Review

Elegant yet relaxed, traditional with a hint of adventure - Baan is the widely acclaimed celebrity Chef Ton's more casual, family-style restaurant offering familiar Thai recipes passed down through family generations.

Meaning 'home' in Thai, Baan offers a comforting and familiar menu reminiscent of home-cooking and family meals. Recipes are traditional with special touches, as there would be when one gets creative and daring cooking at home. Spicy five­ spice egg stew is a subtle variation from the sweeter, thicker, and richer traditional version, but Chef Ton's lighter, zestier, and tangier version might be better than the original. Dishes as simple yet delicious as a Thai green curry and a pad krapao might feel out of place in a restaurant headed with high calibre culinary accolades. The seafood green curry is an eye-opening celebration of this traditional dish's globally revered complexity of flavour, while special dry-aged beef basil stir fry (krapao nuea) is worth a try for a subtly elevated experience of the familiar street food dish.

Other signature dishes such as Baan's baked prawns with vermicelli or wonderfully traditional Thai desserts, try sago in coconut milk, make Baan a perfectly comforting dining experience with just the right hint of surprise.