Silom’s stylish cocktail bar Vesper has recently ditched the old signature menu inspired by botanic garden and takes an artsy approach to the new concoctions. Dubbed “The Art Book,” the sixteen new cocktails were inspirited by some of the world’s greatest Modernist art pieces admired by the owner, Choti Leenutaphong, and the house’s mixologist Pailin “Milk” Sajjanit.
For instance, the Cubist piece by Georges Braque Rum and Guitar, the work that aims to debunk the conventional meaning of art comes in the form of a blueberry cheesecake that sees the mix of Ketel One vodka, homemade yoghurt, lemon, egg white and blueberry jam served with crumble bits on the glass — an attempt to deconstruct the popular fruit treat.
The masterpiece of a French artist/philosopher René Magritte The Treachery of Images that questions the relationship between an object and its image — the picture of a pipe is not a pipe — comes in the form of this-is-not-a-martini tipple that combines Moonshine unaged whiskey, mezcal, Carpano Bianco vermouth and tonic bitter.
Salvador Dali’s surrealist image The Persistence of Memory that portrays the transformation of objects in unconventional environments comes in the form of a fizzy drink that mixes Tanqueray gin, Fever Tree tonic and pistachio cream served in the illuminating glass.
On top of the artsy concoctions, the kitchen sees a revamp by the Sardinian-born chef Francesco Deiana who is in charge of bringing the taste of his homeland into the dishes like bruschetta served three ways (crab meat, chicken liver pate and Italian sausage), Sardinian Fregula pasta cooked with tomato sauce, mussels and clams and grilled quail served with champignon mushroom and burned onion.
