Restaurants in Pulau Langkawi
- Sort by:
- Popular
-
Tomato
There are some great tomatoes along Cenang beach. This one serves excellent rotis and a standard curry-rice Indian/Malay menu at all hours – take note, nighthawks.
reviewed
-
Fat Mum’s
Fat Mum’s serves up Chinese dishes. It’s cheap, cheerful and can get pretty boisterous come the evening.
reviewed
-
Champor-Champor
Serves up imaginative regional cuisine such as pan-fried bamakoise (a local fish) with banana, tofu satay and coconut-crusted calamari. The menu descriptions are particularly intriguing – such as the Thai green curry ‘with an exotic taste that makes you kinky’ – and the tranquil, open-air garden filled with sweet incense and surrounded with plants and native carvings provides a romantic setting to while away a tropical evening.
reviewed
-
Kantan
Supposedly the country’s largest restaurant built in traditional Malay style, Kantan looks like a kampung house on steroids. Inside, the menu focuses on upscale executions of traditional Malay food like rendang, fish cooked in coconut milk and such, but the spice is very much toned down for foreigners.
reviewed
-
Barn Thai
On the island’s east coast, 9km north of Kuah, is this upmarket Thai restaurant with live jazz on some nights (reservations advisable). The setting, at the end of a raised walkway through a mangrove forest reserve, is actually better than the food.
reviewed
-
Putumayo
Excellent service (the waiter folds your napkin in your lap) amid a beautiful open-air courtyard. The cuisine ranges from across Asia, looping from Malaysia through Thailand to China; we highly recommend the fish cooked Nonya style.
reviewed
-
Nam
At Bon Ton Resort, Nam boasts a well-executed menu of fusion goodness, from pistachio-encrusted haloumi to a nine-course sampler of Straits Chinese cuisine, and at night, amid Bon Ton’s starry jungle grounds, the setting is superb.
reviewed
-
Zabinsa’s USSR Restaurant
On the seafront, Telaga Harbour Park is home to a few trendy restaurants, including the oddly Marxist-chic themed Zabinsa’s USSR Restaurant, featuring some vaguely Russian specialities.
reviewed
-
Red Tomato
The tomato is run by expats who crank out some of the best pizza and pasta on the island. Of all the midrange places serving Western standards on the Cenang strip, this is probably your best bet.
reviewed
-
Krathong
The Oriental Village shopping complex has a handful of restaurants, including Krathong, a quiet Thai restaurant offering traditional curries and fish dishes.
reviewed
Advertisement
-
Charlie’s Place
About 500m uphill from the jetty is the white-gloved ambience and Western-Asian menu of the breezily aristocratic Charlie’s.
reviewed
-
Boom Boom Corner
At the northern end of the strip is a bustling food court serving good-value Malay and Pakistani food.
reviewed
