House of Catalunya

There was the mackerel coca de recapte on filo and then the Galician octopus with sofrito and picada.

My delightful dinner at the freshly-reopened Embassy Room was due to these super scrumptious Catalan creations by the restaurant’s new chef de cuisine Ferran Tadeo.

It’s not that other dishes I had weren’t worth a mention, but the two starters were so good that they deserved to lead this article.

Ever since it first opened in 2017, Park Hyatt Bangkok’s main dining outlet, the Embassy Room, has been serving cosmopolitan Western cuisine with a touch of Asian flair.

The restaurant, which still retains its much-loved genteel interior and breezy dining vibe, was relaunched a month ago with a new culinary direction: Catalan cuisine.

The lobster Wellington with orange Hollandaise sauce and…