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74 Best Restaurants in Phuket Town

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Enjoying local Thai food in the old 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.

One Chun Restaurant Phuket

One Chun Restaurant Phuket
Michelin - Local Restaurant
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 ... Read More

Raya Restaurant in Phuket Town

Raya Restaurant in Phuket Town
Local Restaurant
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. Raya is unpretentious and straightforward; it feels like being invited to a Thai home for lunch or dinner ... Read More

The Charm Dining Gallery

The Charm Dining Gallery in Phuket Town, Dibuk Road
Heritage - Michelin
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 ... Read More

HEH Restaurant

HEH Restaurant in Phuket Town
Michelin - Modern Thai
HEH is a new restaurant on the outskirts of Phuket Town run by a young team and passionate and creative Thai chef Oat (Nattaphon Othanawathakij). 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. Since HEH made it into the Michelin Guide for Phuket, we thought it was better to book in advance. As it was mid-week, the restaurant was busy but not full. The team welcomed us in a friendly manner ... Read More

Nam Yoi Restaurant

Nam Yoi Restaurant Phuket
Local Thai Restaurant
Nam Yoi is a very discreet restaurant in a remote street in Phuket town. It is difficult to find but worth the effort as they serve excellent local Thai cuisine ... Read More

Ko Ang Seafood

Ko Ang Seafood Phuket
Local Seafood
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 ... Read More

Piset Restaurant Phuket

Piset Restaurant Phuket
Young Thai Restaurant
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. ... Read More

Jadjan Restaurant

Jadjan Restaurant in Phuket Towm
Michelin - Local Thai
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 ... Read More

Chom Chan by One Chun Restaurant

Chom Chan by One Chun Phuket Town
Chom Chan is an excellent Thai restaurant serving a great selection of Phuket dishes and local specialities ... Read More

La Gaetana Italian Restaurant

La Gaetana Italian Restaurant in Phuket Town
Michelin - Italian Restaurant
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 not about the view; it is not about the location, but all about La Gaetana's excellent cuisine and very cosy atmosphere ... Read More

Tunk Ka Cafe

Tunk Ka Cafe Phuket
Panoramic Thai Restaurant
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 ... Read More

Hong Khao Tom Pla Restaurant

Hong Khao Tom Pla Restaurant in Phuket Town
Local Restaurant
Hong Khao Tom Pla is a discreet and long-established restaurant in Phuket Town, named after its famous fish rice porridge speciality ... Read More

Khun Jeed Yod Pak Restaurant

Khun Jeed Yod Pak Restaurant in Phuket Town
Michelin - Local Thai
Khun Jeed's 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. Radna is a Thai-Chinese noodle dish served with pork, beef, chicken or seafood ... Read More

Tu Kab Khao Phuket

Tu Kab Khao Restaurant Phuket
Thai Restaurant
Tu Kab Khao is a popular Thai restaurant in Phuket town serving great southern Thai food, a chance to try their selection of dishes typical from Phuket ... Read More

Krua Kao Kuk Restaurant

Krua Kao Kuk Restaurant in Phuket Town
Michelin - Local Restaurant
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 ... Read More

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. Signature items include the popular Snow Onion Chicken, a must-try for fried chicken enthusiasts. Sulbing, a dessert café within the same complex, is renowned for its Korean-style Bingsu, a shaved ice dessert topped with fresh fruits, condensed milk, and sweet red ... Read More

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 ... Read More

Wanlamun Phuket

Wanlamun Sweet Shop in Phuket Town
Thai Sweets
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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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. Each plate is beautifully presented, and the food tastes delicious without being overly sophisticated. The restaurant is small and modest, and the convenient location makes it perfect for enjoying a fancy but affordable dinner once you explore Old Phuket Town ... Read More

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. ... Read More

Som Chit Hokkien Noodle Soup

Som Chit Hokkien Noodle Soup Phuket
Hokkien Noodle Soup
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 ... Read More

Kopitiam by Wilai

Kopitiam by Wilai Restaurant in Phuket Town
Thai Food
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. ... Read More

Blue Elephant Phuket

Blue Elephant Phuket
Michelin - Heritage High End Restaurant
Blue Elephant Phuket is a high-end Thai restaurant built in a 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. Blue Elephant Phuket is perfect for a special occasion, a dining experience to share and remember. Phra Pitak Chin ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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, ... Read More

O Cha Rot Phuket

O Cha Rot Noodle Soup Restaurant in Phuket Town
O Cha Rot is an unassuming local restaurant, but it serves one of the best noodle soups in Phuket Town, so good that it made it to the Michelin Guide in Phuket. The restaurant has no decoration whatsoever, white wall, stainless cooking station and stainless tables. Most travellers walk past the place without a second look, but we probably go to O Cha Rot restaurant about once a week! Like most noodle soups in Thailand, the menu is basic, with just a couple of soups and noodle sizes ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

Mee Sapam Phuket

Mee Sapam Phuket
Mee Sapam 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. ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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. The restaurant is unique and immense, and the decoration is a masterpiece of creativity. Every centimetre square is decorated with an object, a frame, or ... Read More

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. It's got a cosy, chic vibe, and it's open all day for dining in or taking out. They've got some amazing sandwiches made with fresh, homemade bread that they make just for Daily Dose. They also have ... Read More

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. It doesn't really feel like a local restaurant but they serve a good choice of Thai food. Location: Phuket Town Address: 9, Phangnga Rd, ... Read More

Boon Restaurant near Phuket Town

Boon's Local Thai Restaurant in Phuket Town
Boon 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. But after so many years, we realised that this place is very special to us: It's what local Thai food is all about: simple, cheap, casual, and delicious ... Read More

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 ... Read More

Chuan Chim

Chuan Chim
Local Restaurant
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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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. ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

Cue Bar in Phuket Town

Cue Bar Rooftop Bar and restaurant in Phuket Town
Local Rooftop
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 ... Read More

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. ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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. The restaurant is small and trendy, set in one of those typical shophouses lining the street of the old town, and serves modern Southern Thai cuisine created by Chef Suwijak. Royd became very popular once they appeared on the Michelin Guide for Phuket and its region and reservations are required, not so much because the restaurant is full, ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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. The Tantitium concept is a little unusual as it is a spa, a bar and a Thai restaurant. For a long time, the design and layout of the place never failed to catch the eyes of the people walking or driving ... Read More

House of Tin Baron

House of Tin Baron Restaurant
House of Tin Baron is a new Thai restaurant coming soon in Phuket Town, set in a beautifully renovated Sino-Portuguese heritage house ... Read More

Papazula Phuket Town

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 ... Read More

Pa Mai Kanom Jeen in Phuket Town

Kanom Jeen in Phuket
Pa Mai Kanom Jeen 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 and if you haven't yet tried Kanom Jeen, this might be your chance to try a true and delicious breakfast. Kanom Jeen uses many ingredients and if you never tried it before, you might be a bit confused or overwhelmed by the many dishes on display ... Read More

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 the old Phuket Town. The name Kaeng Liang is the name of a traditional spicy shrimp paste soup from central Thailand. The food is good (we had some Hokkien noodles), and the owner is very friendly, plus she speaks a bit of English. The decor is a beautiful photo opportunity for selfies (apart from the strange fridge on the front terrace). Address: 51 Krabi Road, Talat Nuea, Amphoe Mueang ... Read More

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. The interior design also features a modern look with its bright wooden tables and colourful seats, it is dominated by two large wall paintings depicting flowers and greenery. This is an ... Read More

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, and you can choose from the pictures and menu on the wall near the restaurant entrance ... Read More

Day & Night Of Phuket

Day & Night Of Phuket - Cafe, Bar and Restaurant in Phuket Town
Located on Dibuk Road, close to the heart of Old Phuket Town, Day & Night Of Phuket is a large restaurant with impressive architecture and attractive design. The restaurant serves a vast choice of creative Thai dishes, including some Phuket specialities prepared with local flavours and personal twists ... Read More

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 ... Read More

Lady Coco Phuket – Restaurant and coffee shop

Lady Coco in Phuket Town
Lady Coco is a restaurant, coffee shop and Salon de Thé, part of the now legendary The Memory at On On Hotel on Phang Nga Road in Old Phuket Town. The On On Hotels became famous for appearing in the opening of the movie ‘The Beach’, with Leonardo Dicaprio in 2000, making it an extra reason to stop over for a cake and eventually a selfie. The hotel has been entirely renovated since the movie and is now chic and very Instagram friendly, and this nicely decorated restaurant ... Read More

Baan Mae Taan Restaurant

Baan Mae Taan Restaurant in Phuket Town
Baan Mae Taan is an excellent local Thai restaurant in Phuket Town. It is slightly away from the old streets of historical Phuket, where the tourist crowd always go for their selfies and therefore addresses more to a local clientele, and that is a good sign! ... Read More

Andasi Restaurant Phuket at Central Floresta

Andasi Underwater Restaurant at Aquaria Phuket
Update: Andasi is temporarily closed. Andasi Restaurant offers an unusual dining experience within Aquaria, the new giant aquarium of Central Floresta in Phuket Town. We decided to give it a try, and the experience was better than expected. The price tag is relatively high, and the amount of tables available inside the 'tunnel' is minimal, so make sure you book well in advance. We previously visited and reviewed the aquarium itself, and spotted the restaurant and its lounge. During the day, with so many visitors all over the ... Read More

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 ... Read More

Mee Ton Poe Hokkien Noodles in Phuket Town

Mee Ton Poe Hokkien Noodles in Phuket Town
Mee Ton Poe received a 'Michelin Plate' rating in the Phuket Michelin Guide. A ‘Michelin Plate' is a recognition of excellent food. 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 where locals and expats would go for a cheap bowl of noodles, and that was it. Good, cheap and super casual. The location close to downtown ... Read More

Lock Tien Food Court in Phuket Town

Lock Tien Foodcourt Phuket
Lock Tien food court in Phuket Town is a place every person living in Phuket long enough knows. It doesn’t look like much but with 50 years old history, it’s probably the oldest food court on the island. What really matters is that Lock Tien serves some real Phuket specialities ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 more comfortable setting than the famous Mor Mu Dong just across the canal, Chaiyo Seafood keeps its livestock directly in the mangrove stream. Seafood can't get much fresher than this. Nothing very sophisticated, just a nice relaxed place for a weekend lunch or dinner. Once you enter the restaurant through a narrow wooden bridge, you should ... Read More

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 ... Read More

Koku Yakiniku and Moo Kata Barbecue

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 chose to go to a 'Mookata' or a 'Yakiniku' in Phuket Town. The concept of Yakiniku has always been trendy in Japan and Korea, but less known is the hugely popular Thai version known as 'Mookata', a cheap 'all-you-can-eat-cook-it-yourself-at-your-table-buffet'. Mookata is cheap and fun, but the downside of Mookata ... Read More

Kanom Jeen in Phuket

Kanom Jeen in Phuket
Kanom Jeen is, without a doubt, our favourite Thai breakfast on weekends. We'll never miss a chance to go to 'Kanom Jeen Saphan Hin' or 'Pa Mai Kanom Jeen Restaurant' ... Read More

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. Located just across the road from Novotel Phokeethra, the restaurant is very easy to find, just next to the very large 'Expo Market' which in fact is just a big bazaar. Their menu is very large ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

Phuket View Restaurant on Khao Rang Hill

Phuket View Restaurant on Khao Rang Hill
Phuket View is another restaurant you must add to your list of 'Dining with a View while in Phuket'. This dining venue sits for almost twenty years on top of Khao Rang Hill, one of the highest hills in Phuket Town ... Read More

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 ... Read More

Phuket Town Restaurants Directory

One Chun Restaurant Phuket

One Chun Restaurant Phuket

One Chun Restaurant is one of the best Thai restaurants in Phuket Town. Serving ... Read More
Raya Restaurant in Phuket Town

Raya Restaurant in Phuket Town

Raya Restaurant is a unique restaurant combining all the right ingredients to make it ... Read More
The Charm Dining Gallery in Phuket Town, Dibuk Road

The Charm Dining Gallery

The Charm Dining Gallery opened in a century-old Thai house in Phuket Town. The ... Read More
HEH Restaurant in Phuket Town

HEH Restaurant

HEH Restaurant Review HEH is a new restaurant on the outskirts of Phuket Town ... Read More
Nam Yoi Restaurant Phuket

Nam Yoi Restaurant

Nam Yoi is a very discreet restaurant in a remote street in Phuket town ... Read More
Ko Ang Seafood Phuket

Ko Ang Seafood

Ko Ang Seafood is a local restaurant serving excellent seafood on the east side ... Read More
Piset Restaurant Phuket

Piset Restaurant Phuket

Piset Restaurant is a fun place on Yaowarat Road in the old Phuket town ... Read More
Jadjan Restaurant in Phuket Towm

Jadjan Restaurant

Jadjan is an excellent local Thai restaurant hidden on the outskirts of Phuket Town ... Read More
Chom Chan by One Chun Phuket Town

Chom Chan by One Chun Restaurant

Chom Chan is an excellent Thai restaurant serving a great selection of Phuket dishes ... Read More
La Gaetana Italian Restaurant in Phuket Town

La Gaetana Italian Restaurant

La Gaetana is one of the best and longest-established Italian restaurants in Phuket. It's ... Read More
Tunk Ka Cafe Phuket

Tunk Ka Cafe

Tunk Ka Cafe is one of our favourite restaurants in Phuket Town, a long-established ... Read More
Hong Khao Tom Pla Restaurant in Phuket Town

Hong Khao Tom Pla Restaurant

Hong Khao Tom Pla is a discreet and long-established restaurant in Phuket Town, named ... Read More
Khun Jeed Yod Pak Restaurant in Phuket Town

Khun Jeed Yod Pak Restaurant

Khun Jeed's Yod Pak Restaurant is an institution in Phuket Town and one of ... Read More
Go Benz Phuket restaurant

Go Benz Phuket

Go Benz has been one of Phuket's most popular local restaurants for over 15 ... Read More
Tu Kab Khao Restaurant Phuket

Tu Kab Khao Phuket

Tu Kab Khao is a popular Thai restaurant in Phuket town serving great southern ... Read More
Krua Kao Kuk Restaurant in Phuket Town

Krua Kao Kuk Restaurant

Krua Kao Kuk is a hidden gem on the outskirts of Phuket Town, praised ... Read More
Endless Summer Coffee Shop in Phuket Town

Endless Summer

A beautiful heritage coffee shop in Phuket Town Endless Summer is a coffee shop ... Read More
Wanlamun Sweet Shop in Phuket Town

Wanlamun Phuket

Wanlamun is the most popular Thai sweets and Thai desserts restaurant in Phuket Town ... Read More
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