Best Restaurant of 2008 contender
Telephone: 084 6302274 / 083 5234665
Open: 6pm-midnight daily. Dinner only.
Address: 113/1 Hongyok U Tit Road, Talad Yai, Phuket City, 83000.
Style: Thai food.
Price range: Inexpensive. Fried rice with pork/chicken/chinese sausage (40 baht) spaghetti with tuna sauce (55 baht) club sandwich (60 baht) spring roll (50 baht) shrimp cake (50 baht) spicy salad with cashew nuts (50 baht) tom yum seafood (70 baht) ham and cheese sandwich (50 baht) crab stick and wasabi (80 baht) hot tea (25 baht) coffee (25 baht) mocca (35 baht) banana shake (40 baht) Singha (80 baht) Heineken (90 baht).
Specialty: Low-cost food in a starry outdoor setting.
What the manager says: We must be doing something right because customers keep coming back. It's a combination of price, good food, service and location.
What Phuketwan says: Many Thai restaurants spring up, flourish for a while, then vanish. There's also a trend, especially in Phuket City, for young Thai diners to favor a new restaurant that has an appealing style. It may be the food, or the setting, or even the mood and the music. One day, the crowds are there. The next, they have moved on. Sam Kong, a suburb of Phuket City, is noted for its gridlock intersection, the Bangkok Hospital Phuket, and a large number of good Thai restaurants. It's a tough place to start something new. But Lullaby has survived and grown over the past couple of years. Why is that? Well, the grassy corner setting is an attractive place to eat outdoors compared to the shophouses where most other nearby eateries are housed. The food comes fast, and the atmosphere is trendy. An English version of the menu now attracts non-Thais, too. Mostly, it's a place to be seen and to greet friends at nearby tables. Lullaby is a good place to become acquainted with the style of food and restaurants that young Thais especially enjoy. The food is worth a visit, too.
How to find it: Along Yaowarat Road, turn up the road that leads past the Phuket Gazette offices. Lullaby is on the next corner, opposite the English-language teaching school and close to the more traditional Mae Porn restaurant.
Parking: Street parking.
Phuketwan restaurant reviewers pay for their meals. If someone else does, we tell you so
Telephone: 084 6302274 / 083 5234665
Open: 6pm-midnight daily. Dinner only.
Address: 113/1 Hongyok U Tit Road, Talad Yai, Phuket City, 83000.
Style: Thai food.
Price range: Inexpensive. Fried rice with pork/chicken/chinese sausage (40 baht) spaghetti with tuna sauce (55 baht) club sandwich (60 baht) spring roll (50 baht) shrimp cake (50 baht) spicy salad with cashew nuts (50 baht) tom yum seafood (70 baht) ham and cheese sandwich (50 baht) crab stick and wasabi (80 baht) hot tea (25 baht) coffee (25 baht) mocca (35 baht) banana shake (40 baht) Singha (80 baht) Heineken (90 baht).
Specialty: Low-cost food in a starry outdoor setting.
What the manager says: We must be doing something right because customers keep coming back. It's a combination of price, good food, service and location.
What Phuketwan says: Many Thai restaurants spring up, flourish for a while, then vanish. There's also a trend, especially in Phuket City, for young Thai diners to favor a new restaurant that has an appealing style. It may be the food, or the setting, or even the mood and the music. One day, the crowds are there. The next, they have moved on. Sam Kong, a suburb of Phuket City, is noted for its gridlock intersection, the Bangkok Hospital Phuket, and a large number of good Thai restaurants. It's a tough place to start something new. But Lullaby has survived and grown over the past couple of years. Why is that? Well, the grassy corner setting is an attractive place to eat outdoors compared to the shophouses where most other nearby eateries are housed. The food comes fast, and the atmosphere is trendy. An English version of the menu now attracts non-Thais, too. Mostly, it's a place to be seen and to greet friends at nearby tables. Lullaby is a good place to become acquainted with the style of food and restaurants that young Thais especially enjoy. The food is worth a visit, too.
How to find it: Along Yaowarat Road, turn up the road that leads past the Phuket Gazette offices. Lullaby is on the next corner, opposite the English-language teaching school and close to the more traditional Mae Porn restaurant.
Parking: Street parking.
Phuketwan restaurant reviewers pay for their meals. If someone else does, we tell you so
