Dead restaurants in Nai Haarn

[pistachios]

Parking for motorbikes only at most places and the expats i know use a vehicle when eating out

There is parking at Rawai beach front but i have yet to find decent food, or what i call decent anyway and i am not a fussy eater

Thai people like chilli in their food, thanks for pointing that out, its their country anyway, cater for them

No difference between a expat or tourist customer except the expats are here all the year and most eat out regularly, tourists

only a couple of weeks and do not have a clue whats value for money because most things on the menu are cheaper than their home country

but not as good and they do not eat in tourists traps in their home country, not the sensible ones anyway

Pizza is a take away food where i come from , and mutch better and cheaper than the pizza's served up in restaurants here

Whats the name of your restaurant

Only restaurant i have eaten at which is popular with both expats and tourists and serves both western and thai food which are both excellent

quality and better priced by far that restaurants here is in Khao Lak, People from resort hotels eat there regularly which speaks for itself

Yeah well as I was saying plenty of restaurants have a dedicated parking lot big enough for a car or even a hummer. It would be easier to tell me which restaurant you have trouble parking in front of. None comes to mind right now. By the way rawai beach front offers now a decent sushi place, a fun korean bbq, a salad bar which had good a good review, one of the best steak of the island at Mando (disclaimer, haven't tried it for a while, maybe not so good anymore). That's already a nice range of restaurants excluding all the thai seafood places.

You want to avoid tourist traps like the pest. Well the first sign that a restaurant is a tourist trap is its menu. If it features several different cuisines one is usually bad, if not all of them. Better stick to dedicated local or regional restaurants. If your wife can't eat anything but thai food then should try to educate her palate. It would be faster than finding your graal, which seems to be a restaurant with a huge parking lot on the main street, serving delicious euro food and thai food, at dirt cheap prices. Good luck in your quest

MY wife does eat western food when we are on holidays, She eats thai food here not foreign food as i do a lot of the time in Thailand

Its you who needs educating, its not farang land

IF you are getting around on a scooter as most farangs do especially at bars parking is not a problem, if you actually drove

a vehicle you would know there is a shortage of parking spaces at a lot ot locations but only the south of the island

Just keep riding around on your rented scooter you should not have a problem with parking, or you could rent or buy a vehicle

and then tell everyone how easy it is to park

Sorry i misunderstood your posts, I thought you had trouble finding a place to eat because your wife could not eat anything but thai food when you are craving for euro food.

So then what is the problem? If you want to eat thai food with your wife, go to the one of the few good thai restaurants that do exist in that part of the island, and if you want close to any kind of foreign food then just go there. Plenty of choice, I was kind enough to make a list for you in a previous post.

I really don't get your obsession with parking, this is not patong. You didn't answer my question, can you give me an example of a decent restaurant that does not offer the possibility to park a car in a dedicated parking lot or a very short walk away? Pretty much all of the places I listed have a dedicated parking lot, and if they haven't you can still park the car anywhere you want within a 50m radius. That's weird, are we both talking about rawai?

[nedkellylives]

Parking for motorbikes only at most places and the expats i know use a vehicle when eating out

There is parking at Rawai beach front but i have yet to find decent food, or what i call decent anyway and i am not a fussy eater

Thai people like chilli in their food, thanks for pointing that out, its their country anyway, cater for them

No difference between a expat or tourist customer except the expats are here all the year and most eat out regularly, tourists

only a couple of weeks and do not have a clue whats value for money because most things on the menu are cheaper than their home country

but not as good and they do not eat in tourists traps in their home country, not the sensible ones anyway

Pizza is a take away food where i come from , and mutch better and cheaper than the pizza's served up in restaurants here

Whats the name of your restaurant

Only restaurant i have eaten at which is popular with both expats and tourists and serves both western and thai food which are both excellent

quality and better priced by far that restaurants here is in Khao Lak, People from resort hotels eat there regularly which speaks for itself

Yeah well as I was saying plenty of restaurants have a dedicated parking lot big enough for a car or even a hummer. It would be easier to tell me which restaurant you have trouble parking in front of. None comes to mind right now. By the way rawai beach front offers now a decent sushi place, a fun korean bbq, a salad bar which had good a good review, one of the best steak of the island at Mando (disclaimer, haven't tried it for a while, maybe not so good anymore). That's already a nice range of restaurants excluding all the thai seafood places.

You want to avoid tourist traps like the pest. Well the first sign that a restaurant is a tourist trap is its menu. If it features several different cuisines one is usually bad, if not all of them. Better stick to dedicated local or regional restaurants. If your wife can't eat anything but thai food then should try to educate her palate. It would be faster than finding your graal, which seems to be a restaurant with a huge parking lot on the main street, serving delicious euro food and thai food, at dirt cheap prices. Good luck in your quest

MY wife does eat western food when we are on holidays, She eats thai food here not foreign food as i do a lot of the time in Thailand

Its you who needs educating, its not farang land

IF you are getting around on a scooter as most farangs do especially at bars parking is not a problem, if you actually drove

a vehicle you would know there is a shortage of parking spaces at a lot ot locations but only the south of the island

Just keep riding around on your rented scooter you should not have a problem with parking, or you could rent or buy a vehicle

and then tell everyone how easy it is to park

Sorry i misunderstood your posts, I thought you had trouble finding a place to eat because your wife could not eat anything but thai food when you are craving for euro food.

So then what is the problem? If you want to eat thai food with your wife, go to the one of the few good thai restaurants that do exist in that part of the island, and if you want close to any kind of foreign food then just go there. Plenty of choice, I was kind enough to make a list for you in a previous post.

I really don't get your obsession with parking, this is not patong. You didn't answer my question, can you give me an example of a decent restaurant that does not offer the possibility to park a car in a dedicated parking lot or a very short walk away? Pretty much all of the places I listed have a dedicated parking lot, and if they haven't you can still park the car anywhere you want within a 50m radius. That's weird, are we both talking about rawai?

Pizzas, burgers and fish and chips are take away not restaurant food, but they are sold here at restaurant prices

Closes place i have found with restaurant food is wine connection in chalong

My wife prefers decent Thai food when eating out and i prefer decent western food as long as its all right with you

Always have a problem finding a restaurant that sells good food of both types, do you have a suggestion in Rawai or Nai Harn

[IrishIvan]

Pizzas, burgers and fish and chips are take away not restaurant food, but they are sold here at restaurant prices
Closes place i have found with restaurant food is wine connection in chalong
My wife prefers decent Thai food when eating out and i prefer decent western food as long as its all right with you
Always have a problem finding a restaurant that sells good food of both types, do you have a suggestion in Rawai or Nai Harn

There was an entire thread of about 300 posts not long ago completely tearing strips off wine connection. The manager got online and apologized for the crap they serve there

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[bubblegum]

Anybody know name location of the korean bbq mentioned?

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[pistachios]

Anybody know name location of the korean bbq mentioned?

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koun yakiniku in the middle of rawai beach front, next to the massage place with a big chinese sign

[nedkellylives]

There was an entire thread of about 300 posts not long ago completely tearing strips off wine connection. The manager got online and apologized for the crap they serve there

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Yes i know that, i have always enjoyed the food at wine connection

But i do not like them adding tax and service charge to their menu price

Nothing wrong with their food when we have eaten there, although its been awhile

i would be happy to eat there again and give them another try

[pistachios]

Pizzas, burgers and fish and chips are take away not restaurant food, but they are sold here at restaurant prices

Closes place i have found with restaurant food is wine connection in chalong

My wife prefers decent Thai food when eating out and i prefer decent western food as long as its all right with you

Always have a problem finding a restaurant that sells good food of both types, do you have a suggestion in Rawai or Nai Harn

So my assumption was correct in the end, you are looking for a restaurant that offers decent thai food as well as decent western food.

I agree it's a problem to find such restaurant as most of the time good ones are specialised toward a unique kind of cuisine.

But it seems your standards are quite low, if your reference is wine connection, you shouldn't have any problem to find "restaurant food" in rawai...

Anyway you could try Le Celtique, they have very good french traditional food, decent thai food (but not great), is popular among expats and offers a parking lot big enough for a 14 wheel truck.

[Cylon]

None will survive if they dont do something about the raw sewerage running down the storm water drains, Still ok at Salaloy seafood at Chalong end of Rawai beach,had dinner there last night,but the other end down by Council building, the smell is overpowering.There will be an outbreak of some disease soon.

[nedkellylives]

Pizzas, burgers and fish and chips are take away not restaurant food, but they are sold here at restaurant prices

Closes place i have found with restaurant food is wine connection in chalong

My wife prefers decent Thai food when eating out and i prefer decent western food as long as its all right with you

Always have a problem finding a restaurant that sells good food of both types, do you have a suggestion in Rawai or Nai Harn

So my assumption was correct in the end, you are looking for a restaurant that offers decent thai food as well as decent western food.

I agree it's a problem to find such restaurant as most of the time good ones are specialised toward a unique kind of cuisine.

But it seems your standards are quite low, if your reference is wine connection, you shouldn't have any problem to find "restaurant food" in rawai...

Anyway you could try Le Celtique, they have very good french traditional food, decent thai food (but not great), is popular among expats and offers a parking lot big enough for a 14 wheel truck.

Dont like french food prefer Thai any day

Edited February 27, 2014 by nedkellylives

[pistachios]

Pizzas, burgers and fish and chips are take away not restaurant food, but they are sold here at restaurant prices

Closes place i have found with restaurant food is wine connection in chalong

My wife prefers decent Thai food when eating out and i prefer decent western food as long as its all right with you

Always have a problem finding a restaurant that sells good food of both types, do you have a suggestion in Rawai or Nai Harn

So my assumption was correct in the end, you are looking for a restaurant that offers decent thai food as well as decent western food.

I agree it's a problem to find such restaurant as most of the time good ones are specialised toward a unique kind of cuisine.

But it seems your standards are quite low, if your reference is wine connection, you shouldn't have any problem to find "restaurant food" in rawai...

Anyway you could try Le Celtique, they have very good french traditional food, decent thai food (but not great), is popular among expats and offers a parking lot big enough for a 14 wheel truck.

Dont like french foid prefer Thai any day

Huh?

If you take out pastas and pizzas (which you don't like to eat in a restaurant), wine connection menu is typical french bistrot food.

May I know what kind of western food you are looking for in a restaurant?

[pistachios]

None will survive if they dont do something about the raw sewerage running down the storm water drains, Still ok at Salaloy seafood at Chalong end of Rawai beach,had dinner there last night,but the other end down by Council building, the smell is overpowering.There will be an outbreak of some disease soon.

Yep, but it's not that bad nowadays. It hasn't rained for almost 2 months now, probably all the feces have dried up. Everything will return to normal after next rainfall

Most of the new restaurants have an aircon sitting area which makes things better, but it will be hard to attract passersby with that dreadful smell.

I for sure would not open a restaurant there, hoping that the city would do anything about it.

http://www.phuketgazette.net/issuesanswers/printing.asp?id=1163 That issue was raised in 2010. TIT.

[nedkellylives]

Pizzas, burgers and fish and chips are take away not restaurant food, but they are sold here at restaurant prices

Closes place i have found with restaurant food is wine connection in chalong

My wife prefers decent Thai food when eating out and i prefer decent western food as long as its all right with you

Always have a problem finding a restaurant that sells good food of both types, do you have a suggestion in Rawai or Nai Harn

So my assumption was correct in the end, you are looking for a restaurant that offers decent thai food as well as decent western food.

I agree it's a problem to find such restaurant as most of the time good ones are specialised toward a unique kind of cuisine.

But it seems your standards are quite low, if your reference is wine connection, you shouldn't have any problem to find "restaurant food" in rawai...

Anyway you could try Le Celtique, they have very good french traditional food, decent thai food (but not great), is popular among expats and offers a parking lot big enough for a 14 wheel truck.

Dont like french foid prefer Thai any day

Huh?

If you take out pastas and pizzas (which you don't like to eat in a restaurant), wine connection menu is typical french bistrot food.

May I know what kind of western food you are looking for in a restaurant?

Braised lamb shanks last time at WC, is that a french dish as well like snails and frog legs

Never said i did not like pasta, i can make the dishes i like myself

Pizza i like but consider it a takeaway meal

Edited February 27, 2014 by nedkellylives

[LivinginKata]

Time to take out some of the nonsense posts that add nothing to this topic.

[grumpyoldman]

Time to take out some of the nonsense posts that add nothing to this topic.

Thank you..........................

"Dead Restaurants in Nai Harn"

OP asks about L'Orfeo, I think the people who "own" (lease) it now are just living there. Three management groups back the place was good, last couple couldn't make a go of it, as mentioned current just looks like they are using it as a residence.

Old boy at L'Odeon has an Italian restaurant right at the base of the viewpoint hill in Kata. Saw a big sign there, I think he might be reopening that one after the Rawai experiment. His food is good, but how many Italian restaurants are there? Yeeeeeesh...

Palau Fish is Russian. I think they wanted to capitalize on that market but the Russians I know like their seafood, seaside, not in an Arabian Nights setting.

O.K., there is GOM's 2 satangs worth.

[Gregory Morozov]

Pizzas, burgers and fish and chips are take away not restaurant food, but they are sold here at restaurant prices

Closes place i have found with restaurant food is wine connection in chalong

My wife prefers decent Thai food when eating out and i prefer decent western food as long as its all right with you

Always have a problem finding a restaurant that sells good food of both types, do you have a suggestion in Rawai or Nai Harn

There was an entire thread of about 300 posts not long ago completely tearing strips off wine connection. The manager got online and apologized for the crap they serve there

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did it get better since? Stopped going there a couple of years ago...

[Gregory Morozov]

Pizzas, burgers and fish and chips are take away not restaurant food, but they are sold here at restaurant prices

Closes place i have found with restaurant food is wine connection in chalong

My wife prefers decent Thai food when eating out and i prefer decent western food as long as its all right with you

Always have a problem finding a restaurant that sells good food of both types, do you have a suggestion in Rawai or Nai Harn

So my assumption was correct in the end, you are looking for a restaurant that offers decent thai food as well as decent western food.

I agree it's a problem to find such restaurant as most of the time good ones are specialised toward a unique kind of cuisine.

But it seems your standards are quite low, if your reference is wine connection, you shouldn't have any problem to find "restaurant food" in rawai...

Anyway you could try Le Celtique, they have very good french traditional food, decent thai food (but not great), is popular among expats and offers a parking lot big enough for a 14 wheel truck.

Dont like french food prefer Thai any day

In my opinion Thai food in Phuket is probably the worst in Thailand. Every time coming back from the trip to the North I am thinking how do we eat that crap... And with the recent price increases not really a value deal anymore. Some notable exceptions in Phuket town though

Edited March 1, 2014 by Gregory Morozov

[Gregory Morozov]

If someone opened a restaurat with parking for vehicles and catered for expat couples and expat/Thai couples

not tourists i think they would do OK, A lot of couples in Rawai and no one caters for them

With both Thai and western quality food at reasonable prices, tourist would use it as well once they new about it

only restaurant in Rawai with some parking at present is a tourist trap

It would not need to be beachfront but easy to find

I get your post at all, what difference is there between an expat or a tourist potential customer? They usually have the same tastebuds. You can only target tourists if your restaurant looks nice while the food is overpriced and not good, because the expats will know to avoid it. Not a great business plan for the low season. I don't think the "tourists traps" (examples?) do it on purpose.

As for the parking, maybe you drive a hummer but most decent restaurants have a dedicated parking lot, and even if they haven't you can park your car in front of that restaurant 95% of the time. Celtique, M&M, Jungle Rum, L'Orfeo, East 88, Norbu all have a parking lot, and they are fine (although I haven't tried l'Orfeo since the owner changed and heard Norbu has gone downhill). You can park easily park your car on the whole of rawai beach front and you have tons of thai sea food restaurants, korean BBQ (much better than thai bbq), a sushi place, a steak house, salad bar, Nikita's, etc...

A lot of expat couples and no one caters for them? I think you should look better. The choice of restaurant is amazing in rawai, for such a small place.

French food? Celtique (and they even serve thai food for the unlucky expat whose wife's tastebuds cannot eat anything without a ton of chili in it). Most other french places I tried are good too.

Italian/greek? Jungle Rum

Pizza? MM, Rossovivo, Modena

Thai stir fried stuff? Moo

Thai curry soup? Brown rice

Thai salad & grilled chicken? Somtumlanna

Cheap steaks or pastas food? Hen Chef, Rawai steak

Indian? Tandoori nights

Sushi? Rawai beach new place just opened

Now we only need chinese, japanese, lebanese restaurants and it will be even better.

Been in Norbu in January, meat is not fantastic but still pretty good, surprisingly lamb and beef were better than pork which was too dry to my taste. Very good desserts.

[glassdude007]

New Rawai Beach front returaunts, Tried a couple of them already...

Did the salad place sat outside and yes it smelled like poo and saw 3 or 4 car parking spaces to.

Her salad was ok my crab spring rolls smelled like old fish one bite thats all yucky..

Nice owner and wait staff but they were breathing down our backs while we were trying to eat "How is everything sir" "oh spring rolls sucked" "oh sorry sir" but still pay full price grrrr..

we were the only customers in there....

Over all it was ok (she liked her salad) but expensive and Rawai beach road noisy and smells.

Will be back someday to try the all you can eat Breakfast for 189bht someday..

If ya wanna have good salad make it yourself or go to the Hydophonics salad cafe place on way to Phuket town forget the name of it.

On Valentines day took my sweetheart to..

The all you can eat bbq place on Rawai beach,1000bht for two people,

I got the meat set she got the sushi set, you get 1.5 hrs to chow down I think.....

It was horrible, We were outta there in less than 30 minutes,

You get a bbq in middle of table.

They bring the meat you select with diferent sauces, paper thin (Korean style I guess)

The trays they brought out looked like they been sitting in the refer for a long time beef and pork all diferant colors and smells....3 out of the 5 trays had spoiled meat on them gross...they did offer to replace them but said no thanks...the beef i did cook just shriveled up into chewey pieces of flavored beef..

Her sushi was not much better like i said we were out of there in 30 minutes....

The place is small and filled up with couple of korean mini vans as we were leaving so im sure that will be there main clientle as well as the new condo's being finished out back will also sdd to the customer base.

But for sure we won't be back...

[pagallim]

If ya wanna have good salad make it yourself or go to the Hydophonics salad cafe place on way to Phuket town forget the name of it.

It's called 'We', near the junction of Chaofa West and Kwang Road.

[falkan]

On Valentines day took my sweetheart to..

The all you can eat bbq place on Rawai beach,1000bht for two people,

I got the meat set she got the sushi set, you get 1.5 hrs to chow down I think.....

It was horrible, We were outta there in less than 30 minutes,

You get a bbq in middle of table.

They bring the meat you select with diferent sauces, paper thin (Korean style I guess)

The trays they brought out looked like they been sitting in the refer for a long time beef and pork all diferant colors and smells....3 out of the 5 trays had spoiled meat on them gross...they did offer to replace them but said no thanks...the beef i did cook just shriveled up into chewey pieces of flavored beef..

Her sushi was not much better like i said we were out of there in 30 minutes....

The place is small and filled up with couple of korean mini vans as we were leaving so im sure that will be there main clientle as well as the new condo's being finished out back will also sdd to the customer base.

But for sure we won't be back...

Haha what do you expect for 500 baht all you can eat, imported australian beef? C'mon Son haha..

[hansgruber]

If ya wanna have good salad make it yourself or go to the Hydophonics salad cafe place on way to Phuket town forget the name of it.

It's called 'We', near the junction of Chaofa West and Kwang Road.

I used to eat there but they don't wash their vegetables properly. The amount of stomach upsets I've had and many of my friends so we don't return.

Such a shame as I like eating healthy.