Medinii Italian restaurant is located on the 35th floor of the 5 star Continent Hotel. It is the hotel’s signature restaurant and rightfully so.
Before having dinner at Medinii I visited their website so I would know what to expect. I scrolled down to their promotion page and began reading. After reading thru the first promotion I began to have the haunting feeling that my meal was going to be mediocre at best.
You see, I’ve always subscribed to the saying that if it sounds too good to be true then it usually is. Medinii’s everyday promotion costs 999++ per person and offers all the pizza and pasta you can eat, plus one selection from their main course menu, plus one selection from their desert menu PLUS free flow of wine, beer or cocktails from 6pm to 10pm.
I mentally did the equations and figured at that price the quality of food they serve could only aspire to be marginal.
How wrong I was.
There were seven choices of pizza and six choices of pasta and what we had was really good. I mean really good. So much so that I had to stop eating before I wanted to because I knew I had a main course and a desert coming. With the six different pasta sauce’s you had five different types of pasta for it to be served over; spaghetti, penne, fettuccine, angel’s hair and black ink pasta.
The Entrée menu had nine selections and I contemplated over the Seabass, Pork Tenderloin, and their Australian Lamb Shank but it was their Wagyu Beef Short Ribs that finally won out. The beef was slow cooked for 24 hours and came with garlic mash potatoes and vegetables. Tender as you would imagine and extremely flavorful.
Desert offered six choices and I settled on the Crème Brulee which was scented with Grand Marnier, Orange Liquor and Madagascar Vanilla. It’s been said I’ve never met a desert I didn’t like and this one certainly didn’t disappoint.
The only downside to the evening was that I had my “limiter” with me (otherwise known as my gf) so I couldn’t take full advantage of the four hours of free flow like I wanted too, but there will be another day…
If the promotion above does not excite you rest assured they do have an ala carte menu that you can order from. A quick check on Trip Advisor showed that Medinii ranked 16 out of 663 Bangkok restaurants (as of this writing) and scrolling thru the comments all were very positive.
Medinii is easy to get to as it is just steps from the Asoke Sky Train and Subway stations. I was really impressed with the food, the prices and the spot on service. I will be going back.
Medinii
35th floor Continent Hotel
413 Sukhumvit Road
Bangkok 10110
+66 (0)2 686 7000 Ext. 4416
dining@thecontinenthotel.com
www.thecontinentdining.com