Best Upscale Vegetarian Restaurant In Bangkok?

[NewGuy]

I want to take my formerly vegan now solidly vegetarian-oriented daughter out for a great dinner in Bangkok before she returns to Europe, but its just got to be better than the fried veggy meals available around Khao San Road. Can anyone recommend a place with wonderful food and service? Any cuisine but some fusion place would be great.

[ben kroo]

It maybe near Khao San area and faranglamphu but Mai Kai Dee is an excellent choice, Mai is a northern girl who came to BKK and started out in her uncles restaurant which she soon tookover, she now has 3 branches although one is being renovated. The best one and the one we eat in regularly is on Samsen opposite Soi2, it has a nice atmos, and is a family affair so all the dishes are cooked to order, and not plated up before hand like some chain place, they are great value and very tasty, my girlfriend loves the pumpkin hummus and isaan vegetable, which is bit like larb, they also run a veggie cooking course and have a massage place and guest house attached.

After that there is Adhere the 13th blues bar, 5 doors down where there is live music every night, Pong is about the best blues guitarist I've seen in BKK, better even than the guys who play in Saxophone, much more subtle, and Georgia has a belting voice, well worth a beer afterwards, although it is very small and a bit smoky.

Anyway thats my recommendation, maybe you can find something on Sukhumvit, it has everything else. Good luck

[malcolminthemiddle]

There's Govinda's on Suk Soi 20 that does the whole range of italian food including pizzas.

Their soya prawns and meats look very realistic and are tasty to.

[jtb]

'Whole Earth' in Suk Soi 26 was always really good. Haven't been there for a while though.

[aaaaaa]

There's Govinda's on Suk Soi 20 that does the whole range of italian food including pizzas.

Their soya prawns and meats look very realistic and are tasty to.

realy? they still sell veg food ?

what is sold on Khao San - is almost a joke. except perhaps Mai Kaidee's - which is a bit outside Khao San. but her food is good - well, at least used to be while she was runnning the place herself and before new branches opened. my ex g/f and her sis an mom - Thais, non-veg - ate with me once out of curiousity (perhaps : can veg food even be eatable ?) and liked it, asked me to take them again.

about "best" - I can't promise. the fast food McDonald style (as I've heard - Singaporean franchise Kamala - on Sukhumvit 20 or is it 18?) - not so good in my opinion.

there is one authentic Indian veg reastaurant on Soi 19 - next to Robinson and Westin hotel - called "Dosa king". food is excellent there.

about Thai food - I recommend huge place on Jatujak, opposite to main entrance (where market's office and all the banks are). get there by subway, exit at Kamphaet Phet station on the opposit from main market side, walk further along shops selling cartoons books and used magazins and some funriture; or if you get out on the JJ market itself - walk to main gate (after bust stop), then cross the road and enter small Soi, actually more like walk way right in front main gates. there is big complex with SO many different stalls - all sorts of real Thai veg dishes. as I know place is run by comunity from Nakhon Prathom. and the guy who is opposition leader (not Sondhi - another one, former General) - he actually has started whole veg promotion in Thailand, so he initiated this place.

so, this place I think is the best I know - in term of variety, quality, authenticity (that it is truly Thai and real ingridients are used) and especially price.

once I've stubled upon one restaurant on Phayon Yothin - but that is a bit far, as I recall somehwere on the or near the corner with Ram Inthra Rd. - they have huge variety of soya-made meat-like etc. dishes - I think more than any other veg place in whole Thailand.

and very far away - Viphavadi-Rangsit Rd, Soi 81 as I remember - there was (a year os so ago - I don't know about now) nice small Taiwanese veg restaurant - good realy chinese style noodles etc.

ah, on Sukhumvit Soi 8 "Malaysian Aunty" place - there is also dosa etc. but it is not purely veg restaurant. but aunti is a nice person anyway, and old good friend. and it is the only place I know where Malaysian style (blend of Chino-Indo-Malay cousin can be tasted) veg food I know. but of course not as good as in Malaysia itself.

so, I guess one can only decide for him/herself what's best - after trying them all, if able to !

[NewGuy]

Thanks all. We went to Govinda's tonight, on Suk's Soi 22. Sat outside and enjoyed the meal. The cook got mixed reviews. My daughter had the mozzerella ball / tomato / basil salad and noted "it was not as good as in Chiang Mai" - not cut from little balls of cheese, but still ok. My girlfriend had spaghetti Chimao (even the waiter pronounced it "chi" not kee); she didn't like it, the pasta was not bulky enough for her and not spicy enough either. My kid and I split an eggplant / mozzerella baked thing; good, good. I had spaghetti puttanesca, pretty good except for the lame or tame tomato sauce base, the pasta was soft not al dente. The capers, garlic etc were excellent and the anchovies weren't missed too much. A tiramisu was had and failed the daughter's taste test - the cake part didn't look right. The glass of wine was, I think, from Franzia's California Red collection, okay for desert. Loved the Heinekin at 140 for a yai. 10% service charge.

[NewGuy]

Oh yes, my gf had garlic bread, two slices of toasted garlicy whole wheat bread. Hmmmmmmmm.

[ben kroo]

sounds pretty disapointing really- lame, tame sauces, not bulky or spicy enough, not as good as chiang mai, it was ok really, tiramisu failed the taste test. Don't think I;ll bother myself, just out of interest how much was the meal or what is the average price of a dish there?

[NewGuy]

I think that spaghetti chimao was really angel hair. One glass of wine at 140, two heinekins at 140 each, service charge (watier was quite good but rushed off his feet), total cost for 3, 1500 baht.

[TantrikLvr]

I think that spaghetti chimao was really angel hair. One glass of wine at 140, two heinekins at 140 each, service charge (watier was quite good but rushed off his feet), total cost for 3, 1500 baht.

Food at Govinda's is fine, especially as it is Italian! One can look on google for vegetarian restaurants, bangkok and find the Happy Cow list of over 50!! I recommend for classy veg, the Tamarind restaurant, down the lane on Sukhimvit soi 20. 3 stories (including lovely outside garden on the roof), great art, Asian fusian food and lots of monthly specials. Great coctails, lovely service, as well as events monthly if signed up to their mailing list.