R-HAAN: Thai Fine Dining in Bangkok with 2 Michelin Stars for 4 Consecutive Years

Since the foundation by the initiatives of ‘Khun Todd’ Piti Bhirombhakdi and Chef Chumpol Jangprai, R-HAAN has devoted wholeheartedly to the authentic Thai cuisine and present Thailand’s culinary art in the highest quality to the global culinary scene, thus became the Thai fine dining in Bangkok as known as R-HAAN restaurant as today.

For us with all our perseverance and commitment, it could not be more incredibly grateful to R-HAAN than to be recognized and honored for our hard work by the acclaimed international institution as Michelin Star. The great news is that for 2023, R-HAAN was awarded 2 Michelin Stars which is the fourth time for four consecutive years that R-HAAN, as a proud representative of Thai fine dining in Bangkok, has received such an honor (as we were first awarded 1 Michelin Star in 2021).

As 2023 is the great year to look forward to, R-HAAN would like to iterate our founding ideas and concepts together with the fine dining that everyone who visits Bangkok could look forward to at R-HAAN, a Thai fine dining restaurant. Along the way, we hope to acknowledge the great honors received from Michelin Star.

From the Bountiful to the Honored Thai Fine Dining in Bangkok

It is not an overstatement to say that R-HAAN was founded by the unwavering belief in the old Thai proverb, ‘in rivers fishes swarm, in fields rices abound’, that still rings true today. Complemented with commitment to create Thai fine dining experience in Bangkok from the authentic Thai cuisine in the original flairs while reimagining traditional recipes in the current global culinary art scene, R-HAAN was awarded 1 Michelin Star in 2019.

For such an honor, R-HAAN, with Chef Chumpol as the driving force, is determined to keep improving our version of fine dining experience that is unmistakably authentic Thai while meeting the highest international cooking standard. With the intention to present to the world the ever plentiful and unending wonderment of Thai ingredients and Thai culinary art, R-HAAN always dedicatedly select ingredients for our menus from the best providers from every corner of Thailand.

The Fine Dining Experience in Bangkok from Eight Tastes and Five Senses

By mutual trust in our commitment to the crafts, it becomes possible to create imaginatively authentic traditional Thai recipes, from exquisite royal dining courses (or ‘Samrub’) to spectacular dishes from local ingredients and delicacies. Suffice to say that the great honor R-HAAN has received is the great honor shared for every artisans and practitioner, who have been working devotedly to improve the local ingredients and delicacies’ qualities, in current Thai culinary art scenes. With this background of our perseverance, R-HAAN has received 2 Michelin Stars awards in 2020, and has been recognized with such an honor for four consecutive years in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

The Eight Thai Culinary Tastes

According to traditional Thai cuisine, food tastes were categorized into eight kinds: salty, sweet, sour, spicy, oily, bitter, astringent and fizzy. What defines the great chef, according to Thai tradition of cooking, is the skills to draw on and combine harmoniously these tastes from ingredients into serving dishes.

With years of experience and wholehearted devotion to the authentic Thai tradition of cooking, Chef Chumpol Jangprai is one of the masters that have expertized in the art of creating with the eight tastes. At R-HAAN restaurant, every visitor could experience traditional Thai fine dining in Bangkok from the creative menus through everyone’s own five senses, as intended by Chef Chumpol.

The Five Senses of Thai Culinary Art

The meals and courses at R-HAAN, apart from presenting Thai fine dining experience in Bangkok, were all intended to entertain food enjoyers with eight traditional Thai tastes through ‘appearances’, which are meticulously ornate and decorated splendidly. One could see the traditional Thai traits harmonized seamlessly with international traits of food flairs in every R-HAAN’s menus.

Then, you could be entertained with ‘tastes’ that are uniquely Thai and undeniably global, meanwhile, the ‘aroma’ on Thai ingredients will certainly be one of the mouth watering factors. Thai cuisine is versatile in not only tastes but ‘colors’ which came naturally from the uniqueness of local ingredients. And, last but not least, you could enjoy, along with flavorful, the delectable ‘textures’ which compliments all aforementioned senses immensely with full flavors and wonders of Thai traditional cuisines, concluding your experience of the Thai fine dining in Bangkok joyously.

It could not be stated enough that R-HAAN is proud and honored to be the Michelin star restaurant for the achievement that stems from the path we have endeavored. To experience Thai fine dining with authentic Thai cuisine in Bangkok, please reserve your table at R-HAAN from website: www.r-haan.com, email address: reservation@r-haan.com or call + 66 (0) 95 141 5524 (from 12.00 – 21.00 hrs.)