Best Restaurant of 2009 contender
Telephone: 076 612885 076 249501
Open: Daily from 10.30am. Entertainment daily; concerts regularly.
Address: Bypass Road, Phuket City
Style: Titanic meets Carnegie Hall. Thai/International food, house brewed beer.
Price range: Medium range. Pork knuckle (320 baht) NZ mussels and herbs (180 baht) stir fried cabbage with fish sauce (120 baht) french fries (100 baht) sashimi with wasabi (250 baht) thai salads (195 baht) deep fried snakehead fish with herbs (320 baht) poached fish balls (195 baht) steamed sea bass (320 baht) blue crab (250 baht) chicken with cashew nuts (180 baht) local vegetables with shrimp (150 baht) tom yam goong (199/270 baht) spaghetti with shrimp (90/250 baht) garlic bread (90 baht) cheeseburger and french fries (180 baht) club sandwich (150 baht) NZ steak with mashed and muchroom sauce (350 baht) bluberry cheesecake (120 baht) sundae (99 baht) Bloody Marry (sic) (160 baht) coke (40 baht) hot coffee (85 baht) Pearl Lager/wizen/dunker (i ltr 250 baht)
Specialty: House brewed beer in small or large quantities.
What Phuketwan says: Phuket Brewery is not centred on beer drinking, as some people might imagine from the name. There is also more confusion because the place is decked out like an ancient sailing ship. Look upon it as a Thai concoction, a marriage of ideas that people like, for whatever reason. Unbeknown to many Phuket visitors, the Brewery has a huge auditorium to seat hundreds on two levels and a stage capable of attracting some of Thailand's leading performers. Carabao, Modern Dog and Loso are among the big bands that are performing here. Entertainment is on stage every night, and even the house performers are high-standard stuff. Guests can eat indoors or outdoors, which is where we chose to go. Even outdoors, the choices are considerable: an area under the sky with a big sports screen, or with a roof over your head, looking out to the Bypass Road and Tesco Lotus opposite. Nearby are private rooms, large enough to hold big families or small business get-togethers. The home brewery is on-show nearby, through large glass windows. People are expected to come for the food and the entertainment and enjoy the Pearl brand brew as they eat and watch. Everything about the Phuket brewery is top-quality. The menu comes in a leather binding, and the chairs are the wooden swivel variety that keep you comfortable. We thought the prices were a little high, until we saw the size of the serves. Usually the two of us would share and polish off three Thai dishes. Not here: the serves are, like the brewery itself, extra large. And it must be said, extremely tasty. The prospect of entertainment on stage every night should really entice plenty of people over from Patong, where the food is excessively priced and nothing special. The brewery is a good place for groups, the larger the better, and the concept deserves support for adding a first-class venue to an island that needs more quality facilities. The beer may be a little more expensive but that seems a small price to pay for everything that comes along with it. If the international food is as good as the Thai food, the Phuket Brewery deserves to start filling all that space soon. There is no service charge.
How to find it: On the Bypass Road, opposite Tesco Lotus supermarket. Look for the sailing ship on the roof.
Parking: A few out front and acres of spaces, for hundreds of vehicles, at the rear.
Phuketwan restaurant reviewers pay for their meals. If someone else does, we tell you so
Telephone: 076 612885 076 249501
Open: Daily from 10.30am. Entertainment daily; concerts regularly.
Address: Bypass Road, Phuket City
Style: Titanic meets Carnegie Hall. Thai/International food, house brewed beer.
Price range: Medium range. Pork knuckle (320 baht) NZ mussels and herbs (180 baht) stir fried cabbage with fish sauce (120 baht) french fries (100 baht) sashimi with wasabi (250 baht) thai salads (195 baht) deep fried snakehead fish with herbs (320 baht) poached fish balls (195 baht) steamed sea bass (320 baht) blue crab (250 baht) chicken with cashew nuts (180 baht) local vegetables with shrimp (150 baht) tom yam goong (199/270 baht) spaghetti with shrimp (90/250 baht) garlic bread (90 baht) cheeseburger and french fries (180 baht) club sandwich (150 baht) NZ steak with mashed and muchroom sauce (350 baht) bluberry cheesecake (120 baht) sundae (99 baht) Bloody Marry (sic) (160 baht) coke (40 baht) hot coffee (85 baht) Pearl Lager/wizen/dunker (i ltr 250 baht)
Specialty: House brewed beer in small or large quantities.
What Phuketwan says: Phuket Brewery is not centred on beer drinking, as some people might imagine from the name. There is also more confusion because the place is decked out like an ancient sailing ship. Look upon it as a Thai concoction, a marriage of ideas that people like, for whatever reason. Unbeknown to many Phuket visitors, the Brewery has a huge auditorium to seat hundreds on two levels and a stage capable of attracting some of Thailand's leading performers. Carabao, Modern Dog and Loso are among the big bands that are performing here. Entertainment is on stage every night, and even the house performers are high-standard stuff. Guests can eat indoors or outdoors, which is where we chose to go. Even outdoors, the choices are considerable: an area under the sky with a big sports screen, or with a roof over your head, looking out to the Bypass Road and Tesco Lotus opposite. Nearby are private rooms, large enough to hold big families or small business get-togethers. The home brewery is on-show nearby, through large glass windows. People are expected to come for the food and the entertainment and enjoy the Pearl brand brew as they eat and watch. Everything about the Phuket brewery is top-quality. The menu comes in a leather binding, and the chairs are the wooden swivel variety that keep you comfortable. We thought the prices were a little high, until we saw the size of the serves. Usually the two of us would share and polish off three Thai dishes. Not here: the serves are, like the brewery itself, extra large. And it must be said, extremely tasty. The prospect of entertainment on stage every night should really entice plenty of people over from Patong, where the food is excessively priced and nothing special. The brewery is a good place for groups, the larger the better, and the concept deserves support for adding a first-class venue to an island that needs more quality facilities. The beer may be a little more expensive but that seems a small price to pay for everything that comes along with it. If the international food is as good as the Thai food, the Phuket Brewery deserves to start filling all that space soon. There is no service charge.
How to find it: On the Bypass Road, opposite Tesco Lotus supermarket. Look for the sailing ship on the roof.
Parking: A few out front and acres of spaces, for hundreds of vehicles, at the rear.
Phuketwan restaurant reviewers pay for their meals. If someone else does, we tell you so
