The manager of the establishment which proposes a kitchen with Indian influences revisited did not indicate the reasons for this closure, effective at the end of the month.

The double-star restaurant of Indian chef Gaggan Anand, world number four, will close at the end of August in Bangkok, AFP learned Thursday from the manager of the establishment without giving any reason for this closure. Nine years after opening its doors in a nineteenth-century house with colonial architecture in the city center of the Thai capital, "the establishment will definitely close on August 24," said his manager Vibhi Harnvarakiat.

Gaggan Anand, 41, plans to "open a new restaurant in the Thai capital at the end of 2019," he added. Gaggan, born in India in Calcutta, made his classes at the gastronomic Michelin triple restaurant Michelin El Bulli in Spain, the Catalan chef Ferran Adrià. El Bulli closed in 2011 and is expected to reopen as an experimental laboratory.

A unique menu with emoticons

Gaggan offers a cuisine with Indian influences revisited, inspired by the precepts of molecular cuisine. The single menu, written with emoticons, is constantly evolving. Among his 25 dishes, many are intended to be eaten with the fingers, the customer is sometimes even invited to lick the plate.

The sequence of 25 bites has begun! Here the menu # Gaggan # Bangkokpic.twitter.com / rVpXzyMjt1

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From 2015 to 2018, the restaurant was named Asia's Best Restaurant and remains fourth globally in the 2019 edition of the 50 Best Restaurants in the World. He won two stars in the Michelin Guide, which launched an edition in Thailand last year.