The Old Cedar

Hooray, should just be able to bung in another June entry.

The Old Cedar is a Lebanese restaurant located near to Samitivej hospital. Get checked out by the doc and then have some yummy babaghanoush. mmmm...

It isn't as cheap as the Middle Eastern restaurants round Sukhumvit soi 3, but the mezze portions are pretty large. It costs 120 baht for a mezze dish and around 300 baht for a main course. Fatt and I like to get our fingers messy with the mezze dishes though.

So far we've had wonderful smoky babaghanoush, a fine fatoush salad, rather dense and packed falafel, those cigarro pastry things with cheese inside (OK)... the mezze I really like are the chicken wings though. They seem to be cooked differently each time, but last time they were grilled and came with a herb and garlic oil dressing. It was divine.

The Lebanese beer is tasty and makes a nice alternative to the usual lager. I would say it's a white beer with a lemony taste. But that could be because they smear lemon juice around the lip of the glass.

It's a nicely decorated place with small carpets hanging from the ceiling. The service is sweet. It's not particularly busy so you can hear neighbouring conversations very well. Especially the loud English mother of two who was at the table next to us the other night. Fatt and I were 'discussing' some money matter and during a rare lull in the conversation next to us, Fatt happened to declare: "well I don't want to fuck around the bank for an hour trying to sort it out!".

The English mother was not amused...