Red Pinn - At Home With Country Cooking

Bangkok has enough on its plate with fancy restaurants and exotic eateries and the tourists who come on a two week extravaganza are served sumptuously well.

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However, when it comes to yearning for neighbourhood style nosh cooked as if your mama is dishing up in the kitchen, then Red Pin is an easy home from home.

The country style food is surprisingly good considering the approach here is one of relaxed, informal and unpretentious fare. Red Pinn might be down with the folk in its approach and décor but behind the seeming simplicity and honesty of the menu are some fork shovelling stunners. Just like your mama wants only the best quality food for you, Red Pinn does not make a fuss about its desire to deliver on deliciously cooked dinners.

Home to the former renowned Bangkok eatery, Wall, Red Pinn is nestled near the Holiday Inn down a quiet soi in Silom. Looking like a Mexican restaurant from the outside, this cosy corner retreat feels like an Eastern European cellar bar with brick floors and beams, arched windows, mirrored walls and even a pool table. The menu comes as main courses or tapas which is a welcome change from appetizer followed by main.

Scouse beef stew of beef, lamb shoulder carrots, onion and potatoes, served with hot crusty bread is melt-in-the-mouth tender and for 180 thb tender to the purse strings too. The Nordic meatballs at 180 thb, or 100 thb for a tapas sized portion, taste of good ingredients, proving that there is an art to simplicity. Baked New Zealand mussels with tomato, garlic and cheese are pleasant enough at 180 thb.

There are some unique recipes too. Smoked salmon, beetroot, garlic and walnut rolls at 200thb are served with hot crusty bread and a dill mustard sauce. They are definitely different but in a fresh and interesting way. The bacon and pea soup at 110 thb is homemade with what can only be love, care and an attention to ingredients that goes way beyond the surface simplicity of Red Pinn’s down-to-earth demeanour.

For dessert the homely, yet refreshing style continues with mango crumble, hot coconut and mint custard balancing out sweet perfection. The white chocolate crème brulee with passion fruit is yet another dessert that tastes like natural, fresh restaurant quality home cooking.

Shining out from Bangkok’s gem district, Red Pinn deserves to be polished up with good, loyal lunchtime appetites and become a hungry man’s favourite as night falls. For those not able to roll on home after a night out the Red Pinn not only feeds you but can tuck you up into bed too as upstairs are a few guest rooms for just over the 1000 thb mark.

Recently launched, Red Pinn is the type of restaurant that fills up the space for local, relaxing, neighbourhood style cooking in a Western style and fill the bellies of Bangkok’s hungry who want a break from the usual Thailand treats, getting closer to somewhere nearer the other side of the world.

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