WHY GO? For a friendly outing on any occasion, this large, airy restaurant in a leafy, residential area of Sukhumvit will not disappoint. There is a separate bar with a smoking section, a garden and private rooms upstairs.

WHAT TO ORDER? This is fine, traditional Italian cuisine with a very extensive menu. Start with grilled tomino cheese with grilled vegetables or lobster salad with avocado and tomato. Both are delightfully cooked and presented. Ravioli with truffle cream and porcini mushrooms is a classic not to be missed. Pizza diabla, flambeed at your table, is fiery and appetising with spicy salami, bell peppers and hot chilli. For the main course, the restaurant’s lamb chops are beautifully cooked and tender; and fusilli with mushrooms and gorgonzola sauce is rich and not too heavy. For dessert, raspberry millefeuille must be one of the best in town with crispy pastry and a delicous contrast between sour fruit and sweet cream.

Predominantly Italian wines with some French and new World labels, from reasonable to fairly expensive.