Thai restaurants in Chiang Mai
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Heuan Phen
At this well-known restaurant everything is on display, from the northern Thai food to the groups of culinary visitors and the antique-cluttered dining room. Chiang Mai locals might sniff at the quality, but for newbies the ambience and the dishes are a treat. Daytime meals are served in a large canteen out front.
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Antique House
A postcard setting for out-of-town visitors, Antique House is a quaint two-storey teak house and garden filled with wooden antiques and mellow nightly music. The menu is mainly northern Thai with all the central Thai classics, but the dishes are just window dressing for the Thai-style ambience.
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Ratana’s Kitchen
For all the talk of Chiang Mai having cool temperatures, it still gets hot by mid-day. Jump out of the oven and into Ratana’s kitchen. It isn’t a culinary legend but the dishes and prices are sensible and it’s got a prime spot near Pratu Tha Phae for wilting tourists.
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Huan Soontaree
Visiting Thais from Bangkok make the pilgrimage to this rustic restaurant built on the west bank of the river, partly for the food but mainly for the owner, Soontaree Vechanont, a famous northern singer popular in the 1970s. She performs at the restaurant on weekends while other local musicians perform during the week. The menu is a pleasant blend of northern, north-eastern and central Thai specialities.
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Bierstube
This cosy wooden place is the restaurant version of an old German uncle. It has been cooking up German comfort fare for so many years that its age can be measured by the regulars’ expanding waistlines. In Bangkok such dinosaurs would be shunned, but here in Chiang Mai this is considered family.
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Le Grand Lanna
Part of the Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi complex, Le Grand Lanna is a 4000-sq-metre complex of restored northern Thai buildings filled with antique furniture, high-end art and handicrafts. The cuisine can be wonderful, especially the upmarket versions of northern Thai specialities.
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Khrua Phuket Laikhram
Khrua Phuket Laikhram, a small family-run restaurant near Chiang Mai University, is worth hunting down for its delicious, cheap, authentic homestyle southern Thai cooking. It has an upstairs dining room. There are no English menus so you may have to improvise with your phrasebook.
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Cafe de Nimman
Located at the front of the 'Room - boutique mall' (an open-air walkway with a row of shops and bars). Sit in the pleasant outside seating area or the small air-con section and choose from a large menu of Thai rice dishes, spicy salads and curries.
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Gallery
This elegant eatery, in a converted 100-year-old teak Chinese shophouse that's half gallery/shop, half restaurant, has a colonial feel. The quality of the food and service goes up and down, but the setting remains the primary attraction.
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Aomngurn
Located next to the New Mitrapap Hotel, this humble spot is an easy escape from Talat Warorot’s chaos and crowds. It specialises in Thai-Chinese dishes as well as grilled chicken and zesty yam (Thai-style salads).
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Khao Soi Samoe Jai
Further north of Riverside, past Saphan Nakhon Ping, is Th Faham, known as Chiang Mai’s kôw soy ghetto. Situated here is Khao Soi Samoe Jai. Kôw soy foodies spend the day here.
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Yok Fa
This simple but popular place cooks up fresh food in the massive woks upfront. Try pat see lew (fried wide noodles with pork, soybean sauce, morning glory and egg) or the suckling pig and rice.
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Hong Tauw Inn
Decked out in an old-fashioned costume of aged pendulum clocks and antiques, this intimate restaurant is a starter course on Lanna cuisine, including the banana-flower salad.
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Khao Soi Ban Faham
Further north of Riverside, past Saphan Nakhon Ping, is Th Faham, known as Chiang Mai’s kôw soy ghetto. Situated here is Khao Soi Ban Faham.
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Si Phen Restaurant
This inexpensive stopover near Wat Phra Singh specialises in northern- and northeastern-style dishes, including sôm·đam (spicy green papaya salad).
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Sophia
Sophia serves good curries and khâo mòk kài (Thai-Muslim version of chicken briyani).
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Aroon (Rai) Restaurant
Look for Chiang Mai specialities such as kaeng hang-leh, kaeng awm and kaeng khae. The latter two dishes are more like stews than curries, and rely on local roots and herbs for their distinctive, bitter-hot flavours. The spacious open-air dining area upstairs is favoured by night-time clientele, and in hot weather it's cooler than downstairs.
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