Battambang Restaurants

  1. Cold Night Restaurant

    With 175 menu items, there are plenty of Asian and Western options, including sandwiches (tuna salad, club), burgers and pasta, plus a local version of pizzas. The name refers to the cold beer on offer.

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  2. Fresh Eats Café

    Run by an NGO that helps children whose families have been affected by HIV/AIDS, this little place serves Western breakfasts, including bagels, and holds dance performances (USaround US$3 ) from to on Friday and Saturday.

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  3. Green House Café

    Serves coffee, shakes, Khmer-style rice and noodle favourites, salads and exotic dishes - the menu has photographs so clients know what they're getting - such as pizza, hamburgers and doughnuts. Popular with students from the nearby colleges.

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  4. La Villa

    An island of civilised charm, Battambang's finest restaurant, attached to its best hostelry, serves family-style Khmer, French and Italian dishes accompanied by wines from around the world. Specialities include amok, lasagne, French onion soup and filet de bœuf (beef filet).

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  5. Lux-Tang Bakery

    Facing Chhaya Hotel, this bakery sells baguettes and French pastries.

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  7. Mercy House

    Serves Western breakfasts, noodle dishes, fruit-based beverages and even veggie hamburgers (2800r) amid flowery tablecloths and struggling potted plants.

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  8. Psar Nat

    Cheap dining is available in and around Psar Nat (eg in the space between the two market buildings), but be aware that some places specialise in what can only be described as 'unusable bits' soup. Psar Nat has oodles of food stalls.

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  9. Riverside night market

    Locals in the mood for good-value Khmer food flock to about a dozen neon-lit eateries across the street from the Battambang Museum.

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  10. San Long International Bakery

    Next to the ferry dock, San Long sells baguettes and bread made without sugar.

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  11. Smokin' Pot

    Popular with the younger NGO crowd, this cheery, laid-back restaurant serves good Khmer, Thai and Western food - burgers and fried beef with ginger are favourites. Doubles as a cooking school .

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  13. Sunrise Coffee House

    Caffeine is blended into a variety of delicious forms here and can be enjoyed with fresh-baked goodies, California-style snacks, pancakes, sandwiches and salads.

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  14. Vegetarian Foods Restaurant

    Run by an ideologically vegetarian ethnic-Chinese family, this informal eatery serves home-made soy milk and delicious noodle soup breakfasts and brunches made with tofu or mushrooms. Recipes are Khmer, Chinese and Vietnamese.

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  15. White Rose

    Has a mammoth menu of good-value Khmer, Vietnamese and Chinese dishes, including soups, veggie options and marvellous tukalok (fruit shakes).

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