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Real Phuket!

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!

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.

      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.

        Ta Tuay Michelin Thai Restaurant in Phuket

        Ta Tuay Restaurant in Phuket

          Ta Tuay is a little-known local restaurant, hidden not far from the Sarasin Bridge in the very north of Phuket, near Sai Kaew Beach. Ta Tuay serves excellent local food and dishes from Phuket.

          Baan Ar Jor House Museum in Phuket

          Baan Ar Jor House Museum

            Baan Ar Jor is a hotel, a restaurant and a museum with a long history that started in 1936. This house has always been one of the most mysterious old mansions of Phuket, standing lonely near Mai Khao Beach in the north of Phuket.

            Jadjan Restaurant in Phuket Towm

            Jadjan Restaurant in Phuket Town

              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.

              Krua Jongjit Restaurant in Phuket, Kathu

              Krua Jongjit Kitchen Kathu in Phuket

                Krua Jongjit restaurant in Kathu is proof that a restaurant doesn’t have to be fancy or expensive to be excellent, and even receive a Michelin Plate for fresh ingredients, carefully prepared. The restaurant is local and modest, the prices are low and the food served is excellent and truly local, making it a good culinary experience while in Phuket.

                Kin-Kub-Ei Restaurant Phuketket

                Kin-Kub-Ei Restaurant

                  Kin-Kub-Ei Restaurant is a hidden gem serving delicious southern dishes cooked by Khun Tubtim (the lady in the photos) with her family recipes and served in a beautiful garden hidden from the main road on the way to Bangtao Beach.

                  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 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.

                    Ketho Dim Sum Restaurant in Kathu, Phuket

                    Ketho Coffee & Kitchen Dim Sum Restaurant

                      Ketho Coffee & Kitchen is a dim sum restaurant very popular with locals for their breakfast, mostly for their dim sums but also for their soups and rice porridge.

                      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.

                        Baan Mae Taan Restaurant in Phuket Town

                        Mae Tan’s House

                          Mae Tan’s House 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!

                          Boon's Local Thai Restaurant in Phuket Town

                          Krua Maikhao Restaurant

                            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.