Arno's was apparently a rather well known frills free steak place (2090/ 20, 3 Naradhiwat Rajanagarindra Rd, Chong Nonsi, Bangkok 10120, tel : +66 2 678 8340). The location is not so convenient as locations for tourists in Bangkok go and it's almost an hour of car ride if you're heading over from somewhere in town during peak hours.
The order process at the restaurant starts with the choice of cuts from their selection. I wanted the 100 day aged rib eye. The guy over at the butcher told me the Arno's Special was that so we went along with it.
After the meats are the other things, including seafood. And after that, it's to the table to wait for the order.
We got some oysters to start. Some Fine de Claire and Tsarskaya.
They had a couple of dressings that were used for their oysters. One's a regular vinaigrette and the other was....well, let's just call it Thai dressing.
Garlic bread was nice. Great munching while waiting for the rest of the food.
Their lobster bisque was ordinary. While drinkable, it certainly wasn't anything like the one at Morton's. This soup tasted flat.
Their bone marrow had surprisingly little marrow. Would have ordered a few more bones if I had known.
Here's their rib eye. Dry aged and surprisingly ordinary tasting for something that was a special from their butchery.
The flavour of the meat lack the intensity that I had been expecting for something that had been dry aged for such a period. So while they aren't expensive, they aren't impressive neither.
Mashed potato was a little sweet and pretty starchy. Not bad though.
They had on their TV one of my guilty pleasures from the 90s - The Rock. Here's a moment of machismo from Ed Harris in a showdown in the prison shower room.
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