Ba hao 八號

This place is trying but at this price point it needs to step up significantly. Menu is 🔥 but execution is mid. Very mid. Cocktails are appx. 350 THB and extremely sweet. Not balanced or strong enough for this price. Beers are not cheap and the tap system can be down entirely. Domestic bottles 120ish and import cans are 150. Sorry to be a baby, but you can't pour off cans behind the bar and serve on trays in different sized glasses. At this price that's just sloppy. This entire street of bars is 30% overpriced and 30% under output quality. This restaurant is a perfect example.

a month ago

We discovered this trendy-looking restaurant a couple of weeks ago, whilst visiting a neighbouring cocktail bar in Soi Nana in Bangkok's wonderful Chinatown. Ba Hao is a restaurant and cocktail bar. There are tables on the street and inside - we ate inside in the nicely presented main dining room. Unfortunately, they don't have printed menus or tablets. You have to scan a QR code and then try and view their menu on your phone screen. Not ideal and a real turn-off for me. However, the food choices were good and it took us a while to choose: - Tofu Crackers Salsa: Tofu Crackers with Asian Pear Salsa - Stir fried Eggplant with miso garlic: Chinese eggplant stir with homemade miso garlic sauce top with crispy tofu and fresh herbs - Duck wontons: Duck Wontons with Chilli Sesame Oil - Pork Belly Mantou: Chop Braised Pork Belly served with Bun The food was excellent and creative. I really liked the salsa with the crackers - a good mix of flavours. The other three dishes: very tasty and nicely presented. Unfortunately, the service was really impersonal and quite unfriendly and not at all Thai. We felt that they didn't really want to be there - and didn't want us to be there. We felt unwelcome and won't be going back. Shame. (Also posted to my food blog on Instagram @AbbeyKing16)

2 months ago