From Nov 15-19, Sheraton Grande hotel welcomes back to Rossini's chef Fabio Rossi of Vite. His restaurant in the province of Rimini, northeastern Italy, is part of San Patrignano, a community of ex-addicts who use cooking and farming as a form of rehabilitation.

This year, Michelin inspectors praised the restaurant for its use of produce grown on the community's farm, while also providing careers for its members. 

In Bangkok, Rossi will present a special set paired with wine (B5,000 for five courses; B6,500 for six courses) as well as an a la carte menu.

Dishes include warm prawn carpaccio with lamb's lettuce salad, foie gras, pickled fruit, toasted pine nuts and raspberry vinegar (B820), hazelnut crusted jumbo scallops with watercress cream and sprouts salad (B860) and braised Aulente veal cheek with oven-roasted endive and thyme-orange potato cream (B1,450).

The chef himself stops by on Nov 18 to serve a wine dinner (B4,500).

1/F, Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit, 250 Sukhumvit Rd., 02-649-8364. BTS Asok