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93 Best Restaurants in Phuket Town

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Enjoying local Thai food in Phuket Town after a day of exploration is an experience no one should miss. Fortunately, there are plenty of restaurants in Phuket Town to choose from; some are fancy, some are cheap, and some are in amazingly beautiful heritage houses. Here, we only list the restaurants serving real Thai food. Some of them serve some excellent Phuket specialities you should try if you can eat spicy food, such as the very orange and pungent Gaeng Som Pla and Gaeng Tai Pla. The list below is sorted to mix great food and atmosphere, places you will share with locals.

Local Michelin Restaurants in Phuket Town

One Chun Restaurant Phuket

One Chun Restaurant Phuket
One Chun Restaurant is one of the best Thai restaurants in Phuket Town. Serving southern Thai and uniquely Phuket cuisine without compromise. They first succeeded with locals who are not easy to impress when it comes to their food: great food, reasonable price, fun atmosphere, excellent service and good location.

Ton Mayom Restaurant (ต้นมะยม)

Ton Mayom Restaurant in Phuket Town
Ton Mayom (ต้นมะยม) is a long-established restaurant tucked along a busy roadside on the outskirts of Phuket Town. For decades, it was a low-key spot known only to locals, who came to enjoy its authentic Southern Thai dishes.

Nam Yoi Restaurant

Nam Yoi Restaurant Phuket
Nam Yoi Restaurant is a discreet local place tucked away on a remote street in Phuket Town. While it’s challenging to find, the effort is worth it for their excellent local and southern Thai cuisine. The setting is simple, prices are very affordable, and the food is exceptional.

Hong Khao Tom Pla Restaurant

Hong Khao Tom Pla Restaurant in Phuket Town
Hong Khao Tom Pla is a discreet and long-established restaurant in Phuket Town, named after its famous fish rice porridge speciality. Behind this modest appearance is a little gem, so good that the Michelin Guide awarded them a 'Bib Gourmand', which is a sign of good quality and good value cooking.

Ko Ang Seafood

Ko Ang Seafood Phuket
Ko Ang Seafood is a local restaurant serving excellent seafood on the east side of Phuket Town. Ko Ang has been around for a long time and started as a modest shop with no decoration and a zinc roof. But seafood lovers always find the right places (and maybe we recommended it a lot too), and Ko Ang Seafood is now a bright restaurant and even added Chinese decoration.

Roti Chaofa

Roti Chaofa in Phuket Town
Roti Chaofa is a halal restaurant on East Chaofah Road in Phuket Town that's been serving breakfast since the 1980s. The restaurant has long been famous for its handmade rotis and Thai-Muslim curries at budget-friendly prices.

Roti Taew Nam

Roti Thaew Nam in Phuket Town
Roti Taew Nam is one of those rare places in Phuket Town that never seems to change. Set right at the entrance of the Sunday Walking Street Market on Thalang Road, this tiny shop has been around for more than 70 years—and it feels like time stood still inside.

Chom Chan by One Chun Restaurant

Chom Chan by One Chun Phuket Town
Chom Chan by One Chun is an excellent Thai restaurant that serves a great selection of Phuket dishes and local specialities. It’s a cos,y small house with a garden almost hidden on the outskirts of Phuket Town and can easily be missed when driving by.

Go Benz Phuket

Go Benz Phuket restaurant
Go Benz Phuket has been one of Phuket's most popular local restaurants for over 15 years. Go Benz served a relatively small choice of noodle soups and rice porridge, and by keeping it focused, they became very good at preparing them.

Krua Kao Kuk Restaurant

Krua Kao Kuk Restaurant in Phuket Town
Krua Kao Kuk is a hidden gem on the outskirts of Phuket Town, praised for its simple and delicious southern Thai cuisine. Founded by a Peranakan family in 1995, it's a favourite among locals for fresh seafood dishes, vegetables with ginger, and classic Thai comfort food like omelettes and pork belly.

Jadjan by Ko Daeng

Jadjan Restaurant in Phuket Towm
Jadjan is an excellent local Thai restaurant hidden on the outskirts of Phuket Town. Not many travellers know that a former chef from a 5-star hotel in Bangkok runs it.

Chuan Chim Restaurant

Chuan Chim Restaurant in Phuket Town
A small local restaurant on Montri Road in Phuket Town, where most jewellery shops are. Chuan Chim is quite large, simple and spotlessly clean. The food is cheap and excellent. We loved the fried basil with minced pork or chicken and the seafood salad.

Modern Michelin Restaurants

HEH Restaurant

HEH Restaurant in Phuket Town
HEH is a restaurant on the outskirts of Phuket Town run by a young team and passionate and creative Thai Chef. The restaurant is not too big, well-designed with high windows, unpretentious, and welcoming. There is even a tree growing right in the middle of it.

The Charm Dining Gallery

The Charm Dining Gallery in Phuket Town, Dibuk Road
The Charm Dining Gallery opened in a century-old Thai house in Phuket Town. The location on Dibuk Road is the perfect way to end your exploration if you spend a day wandering the old streets.

Surf & Turf by Soul Kitchen

Surf and Turf by Soul Kitchen in Phuket Town
Surf & Turf by Soul Kitchen is a small Thai-German-owned restaurant on Phang Nga Road in Phuket Town that received a Bib Gourmand from the Michelin Guide. The menu is short but changes monthly, and Chef Tom takes great pride in composing European-Thai dishes, including some vegetarian options.

La Gaetana Italian Restaurant

La Gaetana Italian Restaurant in Phuket Town
La Gaetana is one of the best and longest-established Italian restaurants in Phuket. It's well known and recommended by longtime residents and Thais and is in our Top romantic restaurants in Phuket. It's all about La Gaetana's excellent cuisine and very cosy atmosphere.

Blue Elephant Phuket

Blue Elephant Phuket
Blue Elephant Phuket is a high-end Thai restaurant built in a renovated Thai house set in an immense garden in Old Phuket Town. Pracha Phra Pitak Chinpracha Mansion is a fantastic old mansion that used to be a governor's house, but was abandoned for a long time.

Royd Restaurant

Royd Restaurant in Phuket Town
Royd is an upmarket restaurant found on Dibuk Road in Phuket Town, a short distance from the popular Thalang Road where the Sunday Walking Street Market is held every week.

More Thai Restaurants in Town

Raya Restaurant

Raya Restaurant in Phuket Town
Raya Restaurant is a unique restaurant combining all the right ingredients to make it a perfect local experience. They serve great food in a superb setting in an old Thai house kept just the way it has always been, with no excessive renovation but well maintained.

Rong Kopi Restaurant

Rong Kopi Restaurant in Phuket Town
Rong Kopi (โรงโกปี๊) is a small, always-busy restaurant tucked beside the Jui Tui Shrine in Phuket Town. It’s the kind of place you might walk past if you’re not paying attention—but once you step inside, it’s hard to forget.

Thai Mueang Restaurant Phuket

Thai Mueang Restaurant Phuket
Thai Mueang Restaurant is set in an ancient house that is more than 100 years old and has been renovated to make it new and beautiful just next to the Chinpracha House Museum.

Day & Night of Phuket

Day & Night Of Phuket
Day & Night of Phuket on Dibuk Road has always stood out for its striking design and buzzing atmosphere, but on our most recent visit, it was the food that really impressed.

Tunk Ka Cafe

Tunk Ka Cafe Phuket
Tunk Ka Cafe is one of our favourite restaurants in Phuket Town, a long-established hillside place beautifully built on top of Khao Rang Hill, with striking panoramic views of Phuket city. Tunk Ka Cafe is a romantic place, with three separate terraces framed with large trees, and a nice breeze flowing through always keeps the place cool.

Punte Phuket Local Street Food

Punte Phuket Local Street Food
Punte Phuket is a beautiful food court serving local street food, hidden in the old streets of Phuket town, tucked in a dead-end street off Yaowarat Road.

Khun Jeed Yod Pak Restaurant

Khun Jeed Yod Pak Restaurant in Phuket Town
Khun Jeed Yod Pak Restaurant is an institution in Phuket Town and one of the best local restaurants on the island. It is open as far as I can remember, which is more than 20 years now. It became famous for a dish Thai people love called radna.

Tu Kab Khao Phuket

Tu Kab Khao Restaurant Phuket
Tu Kab Khao is a popular Thai restaurant in Phuket Town that serves great southern Thai food. Give yourself a chance to try their selection of dishes that are typical of Phuket. Tu Kab Khao received a Michelin rating from the new Michelin Guide for Phuket, a sign of excellent food.

TOH DAENG at Phuket Old Town

TOH DAENG at Phuket Old Town
Toh Daeng at Phuket Old Town is the new sister restaurant of the main Toh Daeng, which sits inside the heritage Baan Ar Jor mansion up at Mai Khao Beach. The restaurant stands out in that same dark red tone as the original, with matching red tables, no surprise since "Toh Daeng" means "Red Table."

Wanlamun Phuket

Wanlamun Sweet Shop in Phuket Town
Wanlamun is the most popular Thai sweets and Thai desserts restaurant in Phuket Town. The restaurant has been open for decades and serves an astonishingly large choice of local sweets you probably didn't even know existed.

Go La Hokkien Fried Noodles

Go La Hokkien Fried Noodles
Go La Restaurant is a tiny local restaurant located at 11 Kra Road in Phuket Town, away from the busy centre and a bit hard to find. This third-generation family-run restaurant is renowned for its authentic Hokkien-style fried noodles.

Kopitiam by Wilai

Kopitiam by Wilai Restaurant in Phuket Town
Kopitiam by Wilai is a recently renovated restaurant serves classic Thai food in an old-style Chinese shop on the most popular street in Phuket Town. Thalang Road changed from just an old busy street to a full-scale tourist attraction, bars and restaurants have started to appear like flies on honey.

Kanom Jeen Saphan Hin

Kanom Jeen Saphan Hin in Phuket Town
Kanom Jeen Saphan Hin is a long time favourite restaurant in Phuket Town where mostly locals come for a late breakfast, lunch or even dinner.

Pa Mai Kanom Jeen in Phuket Town

Kanom Jeen in Phuket
Pa Mai Kanom Jeen (ขนมจีนป้ามัย) is a modest local Thai restaurant located at the intersection of Dibuk Road and Satun Road, just next to the famous Blue Elephant Restaurant in Old Phuket Town. Pa Mai has been a popular local place for decades.

Ekachai Kai Ob Restaurant

Ekachai Kai Ob Restaurant in Phuket Town
Ekachai Kai Ob is the kind of local restaurant people often recommend when you ask where to find good Thai food in Phuket Town. Located right along a busy roadside, it might not look like much from the outside, but the tables are always full by dinner time.

Meesapam Phuket

Mee Sapam Phuket
Meespam is a a famous 50-year-old restaurant located on the outskirts of Phuket Town and owned by a local Phuketian Khun Yai Chian, listed in the Phuket Michelin Guide. 

Som Chit Hokkien Noodle Soup

Som Chit Hokkien Noodle Soup Phuket
Som Chit Restaurant is famous for its delicious Hokkien Noodles Soup, and people from Bangkok who know about it would stop here for lunch when they visit Phuket Town.

Chaiyo Seafood Restaurant

Chaiyo Seafood Restaurant in Phuket
Chaiyo Seafood is a simple little restaurant close to Phuket town if you feel like a nice seafood lunch by the mangrove, without getting far from the city. Nicely built in a comfortable setting, Chaiyo Seafood keeps its livestock directly in the mangrove stream. Seafood can't get much fresher than this.

Jok Samui Restaurant

Jok Samui in Phuket Town
Jok Samui Restaurant sits near the Jui Tui Temple intersection where Ranong Road meets Pattiphat Road in Phuket Town. The small shophouse is old and packed with character. Faded green tiles, humming ceiling fans, and two stainless steel tables set the scene for bowls of comfort that draw a crowd each night.

Esan Bar

Esan Bar Thai Restaurant in Phuket Town
Esan Bar, despite calling itself a bar, is an excellent and affordable Thai restaurant serving Isan food from the northeast of Thailand. The restaurant sits by the busy roadside on the outskirts of Phuket town,

Mee Jirayuwat

Mee Jirayuwat Phuket
This local restaurant appeared in a famous Korean Magazine, and many customers are now Korean. Their speciality is a Seafood Hokkien noodle soup. Order two; you won’t regret it. Choose between ‘Hokkien Mee’, a fat round yellow noodle, or ‘Ba Mee’, a thin egg noodle. The noodles can be served dry or ‘Hang’ (soup on the side). They are located on Phang Nga Road in Phuket Town.

Kanta Phuket Restaurant

Kanta Phuket Restaurant at On On Hotel in Old Phuket Town
Kanta Phuket is a new restaurant serving Modern Peranakan Cuisine at The Memory at On On Hotel on Phang Nga Road, in the heart of Old Phuket Town, an area already known for its colourful Sino-Portuguese shophouses and lively street art.

Kaithong Restaurant

Khaithong Restaurant - A Thai Restaurant at Central Phuket
Kaithong Restaurant at Central Festival Phuket (Floresta Wing) is one of those places that often gets missed, which is surprising considering how good the food is.

Natural Restaurant Phuket (Tamachart Restaurant)

Phuket Natural Restaurant in Phuket Town
Natural Restaurant Phuket looks at first a bit confusing. Locally known as 'Tamachart Restaurant' it has been a long-time favourite for many Thai and expats.

Ko Yoon Restaurant

Ko Yoon Hokkien Noodles
Ko Yoon Restaurant is a very small and discreet place serving amazing Hokkien Noodles. If you happen to visit Phuket Town, chances are you walked passed it without noticing it, it looks like any other anonymous local hole-in-the-wall restaurant. But Ko Yoon has prepared those delicious big yellow noodles for decades and locals know how good they are.

Mee Ko Lan

Mee Ko Lan Restaurant in Phuket Town
Mee Ko Lan, originally called Mee Lok Tien, is a legendary noodle shop in Phuket that’s been open for more than 100 years. The story of these noodles began with Ko Lan’s teacher, a Cantonese immigrant who settled in Phuket.

Piset Restaurant Phuket

Piset Restaurant Phuket
Piset Restaurant is a fun place on Yaowarat Road in the old Phuket town that has been very popular with the young local crowd for serving creative Thai food for many years. The restaurant is run by Khun Praew, a famous local influencer and a member of one of the longest-established families in Phuket.

Krua Maikhao Restaurant

Boon's Local Thai Restaurant in Phuket Town
Krua Maikhao is one of the most underrated local Thai restaurants in Phuket. It's not fancy, the menu is not long, and lunch at Boon only costs a few baht, but the taste is unique. The restaurant is tiny, hard to spot, and so modest; we probably wouldn't bother explaining to anyone how to go there.

Kopi de Phuket

Kopi de Phuket
Kopi de Phuket, a very small restaurant, has made its name in Phuket Town for a while. It looks strangely familiar and serves some really typical Phuket dishes in an eclectic decor, but what Kopi de Phuket does best is coffee in Phuket style.

Phu Anda Cafe

Phu Anda Cafe in Phuket Town
Phu Anda Cafe sits quietly above Wat Charoen Samanakij on Toh Sae Hill (better known as Monkey Hill), offering one of Phuket Town's hidden dining secrets, popular with locals

Lhong Khao

Lhong Khao Restaurant in Phuket Town
Lhong Khao is a charming Thai-Chinese restaurant that perfectly captures the spirit of Phuket Old Town. Located on Phuket Road in the heart of the historic district, this welcoming family-run restaurant has become popular among both locals and tourists looking for authentic flavours in a nice, casual setting.

Mae Ting Kanom Jeen

Mae Ting Kanom Jeen in Phuket Town
Mae Ting Kanom Jeen is one of Phuket Town's popular breakfast destinations, serving traditional rice noodles with curry (Kanom Jeen) to locals for decade

Ko Tee Sangkasi Restaurant

Ko Tee Sangkasi Restaurant
Ko Tee Sangkasi, listed in the Michelin Guide for Phuket, is a small restaurant on the outskirts of Phuket Town. The place has a red‑brown zinc roof, plastic chairs, and Pepsi‑Cola table covers, as is often the case in local restaurants. It’s always busy because the food is simple and really good.

Maimorn Forest Phuket

Maimorn Forest Restaurant Phuket
Maimorn Forest is a locally well-known Thai restaurant, hidden from view in Phuket Town, next to Bus Terminal 1. The place has been open for decades and was recently renovated. The new layout is beautiful, with a bit of a forest theme and an artificial waterfall. The place is immense and you can choose which part of the restaurant you want to sit in.

Siang Khaen

Siang Khaeng Local Restaurant Phuket
Siang Khaeng is as big and basic as a warehouse but always full for dinner! The best dishes we know are Som Tam (Papaya Salad), Laab Het (Mushroom spicy hot salad), Kai, Namtok Nua (Beef Salad) and Pladook Foo (Grilled Cat Fish). But the list is extensive. Therefore, this place serves Esarn Food, which can be quite spicy (in northern Thailand). They are located on On Mae Luan Road, almost opposite the Mitsubishi Showroom.

Cue Bar in Phuket Town

Cue Bar Rooftop Bar and restaurant in Phuket Town
Cue Bar is a friendly place to enjoy live music and pool in the Phuket Old Town area on Phang Nga Road. The bar is split into two sections, with its main bar, pool table and stage found on the air-conditioned ground floor space with a sports bar vibe, and an open-air rooftop bar.

Tantitium Restaurant

Tantitium Restaurant and Spa in Phuket Town
Tantitium is an attractive Thai restaurant on Dibuk Road, part of the historical centre of Phuket Town. The unusual name and the location at the very end of Dibuk Street make Tantitium a little difficult to locate, but if you walk by, your eyes won’t miss it.

Kaeng Liang Restaurant Phuket

Kaeng Liang Restaurant in Phuket Town
Kaeng Liang Restaurant is a small place in a beautifully decorated old shophouse hidden on Krabi Road in old Phuket Town. The name Kaeng Liang is the name of a traditional spicy shrimp paste soup from central Thailand.

Dok Bua Vegetarian Restaurant Phuket

Dok Bua Vegetarian Restaurant in Phuket
Dok Bua Vegetarian Restaurant is a modern restaurant kept cosy and it is located on the corner of a T-junction in Phuket Town. A beautiful front porch full of colourful plants and a small water fountain catches your eye when you are approaching the restaurant, this makes a comfortable outdoor sitting area with a neat table setup.

Loukthor Vegetarian Restaurant in Phuket Town

Loukthor Vegetarian Restaurant in Phuket Town
Loukthor Vegetarian Restaurant, located near Jui Tui Shrine in Phuket Town, is particularly popular during the famous Phuket Vegetarian Festival. There are a few vegan and vegetarian restaurants on that same Ranong Road, but this one is excellent. They offer cook-to-order dishes such as fried rice and stir-fried noodles.

Baan 109 Bar and Restaurant in Phuket Town

Baan 109 Bar and Restaurant in Phuket Town
Baan 109 is a fun vintage looking restaurant as well as a casual bar on the popular Thalang Road, the historical street of Old Phuket Town where the famous Sunday Walking Street Market is held every weekend. The name 'Baan' means house and the number 109 is the street number.

Kota Khao Mun Kai – Chicken Rice Restaurant in Phuket Town

Chicken Rice Kota Khao Mun Kai Phuket
Kota Khao Mun Kai is an excellent and famous Chicken Rice restaurant in Phuket Town. Everyone in Phuket knows this place, expats of locals. It has been open for more than two decades and is still running strong without having changed a thing. That might be why it is still so popular; once you have a simple winning formula, don’t touch it. If you ask a friend if he feels like having chicken rice for lunch, he will probably picture this place.

Mee Ton Poe Hokkien Noodles in Phuket Town

Mee Ton Poe Hokkien Noodles in Phuket Town
Mee Ton Poe (Mee Ton Poh) has served some of the best-known Hokkien noodles on Phuket island for many years, since 1946 to be precise. It used to be a tiny, modest restaurant at the clock circle in Phuket town

Uptown Restaurant in Phuket Town

Uptown Restaurant Phuket Town
Phuket Uptown Restaurant is not exactly what we would call a 'local restaurant', it's just a little too clean and too westernized to be considered so and a good third of the customers are usually farangs (foreigners). But the food is good, the prices are right and the staff is always friendly.

Nom Jeen Phuket

Nom Jeen Phuket
Nom Jeen Phuket is a beautiful and relaxing new local restaurant serving kanom jeen on the outskirt of Phuket Town. There are quite a few kanom jeen shops around the island but this one feels very relaxed and trendy in a casual young fashion, and yet, it's not expensive!

Khao Rang Breeze Restaurant Phuket

Khao Rang Breeze Restaurant Phuket
Khao Rang Breeze is one of the three popular restaurants sitting at the top of the very scenic Rang Hill in Phuket Town.

Jun Phen Isan Restaurant

Jun Phen Isan Restaurant in Phuket Town
Like most of the great restaurants serving excellent good old-fashioned Thai food in Phuket, Jun Phen didn't bother much with the design.

OTHER GOOD RESTAURANTS TO TRY

Cava Bien Marché

Cava Bien Marché Restaurant in Phuket Town
French Cuisine
CaVa Bien Marché (which is pronounced sava) is a casual restaurant and bistro on Dibuk Road in Old Phuket Town. The food is good and the layout attractive. The restaurant uses a typical Phuket shophouse and therefore is very long and narrow.

Coolies Club

Coolies Club in Old Phuket Town
Heritage
Coolies Club is a brand new bar and restaurant located on the now trendy Soi Romanee in the heart of old Phuket Town. Coolies Club is designed by Bill Bensley, a famous artist and hotel designer, such as the Slate in Nai Yang Beach.

Best Thai Beef Steakhouse in Phuket Town

Best Country Beef Phuket Town
Local Steakhouse
Best Thai Beef is the place to treat yourself if you are craving a perfectly cooked steak after a day of exploring Old Phuket Town. The restaurant is on Dibuk Road, in an old-fashioned house with a wooden facade that reminds a bit of an old Japanese shop.

Torry’s Ice Cream in Old Phuket Town

Torry's Ice Cream Shop in old Town
Torry's Ice Cream Boutique is a beautiful little coffee shop set in Sino Portuguese shophouse in Soi Romanee in Phuket Town.

Prawn Noodle Ao Ke

Prawn Noodle Ao Ke Phuket Town
Michelin Listed
Local Favourite
Prawn Noodle Ao Ke in Phuket Town serves Hokkien-style prawn noodles that have kept locals and visitors coming back for more than a decade. The restaurant earned recognition from the Michelin Guide for consistently delivering simple, well-executed bowls built around one thing: prawn broth.

MARNI Phuket Town

MARNI Phuket Town
MARNI is located on Montri Road in Phuket Town, not far from the Clock Circle and a bit tucked away from the main tourist areas. The restaurant earned recognition in the 50 Top Pizza Asia-Pacific rankings, placing 36th in 2025.

Grind Cafe Phuket at Junkyard Theatre

The Grind Cafe Phuket
Grind Cafe Phuket at Junkyard Theatre is a surprisingly beautiful restaurant and art gallery hidden on the busy by-pass road near Phuket Town. Chances are, you probably drove in front of it and didn't know that such a special place existed, and we didn't know either! The cafe has long been known as the Underwood Factory but only started to get noticed recently.

Korean Town Phuket

Korean Town Phuket-Town
Korean Food
Korean Town in Phuket serves good, original Korean cuisine in a modern restaurant located just next to Central Floresta on the outskirts of Phuket Town. Among a long list of tempting Korean dishes, Choongman Chicken specializes in various Korean fried chicken dishes known for their crispy texture.

Juicy Lucy Burger & Bar

Juicy Lucy Bar in Phuket Old Town
Juicy Lucy Burger and Bar on Yaowarat Road in Phuket Old Town is set in a vintage Sino-Portuguese shophouse typical of the area, giving it a unique historic feel, and a perfect spot to end the day after exploring the historical street of Phuket Town. The bar, which is also a restaurant, is known for burgers, generous portions, and reasonably priced drinks and cocktails.

Crust Restaurant Phuket

Crust Cafe & Restaurant - Italian Restaurant in Phuket Town
Italian Restaurant
Crust Restaurant is an excellent Italian venue located on the outskirts of Phuket Town. The food is very well priced and so good that the restaurant was mentioned in the Michelin Guide for Phuket several years in a row. The restaurant is set in a beautiful and colourful Sino-Portuguese shophouse, not far from Central Festival Phuket

Daily Dose Restaurant Phuket

Daily Dose Restaurant Phuket
Daily Dose is a small, trendy restaurant set in a shophouse on Yaowarat Road in Old Phuket Town, steps away from Thalang Road, where the famous Walking Street Market is held every Sunday evening. Daily Dose restaurant is a cool place where you can go to get some tasty, home-cooked meals.

Baboon Phuket

Baboon Phuket
Baboon Phuket feels like stepping into a secret hideaway in the jungle, even though you’re still in Phuket Town. It’s part of the Three Monkeys group, tucked into leafy grounds with big windows, greenhouse-style architecture, and both indoor and shaded outdoor seating.

Beerfest Restaurant and Brewery

Beerfest Restaurant Brewery in Phuket Town
Beerfest Restaurant and Craft Beer Brewery on the outskirts of Phuket Town (near Central Phuket)is a spacious yet cosy venue that offers a unique dining and drinking experience. Despite its large size, the warm lighting and comfortable seating make it an inviting place for both small gatherings and larger groups. One of the standout features of Beerfest is its impressive array of beer fermentation tanks—at least 16 gleaming vessels are visible at the back of the restaurant (and you're welcome to go there and have a look). This extensive setup allows them to brew a diverse selection of craft beers

Da Moreno @ Town

Da Moreno @ Town - Pizzeria in Phuket Town
Italian Restaurant
Da Moreno @ Town is an excellent Italian restaurant and Pizzeria located on Yaowarat Road in the heart of old Phuket Town. Da Moreno @ Town is the fourth and latest branch of the very popular Da Moreno family of restaurants. The original one was in Patong, the second in Kathu and the third one in Koh Kaew.

Flame Phuket Town

Flame Restaurant in Phuket Town
Flame, where culinary mastery meets dazzling performances! Our vibrant bar and restaurant bring together the finest in Western and Asian cuisine, elevated by captivating, world-class entertainment. Open seven days a week from 6 pm until late, Flame offers an enchanting evening of elegance and excitement in the heart of Phuket Town.

THYME Cafe & Brunch

THYME Cafe & Brunch in Phuket Old Town
THYME Cafe & Brunch, which has earned Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition, brings Northern Thai halal cooking traditions to the island's heritage district, replicating the success of Sanae's original Chiang Mai location on the Ping River.

Chuan Heang Dim Sum Restaurant

Chuan Heang Branch 1 in Phuket Town
Chuan Heang is a locally famous dim sum restaurant located in Phuket Town that has been serving traditional breakfast fare for over 100 years. This historic establishment represents one of Phuket's most enduring culinary traditions and is considered arguably the oldest breakfast restaurant on the island.

Azzurro Ristorante

Azzurro Thailand - Italian Restaurant at Central Phuket
Azzurro Ristorante at Central Phuket is a casual Italian restaurant located on the first floor of the Festival side of the mall. It’s a convenient stop for shoppers looking for pasta, pizza, and a mix of Italian favourites.

Kor Ra Kang Cafe Phuket Old Town

Kor Ra Kang Restaurant and Cafe in Phuket Old Town
Step inside Kor Ra Kang on Thalang Road, a massive pink-flower café in Phuket Old Town. Great for photos, mixed food reviews, and iconic selfie spots.

Chair Cafe Old Town

Chair Cafe Old Town
Chair Cafe Old Town is a coffee shop and a good casual restaurant on Yaowarat Road. It is nice to stop for a break while you explore the streets of Phuket Town. In addition to the nice setting and food, Chair Cafe Phuket Town has a delightful little secret for those of you who like hidden places.

Junkyard Theatre Phuket

Junkyard Theater Phuket
Junkyard Theatre Phuket, rated #1 on TripAdvisor Phuket, is the only experience where dinner time turns into showtime in the craziest way in Asia! Forget boring dinners; here, you eat a scrumpteous 3-course meal while dancers leap, spin, and twist to cool tunes.

Krua Talad Yai

Krua Talad Yai
Krua Talad Yai, the main restaurant, is located on the third floor of the Courtyard by Marriott Phuket Town and serves Thai and international food all day long, with a buffet and a la carte.

Yue Chinese Restaurant

Yue Chinese Restaurant at Courtyard by Marriott Phuket Town
We tried the new Yue Chinese Restaurant by Chef Kenny Chang on the 2nd floor of the Courtyard by Marriott Phuket Town, for dinner and a Dim Sum Breakfast on Sunday morning.

Plearn Rooftop Restaurant

Plearn Rooftop Restaurant in Phuket Town
Plearn rooftop restaurant is an impressive rooftop bar and restaurant located on the hills above Hilltop Wellness Resort, with panoramic views overlooking Phuket Town.

Baraka Georgian Restaurant

Baraka Georgian Restaurant Phuket
Bakara is a Georgian restaurant in the heart of Phuket Town. Cordiality and respect for family traditions are a distinctive national feature.

VIVA Rooftop and Restaurant

VIVA Rooftop and Restaurant
VIVA Rooftop and Restaurant is located in an elegant context, such as the rooftop of HOMA, a residential structure based in Phuket Town

Papazula

Papazula Phuket Town
Papazula is a popular live music bar and restaurant with Turkish influences on Phuket Road, in Old Phuket Town, just opposite Casa Blanca Hotel, just a few metres from the Sunday Walking Street Market.

Su Va Na at Central Floresta Phuket

Su Va Na Underwater Restaurant at Aquaria Phuket
Su Va Na is Thailand's only underwater restaurant, located on the B1 floor of Central Phuket Floresta inside Aquaria Phuket, the country's largest aquarium. The restaurant opened during Christmas week in 2022 and has quickly established itself as one of Asia's most distinctive dining destinations.

Phuket Brasserie

Phuket Brasserie
Phuket Brasserie is one of the best French dining venues in Phuket town, owned and operated by Belgium chef Alain Tabruyng.

China Inn Phuket Restaurant

China Inn Phuket
China Inn is a lovely little restaurant in the middle of Thalang Road, the historical street of Phuket Town. Everyone who walked down that street admired it, and most even took photos.

Koku Yakiniku

Koku Yakiniku
If you stay in Phuket for a while or if, like us, you happen to live here, there comes a time when you feel like something different for dinner, something good and fun. This is usually the day we choose to go to a 'Mookata' or a 'Yakiniku' in Phuket Town.

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Willy Thuan

Willy Thuan

Willy Thuan is the founder of Phuket 101, which was first published in 2011. After travelling through 40+ countries and working with Club Med and Expedia, he settled in Phuket in 1994. He shares real travel insights with original photography and videos from across Thailand.View Author posts