Article Category - Phuket Dining

After finishing a particularly hard day, I was riding my bike back home and happened to chance upon a nice little restaurant located on a shady road (as in there was lots of shade - not in the dodgy sense) close to the hill in Samkong; the downtown of Phuket Town.

If you think that the national dish of England is still fish and chips, then you also probably think that England has a car industry, that England has working red telephone boxes and doubledecker buses and that it rains a lot. But if you think this, then you’d be wrong... apart from the last one.

“The philosophy at Acqua restaurant is based on premium ingredients - once you have them, why play around any more?” declares owner and executive chef, Italian born Alessandro Frau.

Sanamya’s slogan is “pamper yourself at Sanamya and watch your problems melt away.” It had been a long week and I had my fair share of problems that needed melting, I was also ravenous so sat down with high expectations.

The ‘In House Cafe’ is located on Thepkrasatri Road, opposite the Phuket Avenue condo, in Phuket Town. It has a contemporary style with odd and retro-style decorations of wall mounted remote control cars and many black and white pencil sketchings.

More than 90% of the dishes at ‘The Point Bistro’ are Chef Ittipol’s creations.“It’s a mix between Italian and Thai style, which is also the concept of the restaurant,” he explained.

La flora, situated in central Patong, is a luxury hotel with 10 poolside villas and 57 delux rooms. It also contains the ‘Current’ restaurant and, from January, will be relaunching and redesigning the rooftop bar ‘Surface’ into an open air restaurant.

DaVinci Ristorante & Pizzeria has rapidly established a reputation as a fine Italian eatery. The restaurant is set in a convivial inside/outside courtyard and offers friendly al fresco dining, conducive to long meals with happy gatherings of family and friends.

The location of this year-old restaurant is equally as natural, with trees and flowers all around.

Following hot on the heels of Bodega’s plans to bring something different to Patong, is Limburi; a new restaurant/hotel on Rat U Thit 200 Pee Road, opposite Christine Massage.