My dinner at Le Vipa Wine & Dine was somewhat surreal. The place was flamboyant. The food was good. And the mood was absolutely laid back.
But things hardly seemed correlative, particularly to me, a food writer who rarely gets too excited.
Le Vipa is a dining establishment launched five months ago in a labyrinth of sub sois off Vibhavadi Rangsit Road.
Behind a tall brick wall that separates the premises from its nondescript neighbourhood is a cluster of Tudor-styled half-timbered houses on a 4 rai plot of land.
With architectural inspiration from medieval England, the property was built two decades ago as a private residence equipped with a large…