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Local Thai

Experience Phuket like the locals and with the locals! Try excellent small restaurants most tourists miss entirely, local food, desserts and drinks, markets, shops and even beaches!

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.

    Green Heart Garden Kata Beach

    Green Heart Garden Kata Beach

      Green Heart Garden is a superb hidden restaurant perched high on the hills above Kata Beach and blessed with incredible panoramic views of the Andaman Sea.

      Phuket Street Food

      10 Best Street Food in Phuket

        Phuket street food is fun, cheap, and a great way to experience simple real Thai food. It definitely is more authentic than in tourist restaurants you find in Patong Beach. It’s fast and a lot cleaner than you might think.

        Kanom Jeen in Phuket

        Pa Mai Kanom Jeen in Phuket Town

          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 truly delicious breakfast.

          Khao Tom Thanon Dibuk Phuket Town

          Khao Tom Thanon Di Buk Phuket Town

            Khao Tom Thanon Di Buk is a local restaurant famous for its morning rice porridge and noodle soup, located on Phang Nga Road in the back of Phuket Town, and only open from 6 in the morning to 12 pm. The restaurant has been listed three years in a row in the Michelin Guide for Thailand.

            Ko Ang Seafood Phuket

            Ko Ang Seafood in Phuket Town

              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.

              We Camping Phuket

              We Camping Phuket

                We Camping Phuket is a local restaurant in Kathu, with a fun camping decor and a vast outdoor sitting area. Despite the name, the place is not related to camping at all.

                Red Clam Kathu Restaurant in Phuket

                Red Clam Restaurant in Kathu (Hoi Pai Daeng)

                  Red Clam in Kathu, or Hoi Pai Daeng in Thai, is a local restaurant serving good and simple Thai food, perfect for sharing with your friends at the end of the day, the way Thai food is best enjoyed. The restaurant is modest, but the setting is fun, with a vast open-air garden with open tables and those typical bamboo huts so popular in Thai restaurants. In case of rain, there is also a large covered area in the back.

                  Wanlamun Sweet Shop in Phuket Town

                  Wanlamun Phuket – 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.

                    Piang Prai Restaurant

                    Peang Prai Restaurant

                      Peang Prai Restaurant (Krua Piang Prai) is an excellent local venue in a green nest next to Bang Pae waterfall. Mostly unknown to tourists because of its remote location, Peang Prai is one of the two great places to have lunch if you happen to be in the area.

                      Krua Ohm Restaurant in Kathu, Phuket

                      Khrua Ohm Restaurant Phuket

                        Krua Ohm is a small and modest local Thai restaurant in Kathu with a mention on the famous Michelin Guide for two consecutive years.

                        After Beach Bar Phuket on Kata Noi Beach

                        After Beach Bar & Restaurant

                          After Beach Bar Phuket is a very popular Thai restaurant perched high on a cliffside above Kata Noi Beach, on the way to Nai Harn Beach; from the outside, the restaurant looks modest, with low thatched roofs and an old-fashioned reggae atmosphere.

                          Mor Mu Dong Restaurant in Phuket

                          Mor Mu Dong Restaurant

                            Mor Mu Dong is quite an unusual restaurant in Phuket. If you enjoy eating off the beaten tracks where many locals go for a great lunch or dinner, Mor Mu Dong is your place. Every Phuket resident knows it, and you have to count the cars in the parking to know that something special is cooking here.

                            Big Chicken Restaurant Phuket

                            Krua Thung Thong in Kathu (Big Chicken Restaurant)

                              Big Chicken Restaurant (Thung Thong Restaurant) is one of our three favourite venues in Kathu. If you drove past the Phuket Country Club in the past twenty years, you certainly saw that massive chicken statue on the side of the road.