COCONUTS HOT SPOT — Imagine cheese as far as the eye can see. It can be yours once a month when So Sofitel transforms Mixo, their ninth floor lounge, into a glorious cheese stronghold.
Yes, that’s right — eat as much cheese as you like. As if this wasn’t enough, the event also features five kinds of free-flow wine, making this event doubly indulgent. To set the mood, they also have a DJ with live saxophonist.
Thankfully, the event is capped at two hours, from 7-9pm on the first Friday of each month. After that hedonistic period, you can just about stumble out on your own having done sizable damage to liver, arteries, waistline, and cheese wheel.
In the interest of this article, I ate cheese, bread, and fruit until I got that wet feeling in my mouth, the one you get just before you vomit, but I still wanted to soldier on. My final plate of cheese had to be physically taken away from me, proving that maybe those viral articles claiming that cheese is as addictive as drugs are right.
Cheeses at the event range from the basic Parmesan and Provolone, to the exotic Morbier and Molone, to the malodorous Taleggio and Roquefort. The creamy delights are accompanied by charcuterie, fresh breads, crackers, dips, dried and fresh fruit, and other odds and ends. Not to be missed are the freshly-baked pretzel rolls and the oily, flavorsome sun-dried tomatoes.
Rounding out the 30 cheese spread on the night we visited were: Brie de Meaux, Comté, Camembert, Manchego, Brillat-Savarin, Coulommiers, Gouda, Tête de Moine, Gruyère, Camembert Calvados, Petit Gros Lorrain, English Cheddar, Goat Cheese with Nut Crust, Petit Blanc, Longkhot Ashed, Buchette, Emmental, Reblochon, Edam, Coeur de Neufchâtel and Brique du Nord.
We discovered some new favorite cheeses in the 18-month aged Mimolette, a bright orange beauty with a nutty flavor and crumbly texture not unlike Grana Padano, and Valençay, a rich and tangy goat’s cheese coated in wood ash.
There was also pizza and roasted and boiled potatoes ready to be drenched with melted Raclette.
For the wines, there was a fair selection for the lower price point and waiters wandered around keeping it flowing. There was a basic Australian white and red, both from Birchgrove, an Argentinian Pinot Grigio and Syrah-Malbec, both from Tierra de Luna, and a Chilean Merlot by Signus.
However, we hardly caught a buzz since we were too busy chowing cheese.
FIND IT:
Cheese at SO: For the Love of Cheese
So Sofitel, Mixo Bar, 9th floor
First Friday, 7-9pm (Next events: May 4 and June 1)
2 North Sathorn Road
MRT Lumpini
Price: THB1,399 per person, upgrade to premium wine for THB1,999
