Best Restaurant of 2009 contender
Telephone: 076 337000
Open: 6.30am to midnight
Address: 48 Romjai Road, Patong, Kathu Subdistrict, Phuket 83150
Style: Pan Asian/Italian/Thai
Price range: Four-star, reasonable by Patong standards. Tomato soup (175 baht) caesar salad (225 baht) seared tuna nicoise salad (225 baht) garlic prawns (215 baht) crispy spring rolls (195 baht) grilled philly steak sandwich (225 baht) wood fired pizzas spinach and ricotta (225 baht) smoked salmon (255 baht) roast duck (255 baht) wood roasted meat lasagna (255 baht) fettucini in parmesan cream sauce (285 baht) pan asian main course nasi goreng (195 baht) singapore chicken rice (195 baht) steamed red snapper fillet (325 baht) rotisserie hanf-chicken (255 baht) rosemary lamb rack (545 baht) char grilled beef tenderloin (595 baht) fish and chips (215 baht) crispy skin salmon (385 baht) gai yang (255 baht) kao jai gai (175 baht) red wine from 265 baht a glass freshly squeezed lemonade (75 baht) fruit juice (95 baht) coffee (95 baht) tropical cocktails (195 baht). Prices plus 10 percent service charge and seven percent VAT.
Specialty: pinacolada (but perhaps not for breakfast)
What Phuketwan says: Eating within a 150 baht tuk-tuk ride of Soi Bangla actually doesn't get you very far: we are perhaps a brisk five-minute walk away from Patong's throbbing nightlife heart. Just about everything in Patong, for many the main holiday destination, is a little on the expensive side. One of the exceptions to that rule, MoMo offers four-star food at a rational price. This was our third MoMo meal. Each of the three Courtyards by Marriott on the island has a MoMo restaurant but the one in Patong is the largest and it has a European sidewalk streetscape ambience. There are tables and chairs on the verandah or inside, where the passing parade can be viewed through large picture windows. The menu is bright and varied, with a smattering of Thai choices from Isarn. Staff are well-trained and obliging. Because it's a little away from the popular nightlife heart, it's a good spot for a quiet, romantic dinner. At one end of the building is the set-to-open Hard Rock Cafe, which will make MoMo a pleasant place to eat before a night out or part the way through one. If you want to see MoMo with other diners, check it out at breakfast time. The fresh baked bread was scrumptious. As beer-drinking is a popular tropical pastime, we always look for beer prices on the drinks menus. There were none that we could see. And while a ''coconut water'' comes at 75 baht, we could not find a fresh young coconut on the menu. Fresh young coconut is really essential for any tropical island restaurant, otherwise, well, you might as well still be in Europe. The MoMos at Kamala and Surin apply the same high standards.
How to find it: On a corner neighboring the Holiday Inn on Rat Uthit 200 Pi Road, there's a huge guitar outside the hard Rock Cafe. MoMo is a short walk away, down the road towards Patong beach (Romjai Road).
Parking: OTOP carpark off Rat U Thit 200 Pi Road at the resort's eastern end. Street parking in front of the hotel or an attendant out front can move your car if the keys are in it.
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Telephone: 076 337000
Open: 6.30am to midnight
Address: 48 Romjai Road, Patong, Kathu Subdistrict, Phuket 83150
Style: Pan Asian/Italian/Thai
Price range: Four-star, reasonable by Patong standards. Tomato soup (175 baht) caesar salad (225 baht) seared tuna nicoise salad (225 baht) garlic prawns (215 baht) crispy spring rolls (195 baht) grilled philly steak sandwich (225 baht) wood fired pizzas spinach and ricotta (225 baht) smoked salmon (255 baht) roast duck (255 baht) wood roasted meat lasagna (255 baht) fettucini in parmesan cream sauce (285 baht) pan asian main course nasi goreng (195 baht) singapore chicken rice (195 baht) steamed red snapper fillet (325 baht) rotisserie hanf-chicken (255 baht) rosemary lamb rack (545 baht) char grilled beef tenderloin (595 baht) fish and chips (215 baht) crispy skin salmon (385 baht) gai yang (255 baht) kao jai gai (175 baht) red wine from 265 baht a glass freshly squeezed lemonade (75 baht) fruit juice (95 baht) coffee (95 baht) tropical cocktails (195 baht). Prices plus 10 percent service charge and seven percent VAT.
Specialty: pinacolada (but perhaps not for breakfast)
What Phuketwan says: Eating within a 150 baht tuk-tuk ride of Soi Bangla actually doesn't get you very far: we are perhaps a brisk five-minute walk away from Patong's throbbing nightlife heart. Just about everything in Patong, for many the main holiday destination, is a little on the expensive side. One of the exceptions to that rule, MoMo offers four-star food at a rational price. This was our third MoMo meal. Each of the three Courtyards by Marriott on the island has a MoMo restaurant but the one in Patong is the largest and it has a European sidewalk streetscape ambience. There are tables and chairs on the verandah or inside, where the passing parade can be viewed through large picture windows. The menu is bright and varied, with a smattering of Thai choices from Isarn. Staff are well-trained and obliging. Because it's a little away from the popular nightlife heart, it's a good spot for a quiet, romantic dinner. At one end of the building is the set-to-open Hard Rock Cafe, which will make MoMo a pleasant place to eat before a night out or part the way through one. If you want to see MoMo with other diners, check it out at breakfast time. The fresh baked bread was scrumptious. As beer-drinking is a popular tropical pastime, we always look for beer prices on the drinks menus. There were none that we could see. And while a ''coconut water'' comes at 75 baht, we could not find a fresh young coconut on the menu. Fresh young coconut is really essential for any tropical island restaurant, otherwise, well, you might as well still be in Europe. The MoMos at Kamala and Surin apply the same high standards.
How to find it: On a corner neighboring the Holiday Inn on Rat Uthit 200 Pi Road, there's a huge guitar outside the hard Rock Cafe. MoMo is a short walk away, down the road towards Patong beach (Romjai Road).
Parking: OTOP carpark off Rat U Thit 200 Pi Road at the resort's eastern end. Street parking in front of the hotel or an attendant out front can move your car if the keys are in it.
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Does "The MoMos at Kamala and Surin apply the same high standards." mean they have the same price? "reasonable by Patong standards" does not compare well with the real figures, I fear :-( which means it's quite expensive in my view.
Editor: Any review that doesn't mention prices is not very helpful because for most of us, cost is the key. It's a four-star restaurant, and prices are similar at Surin and Kamala.
Posted by Fritz Pinguin on March 31, 2009 23:53