Day 3: Spring & Summer Restaurant

I read about this beautiful restaurant: Spring & Summer Restaurant and told myself I must go.

The restaurant belongs to a Thai actor, Phol Tantasanthien. It was first opened in mid 2004 and serves fusion food.

I made an email reservation just before I left for the airport. I wanted to book a table at Spring Dining Room at 7pm for the main course and change to Winter Bar or Lawn at 8.30pm for the dessert. I figured Baby would love to run on the grass.

It was as beautiful as I had read. A bungalow made of glass.

Summer section

Before I could take any picture at Spring, Baby was grouchy and needed to sleep. I requested to shift to Summer for the couch there, and the staff obliged.

The chandelier was equally beautiful. It was the perfect place for a romantic date.

Grilled lemongrass chicken skewers with tamarind sauce

Mushroom and chicken samosa

Grilled snowfish. Yummy!

Chocolate Crepe Cake

Chocolate pudding

C Cup Malt

Review on Spring & Summer Restaurant:

The architecture is breathtaking. The service is good. The staff speak comparatively comprehensible English. I could communicate with them in broken English ('What food is good? No spicy'). The ambience is unbeatably romantic. But the food does not match the ambience. The food is passable at most. In fact, we found the samosa awful. The mushroom taste was too strong. The leaf-wrapped chicken was ordinary, as plain as it got. The only thing that was good was the snowfish (codfish), but even then, the fish itself is great no matter how you cook it as long as it is not stale.

Spring and Summer sections are for main courses although Summer was meant to be a place for lounging out with chocolates, cakes and truffles (and that's why the brown and earthy tones), while Winter has a different menu from the other two areas. It serves desserts.

We had our main dishes at Summer. After that, we asked to transfer to Winter for the dessert.

Baby loved the giant beanbags at the lawn. She threw herself down into the beanbags over and over again. She went over to this beanbag to jump on it, then climbed and crawled over to another beanbag to lie down on it. She had loads of fun with the beanbags! It was a beautiful concept - having beanbags around a wooden squarish table, with a dim tealight as the ambient light. Very loungy and relaxing feel! For the ambience, we did not feel like leaving.

Alas, the dessert was too sweet. I liked the crepe cake, but still, just like too many cooks spoil the broth, there was too much sweetness to bear. There was a sponge cake in my C Cup Malt. It was so sweet my tooth hurt!

We could not finish the dessert at the Winter area for the simple reason that it was too sweet.

The bill came up to 1800+ baht - the most expensive restaurant out of the few we went to.

It was a good experience nonetheless. Sigh ...

Address:
Spring & Summer
199 Sukhumvit Soi 49 (Promsri), Sukhumvit Road
Klongton Nua, Wattana, Bangkok

Spring Dining Room: 11.30am - 2.30pm, 6pm – 11pm
Winter Lawn: 7pm - midnight
Summer Chocolate House: 12am – midnight (??) - as shown on the website

Spring Tel: (66) 2 392 2747-8; Summer Tel: (66) 2 392 2757
Email for reservation: spring04@truemail.co.th

Nearest BTS: Phrom Phong (but it is not within walking distance)
Direction: Taking the BTS/Train is not recommended. Download the Thai map and show it to the cab driver.