Il Cielo Italian Restaurant In Bangkok, Thailand

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Il Cielo is the Italian restaurant in the Dusit Thani Hotel located in Bangkok, Thailand. It's varied menu includes many different types of Italian food from appetizers to pizzas.

I dined there recently (January, 2009) and found the food to be at a very high standard from a taste standpoint. My favorite dish at a very large lunch was the risotto with black truffle paste and scallops. If you love the rich flavor of truffles then this is the dish for you too. The rice was done perfectly and the sweet flavor of the scallops, offset by some briny orange fish roe, was a perfect accompaniment to the powerful flavor of the truffles which permeated every bit of this wonderful dish.

My companion and I started with Il Cielo’s appetizer sampler which was served on one of the largest plates I’ve ever seen in a restaurant, its dory-like presence dominating the middle of the table. On it were perched some intriguing combinations as well as some traditional Italian antipasti. Some simple deep-fried calamari were joined by pancetta and sage wrapped prawns, some pan-fried foie gras, garlic bruschetta with mozzarella, anchovies and more black truffles, parma ham and melon, beef carpaccio, tuna tartare with with artichoke and trout caviar and marinated goat cheese. All were well done but my favorites were the tuna tartare and the pan-fried foie gras.

I followed the antipasti with a borlotti bean cream soup that had a large piece of pan-fried foie gras floating in the middle of it and next was a snow fish filet that had been broiled and set on a bed of mashed potatoes and linguine with an al Gamberone sauce. The abovementioned risotto also arrived at the same time but even though that took up much of my attention from then on I was still abel to adequately sample the two other dishes.

The snow fish was cooked perfectly and the simple preparation let its rich, almost nutty, flavor stand on its own which was a good thing. The linguine’s sauce was tasty with a hint of pernod but not overpowering and the large prawns had a full, sweet taste that almost rivaled that of a top-quality lobster.  Any of these dishes are worth ordering.

There are undoubtedly many other dishes worth ordering here also and the selections include pizzas, more seafood dishes, some meat and poultry dishes and a wide range of pastas and sauces. You can also get a pasta sampler plate like the appetizer sampler for two people. This is one of the very good Italian restaurants in Bangkok and one of many that I have tried over the last 13 years. It would surprise me if you were disappointed here.
 
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