Secret Garden in Sathorn sits in a beautiful English tea room styled house. With a pretty front garden, this place is nestled behind a tall wall on the busy Sathorn road.
I guess it's not so 'secret' these days with so many other outlets (namely CentralWorld and Thonglor).
In Sathorn there is parking, which can get full pretty quickly, especially on Sundays. This place is famous for their crepe cake, which I must admit was the reason for my and my DM's visit today.
We arrived just before midday, so there were still a few car park spaces left.
On entering the high ceiling restaurant, we were warmly welcomed by courteous and friendly staff
The Thai and English menu consists of fusion style Thai food. We ordered a cooked salmon salad (240 baht), crispy spring rolls, shrimp paste fried rice and spicy glass noodle prawn salad.
The staff all speak pretty good English, so no worries if you don't speak Thai.
First out was the cooked salmon salad. With fresh herbs and dried chillies, it was a little spicy, but not so much as to blow one's head off. They also gave us extra dressing in a side bowl should we need it. The salmon was lovely, but we both found the dressing a little bit on the salty side.
The crispy spring rolls came with a slightly sweet syrupy sauce. These were crispy, non-greasy and although not traditional in the sense of spring roll filling that I am used to, they were good.
The shrimp paste fried rice came with all the condiments on the side: dried shrimps, freshly sliced chillies, red onion, raw mango, sweet pork and slices of omelette on top of the rice. We both really enjoyed this dish, dm especially.
The prawn glass noodle salad came with plenty of juicy, plump prawns, fresh herbs and chopped peanuts (which so many foreigners, rightly or wrongly, associate with Thai cooking).
The salad was fresh and maybe a little bit on the sweet side.
Seeing as this place is famous for their crepe cake. What better way to end than a cup of tea with cake. All their teas are served in the one pot, one cup set. How rather quaint and adorable I say!
The slice of crepe cake came drizzled with strawberry coulis on top. It was delicious, soft crepe, fresh cream, not too sweet strawberry coulis.
All in all, we were pretty satisfied. Service was excellent I thought, savoury food was pretty good and their crepe cake was just lovely. In fact, I have heard that their cakes is the reason for why so many people come here. And really, they serve a lot of crepe cake!
This is a lovely, tranquil hideaway from the hustle and bustle of Sathorn road. It really did remind me of an English country garden in so many different ways . . . and I have to say, having been brought up in the Cotswolds, England (where I was surrounded by tea shops), it brought on a lot of nostalgia, in a good way of course.
Secret Garden
117 Thanon Sathon Tai, Thung Maha Mek, Sathon, Bangkok 10500
Tel: +66 (0)2 286 2464
Nearest MRT: Lumpini Park, exit for Sathorn Road. Take a taxi or walk about 8 or so minutes.
HOURS
Daily 11am-10pm
