Restaurants in South Coast
-
Epic Arts Café
A great place for breakfast (around US$3), home-made cakes or tea, this mellow eatery - staffed by deaf and disabled young people - can also pack a bagel lunch for a trip up to Bokor. Sometimes it hosts dance performances. Profits fund dance, music and art workshops for deaf and disabled Cambodians.
reviewed
-
Crab Market
Dining in Kep is all about fresh seafood. For the best deals head to the Crab Market, a row of wooden waterfront shacks where you can tuck into mouth-watering grilled prawns, crab, squid, squid and fish. In case you're interested, crabs - kept alive in pens tethered a few metres off the pebbly beach - cost per kilo.
reviewed
-
A
Koh Lin
Its name a play on a play on the French word colline (hill), this unpretentious eatery has just five candle-lit tables and serves good-value Cambodian, Vietnamese and French bistro classics. Dessert options include profiterole, crème caramel and crèpes.
reviewed
-
good-value restaurants
A number of small, good-value restaurants, calmer and more hygienic than the beachside shacks, can be found a block inland from Occheuteal Beach along 23 Tola St.
reviewed
-
B
Happy Herb Pizza
A pizzeria with a breezy, tropical twist. In addition to Khmer dishes, options include garlic bread, salads and pasta. Free delivery available.
reviewed
-
Riel
This unpretentious bar, restaurant and bakery, owned by a Dutch former sound engineer and his Khmer wife, occupies a hangar-like space outfitted with wicker chairs and a couple of hammocks. Specialities include pastries, cakes, German beer bread and home-made ice cream confected without eggs (to avoid salmonella). Prices are quoted only in riels - thus the name. The website has an activities calendar.
reviewed
-
Rikitikitavi
Named after the mongoose in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, this stylish terrace restaurant affords unsurpassed river views and is known for its generous portions. Specialities include Kampot pepper chicken, imported beefsteak, sandwiches, burgers, burritos, salads, apple pie and plenty of veggie options. Serves wine by the glass.
reviewed
-
Kuy Teay Chhnang
Likely to fulfil the promise implied in its name, which means bon appétit, this spotless eatery specialises in Chinese soups, which are lip-smackingly tasty early in the morning. It also has lots of rice-based Khmer dishes. There's no English sign; look for neatly parked motorbikes out front and a fake brick façade.
reviewed
-
Mlop Sbau Trachak Chit
Offering better value than some of the places in town, this restaurant - outdoors under a thatch roof - and its delicious Khmer dishes are hugely popular with locals, especially in the evening. Neither the menu nor the sign are in English; from St 10 walk through a gate with an Anchor beer sign over it and follow the wooden walkway.
reviewed
-
C
Starfish Bakery & Café
Tucked down a red-earth alley, this attractive, NGO-run garden café serves filling Western breakfasts, light lunches (sandwiches, quiche, tortillas, salads) and teatime treats such as brownies and apple tarts. Veggie options are legion. Income goes to help poor Cambodians get medical care, housing and micro-loans.
reviewed
Advertisement
-
Pohak Restaurant
Pohak Restaurant, across the street from the guesthouses, serves - according to the nicely laminated menu - some unique delicacies, including odoriferous soup, salad Vietnamese girl, chickens with three legs, cow haunts water, eel falling in love and frontline troop open the way.
reviewed
-
D
New Sea View Villa
Just a few metres back from Serendipity Beach, this place serves up an incredible selection of food that's among the area's tastiest. Starters include scallops and an authentic tomato-moz-basil salad, while main courses range from a seafood platter to vegetarian dishes.
reviewed
-
E
Holy Cow
At this attractive, chic-funky café-restaurant, options include pasta, sandwiches on homemade bread and a good selection of veggie options, including two vegan desserts, both involving chocolate. The small shop sells M'lop Tapang products.
reviewed
-
Khmer Gourmet
Saviours of the sweet tooth, fresh pies, cakes and cookies line the display cabinet of their café, but its pièce de résistance is the coffee machine, a proper one, that makes the noise and everything!
reviewed
-
Little Garden Bar
Set in the garden of an old French-period property, this tranquil little haven serves Khmer and international dishes, including pizzas (around US$6), and wine by the glass. The rooftop terrace affords superb river views.
reviewed
-
Ta Eou Restaurant
Built on stilts over the river, this is a top place for a sunset meal, with views across to Bokor. The menu is extensive and includes fresh seafood (crab with peppercorns is a favourite), veggie dishes and local broths.
reviewed
-
Riverfront Restaurant
Across St 1 from the Asean Hotel, this Thai and Khmer place specialises in reasonably priced seafood and soups, including delicious tom yam. Four breezy pavilions out over the water afford truly romantic sunset views.
reviewed
-
F
Phou Mint Koh Kong Restaurant
This Thai and Khmer place specialises in reasonably priced soups (120B to 200B), including delicious tom yam, and superfresh seafood. Four breezy pavilions out over the water afford truly romantic sunset views.
reviewed
-
Kimly Restaurant
Perhaps the best of the Crab Market eateries, specialities here include prawns with sprigs of Kampot pepper and fresh crab. Mains come with a tasty dessert: fried tarrow root in sugar.
reviewed
-
Sauna Garden Bar
Both a relaxing sauna and a garden restaurant with good Khmer, Thai and Western food, this establishment - something of an expat hang-out - is also a good source of local information.
reviewed
Advertisement
-
food stalls
Thai food is more common here than in most parts of Cambodia. There are cheap food stalls around the perimetre of Psar Leu - have a look along St 2 and north of the market along St 3.
reviewed
-
Fat Sam’s
An informal, South Welsh–run bar with a pool table and a selection of beers and wines. Serves breakfast (US$1 to US$3.75), sandwiches (US$2.75 to US$3.50) and a daily special.
reviewed
-
psar
You can grab a bite at the rudimentary psar, a few blocks inland from the river. At the dock at Phnom Da, a couple of very basic cafés serve coconut milk and soft drinks.
reviewed
-
G
food stalls
In the evening, food stalls set up one block north of Psar Leu. Options include barbeque chicken, rice porridge or noodles with chicken, and a variety of Cambodian desserts.
reviewed
-
H
Baan Peakmai
One of the best restaurants in town, this Thai place, out of doors in a relaxing garden, has a monster menu with two dozen vegetarian choices and a fair spread of seafood.
reviewed
