Dining/Drinking

Meliá Innside Bangkok brunch news: Seafood on ice, lobster, Mediterranean mains, a ‘build-your-own’ egg station, Japanese corner, and chocolate fountain are among the broad spectrum of options at five-star hotel’s new Saturday brunch.

Situated in The Kites Eatery restaurant on the 31st floor of INNSiDE by Meliá Bangkok Sukhumvit, the new brunch on the first Saturday of each month this year from 12-3pm features a live band.

The brunch menu brims with delicacies, fashioned by executive chef Katisak ‘Note’ Pinkaew and his team at a series of stations, including Korean, Fine de Claire and Normandy oysters, as well as New Zealand mussels, blue mussels and cooked prawns. A half Canadian lobster, served with Spanish sauce, is available per diner.

Meliá Innside Bangkok brunch: build your own

The ‘build your own’ egg station isn’t any mere egg station. Think eggs benedict on sourdough with smoked salmon and salmon roe, scrambled eggs on toast with caviar, salad, avocado, tomato and mushrooms, and butter pancakes with egg and smoked bacon.

In addition to three kinds of salmon gravlax, the cold cuts range from jamón serrano, chorizo, and fuet to salami, pepperoni, and bresaola. By the bread station, the cheese selection includes brie, camembert, blue cheese, Manchego, Swiss cheese, Gorgonzola, and Idiazabal.

The fried station offers guilty pleasures shrimp croquettes, and layered potato with salsa brava and aioli, balanced by the soup station, a vast salad bar and salads ranging from caprese salad and grilled halloumi salad to ‘grilled octopus with olives, pickled paprika and olive oil’. The Japanese corner serves sashimi such as tuna, fresh salmon, tamagoyaki, ebi, crab stick, tako, hamachi and tobiko, and salmon roe.

The carving station offers baked whole fish and slow-roasted Mediterranean lamb. The Mediterranean mains section features the likes of braised pork cheek with carrot and cumin purée, braised Australian beef short ribs with truffle mashed potato, grilled fish with dill and lemon caper sauce, Mediterranean-style mussels, crispy baked mediterranean chicken, and grilled antipasto vegetables.

Meliá Innside Bangkok brunch: BBQ and pizza

Other stations include the BBQ grill station with lamb rack and chicken, pork, beef and seafood skewers, a fresh pasta station with crab pesto pasta, and a pizza station with truffle mushroom or four cheese pizza.

Dessert is a smorgasbord unto itself. The chocolate fountain is accompanied by fresh strawberries, bananas, churros, chocolate brownies, crackers, marshmallows, and meringues. There is a churros station, as well as assorted cakes, traditional Thai desserts, variety of granola and yogurt, and fresh seasonal fruits. ‘INNSiDE x MEK’ ice cream flavours include chumphon chocolate, coconut milk, and sun-dried banana.

The Saturday brunch menu with soft drinks is THB 2200++ (USD 67++) per person and THB 1100++ (USD 37.50) per child aged six to 11. Free-flow Chang Draught beer is an extra THB 890++ (USD 27++) per person. The premium package including free-flow Chang Draught beer, house red and white wine, and sparkling wine is an extra THB 1,290++ (USD 39++) per person. Price is exclusive of 10% service charge and 7% government tax.

For further information and to make a reservation, email kites@innsidebangkok.com or call +66 2 340 5496.