Best Restaurant of 2008 contender
Telephone: 076 233455
Open: 6pm-1am daily
Address: 2/9 New Dibuk Road, close to Seng Ho Bookstore
Style: Open-air Thai restaurant suitable for large parties. You can also order Japanese if you wish, from the neighboring Shintaro restaurant.
Price range: Economical. Prices here are good.
Specialty: Thai food, with a few Western additions. Chicken wings with lemongrass, red curry with roast duck, Thai salad with crispy morning glory.
What Phuketwan says: Open spaces, song birds in cages in the trees, good value and a convivial atmosphere. All this has made Lemongrass an after-dark favourite. One highlight is the menu: there are only 44 items, from appetisers to dessert. Let's begin with 1. Minced pork ''in crispy bag'' (60 baht) then mosey along to 3. garlic bread (55 baht) 10. banana flower salad (80 baht) 14. roast duck curry (120 baht) 16. steamed fish ''in chinese plum'' (280 baht) 20. sweet and sour snapper (280 baht) 32. baked baby clam with garlic butter (85 baht) 37. veal sausage (120 baht) 41. fried icecream (45 baht) and 44. banana fritter (70 baht). See, wasn't that so easy compared to the restaurants that load you down with hundreds of selections? There's a family atmosphere here, with trestle tables spreading wide around a raised pavilion-style sala with wooden tables and chairs. The good point is that Thais obviously enjoy coming here. The food is to their taste, so it's spicy when required. The bad point is that the serves of rice look great on black plates, but are so small they usually only last through half a meal.
How to find it: In Phuket City, at the rear of the large park that sits alongside the new TAT offices in Thalang Road, with the post office on the Montree Road corner.
Parking: Plenty of street parking.
Telephone: 076 233455
Open: 6pm-1am daily
Address: 2/9 New Dibuk Road, close to Seng Ho Bookstore
Style: Open-air Thai restaurant suitable for large parties. You can also order Japanese if you wish, from the neighboring Shintaro restaurant.
Price range: Economical. Prices here are good.
Specialty: Thai food, with a few Western additions. Chicken wings with lemongrass, red curry with roast duck, Thai salad with crispy morning glory.
What Phuketwan says: Open spaces, song birds in cages in the trees, good value and a convivial atmosphere. All this has made Lemongrass an after-dark favourite. One highlight is the menu: there are only 44 items, from appetisers to dessert. Let's begin with 1. Minced pork ''in crispy bag'' (60 baht) then mosey along to 3. garlic bread (55 baht) 10. banana flower salad (80 baht) 14. roast duck curry (120 baht) 16. steamed fish ''in chinese plum'' (280 baht) 20. sweet and sour snapper (280 baht) 32. baked baby clam with garlic butter (85 baht) 37. veal sausage (120 baht) 41. fried icecream (45 baht) and 44. banana fritter (70 baht). See, wasn't that so easy compared to the restaurants that load you down with hundreds of selections? There's a family atmosphere here, with trestle tables spreading wide around a raised pavilion-style sala with wooden tables and chairs. The good point is that Thais obviously enjoy coming here. The food is to their taste, so it's spicy when required. The bad point is that the serves of rice look great on black plates, but are so small they usually only last through half a meal.
How to find it: In Phuket City, at the rear of the large park that sits alongside the new TAT offices in Thalang Road, with the post office on the Montree Road corner.
Parking: Plenty of street parking.
Good value and lots of Thais enjoying good food ...8/10
Barney
Posted by Anonymous on October 13, 2008 04:31