[TAIPEI - Baan Restaurant Taipei ‘Thai Family Recipe’ 🤐]
又是另一間剛開不久的餐廳。已聽到好幾個可靠的評語及建議不用去試，但朋友生日聚餐辦在這𥚃不得不來，果然是對的。
我們十幾人訂了包廂，所以把菜單上全部的菜幾乎都吃了一遍。這裡標榜泰國家庭食譜。雖然我去過泰國幾十次也試過不少家庭式或標榜泰國食譜餐廳，但可能還算不夠多， 因為我覺得這𥚃的菜除了每一道都很咸以外其他都跟一般泰國餐差不多，沒什麼特別，我們全部人都不停地叫白飯來配才能繼續吃。如果泰國的家庭都是這口味相信不少當地人的腎都要常常檢查。
我們有帶香檳紅白酒也付足開瓶費，但提供的酒杯很小和一般。而從頭到尾餐廳都好像人手不足，上菜換盤子都而顯忙不過來所以差不多都是我們自己動手拿碗倒水，再叫他們倒酒換酒杯已好像要求多了而且要等很久，所以為了不想常常空箸杯子幾乎開酒倒酒都是我們自己處理，我們也懶得不停提出換杯，一杯到尾算了。
視乎提供不同程度的專業配套和服務，收不同價錢的開瓶費是應該和合理的。但明顯餐廳在這方面的配套和服務沒有到位而收足開瓶費，這是不合理不同意的地方。
也值得一提的是這裡裝潢有像泰國新派餐廳元素，但桌面用雲石配很輕，像塑膠原料的環保碗盤感覺怪怪的。我不是專家但在坐的名設計師朋友也感不解。
這裡的菜是家庭式但價錢走中高檔路線，而且要有分兩個時段用餐。收費在台灣泰菜來説是貴，應該是籍箸老闆是台灣和泰國西餐米其林名氣廚師的關係所致。用餐的普遍都是年輕人，也應該都是衝箸米其林的名氣而來吧。
隠若已看到這家餐廳是要開分店, 連鎖吸錢的方程式。
Another recently opened restaurant. Already received several reliable comments and recommendations that there’s no need to try, but since it’s friends’ birthday celebration dinner, it’s no choice but to try once.
We had 15 people in the private room and we pretty much tried all dishes on menu. The selling point of this restaurant is the use of family recipe. I have already visited Thailand many times and tried many family restaurants or restaurant using family recipe as selling point, but perhaps it’s still not enough as I find the dishes of this restaurant is nothing different from standard Thai restaurant except all dishes are quite salty and we had to continuously ordering rice to tone down the saltiness. I wonder if this is the common flavour for usual Thai families’, otherwise I’d believe many locals do require to have kidney checkup regularly.
We brought champagne, white and red wines and fully paid corkage. The glasses provided were relatively small and standard. It seems that they are short of staffs and we almost had to help ourselves with changing plates and to add water, not to mention asking them to pour wines and change glasses seemed like it’s too demanding and needed to wait for a long time. So in order not to have empty glasses all the time, we were basically helping ourselves with opening bottles and pouring all the wines, and we gave up asking to change glasses and used only one glass all the way.
Charging corkage is absolutely fair if professional facilitation and service can be provided, with higher corkage fee for higher standard. For restaurants that don’t have the capacity to provide the required facilitation and service yet corkage are charged, this is unreasonable and unacceptable.
One thing also worth mentioning is the decoration of the restaurant is of modern Thai style restaurant. But the matching of marble table with very light weighted plastic like recycled material tableware seem odd. I’m no expert here but a famous interior designer friend there also didn’t understand the reason behind of the combination.
Restaurant is supposed to be family style but pricing is mid to high range, and have two servings in the evening. Reason for being one of the most expensive Thai restaurant in Taipei is probably because the owners are Michelin star western restaurants’ chefs in Taipei and Bangkok. Customers are mainly quite young and likely they come due to the fame of Michelin.
Already vaguely tell this kind of restaurants is of the standard formula of opening branches / franchise model as cash generator.
味道人生級別 / TastesInLife (TIL) Index：
😍: 非常好 - 必須再去 / Excellent - Must revisit regularly
😋: 滿意 - 應該再去 / Satisfactory - Should revisit regularly
☺️: 不錯 - 可以再去 / Not bad - Can revisit once a while
😌: 一般 - 去一次便夠 / Average - Once is enough
🤐: 不行 - 不值得去 / Bad - Not worth the visit
😭: 災難 - 噩夢一場 / Disaster - A nightmare
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