Prior to a visit to Ruen Urai, my perception on a Thai restaurant that's set in an exquisite, Thai-style wooden house was simply a place for foreign tourists looking for an ``exotic'' meal. I could always see why these beautiful eateries were rarely a place for local diners, let alone a favourite among Thai cuisine connoisseurs. And the reasons just rested on the plates.
The restaurant occupies a well renovated, Thai-style golden teak wood house built in the reign of King Rama V.
I usually say that the most important aspect I look for when reviewing a restaurant is good flavour. And at most ``tourist-attraction'' restaurants, no matter how authentically Thai their ambience presented, the flavours of the food often came out wrong, regardless of whether they're pleasurable.
Ruen Urai is a Thai restaurant which opened three years ago. Though I'd like to go straight to telling you about the palate-pleasing lunch I had there (obviously, the only matter of today's article), I couldn't omit talking a little bit about its awe-inspiring setting.
The restaurant occupies a carefully renovated Thai-style two-storey wooden house built over a century ago on private premises which once belonged to a herbal medicine doctor during the reign of King Rama V.
The interior is graciously adorned with valuable artefacts, such as architectural ornaments and sculptures, but at the same time offering the luxurious comfort of the modern day.
Gastronomy-wise, with approximately 100 items on the main menu plus three lunch sets, five degustation menus for dinner and an extensive list of Old and New World wines, you can say that Ruen Urai has pretty much everything one would look for from a fine Thai restaurant.
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