COCONUTS HOTSPOT — Sushi is great, but it’s well past time to get over it. You can’t get more basic than yakiniku, which simply means “grilled meat” in Japanese. Because that’s all it needs: a good grill and some great meat.
However as the cult of yakiniku has grown in recent years, few of the many restaurants claiming to offer the best quality meat live up to their word. But step into Ginzado on Thonglor, and the sensory assault of its grilled meat convinces your nose that these folks ain’t lying. The service is great, and the ambience sufficient, but let’s stick to the subject: Ginzado will take you on a melt-in-your-mouth yakiniku adventure.
Among the range of high-grade meat selections are the restaurant’s most popular Tokujyou Karubi (THB390) to the best-quality Kuroge Wagyu (THB900). These marbled beefs cook instantly on the searing-hot grill. The tenderness of each piece is felt in every bite. The restaurant’s signature sauce coats those bites with a distinctive flavor.
Beefeaters aren’t the only carnivores to find their pleasure here. The restaurant also offers pork, chicken, guts and vegetable dishes. To help with all that flesh filling your mouth, savory green melons or yellow watermelons are served after meal.
There’s only a few tables and the interior isn’t stifling small like some other places. You can breathe here. They keep it quite clean and change the grills often.
Unfortunately Ginzado won’t do anything special for your sweet tooth. Ginzado doesn’t offer any desserts except a few flavors of overpriced Häagen-Dazs ice cream. And the hard-to-find place is always packed with Japanese diners – a testament to its yakiniku authority – so you’ll need to call to reserve a table, if you can get one. The restaurant also stocks limited quantities of its high-grade meats: So you may manage to get a late reservation only to be frustrated by epic failure because they’ve run out of that Tokujyou Karubi you’d been daydreaming or daydevouring of all week.
Those grilled hazards aside, Ginzado is a great place to service your grilled meat worship, with good quality meat well worth the price, and best enjoyed with a pint of Japanese beer or several mugs of sake.
FIND IT:
Ginzado
Panjit Tower (GF), 117/8, Thonglor, between Thonglor sois 5 and 7.
Hours: 5pm to 11pm
