The full menu of appetisers, mains and desserts will include fresh organically grown vegetables and fruit from Thailand and from Italy.
Chef Theo has created his new vegan menu to show that the flavours of fine Italian cuisine can be enjoyed fully with a healthy and nutritious vegan diet.
"Cooking with just vegetables, you really have to think," he says. "But with fresh, organic produce, there is enormous potential for really delicious food."
Although himself not a vegan, Chef Theo says that there are benefits to a vegetable and fruit diet, particularly when a chef explores the possibilities that are unlocked when roots and shoots are used in season and cooked to extract their natural goodness and flavours.
"It's a lot harder to cook a very interesting meal with vegetables than it is to cook with fish and meat, because when you cook with fish or meat you tend to have a garnish, or some kind of sauce, whereas when you're cooking with just vegetables, you really have to think in a different way," he says.
Inspired by traditional Italian cuisine, Chef Theo is maximising natural flavours through techniques such as slow roasting, caramelising, and using freshly chopped herbs.
He says that properly prepared, ingredients such as tomatoes, aubergines and courgettes can be on an equal footing with meat and fish for flavour.
At Theo Mio, the appetisers will include polenta alla griglia, which is grilled bramata polenta with fresh chilli and parsley, with slow-cooked Portobello and porcini mushrooms and roasted datterini tomatoes.
The main course listing will include piatta di vedura, a mix of roasted Jerusalem and violet artichokes with carrots, fennel and golden beetroots, with grilled red peppers, zucchini and aubergines.
Also on the mains is penne alla norma, penne pasta with slow-cooked aubergines, San Marzano and camone tomatoes, garlic, and vegan mozzarella.
Desserts include torta al cioccolato, a dark chocolate and olive oil cake with almond milk gelato.
Prices start from Baht 425++. Available from 3 to 8 February 2020
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