Soi 1 restaurant, bakery and bar

[Ulysses G.]

The gentleman at Soi 1 restaurant, bakery and bar has started making thick hamburgers with premium beef on - really good - home made buns and with good cheese, if you so desire. They are some of the best burgers in town right now.

It is very close to The Cathouse on the Soi beside the new branch of Salad Concept near the moat.

It is a small place and very popular, so if he runs out of hamburger, pretty much everything he makes is really good. The roast pork and roast chicken dinners are great too.

[Paagai]

+1 Had one of his burgers just the other day, Excellent! Home made fries were good too. They also do good pies and breakfasts.

[dave2]

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everything he makes is really good. The roast pork and roast chicken dinners are great too.

hes right ! .... here ya go

soi 1 r r green arrow .... cats house blue

dave2

[steven100]

Are you the owner or a partner in the business .......

[Loaded]

Are you the owner or a partner in the business .......

The 3 previous posters are regular 'positive' contributors to a number of food threads. I think it's highly unlikely any of them owns this restaurant. I trust their reviews.

Edited January 16, 2015 by Loaded

[dave2]

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Are you the owner or a partner in the business

nahh ... not guilty and i know ug isnt either !

ive got some shares in a few little lovelies like these two and i own a

honda dream but thats it

dave2

ps ... cats house has some great food for vegitarians so im told

[chiangmaipie]

i have to agree with these guys,i had a burger there today,it was really good ,the best I've had in Chiang Mai,it was a really pleasant surprise

[stament]

Another recommendation. The big English style breakfast was excellent. I had a breakfast at Butter and Better and for an English style breakfast soi 1 Bar bakery wins by a country mile. Beans real home made sausage grilled tomato as standard.

Great value and a genuinely nice guy. my only small criticism is that he seems over worked and could do with more help as there is only two of them doing everything. However well worth the wait!

[dave2]

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Another recommendation. The big English style breakfast was excellent. I had a breakfast at Butter and Better and for an English style breakfast soi 1 Bar bakery wins by a country mile. Beans real home made sausage grilled tomato as standard.

here ya go

i dont remember if this was the regular or the big breakfast but i

couldnt eat it all

dave2

[worgeordie]

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Another recommendation. The big English style breakfast was excellent. I had a breakfast at Butter and Better and for an English style breakfast soi 1 Bar bakery wins by a country mile. Beans real home made sausage grilled tomato as standard.

here ya go

i dont remember if this was the regular or the big breakfast but i

couldnt eat it all

dave2

Dave, you have to eat it all or you will get no pudding!

how much was this breakfast?

regards Worgeordie

[WinnieTheKhwai]

So.. any relation to the burger place that was at JJ near Kham Thiang?

(I ask because I went today and it was CLOSED during lunch time. )

Cat House however is an excellent place. I had a burrito that was bigger than God.

[Chicog]

Anyone tried the Beast Burger truck yet?

And that place outside the Raming Lodge always seems busy.

[bangmai]

I saw Beast Burger parked near Nimman Subway,,,,,140 thb for a burger, don't know if you get fries with that, don't know where the beef is from, but it smelled pretty good, but then again; so does Burger King.

[DiamondKing]

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Another recommendation. The big English style breakfast was excellent. I had a breakfast at Butter and Better and for an English style breakfast soi 1 Bar bakery wins by a country mile. Beans real home made sausage grilled tomato as standard.

here ya go

i dont remember if this was the regular or the big breakfast but i

couldnt eat it all

dave2

Those eggs look terrible and the beans look like AYA brand which any self respecting englishman would know they are too sweet and in the absence of real Heinz Baked beans the best substitute would be the BROOKS brand.

[bangmai]

I agree; and would take 2 egg omelette w/rice for 25 thb from the cart instead. Canned beans? really?

[DiamondKing]

I agree; and would take 2 egg omelette w/rice for 25 thb from the cart instead. Canned beans? really?

Yeah tinned beans REALLY specifically HEINZ BAKED BEANS in tomato sauce and English staple and served with breakfast or Beans on Toast or Egg Chips and Beans or a Baked Bean Toastie lots of choices

[bangmai]

I'm glad we Americans can make something so good you call it your own....."Heinz" it's more American than hot dogs and apple pie.

[Konini]

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Another recommendation. The big English style breakfast was excellent. I had a breakfast at Butter and Better and for an English style breakfast soi 1 Bar bakery wins by a country mile. Beans real home made sausage grilled tomato as standard.

here ya go

i dont remember if this was the regular or the big breakfast but i

couldnt eat it all

dave2

Those eggs look terrible and the beans look like AYA brand which any self respecting englishman would know they are too sweet and in the absence of real Heinz Baked beans the best substitute would be the BROOKS brand.

Using either would put the cost of the meal into the prohibitive range unless you had a really small portion and cut back on the quality of the sausages. I'm not a big lover of beans, but I like Ayam as good as any other non-Heinz brand. I've found that the lower salt ones taste better (when I put enough salt on them to make up for them not having any). Mr K, who doesn't even like salt to be in the kitchen concurs with me on this.

Anyway, as long as there is brown sauce it's immaterial; enough HP and they all taste the same.

[JulieM]

Beast Burger parked on Nimmen is disappointing. 140 for a burger, no fries. 50 baht for fries, I think. I have not yet tried HAMBURG at Think Park but a friend tells me it is quite good.

[DiamondKing]

I'm glad we Americans can make something so good you call it your own....."Heinz" it's more American than hot dogs and apple pie.

And if you were able to comprehend and understand my message you would see that i said it was an English staple (which means a regular food we eat) and as for Apple Pies, English have been eating that since before the Americas were discovered my friend and you guys merely exported it to the USA on the Mayflower and are the ones that are now calling it their own LOL

Edited January 19, 2015 by DiamondKing

[WinnieTheKhwai]

Those eggs look terrible and the beans look like AYA brand which any self respecting englishman would know they are too sweet and in the absence of real Heinz Baked beans the best substitute would be the BROOKS brand.

Using either would put the cost of the meal into the prohibitive range unless you had a really small portion and cut back on the quality of the sausages. I'm not a big lover of beans, but I like Ayam as good as any other non-Heinz brand. I've found that the lower salt ones taste better (when I put enough salt on them to make up for them not having any). Mr K, who doesn't even like salt to be in the kitchen concurs with me on this.

Anyway, as long as there is brown sauce it's immaterial; enough HP and they all taste the same.

Well, wait: they're a restaurant. Restaurants make food. How hard is it to make baked beans?

Not very.

Small navy beans are exceptionally cheap (30 baht for 500 gram dried when bought retail, which turns into well over a kilo cooked), then all you need to do is shove it in an oven with spices and sauces to your liking.

Even the relatively expensive HP sauce is something easily made when used as an ingredient for cooking.. Just mix dark vinegar, ketchup, palm or cane sugar, tamarind, pepper, etc. All of which cost round about nothing.

The whole reason why baked beans exist at all because they're cheap. So when in Asia, anything that would require spending money in importend Heinz/HP means you're doing it wrong.

(And it'll taste much better, but that's almost a side-effect. )

Edited January 19, 2015 by WinnieTheKhwai

[DiamondKing]

Brooks Baked beans are very inexpensive at Macro and they taste fine no excuse not to use especially the price they are the same price as Aya a little cheaper I think even heinz can be found pretty cheap although more expensive than the others

[roo860]

Brooks brand are very good, nearest ya gonna get to Heinz.

[Konini]

I'm glad we Americans can make something so good you call it your own....."Heinz" it's more American than hot dogs and apple pie.

And if you were able to comprehend and understand my message you would see that i said it was an English staple (which means a regular food we eat) and as for Apple Pies, English have been eating that since before the Americas were discovered my friend and you guys merely exported it to the USA on the Mayflower and are the ones that are now calling it their own LOL

Also, there is an English Recipe version of Heinz Beans which I'm told is quite different from the ones that you get in the US.

[daoyai]

the cm forum gourmands once again arguing over canned beans.....

[Konini]

Well, wait: they're a restaurant. Restaurants make food. How hard is it to make baked beans?

Not very.

Small navy beans are exceptionally cheap (30 baht for 500 gram dried when bought retail, which turns into well over a kilo cooked), then all you need to do is shove it in an oven with spices and sauces to your liking.

Even the relatively expensive HP sauce is something easily made when used as an ingredient for cooking.. Just mix dark vinegar, ketchup, palm or cane sugar, tamarind, pepper, etc. All of which cost round about nothing.

The whole reason why baked beans exist at all because they're cheap. So when in Asia, anything that would require spending money in importend Heinz/HP means you're doing it wrong.

(And it'll taste much better, but that's almost a side-effect. )

Making baked beans is easy-peasy. Making baked beans that taste rather like the ones you find in the tins, not so easy. Making baked beans that taste like Heinz, impossible. I've never tried it myself, but I've read some amusing accounts of people trying to emulate the taste and texture.

If you pass on your secret blend of vinegar, ketchup, sugar, tamarind and pepper, I'll let you have one of my home made but perfect copy Cadbury's Creme Eggs (only if the brown sauce passes muster of course).

Home made is almost always better if for no other reason than you control what goes into your body, and I cook every day usually from scratch, but sometimes you just need to have some Alphagetti in Tomato Sauce (and nothing else will do).

[Ulysses G.]

I haven't had REALLY good baked beans since LaTeffe closed Hell's Kitchen years ago. Those beans and his deviled eggs were really his specialty. The BBQ was just so-so.

[dave2]

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how much was this breakfast?

i think it was about 180 baht with the tea .. i took one look at the picture

on the menu and thought that looks good but as my mum used to say

your eyes are bigger than your stomach

and she was right .... i couldnt eat all that breakfast !

dave2

ps .. the beans .. i live in thailand so i eat the beans they sell here

they may not be heinz but they are better than nothing !

[Ulysses G.]

So.. any relation to the burger place that was at JJ near Kham Thiang?

(I ask because I went today and it was CLOSED during lunch time. )

Cat House however is an excellent place. I had a burrito that was bigger than God.

The Soi 1 Restaurant, Bakery and Bar is supposed to be closed every Monday, but they often do not. They have closed the last two Mondays because I forgot and tried to stop by.

[WinnieTheKhwai]

Well, wait: they're a restaurant. Restaurants make food. How hard is it to make baked beans?

Not very.

Small navy beans are exceptionally cheap (30 baht for 500 gram dried when bought retail, which turns into well over a kilo cooked), then all you need to do is shove it in an oven with spices and sauces to your liking.

Even the relatively expensive HP sauce is something easily made when used as an ingredient for cooking.. Just mix dark vinegar, ketchup, palm or cane sugar, tamarind, pepper, etc. All of which cost round about nothing.

The whole reason why baked beans exist at all because they're cheap. So when in Asia, anything that would require spending money in importend Heinz/HP means you're doing it wrong.

(And it'll taste much better, but that's almost a side-effect. )

Making baked beans is easy-peasy. Making baked beans that taste rather like the ones you find in the tins, not so easy. Making baked beans that taste like Heinz, impossible. I've never tried it myself, but I've read some amusing accounts of people trying to emulate the taste and texture.

If you pass on your secret blend of vinegar, ketchup, sugar, tamarind and pepper, I'll let you have one of my home made but perfect copy Cadbury's Creme Eggs (only if the brown sauce passes muster of course).

Home made is almost always better if for no other reason than you control what goes into your body, and I cook every day usually from scratch, but sometimes you just need to have some Alphagetti in Tomato Sauce (and nothing else will do).

Hmm.. I'm now very tempted to go buy the Heinz brand at Rim Ping so I have a point of reference.

On the recipe.. I'm not big on recipes beyond a basic listing of ingredients.. I usually just tweak it as I go. I suppose I could write it down, but I have less control over raw material inputs than Heinz does.

And more often than not the goal is not just the plain baked beans, but the actual resulting dish which could be baked chili-beans which also includes onions, beef, jalapeños and the like.