Sub forum - restaurant reviews - Chiang Mai: Route 66

[Old Curmudgeon]

 

Preamble:

"Restaurants" are a hot topic on any forum for expats -- anywhere in the world -- including this forum.

I suggested to root admin to add a sub-forum for restaurant reviews.

Hopefully it would self-organize with a separate thread for each restaurant.

 

Root admin advised to start topics that could morph into a sub-forum.

So here goes:

And I suggest to others adding restaurant reviews to follow this title format:

     Sub forum - restaurant reviews - Chiang Mai: [restaurant name]

 

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Route 66 is a new restaurant in Chiang Mai.

Opened just 3 months ago.

 

Menu American diner style.

Almost exactly what I'd expect of any roadside dinner in the USA, 40-50-60 years ago.

Expect to look up from studying the menu to see parking lot crowded with 18-wheelers.

 

• All-day breakfast, including pancakes, corned beef hash, biscuits & sausage gravy
• Home-made chili with cheese on top
• Pulled smoked pork sandwich with BBQ sauce and coleslaw inside the sandwich
• Wisconsin-style home-made bratwurst sausage
• Philly cheese steak and Italian meatball sub sandwiches
• Apple pie.  Pecan pie.  Banana splits

 

 

Thai foods just one page, at the end of the menu, but variety looks suitable to bring your Thai friend.

 

A full English breakfast, but I'm not qualified to comment on the taste.

And no other specifically British foods:  No savory pies, not chip buttie, no afternoon tea, either.

Clearly focused on American foods.

 

I've been there twice:

Clean, neat, well organized -- which tells me management is farang, and that's a good omen for the future of this restaurant.

 

Service quick and with a smile.

Waitresses very helpful and quite good English.

Eager to make sure we got exactly what we wanted, not just rush to take the order.

 

On of the things I liked best about Route 66, is the food comes to the table hot, or at least still warm.

Delivering hot food hot is not a Thai tradition.

So this was a pleasant treat.

Could improve if the plates were warmed before putting on the food, but that custom seems unknown in these parts.

 

I can recommend (and my taste buds are 100% USA born and bred):

• pancakes:  good taste, soft and fluffy texture, good quality ingredients (i.e. NOT "Imperial" pancake mix. but syrup was "corn syrup" imitation flavour, not even close to real maple syrup.
• scrambled eggs: cooked just right, no added anything, but could improve if cooked in butter.
• home-fry potatoes: cooked just right, not slightly raw as in some restaurants with Thai cooks in the kitchen
• fried shrimp with Sriracha-mayo sauce: I didn't taste this, but got a good report from my Thai companion who scarfed up every bite.

 

But no restaurant is perfect:

Those nice home-fries were doused with chili powder.  Ugh! 

I didn't enjoy at all, but some farang will. 

When I discussed with waitress, she instantly understood the problem of chili powder on the potatoes. 

And she advised next time to order:  "Potato: no preek". 

So apparently I'm not the only one to complain about that.

 

Lots of parking for motorcycles in front and cars around back.

Ramp for wheel chair, but looks like a very narrow ramp -- more like just a "thought" than a use-able ramp.

Clean toilets.

 

I just discovered Route 66 last week.

Already went back this week for another meal.

 

Major shortcoming for many expats, is location out on the Outer Ring Road.

The OUTER ring road.

Might as well be in Shaghai as far as some of my fellow expats are concerned.

And no song-taew from the moat area, as far as I know.

 

 

 

I recommend this restaurant for any American craving the authentic taste of home.

And not just "back home", but the taste and quality of years ago in the USA.

 

Restaurant home page and menu:

https://www.route66chiangmai.com/

 

Google map and driving directions:

https://shorturl.at/QSvUX

 

This is the first post in what may become a sub-forum for restaurant reviews.

Comments and critique welcome.

 

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Old Curmudgeon