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Dinner at Sirocco's **Ping RyanP**
adroomi Offline
#1 Posted:
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Ryan,
Dinner at the highest outdoor restaraunt in the world. 64th floor of the State Tower in Bangkok.

When you exit the elevators, you are standing in the "Dome." The bar and tables are on an "outcropping" of sorts a floor below you. You have to walk down a set of stairs with nothing but a railing between you and 64 floors. You can see the stairs and railing behind my head. It's a bit scary. The bar is fabulous and the people are GREAT.

Thanks for the recommendation!
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pabloescabar Offline
#2 Posted:
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great pic cuz...
jbu Offline
#3 Posted:
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you should have let her take the picture of you
jetblasted Offline
#4 Posted:
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I can only imagine that place is more beautiful in person, as it is in pictures . . .

Cool Story . . .
Thom Offline
#5 Posted:
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Very cool.

Who is your friend? She is so pretty. She doesn't look Thai, is she from Thailand? Was the food any good? Was it expensive?

About the only things I miss about Thailand are the smiling pretty women and how inexpensive it is.
erkwgz Offline
#6 Posted:
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Nice picture, beautiful girl.
pabloescabar Offline
#7 Posted:
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and inexpensive
Thom Offline
#8 Posted:
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^that's low pablo.
pabloescabar Offline
#9 Posted:
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hey, thats what you said...LOL
adroomi Offline
#10 Posted:
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Jet,
I was using my cell phone to take the photo, and it's REALLY dark up there. They keep it lit very dimly so as not to ruin the view. I couldn't get any "distant" shots as no flashes are allowed up there.

A great photo would have been from up in the "dome" area, looking down at the folks standing around the bar. However, security is VERY tight up there in regards to cameras and such. Some high rollers like to have drinks up there, and "paparazzi" are not welcomed.

There's some good photos here:

http://www.hemmy.net/2006/08/15/bangkok-dome-at-state-tower/

In this photo I posted, we are facing the circular bar with our backs to the "dome."

Gorgeous place.

adroomi Offline
#11 Posted:
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Thom,
Her name is Saengaram, and she put stiches in my head about 6 years ago when I fell off the back of a motorbike.

She's a pediatrician, and her and I took a few months off before and ran around Cambodia together. She tended to orphaned kids that needed free care, and I learned about humility and the goodness that is found in the poorest of poor hearts.

If you come back one day, you'll meet her.
bsevern Offline
#12 Posted:
Joined: 07-24-2006
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Looks like a fun place.

Thanks for sharing the picture.
ryantp Offline
#13 Posted:
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Nice!!! That didn't take long at all.

Glad you went and thanks for the pic.
donutboy2000 Offline
#14 Posted:
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Sirocco, Vertigo Host Food Fight at 60 Stories: Bangkok Dining

By Lee J. Miller

July 27 (Bloomberg) -- Bangkok's outdoor dining is dominated by colorful, unnamed stalls and hawkers that cram the sidewalks across this metropolis of 10 million. The addition of the Dome and Vertigo has taken open-air dining upscale -- more than 60 stories up.

The Dome is actually home to five restaurants and bars on the top floors of State Tower, a hotel and apartment building that sat unfinished for a decade because of the Asian financial crisis. The building was sold by its original developer, an architect known for crowning his Thailand projects with neoclassical domes, to Rasri Bualert, a property tycoon and widow of a weapons dealer. Rasri's daughter, Rattawadee, then put together an array of towering entertainment venues.

The centerpiece is Sirocco, which specializes in Mediterranean cuisine. To get to Sirocco, you walk through the mostly spartan lobby of the Lebua hotel, get in an elevator and press 64, the top button. A minute later, the world changes. A bevy of elegantly dressed Thai hostesses and security personnel escort you through the dark, DJ-playing, smoke-filled Distil bar, across a corridor and, finally, outside to the real rooftop.

Unless you have no pulse, this is a genuine ``Dorothy, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore'' moment.

The View's the Thing

Suddenly, you're sky-high in a restaurant unlike any you've ever visited. Forget the food, the service and even the price for a moment. Sirocco is all about the jolt of walking onto the stadium-size platform more than 200 meters (650 feet) in the open air, surrounded by a golden dome, fairy-lighted stone staircases, fountains and a 270-degree view of Bangkok, with its sprawling suburbs and the Chao Phraya River snaking into the Gulf of Thailand.

To the left is a jazz band that sometimes features a Russian trumpet player or an American gospel singer; Tecora Rogers was the angelic voice on a recent visit. To the far right is the neon-tinted, circular Sky Bar, a raised platform where people can wait for their tables or simply stand around in awe, taking turns taking pictures. Walk to the edge and you can do a Leonardo DiCaprio ``king of the world'' shout.

Am I missing something? That's right, this is a restaurant review. Sirocco's Mediterranean dishes sometimes have an Asian twist. Starters include ricotta and spinach ravioli, pan-fried scallops and warm Maine lobster carpaccio.

The 15 main courses on the regular menu offer a wide choice of seafood, including ``Sirocco'' stir-fried black pepper crab casserole; seared Scottish salmon filet with roasted eggplant; braised lamb shank with Greek vegetables and several types of steak imported from the U.S. In the three times I've eaten there, I've generally had middling service, undercooked meals and forgettable dishes.

Not About the Food

Yet none of this really matters. Sirocco isn't about the food, even if Michelin-starred chefs have been flown in from time to time. If it were half the price but in a second-story venue, it wouldn't be on my radar. Indeed, I've been there twice on nights it rained, forcing my parties inside to the adjacent Mezzaluna for Italian food. Mezzaluna is elegant and offers impressive vistas of Bangkok -- from behind glass windows.

On a dry night, though, Sirocco is an open-air restaurant worth a visit by even the most jaundiced world traveler. If you don't want to pony up for an average-to-mediocre dinner, just pop over for a drink or two at the Sky Bar.

The bar is standing-room-only but surrounded by plenty of space, railings and dozens of stairs on which to perch. On my most recent visit, guards did stop our group from standing at some of the most scenic spots. One of my guests quipped that the netting below the low railings ``doesn't look strong enough to catch my olive.''
bullwinkle Offline
#15 Posted:
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That must not have been opened last time I was in Bangkok, I don't know how we could have missed it, if it was. We did go to the worlds largest restraunt served on roller skates, for the life of me, I cannot remember the name, and I do believe it was in Chang Mai, not Bangkok..



drew
jetblasted Offline
#16 Posted:
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Matching up the pictures from RyanP's thread, and your story make it all come together . . .

I am really impressed with the 2 threads . . .
Gene363 Offline
#17 Posted:
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re 10

Adroomi said in part,

“…she put stiches in my head about 6 years ago when I fell off the back of a motorbike.

She's a pediatrician,…”

So adroomi is a child, well that explains a lot. >;-)
TBWCW Offline
#18 Posted:
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No, he was a child 6 years ago. He's at least 22 now.
Thom Offline
#19 Posted:
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adoomi - thanks brother. Like I have said time and again, your female friends are classy people.
grmcooper Offline
#20 Posted:
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Well i have never topped one of his posts........









Cooper
donutboy2000 Offline
#21 Posted:
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THE LEGACY!!!!!
The Big Ugly Offline
#22 Posted:
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About 3 weeks ago, I ate at an outdoor restaurant in Bangkok. I think I was on the 78th floor..

The Baiyoke Sky Hotel...

Maybe Adroomi is "embellishing" again...

maybe I'm wrong, I don't know or care...

TBU
jackconrad Offline
#23 Posted:
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Photoshopped,,,
jetblasted Offline
#24 Posted:
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TBU . . .

If I'm not mistaken, this photo was posted for ryanpederson . . .

RyanP asked adroomi about the resturaunt and bar and adroomi, being 1/2 around the world, posted a couple of photos of the place . . . For Us to See . . .

Pretty Damn Cool, if you ask me . . .

One of the shots was great, showing the whole place from above . . . Neat place, out on the top deck of a huge skyscraper . . .

If I'm not mistaken, this is an outdoor bar, not an outdoor restaurant . . .

Regardless, it was "another" classic C-Bid moment . . .
jetblasted Offline
#25 Posted:
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Cool Link . . .

http://www.hemmy.net/2006/08/15/bangkok-dome-at-state-tower/
TBWCW Offline
#26 Posted:
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Don't think he was embellishing - just mispeaking. It's my understanding that it still may be the highest roof-top open air restaurant in the world, and certainly was the highest in Bangkok in 2006. I haven't been there, but have been to Vertigo at the Banyan Tree. Very impressive.
donutboy2000 Offline
#27 Posted:
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topped for big chief
pabloescabar Offline
#28 Posted:
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...very kool
jpotts Offline
#29 Posted:
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A cousin on my wife's side of the family had a wedding rehearsal dinner in a resturant / facility in the Sears Tower. I can honestly say that I've never had a dinner that high up before, except on an plane.

I felt more secure in the plane.

Many beers were consumed that evening.
pabloescabar Offline
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dope addict
jpotts Offline
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^ I still luv you man...in a non-teedubbya sorta way.
jackconrad Offline
#32 Posted:
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More of the Cigarcalo
jackconrad Offline
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Gonz Gonz
Mr. Jones Offline
#34 Posted:
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Cool thread...

Lots of "BY-gone"
Posters who were very funny...

Even ADROOMI was funny sometimes...
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