Your Favorite Restaraunt In Bangkok?

[6678hhg]

Lets have it folks. What is your favorite restaraunt in Bangkok to eat at?

[6678hhg]

randal

[HotelManager]

La Gritta Italian on soi 19.

Nice atmosphere, great service, awesome italian style food, and amazing low prices for what it is. I also like that you can smoke right outside right in front

[Tropicalevo]

Suda - Soi 14 Sukhumvit (nr Asoke)

Great little thai eatery - always has hoi lai. Cheap and good food. (As in all good thai restaurants - slow service)

For an Italian I would choose La Opera for their lunchtime fixed price menu. Soi 30 something off Sukhumvit again. (Odd number side before Emporium)

Edited May 26, 2010 by Tropicalevo

[Krungbin]

Suda - Soi 14 Sukhumvit (nr Asoke)

Great little thai eatery - always has hoi lai. Cheap and good food. (As in all good thai restaurants - slow service)

For an Italian I would choose La Opera for their lunchtime fixed price menu. Soi 30 something off Sukhumvit again. (Odd number side before Emporium)

Opera is on Suk 39.

I like Philippe (Suk 39 as well), for very good French food, le Beaulieu as well (Suk 19), although different style, and the Thai eateries I like (they are many more) are Baan Klang Nam (Rama 3, Soi 14), Wanakarm (Suk 23 not far from the Pegasus), Kalong Home Kitchen (on the river, 2 Sri Ayutthaya), and a liittle Issan karaoke joint right next to Soi 38 on Suk 71...

[BritTim]

I may end up really regretting posting this. I have a suggestion, but it is strictly for people looking for superb Thai food at cheap prices.

If you go down Sukhumvit 101/1, at the corner of Soi 15, there is a small no name restaurant that usually opens in the evenings from 5:00pm until about 11:00pm. Some days, they do not bother.

Let me cover the bad points first, for those who are sensitive to such things. The decor is terrible. The family that run it (wife who you can tell is the cook, husband and daughter who "serve" and do basic preparation) never smile at new customers, which is especially disconcerting in Thailand. Service verges on impolite. Everything is prepared fresh by the cook in the sequence that it is ordered. Thus, if you arrive at the wrong time, you can be waiting 30 minutes for your food. The menu is only in Thai, and I doubt they speak much English. You may see their dogs walking around inside the restaurant (cringe).

So why the recommendation? For me, the number one most important thing in a restaurant is the food. Here it is delicious. I have eaten at some of the best restaurants in the world, and you can just tell when the chef has special talent. The cook here has the knack. If she has the ingredients, she can make any Thai or Chinese dish you can name, and superbly. Most of the time, the restaurant operates as a regular "raan ahaan daam sang" (dishes to order). From a simple stir fried dish to the most elaborate whole fish in sauces, everything comes to the table perfect. About a couple of times a year, by way of variation, it switches for a week or two to a pre-prepared vegetarian dishes restaurant, also top notch. Amazingly, for such a dingy restaurant, even the basic ingredients are of high quality. It is my impression that, for the cook, this is a labour of love.

The prices are ridiculously low, even for average quality let alone the best.

I have occasionally seen Thai foodies in there. In fact, the restaurant has a couple of certificates to show that, not only they were there, but they were impressed. However, I have never seen them written up. I suspect nobody dares write up this eccentric place.

[bkkbrad]

Please excuse the spelling...a restraunt I would highly recommend is 'Bung Wa Bee'...located on Srinakarin Road between Seacon Square and Seri Centre. The restraunt is built on a well stocked lake, where you can feed the fish while you wait for your food to arrive. If you wish you can ask for a place on one of the pontoons which you are ferried to by one of the staff in a rowing boat. Or if you prefer you can have an air-conditioned glass room, not as much fun but much cooler. The food is delicious, the price is very good and the setting is fantastic

[p_brownstone]

Please excuse the spelling...a restraunt I would highly recommend is 'Bung Wa Bee'...located on Srinakarin Road between Seacon Square and Seri Centre. The restraunt is built on a well stocked lake, where you can feed the fish while you wait for your food to arrive. If you wish you can ask for a place on one of the pontoons which you are ferried to by one of the staff in a rowing boat. Or if you prefer you can have an air-conditioned glass room, not as much fun but much cooler. The food is delicious, the price is very good and the setting is fantastic

Sadly Bung Wapee is no longer there - I drove past yesterday and they are in the process of demolishing it.

I liked the place too - both the food and the setting; I guess we will get another car showroom or whatever in its' place.

However another good resaraunt nearby is called Bua - in the Soi leading to the entrance to Seacon Square.

Patrick

[thaigold]

Baan Arjarn's on Soi Rangnam. Full Thai menu (food to die for), wonderful low volume jazz in the background and intimate seating in the rear. Prices? Moderate, not Sukhumvit rip-off rates. Open daily - just off of Rachada Prarop on Rangnam Road. Not to be missed.

Tel: 02.245.2775

[montrii]

I may end up really regretting posting this. I have a suggestion, but it is strictly for people looking for superb Thai food at cheap prices.

If you go down Sukhumvit 101/1, at the corner of Soi 15, there is a small no name restaurant that usually opens in the evenings from 5:00pm until about 11:00pm. Some days, they do not bother.

Please don't regret posting this! I just moved to 101/1 and this is a great lead, especially as I speak Thai very well. I'll follow up with another post when I've checked it out, probably sometime next week.

[EvilDrSomkid]

Ours right now is Baan Dok Mai on Sena Nikhom. That is in the Ratchayothin area.

The place is in a driveway about 100 meters. There is a yellow lit sign on the street.

Between Sena sois 10 and 12.

It is a little difficult to find, but it all comes together here.

Excellent food (if you like North style, come here), good service, reasonable prices, soft music and a lovely Lanna style building with garden.

Another nice place with good (North Style) food is Salor Saow Suung. It is in a soi near Liep Tang Duan. See map link:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Bangkok+Thailand&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=34.122306,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Bangkok,+Thailand&ll=13.81565,100.625957&spn=0.002553,0.004823&t=h&z=18

Its on this soi. The Sai Oua is excellent!

[dddave]

I won't call it "favorite" but if you are shopping in FORTUNE TOWER (Rama-9) there is a thai restaurant at the very base of the escalator, actually under it, on the basement level that has wonderful curry soups. The Khow Soi Gai is the best I've had; unfortunately it often sells out by 2pm.

[montrii]

I may end up really regretting posting this. I have a suggestion, but it is strictly for people looking for superb Thai food at cheap prices.

If you go down Sukhumvit 101/1, at the corner of Soi 15, there is a small no name restaurant that usually opens in the evenings from 5:00pm until about 11:00pm. Some days, they do not bother.

Let me cover the bad points first, for those who are sensitive to such things. The decor is terrible. The family that run it (wife who you can tell is the cook, husband and daughter who "serve" and do basic preparation) never smile at new customers, which is especially disconcerting in Thailand. Service verges on impolite. Everything is prepared fresh by the cook in the sequence that it is ordered. Thus, if you arrive at the wrong time, you can be waiting 30 minutes for your food. The menu is only in Thai, and I doubt they speak much English. You may see their dogs walking around inside the restaurant (cringe).

So why the recommendation? For me, the number one most important thing in a restaurant is the food. Here it is delicious. I have eaten at some of the best restaurants in the world, and you can just tell when the chef has special talent. The cook here has the knack. If she has the ingredients, she can make any Thai or Chinese dish you can name, and superbly. Most of the time, the restaurant operates as a regular "raan ahaan daam sang" (dishes to order). From a simple stir fried dish to the most elaborate whole fish in sauces, everything comes to the table perfect. About a couple of times a year, by way of variation, it switches for a week or two to a pre-prepared vegetarian dishes restaurant, also top notch. Amazingly, for such a dingy restaurant, even the basic ingredients are of high quality. It is my impression that, for the cook, this is a labour of love.

The prices are ridiculously low, even for average quality let alone the best.

I have occasionally seen Thai foodies in there. In fact, the restaurant has a couple of certificates to show that, not only they were there, but they were impressed. However, I have never seen them written up. I suspect nobody dares write up this eccentric place.

OK, you're right, great food. this is my follow-up post: วราธนา (Warathana) is the name of the place. The dog you mention (I only saw one) is extremely, small, cute, well-behaved, and playful . . . but you do have to wash hands after petting. The people will certainly smile if you speak Thai and are friendly to them. They were very appreciative of my compliments. If you're FOB ("fresh off the boat" from your European motherland, perhaps "the decor is terrible," but if you've spent, as I have, years in provincial Thailand, it's actually on the spiffy side! I love the little community that has grown up around the intersections here (soi sukhum 101/1 from 13-23, both sides): market, friday flea market, bezillion great food stalls, couple of minimarts, stores for everything, including a deep-tissue massage place (นวดจับเส้น - "nuat jap sen") where I just had some tendonitis ameliorated. Billy Bob says checkitout. The food is memorable, and my cousin and I had 3 big dishes and 2 big beers for under ฿400.

[p_brownstone]

A rather unusual Restaraunt is "Silom Pattakarn" in Silom Soi 15 - just past Wat Kaek.

This is Chinese food but prepared in a European way - I believe this style originated when Expats in Asia used Hainanese Chefs and they adapted food to their taste.

Especially try:

Ox Tail Stew

Pork Chop

Beff Salad

Chicken Curry

The meal is usually eaten with bread rather than rice.

Patrick

[Soi Sauce]

Hate to say it, but mine have all gone, vanished in the sea of construction which is turning all roads in Bkk into canyons.

Papaya at the Ekkamai Rama 9 intersection, the restaurant in Lumpini Park Sukhumvit side, the walled seafood garden at Kwa Nam Thai, and the 0n-street reataurant opposite Lotus on Soi 50, all vanished in the last 2 years.

Seems like there is some law against al-fresco dining but if anyone knows any that are left in the inner city, pls let me and others know.

SAD!

Edited January 21, 2011 by Soi Sauce

[Valjean]

So many...

One that comes to mind is Som Tom Bankok on Soi Ari 3. Issan food but really a cut above most. For a something like a simple moo yaang the meat is excellent. The lap moo taut (fried meat balls) are great. Really everything is tasty.

I'm a big fan of Gin Lom Chom Saphan on Samsen 3. I always get the steamed sea bass in lime, chilies and garlic. The greens with garlic and shrimp is excellent - it's such a basic dish but they have the touch. And great atmosphere as well.

[GreenSnapper]

Baan Arjarn's on Soi Rangnam. Full Thai menu (food to die for), wonderful low volume jazz in the background and intimate seating in the rear. Prices? Moderate, not Sukhumvit rip-off rates. Open daily - just off of Rachada Prarop on Rangnam Road. Not to be missed.

Tel: 02.245.2775

It's ok food, not that special but tasty and 90% full with tourists who read somewhere "not to be missed".

[p_brownstone]

Hate to say it, but mine have all gone, vanished in the sea of construction which is turning all roads in Bkk into canyons.

Papaya at the Ekkamai Rama 9 intersection, the restaurant in Lumpini Park Sukhumvit side, the walled seafood garden at Kwa Nam Thai, and the 0n-street reataurant opposite Lotus on Soi 50, all vanished in the last 2 years.

Seems like there is some law against al-fresco dining but if anyone knows any that are left in the inner city, pls let me and others know.

SAD!

Come on, you can’t be serious; and why get so down about food in Bangkok??

Who was it who said “when one door closes another one traps your fingers”? (OK – I may have got that Quotation a little bit wrong!)

Yes some of my favourite places have closed over the years too, but Bangkok is FAR from being a culinary desert!!

Look around, even just walk down your Soi, you will constantly (well, maybe only sometimes!) be pleasantly surprised by what you discover.

Carpe Diem as they say.

Patrick

Edited January 22, 2011 by p_brownstone

[gkinbkk]

Suda - Soi 14 Sukhumvit (nr Asoke)

Ten years ago it was great.

Now it is not.

Every time I have been there over the last 3 years I've sworn it would be my last.

[Deke]

A rather unusual Restaraunt is "Silom Pattakarn" in Silom Soi 15 - just past Wat Kaek.

This is Chinese food but prepared in a European way - I believe this style originated when Expats in Asia used Hainanese Chefs and they adapted food to their taste.

Especially try:

Ox Tail Stew

Pork Chop

Beff Salad

Chicken Curry

The meal is usually eaten with bread rather than rice.

Patrick

This is one of my all time favorite restaurants. I used to go there often when I lived nearer to downtown Bangkok. Another feature of the place, at least when I used to go there, is that all of the waiters seemed to have been around since the place first opened about 60 years ago (at least almost that long).

Their bread and ox tail stew is a classic.

The "old time" atmosphere is also great.

[jdinasia]

randal

Special night out? or just a great "staple" place?

I'll have to look up the name of the Thai place ---- very famous, great food and an extensive wine list that is just past the Thai steakhouse on the soi behind soi Cowboy.

Just great Thai food anytime? Across from Seri Ctr (recently renamed Paradise Park) on Sri Nakarin Rd ... name is SomTam by Bua (the Bua Restaurant chain.

Burger? Great American (Suk)

Second choice for average Thai ... Mango Tree in Silom/Patpong

Sushi? Plaa Dip (Ari and Rama6?)

Sunday Brunch? Next 2 on the river

Fried Chicken? Many ... The stall at Saphan Hua Chang (elephant head bridge near MBK at Khlong Saep) --- but the best I have had is on upper Onnut at MooBaan Seri (about one mile past Sri Nakarin on the right heading out of town. There is an evening food only market there and the chicken place at the bus stop is actually extraordinarily good

Edited January 22, 2011 by jdinasia

[Deke]

Their bread and ox tail stew is a classic.

To correct myself, it's ox tongue stew.

[p_brownstone]

Their bread and ox tail stew is a classic.

To correct myself, it's ox tongue stew.

Not deliberately intending to "bump" an old Thread but todays Thai Rath has an article referring to Silom Pattakarn.

http://www.thairath.co.th/content/life/175091

Mostly it's political gossip / innuendo etc. but at least the pictures give an impression of the place, the atmosphere and - of course - the food.

Patrick

P.S. @ "Deke" - recognise the waitress (last picture)? She's still there (after who knows how many years) - as is that fantastic Ox Tongue Stew - seeing this in Thai Rath today means I will be there tomorrow for lunch!

Patrick

Edited May 30, 2011 by p_brownstone

[TerraPosse]

A small chinese place where they specialise in noodle dishes made from fresh dough. Can't remember the name but it is on Ramkamhaeng near the corner of Soi 16 and usually unmissable because of the shiny blue Harley of the owner parked out front. Crickey...I start salivating just writing about the place now....

[Deke]

P.S. @ "Deke" - recognise the waitress (last picture)? She's still there (after who knows how many years) - as is that fantastic Ox Tongue Stew - seeing this in Thai Rath today means I will be there tomorrow for lunch!

Patrick

I always thought that most of the waiters/waitresses there at least looked like they've been around for decades. I'm pretty sure most of them have.

If I wasn't tied up with all kinds of meetings this week I'd join you for lunch. Haven't been there in a long time.

[beautifulthailand99]

Hi just back in UK after 3 weeks in Thailand and the best place we ate in Bkk was a seafood restaurant on Soi Langsuan (I believe the English translation ofthe name is Kitchen in the House). Super fresh food - you walk through the aquarium on the way in basic decor but amazing food to die for. Still salivating at the memory. Best thing on the menu IMHO was the deep fried catfish which has the consistency of friable delicate straw and melts in your mouth. A family of 10 plus drinks was about 3500 - simply amazing value.

Edited June 2, 2011 by beautifulthailand99