Côte by Mauro Colagreco

Verdict: One of Bangkok's Most Credentialed Fine-Dining Tables — Book Well Ahead

Côte by Mauro Colagreco at Capella Bangkok is operating at a level that few restaurants in Thailand can match. With two Michelin stars (2024), a rank of #75 on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants (2025), a La Liste score of 96 points (2026), and a World of Fine Wine 3-Star accreditation, the credentials here are not decoration. This is a restaurant where the case for booking is strong — provided you can secure a table. At ฿฿฿฿ pricing with limited weekly service, demand consistently outpaces availability. If you're considering it, start the reservation process earlier than you think necessary.

What You're Booking

Côte is the Bangkok expression of Mauro Colagreco's Mediterranean vision , the same framework that drives his principal restaurant, Mirazur in Menton, which has held the number-one spot on the World's 50 Best list. The Bangkok kitchen is led by Italian chef Davide Garavaglia, who spent years at Mirazur before taking charge here. The cuisine sits at the intersection of French and Italian Riviera traditions, reinterpreted through the lens of Thai seasonality and local produce. The result is a menu that changes based on what's available, meaning no two visits are identical , and no specific dishes can be guaranteed in advance.

The setting inside Capella Bangkok places you on the Chao Phraya riverfront. The room is the kind of considered, hotel-anchored dining space where the visual experience is part of the proposition: the river, the light, the plating. For food and travel enthusiasts who read spaces as carefully as menus, this is a room worth arriving early for. The Capella property is one of Bangkok's more architecturally deliberate hotels, and Côte fits that register.

Multi-Visit Strategy: How to Approach Côte Across Two or Three Visits

Given the rotating seasonal menu structure and the commitment required to secure a table, thinking about Côte across multiple visits pays off more here than at most Bangkok fine-dining addresses.

First visit: dinner. The evening service gives you the full Côte experience , the river setting after dark, the complete tasting menu format, and the wine program at its most expansive. This is where the kitchen shows its range. Dinner is the higher-stakes booking, harder to get and priced accordingly, but it is the format this restaurant is built around.

Second visit: lunch. Lunch at Côte runs Wednesday through Sunday, 12pm to 2pm, and typically represents a different menu construction than dinner. For returning guests, lunch offers a chance to see how the kitchen interprets the same seasonal produce in a lighter, sometimes more experimental format. It can also be the slightly more achievable reservation for those who find dinner fully committed weeks out. The shorter service window , two hours , means the pacing is tighter, which suits some guests more than others.

Third visit: off-season produce cycles. Because Côte's menus are built around what's available day to day, visiting across different seasons gives you meaningfully different plates. Thailand's agricultural calendar produces distinct produce windows, and a kitchen with this level of technical execution treats those windows as programming shifts. A third visit timed to a different point in the year is unlikely to feel repetitive.

Practical Details

Côte is closed Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday through Sunday, service runs at lunch (12pm to 2pm) and dinner (6pm to 10pm). The address is 300/2 Charoen Krung Road, Yan Nawa, Sathon , inside Capella Bangkok on the Chao Phraya riverside. At ฿฿฿฿ pricing, budget for a significant spend per head before wine. No phone number or direct booking URL is listed in Pearl's data; book through Capella Bangkok's reservations channel. Given the booking difficulty rated as near impossible, treat any available date as worth taking, particularly for dinner on a weekend.

Booking Intelligence

This is one of Bangkok's hardest tables to secure. The combination of a small dining room, limited operating days, and consistent award recognition keeps the reservation window tight. Check availability further out than you would at other fine-dining addresses in the city. If your travel dates are fixed, prioritise this booking above other ฿฿฿฿ restaurants on your Bangkok list.

Awards and Credentials

• Michelin 2 Stars (2024)
• Asia's 50 Best Restaurants #75 (2025)
• La Liste 96 points (2026) / 95.5 points (2025)
• Opinionated About Dining Asia #84 (2025) / #109 (2024)
• World of Fine Wine 3-Star Accreditation
• World of Fine Wine Asia Regional Winner
• Google rating: 4.8 from 528 reviews

The trajectory is upward across all major lists. OAD moved the restaurant from #109 to #84 in a single year. La Liste ticked up half a point. For a restaurant still building its Bangkok tenure, that momentum matters when assessing whether a table here will feel proportionate to the spend.

Who Should Book

Côte is the right choice for food and travel enthusiasts who want Mediterranean fine dining executed at a technical level comparable to top-tier European addresses, in a river-facing setting that Bangkok's Thai-cuisine-focused fine-dining scene cannot replicate. It is also the right choice for anyone looking to benchmark Bangkok's fine-dining tier against international reference points , Côte provides that context directly, given its lineage from Mirazur.

It is less suited to guests who want to anchor a meal in Thai culinary tradition. For that, Sorn, Baan Tepa, or Le Du are the more relevant choices. Côte's value is in the Riviera-Mediterranean proposition executed in Bangkok , that is specific, and worth booking for that reason specifically.

Explore more of Bangkok's dining scene in our full Bangkok restaurants guide, find where to stay in our Bangkok hotels guide, and discover drinks destinations in our Bangkok bars guide. If you're exploring beyond the capital, see PRU in Phuket and Aeeen in Chiang Mai for comparable tasting-menu experiences elsewhere in Thailand. For Mediterranean fine dining in other contexts, Dam in Nova Gorica and Pelegrini in Sibenik offer useful points of comparison.