Best Restaurant of 2008 contender
Telephone: 076 224972
Open: 10am-9pm
Address: Phang Nga side of Sireh island
Style: Thai seafood and chicken. Local food.
Price range: Inexpensive. Cashew nuts with chicken (150 baht) Spicy egg plant salad (70 baht) Singha beer (60/130 baht).Isarn food. Spicy crab salad (100 baht).
Specialty: Chicken and seafood. The chicken is free-range. You can see the main courses wandering the property as you arrive.
What Phuketwan says: Phuket has restaurants with great views and restaurants that allow you to romp on the beach between courses. There are few with both. This place sits beside a beach that can be reached in a couple of paces from the tables. Individual salas roll out from a long shelter where the meals are cooked. Across the bay, the peaks and troughs of Phang Nga dapple the horizon. In between, trawlers, longtails and yachts occasionally pass. Closer to shore, especially at low tide, people wander the waters, plucking cockles and other delicacies from the rocks. One day we looked on as twin boys checked a family fishing net. They found a large garfish, and one of the twins ran to the shore with the prize filling his arms. It was probably sizzling in a pan in about 30 seconds flat, caught and cooked in the space of 50 metres. Tourists are seldom to be seen here, but Thai families come to enjoy a meal and a wander along the beach. The local fare is tasty, too. We were told the restaurant had been here ''for 50 years.'' We hope it stays just the way it is for another 50 years at least.
How to find it: Ko Sireh is linked to Phuket by a broad bridge and lies about 15 minutes' drive from the heart of Phuket City. Go across the brodge, passing the mangrove monkey reserve on the right, then at the roundabout, turn right. Keep turning left along the main road from then on, swinging along the coast. Turn right when you see an ageing Cocacola sign and the restaurant is about 50 metres down the track.
Parking: Plenty of space right at the restaurant.
Phuketwan restaurant reviewers pay for their meals. If someone else does, we tell you so
Telephone: 076 224972
Open: 10am-9pm
Address: Phang Nga side of Sireh island
Style: Thai seafood and chicken. Local food.
Price range: Inexpensive. Cashew nuts with chicken (150 baht) Spicy egg plant salad (70 baht) Singha beer (60/130 baht).Isarn food. Spicy crab salad (100 baht).
Specialty: Chicken and seafood. The chicken is free-range. You can see the main courses wandering the property as you arrive.
What Phuketwan says: Phuket has restaurants with great views and restaurants that allow you to romp on the beach between courses. There are few with both. This place sits beside a beach that can be reached in a couple of paces from the tables. Individual salas roll out from a long shelter where the meals are cooked. Across the bay, the peaks and troughs of Phang Nga dapple the horizon. In between, trawlers, longtails and yachts occasionally pass. Closer to shore, especially at low tide, people wander the waters, plucking cockles and other delicacies from the rocks. One day we looked on as twin boys checked a family fishing net. They found a large garfish, and one of the twins ran to the shore with the prize filling his arms. It was probably sizzling in a pan in about 30 seconds flat, caught and cooked in the space of 50 metres. Tourists are seldom to be seen here, but Thai families come to enjoy a meal and a wander along the beach. The local fare is tasty, too. We were told the restaurant had been here ''for 50 years.'' We hope it stays just the way it is for another 50 years at least.
How to find it: Ko Sireh is linked to Phuket by a broad bridge and lies about 15 minutes' drive from the heart of Phuket City. Go across the brodge, passing the mangrove monkey reserve on the right, then at the roundabout, turn right. Keep turning left along the main road from then on, swinging along the coast. Turn right when you see an ageing Cocacola sign and the restaurant is about 50 metres down the track.
Parking: Plenty of space right at the restaurant.
Phuketwan restaurant reviewers pay for their meals. If someone else does, we tell you so
''Inexpensive. Cashew nuts with chicken (150 baht) ''
Inexpensive? 80 baht is normal for that meal!
Long Timer
Posted by Roger on May 24, 2008 20:52