Best and Most Authentic Thai Restaurants

[aussiechic 209]

Small Thai place directly across the road from the Lek hotel on 2nd road.

[jasonbalmer 2]

Vientienne (sp?) out South Pattaya Road near Sukhumvit is rumored to be both good and authentic.

[bratpack 91]

I thought the one at the end of jomtien was a bit bland and not too clean.We go to one on sukhumvit rd,where you can feed the catfish and carp,bloody huge.Drive past Tesco Lotus,which will be on your right and about 3 hundred yards up on the left,next to a garage.awesome food and a good price too.Many thais go there and a few farangs.coming back north,thru the lights by Tesco is another on the left as you drive north,doesntlook thats good from the outside but great food and a giant screenfor footie.Vientienne on pattaya thai is a good one too.

[jacko 8,815]

I thought the one at the end of jomtien was a bit bland and not too clean.We go to one on sukhumvit rd,where you can feed the catfish and carp,bloody huge.Drive past Tesco Lotus,which will be on your right and about 3 hundred yards up on the left,next to a garage.awesome food and a good price too.Many thais go there and a few farangs.coming back north,thru the lights by Tesco is another on the left as you drive north,doesntlook thats good from the outside but great food and a giant screenfor footie.Vientienne on pattaya thai is a good one too.

Thanks for a useful post. My TGF has been trying to get me to take her to this one on Suk for ages. You prompted me with the 'good price too' comment. Edited November 28, 2008 by jacko

[suffolkcouple 2]

reminds me of a post i made before first trip asking for good restraunts and was told mc donalds etc, try and eat where thais are eating without farangs. they eat anything if were paying. so look for thais

[bratpack 91]

Jacko,

i am going there tonight after visiting the market.cant wait i am starving now.

[bratpack 91]

Just got back from the restaraunt thats on sukhumvit and on the right before Tesco Lotus.You have to turn back on yourself if you are driving south,thats before the lights at threprasit rd.Any way we had 4 dishes,3 rice,i big bottle heinekin, 1 sprite and 1 water and the bill was 380 baht,a great meal and great service.the place was packed too.

highly recommended.

[jacko 8,815]

Just got back from the restaraunt thats on sukhumvit and on the right before Tesco Lotus.You have to turn back on yourself if you are driving south,thats before the lights at threprasit rd.Any way we had 4 dishes,3 rice,i big bottle heinekin, 1 sprite and 1 water and the bill was 380 baht,a great meal and great service.the place was packed too.

highly recommended.

So it is someplace between Threppasit and Homeworks/Big C on Sukhumvit? Do you need to get over to the left quick after that U-turn because for the life of me I cannot think of the place.

Maybe here?

http://www.pattayaphotoguide.com/?9UpRUbGvkcsEPD3A

Edited November 28, 2008 by jacko

[bratpack 91]

jacko,the turn off to do a u turn is opposite soi khao talo,before tesco lotus traffic lights.then its only a couple of hundred yeards,and you will see a giant screen and its way before big c.

 

looked at the sat nav and yes its that one.the other good one is thru threassit lights going south with tesco to your right,and about 3-400 yards its on your left.much nicer decor and only very slightly more expensive.

[jacko 8,815]

jacko,the turn off to do a u turn is opposite soi khao talo,before tesco lotus traffic lights.then its only a couple of hundred yeards,and you will see a giant screen and its way before big c.

 

looked at the sat nav and yes its that one.the other good one is thru threassit lights going south with tesco to your right,and about 3-400 yards its on your left.much nicer decor and only very slightly more expensive.

Yeah the other one is easy to spot, it has a fishing park doesn't it?

[bratpack 91]

Yes mate,and we normaly go there becaus they give you fish food to throw in and my step son loves it.

 

You up early mate,early night last night

[player_cam53 16]

My trip arriving 3rd December now definitely cancelled. Now returning in January when hopefully £ will buy me more of everything. Surely they will sort it all out before Christmas? Would the King ever get involved? As I understand it all he has to say to PAD is "leave the airport" and they would be out in 5 minutes.

[jacko 8,815]

You up early mate,early night last night

Normally am if I haven't been on the town. Have to adapt to the neighbours in Thailand, and their kids and their dogs and their chickens....and the new Bangkok International Airport at U-Tapao produces a lot of early AM noise! Edited November 29, 2008 by jacko

[MIGHTYONE 309]

There is a nice open air Thai restaurant open all night in Soi Boukhow. Half way between Sawsdee hotel and the day market on the same side of the road. It is reasonably priced and all the TG's I have took there were very impressed. A lot of TG's go there when they finish work. In April the menu was all Thai, but now its translated. There is no Farang food at all here.

[jacko 8,815]

I thought the one at the end of jomtien was a bit bland and not too clean.We go to one on sukhumvit rd,where you can feed the catfish and carp,bloody huge.Drive past Tesco Lotus,which will be on your right and about 3 hundred yards up on the left,next to a garage.awesome food and a good price too.Many thais go there and a few farangs.coming back north,thru the lights by Tesco is another on the left as you drive north,doesntlook thats good from the outside but great food and a giant screenfor footie.Vientienne on pattaya thai is a good one too.

I went looking for the one you described tonight. The one on the Southbound carriage... about 300m after Tesco Lotus. It was called rhua mai (wooden boat).. it was near a garage. All wood, built over a small smelly lake, and you can eat on a pontoon type thing that wobbles as the waiters pace about. Food was okay, that which managed to arrive, nice ambiance and cheap too. But service was a cluster fuck.... the old trick of bringing one of your dishes, to stop you leaving .. the rice a few minutes later. Then several minutes wait for the second. a while to the third, and one dish completely forgotten about.

 

I was thinking I got the wrong place, there is a much bigger one over a lake further South, but it is certainly much more than 300m from Tesco-Lotus.

 

This is the place I went to... http://www.pattayaphotoguide.com/?zzmRUhSvkceBED3A

Edited November 30, 2008 by jacko

[bratpack 91]

the pics dont look familiar.its just before a fairly large car sales place. As far as the service most are like that here in thailand so i dont pay too much to that.I find the food very good and always of good quality.the lake certainly didnt smell when i was there.

[jacko 8,815]

the pics dont look familiar.its just before a fairly large car sales place. As far as the service most are like that here in thailand so i dont pay too much to that.I find the food very good and always of good quality.the lake certainly didnt smell when i was there.

Yeah I think I got the wrong place. As to service, no, I go out to restaurants a lot and this was not typical. Generally they are much better around Pattaya. (Also not the first time I have had this lack of knowing how to get it together either.

 

If you move around on the link I gave you, there is a car sales place next door under the blue billboard.

Edited December 2, 2008 by jacko