt. Great showcase of local seafood and cuisine as well. 😊
OVERALL:
Food: 🌟🌟🌟
Aesthetic: 🌟🌟
Service: 🌟🌟🌟
Value: 🌟🌟🌟
Must Try in Bangkok:🌟🌟🌟
(Out of 5 Stars)
