tawandang

anyone heard bout this place? i heard this from a fren... he told me it%26#39;s a brewery/restaurant/performance place... any comments on it??

tawandang

Not been yet ,will give it a try this Dec.It has it%26#39;s own web site.........

www.tawandang1999.com which only gives a flavour(excuse the pun) of what it%26#39;s about. Someone on a forum suggested it as an alternative to Suan Lum beer garden for eating/drinking and entertainment.

tawandang

There is actually more than one of them - but the original one that I suspect you are thinking of is if I remember correctly on Rama 3 road.. It seats somewhere in excess of a thousand people both on the ground floor and in an upstairs balcony . They brew their own beer on site, a lager, a dark beer and a wheat beer, It%26#39;s a bit like an old fashioned english workingmens club - it%26#39;s all set out to tables, some for couples, most for 4 or 8 or 12.... There is live music from about 8 until it closes generally with a couple of house bands and a number of singers who take turns. It may seem a bit tame early on but gets progressively more raucous through the evening. They serve quite a variety of food, and for the size of the operation it%26#39;s pretty good - the house speciality is baked pork hock, but I would recommend the salt and pepper chicken which goes a treat with the beer and the seabasswhich is really well seasoned. I think it%26#39;s a top place for a good night out. - though a little strange to watch the overwhelmingly thai crowd enjoy themselves by standing and dancing at their tables.

A couple of provisos though - it gets very busy ,ie full, at the weekends so you really need to book unless you are willing to join a queue and wait for booking no shows - and you might here wait for over an hour. Also there are a number of tables with very poor sight lines and upstairs the back half of the balcony has almost no sight of the stage which is also miles away - you may need to argue forcefully if given such a bad set of seats and in this it helps if you have a thai speaker.

One curiosity - well to me anyway- is the size of the car park. You%26#39;d never be allowed to have one like this in the UK and if you did the local police would have a beanfeast nicking drink drivers a few hundred yards down the road.

If the location is a problem - and well it%26#39;s not really as you just get a taxi- the Coliseum on Sujhumvit ,a bit past the Emporium on the same side of the road, is smaller version and both the music and food not quite so good.

hmmm sounds like fun... checked out the webbie alrdy.. im gonna send them a mail to make reservations.. hope i wld be able to get a table.. would be there on christmas night...neways.. thanks for sharing..

cheers

gordon