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There are two ways of finding places on holiday that we like or don't like... One is by reading this forum (or the internet in general) and doing your homework and the other is by luck (or bad luck!)
I decided to get away from the office for a couple of days and check into The Lek hotel on Soi 13. I'm a creature of habit so I always go there. One of the chief attractions for me was the all you can eat breakfast and dinner deal.
Not any more though. The buffet is as old and appealing as the sign outside the hotel that advertises it! Potatoes used to be pan fried with onions but are now overcooked buttery mash! The rest is cold and on the verge of being inedible. Fucking shite it is.
By chance I had bought a copy of the Bangkok Post and read the NFL preview column. The guy who wrote it said he was staying at The Dynasty and would be in The Sportsman for a drink later that night and to watch The Cowboys game. (He actually never showed up and the game was a late start so the bar wasn't gonna be open anyway!)
So a short walk to The Sportsman (next door but one to The Dynasty) is where I went the next day for my breakfast.
Wow! It was absolutely perfect...
2 eggs, 2 pieces of back bacon, big English sausage, grilled tomato, baked beans and bubble and squeak, all you can drink (GREAT tasting) coffee, toast butter and marmalade... 150 Baht!
But what made this special is that you would swear that it was prepared by a farang! It looked, tasted and arrived just perfect. This is gonna be where I eat my brekkers from now on!
With the added bonus of the BBC news humming away in the background, a guy in a John Smiths T-shirt cleaning out the beer pipes and a few pretty waitressess to top up my coffee I was extremely impressed.
The Sportsman on Soi 13 is managed by a nice English chap and there are the usual pool tables and sports events. They also have quiz evenings and other stuff going on during the week, too.
The staff are NOT in your face trying to sell you beer before you are half way through the one you just ordered too. (Yes - I went back there at night to watch some NFL football!)
All in all, a great chance find!
Their website is here!
A video of their TV ad is HERE!
I decided to get away from the office for a couple of days and check into The Lek hotel on Soi 13. I'm a creature of habit so I always go there. One of the chief attractions for me was the all you can eat breakfast and dinner deal.
Not any more though. The buffet is as old and appealing as the sign outside the hotel that advertises it! Potatoes used to be pan fried with onions but are now overcooked buttery mash! The rest is cold and on the verge of being inedible. Fucking shite it is.
By chance I had bought a copy of the Bangkok Post and read the NFL preview column. The guy who wrote it said he was staying at The Dynasty and would be in The Sportsman for a drink later that night and to watch The Cowboys game. (He actually never showed up and the game was a late start so the bar wasn't gonna be open anyway!)
So a short walk to The Sportsman (next door but one to The Dynasty) is where I went the next day for my breakfast.
Wow! It was absolutely perfect...
2 eggs, 2 pieces of back bacon, big English sausage, grilled tomato, baked beans and bubble and squeak, all you can drink (GREAT tasting) coffee, toast butter and marmalade... 150 Baht!
But what made this special is that you would swear that it was prepared by a farang! It looked, tasted and arrived just perfect. This is gonna be where I eat my brekkers from now on!
With the added bonus of the BBC news humming away in the background, a guy in a John Smiths T-shirt cleaning out the beer pipes and a few pretty waitressess to top up my coffee I was extremely impressed.
The Sportsman on Soi 13 is managed by a nice English chap and there are the usual pool tables and sports events. They also have quiz evenings and other stuff going on during the week, too.
The staff are NOT in your face trying to sell you beer before you are half way through the one you just ordered too. (Yes - I went back there at night to watch some NFL football!)
All in all, a great chance find!
Their website is here!
A video of their TV ad is HERE!
Yes. I did notice that now you mention it! And they asked in a very unfriendly way, too. Still; the place is very busy every day so they may as well keep their shit food and shit attitudes if they are making money, right?
Very poetic! 
and you can watch sports on the tv's to boot
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