Ko Samet
Appropriately named: you can dine on a wide range of seafood right on Ao Phai's pretty beach. It also does barbecued meats and there are some Western…
Must-see restaurants in Thailand
Prachuap Khiri Khan
Come here for fine pizzas and pasta, as well as fresh bread baked daily and a takeaway selection of cheese and salami. There's a quiet dining area hidden…
Ko Ratanakosin & Thonburi
This Thonburi restaurant serves up authentic southern Thai food, including spicy curries, soups and stir-fries. No English menu or signage. No English…
Ao Nang
Comfortable seating, a good selection of sandwiches, burgers and pastries and the usual Thai offerings make this airy cafe a popular choice – especially…
Trang Beaches & Islands
The Italian menu is popular here at the Reef Resort, but the Thai options are also decent, and the view is outstanding.
Hua Hin
There are other bakeries more convenient to the city centre, but this one is worth travelling for. There's also a small menu of soups, sandwiches and…
Chumphon
A large open-air all-you-can-eat mŏo gà·tá buffet that's pretty much always packed. Pick your ingredients and cook your own soup at your table.
Hat Khao Lak
Stir-frys, noodle dishes, Thai soups, crêpes and other snacks can be ordered at this collection of street vendors tucked behind a narrow courtyard.
Phang-Nga Province
Phang-Nga's small night market unfolds at the northern end of Th Phetkasem beside the 7-Eleven and features stir-fried dishes and lots of barbecue.
Bangkok Region
If you’re in Amphawa on a weekend, plan your meals around this fun market where grilled seafood and other dishes are served directly from boats.
Prachuap Khiri Khan
Smallish market serving standard evening meals, including grilled squid. A few vendors stay until the wee hours, but most pack it in around 10pm.
Chiang Mai Province
An open-air, mountaintop Thai cafe serving decent coffee and local soups and noodle and rice dishes. The view from the seating area is stunning.
Chiang Rai Province
Every evening a small knot of food vendors selling the usual array of noodle and barbecue options sets up shop near Chiang Saen's main market.
Phang-Nga Province
This chilled-out seaside restaurant is a bubbly place to hang out over cocktails, and the Thai and Italian dishes are good (if small), too.
Banglamphu
Housed in a narrow shophouse, long-standing Arawy (Thai for ‘delicious’) has heaps of prepared meat-free curries, dips and stir-fries.
Chiang Mai
This place serves some of the best US-style Mexican food in Chiang Mai. It's an expat favourite and it's often busy in the evening.
Chinatown
A stall selling the eponymous dish of wide rice noodles fried with chicken, egg and preserved squid. No English-language menu.
Chinatown
A streetside stall selling balls of dough filled with crushed black sesame in a spicy ginger broth. No English-language menu.
Mae Sot
Mae Sot’s night market features mostly Thai-Chinese-style dishes. To find it, look for the arch labelled 'Happy New Year'.
Phang-Nga Province
The national park's restaurant on Ko Surin Neua serves authentically good Thai food. This is where day trips stop for lunch.
Northeastern Thailand
Northeast of Wat Mahathat, this small market has a good mix of Isan and Thai food.
Udon Thani Province
The 'Cold Sky Kitchen', diagonally opposite the museum entrance, does Thai standards quite well and has an English menu.
Northern Thailand
There is a string of decent noodle and rice shops on Lamphun’s main street, just south of Wat Phra That Hariphunchai.
Phitsanulok
Lining either side of Th Phra Ong Dam north of Th Authong, this market has the usual selection of Thai street foods.
Chiang Rai Province
A night market unfolds every evening along Th Phahonyothin and offers barbecue and simple rice and noodle dishes.
Ko Tarutao Marine National Park
This basic canteen at isolated and beautiful Ao Son serves simple but satisfying Thai fare, plus some snacks.
Pai
Thai takeaway food and fresh fruit are available from this market. There are also a couple of noodle stalls.
Nakhon Ratchasima Province
Half night market, half fresh market, this is a good place to pick up some food to take back to your hotel.
Ko Samet
Right by the ferry terminal, this spot has good enough food to tide you over if you're waiting for a boat.
Mae Hong Son Province
A row of outdoor restaurants outside the Tham Lot park entrance offers simple rice and noodle dishes.
Northern Thailand
A small night market unfolds every night around two sides of Kamphaeng Phet's football field.
Phang-Nga Province
This restaurant beside the visitors centre on Ko Miang serves simple Thai food.
Phang-Nga Province
The national park's restaurant at Ao Mai Ngam does reasonable Thai food.
Ko Tarutao Marine National Park
This semi-open-air canteen does straightforward Thai meals.
Ko Tarutao Marine National Park
A small canteen serving simple, satisfying Thai food.
Chiang Mai
This humble Chinese-style canteen is popular with locals for the inexpensive kôw man gài (Hainanese-style boiled chicken). And though each plate comes…
Chiang Mai
This ma-and-pa place cooks up fresh food in the massive woks out front. There are five or six choices most days and the menu depends on what is cooking in…
Khao Yai National Park
Muslim and Middle Eastern fare are unexpected cuisines in this neck of the woods, but Narknava is an established favourite, mostly for its chicken biryani…
Ubon Ratchathani
Run by Ratchathani Asoke, the local branch of a non-mainstream Buddhist sect preaching a curious mix of asceticism and right-wing politics, this…
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