Best Restaurant of 2008 contender
Telephone: 08 69463142
Open: 10am-11pm. Closed Mondays
Address: Farang 2, near Index Living Mall on Bypass Road
Style: Italian/Thai fusion
Price range: Good prices, and an especially appealing line at the bottom of the menu: Nett Price No Service Charge. What, leave it to the customer to decide how much to tip? How radical, how audacious, how praiseworthy. At Farang 2 the Specials are stapled inside the menu. That's good to see, too. There are 11 items, beginning with baked New Zealand musells (145 baht) and ending with chocolate cake (90 baht). The regular menu includes sandwiches, ham and cheese (70 baht) and tuna (70 baht) beef burger (90 baht) baked eggplant with tomato and cheese (80 baht) caesar salad (85 baht) garlic prawns on toast (135 baht) pasta of your choice, spaghetti, fettuchini or rigattone with bolognese sauce (90 baht) smoked salmon and vodka cream sauce (95 baht) lasagna spinach (95 baht) a choice of 12 pizzas (85 baht to 100 baht) including seafood with tomato and mozzarella cheese (95 baht) mains, all with vegetables and mashed potato, including seared duck breast (175 baht) and battered fish and chips (145 baht) imported steaks (350 baht to 370 baht) Thai food specilties ,red crab curry (90 baht) and grilled pork marinated in Thai herbs (70 baht)fresh fruit juice (45/60 baht) small Singha (65 baht).
Specialty: Salmon salad, spaghetti seafood.
What the management says: This is a Phuket family business. Our first restaurant opened in Chern Talay in 2004. The second opened 19 months later, and the Bangkok one has been going for six months. We are looking to open Number 4. The name is distinctive, and that works for us. It's good to be able to start something in Phuket and take it to Bangkok, rather than the other way around.
What Phuketwan says: People have been saying good things about Farang 1 and Farang 2 for a while now. The Phuket City branch is a simple concrete brick construction with an envelope shaped space that allows you to look into the kitchen, The spoon and fork are crossed, a bit like a family coat of arms, on top of plain but sturdy tables with armless rattan chairs. The green fish curry (70 baht) proves to be a little fatty and the sausages on mashed potato and mushroom sauce (145 baht) come without real mushroom sauce or an explanation. The serving is certainly large enough, with two sausages topping plenty of mash and onion. The apple and carrot juice is in a small glass with too much ice. On one side is a busy roadway while there's a construction site on the other side. At these prices, though, the restaurant is deservedly popular and the formula clearly works when value is taken into account. Perhaps next time we should test the Italian-Thai fusion.
How to find it: At the Index Living Mall junction, on the Bypass Road, between Tesco-Lotus and Central Festival. Another, Farang 1, is in Chern Talay, with Farang 3 in Bangkok.
Parking: Plenty along the back route to Big C supermarket.
Phuketwan restaurant reviewers pay for their meals. If someone else does, we tell you so
Telephone: 08 69463142
Open: 10am-11pm. Closed Mondays
Address: Farang 2, near Index Living Mall on Bypass Road
Style: Italian/Thai fusion
Price range: Good prices, and an especially appealing line at the bottom of the menu: Nett Price No Service Charge. What, leave it to the customer to decide how much to tip? How radical, how audacious, how praiseworthy. At Farang 2 the Specials are stapled inside the menu. That's good to see, too. There are 11 items, beginning with baked New Zealand musells (145 baht) and ending with chocolate cake (90 baht). The regular menu includes sandwiches, ham and cheese (70 baht) and tuna (70 baht) beef burger (90 baht) baked eggplant with tomato and cheese (80 baht) caesar salad (85 baht) garlic prawns on toast (135 baht) pasta of your choice, spaghetti, fettuchini or rigattone with bolognese sauce (90 baht) smoked salmon and vodka cream sauce (95 baht) lasagna spinach (95 baht) a choice of 12 pizzas (85 baht to 100 baht) including seafood with tomato and mozzarella cheese (95 baht) mains, all with vegetables and mashed potato, including seared duck breast (175 baht) and battered fish and chips (145 baht) imported steaks (350 baht to 370 baht) Thai food specilties ,red crab curry (90 baht) and grilled pork marinated in Thai herbs (70 baht)fresh fruit juice (45/60 baht) small Singha (65 baht).
Specialty: Salmon salad, spaghetti seafood.
What the management says: This is a Phuket family business. Our first restaurant opened in Chern Talay in 2004. The second opened 19 months later, and the Bangkok one has been going for six months. We are looking to open Number 4. The name is distinctive, and that works for us. It's good to be able to start something in Phuket and take it to Bangkok, rather than the other way around.
What Phuketwan says: People have been saying good things about Farang 1 and Farang 2 for a while now. The Phuket City branch is a simple concrete brick construction with an envelope shaped space that allows you to look into the kitchen, The spoon and fork are crossed, a bit like a family coat of arms, on top of plain but sturdy tables with armless rattan chairs. The green fish curry (70 baht) proves to be a little fatty and the sausages on mashed potato and mushroom sauce (145 baht) come without real mushroom sauce or an explanation. The serving is certainly large enough, with two sausages topping plenty of mash and onion. The apple and carrot juice is in a small glass with too much ice. On one side is a busy roadway while there's a construction site on the other side. At these prices, though, the restaurant is deservedly popular and the formula clearly works when value is taken into account. Perhaps next time we should test the Italian-Thai fusion.
How to find it: At the Index Living Mall junction, on the Bypass Road, between Tesco-Lotus and Central Festival. Another, Farang 1, is in Chern Talay, with Farang 3 in Bangkok.
Parking: Plenty along the back route to Big C supermarket.
Phuketwan restaurant reviewers pay for their meals. If someone else does, we tell you so
Best fusion restaurant in Phuket..aroy tee soot! and definitely in Phukets top 5...excellent value..possibly too unpretentious.?
A critic: maybe a small investment in decor ? therefore only 8/10
Barney
Posted by Anonymous on October 13, 2008 03:48