Other restaurants in Andaman Coast
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Drunken Sailors
This hip, ultra-relaxed, octagonal pad is smothered with beanbags. The coffee drinks are top-notch and go well with interesting bites like the chicken green curry sandwich.
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Bar Kantiang
Excellent Thai food comes out of this ramshackle kitchen near Ao Kantiang. It’s exceptionally popular with the local expat crowd, who secretly come for the karaoke.
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Sala Bua & Lo Spuntino
Located deep within the bustle of ‘Seafood Street’, this excellent ocean-facing restaurant serves the best of both worlds – East and West – accompanied by a long list of wines. A resident Italian chef and a Thai chef whip up traditional masterpieces in the steamy kitchen while diners coddle their chardonnay and watch the sunset. Simple pleasures, like vegetable rice, are cooked to perfection, as are the big ticket items: seafood ‘baskets’ (for two) and Florentine sirloins.
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Rock
Our favourite lunchtime spot in all of Railay sits up on a small clearing in the karst formaton–filled jungle. The sea views are divine and the large selection of Thai food never gets complaints. Try the refreshing basil smoothies on especially hot days. The 99B do-it-yourself barbecues are quite popular – stop by for more information.
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Lotus Restaurant
An open-walled eatery 500m west of the entrance to Banyan Tree Phuket, this is the first in a row of beachside Thai and seafood restaurants that stretches to the south. It’s clean, breezy and friendly, and has an amazing assortment of live crab, lobster, shrimp, fish and other visual and culinary delights in well-tended tanks.
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Kachang Floating Restaurant
Set adrift in Ao Phuket, rickety Kachang is only a few minutes east of Phuket Town, but it’s far off the beaten tourist trail. Free long-tail boats shuttle grumbling bellies to the floating restaurant surrounded by schools of corralled fish. Enjoy soft-shell crab in the waning light as the sun dips behind the hills.
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White Box
Who cares if the food at White Box is good or not (although if you are wondering, it is delish); dining at this high-energy supper club is like spending an evening on the starship Enterprise. This chic realm is housed in, quite literally, a white box, which teeters on the rocky shoreline.
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Mama’s Café
If fresh parrot fish rubbed with lemongrass and grilled with pineapple sounds like your kind of meal, head to Mama’s Café, next to 7-Eleven in Hat Bang Niang (the town 2.5km north of Khao Lak). Part street-side cafe, part tiki bar, there’s rarely an empty seat in the house.
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Aroy
True to its name ( aroy means ‘delicious’), this popular Thai restaurant sits along the inland road connecting Sunrise and Pattaya Beaches. The sign is small so you might have to ask around, but you’ll be happy you made the effort once you sample the dishes.
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Café Lipe
A local breakfast legend, the Swiss-run Café Lipe whips up stellar morning repasts – the unfinishable muesli topples over with fresh fruit and colourful grains. A group of brand-new bamboo bungalows (500B; no running water) squats in the backyard.
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Cha-Leang
The best – and often busiest – eatery in town cooks up a smorgasbord of well-priced seafood dishes – try the clams with basil leaf and chilli or ‘edible inflorescence of banana plant salad’. There’s a pleasant verandah out back.
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Don’s Mall & Cafe
This Texan-run food-and-entertainment complex showcases hearty American meat feast barbecued over a mesquite-wood fire. It also has an extensive wine list and freshly baked goods. It’s about 3km from the beach in Rawai.
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D’s Books
In the beating heart of Tonsai Village, this classy cafe has amazing coffee drinks and stacks of cheap reading. Good luck finding a seat – the free wi-fi attracts email-aholics from all over the island.
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Wanna’s Restaurant
Casual and inexpensive, it’s worth stopping by for the variety of food on offer – everything from burgers to cheese selections to Swiss specialities, along with Thai cuisine and breakfast.
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Kan Eang
This Thai favourite, steps away from Chalong’s soaring pier, has been satisfying customers for over 30 years. The atmosphere is modern and elegant, but the food is still very authentic.
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Bismilla
With dishes like ‘yum fish’s spawn’ on the menu, how can you resist a night at this basic, Thai-Muslim outfit? The food is good, the prices are excellent and the crowds are boisterous.
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Flour Power Bakery
Located behind Sabye Sport on Sunset Beach, Flour Power uses imported ingredients to craft delicious homemade cakes and brownies – just like Mum’s recipe back home.
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Happy Snapper
Wooden statues lie frozen as patrons bop their heads to the nightly live-music acts. There’s a small Thai canteen attached to the bar that serves up tasty usuals.
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3 Spices
Welcome to well-dressed Asian fusion on the Patong strip. Enjoy miso and crab-meat soup and wok-fried snapper with coconut curry among other stellar dishes.
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Canteens
The Ko Tarutao Marine National Park authorities run two canteens, one at Ao Pante Malacca, the other near the jetty at Ao Taloh Waw.
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Pradu Seafood
At Pradu Seafood, the local chef still fetches ingredients on her motorbike, and makes some of the best fish in southern Thailand.
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Rico’s
The smartest kid on this block features fine New Zealand steaks, pizzas and a huge collection of black-and-white film star snaps (very 1980s).
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Phu Khao Lak
Phu Khao Lak should not be missed. Its som tum pops with flavour, and curries are generously spiced.
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Gueyjah
Tucked away on a side road off Rte 4028, Gueyjah is tops for quick and cheap Thai eats, and it’s known only to locals.
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Kror Son Thong
Kror Son Thong, a riverside restaurant a short walk from the main drag, is the best eatery in town.
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