American Resturants

[dtyolmn]

Is there any American Style Resturants in Hua Hin? If so which has the best breakfast, lunch and dinner. Will be there for a couple of months and trying to get an idea of good places to eat.

[margaretcarnes]

KFC, BurgerKing, Pizza Co? Sorry couldn't resist - but as for real American style eateries I'm not aware of any. Others will be more up to date. Buffalo Bills place is a good as any for steaks and ribs though.
HuaHin has a wide variety of restaurants but the emphasis is on more Scandinavian/German than American, with some Italian and French.

[PeteC]

Is there any American Style Resturants in Hua Hin? If so which has the best breakfast, lunch and dinner. Will be there for a couple of months and trying to get an idea of good places to eat.

If you've never done so, try a full English breakfast which you can find in many places in HH. Put's an American breakfast to shame. You can usually skip lunch after one. Pete

[pharvey]

[quote="dtyolmn"]If so which has the best breakfast, lunch and dinner. quote]

Ah, can't wait to get stuck into the local cuisine at every opportunity I see!

[brianks]

Best American meals I have eaten in Hua Hin are at the Mini Farm on Soi 88 just past RR tracks. Taste just like back in the U.S. Their Thai dishes are also very good too. Just turn to the back two pages of their menu for the farang offerings. They grow their own vegetables on farm in Pranbury and also sell to big hotels and restaurants in town. Only Lunch and Dinner served there. Added dinner bonus is watching several south bound passenger trains lumber out of town.

Don't know any place for good breakfasts except on Wed and Sat when I serve my whole wheat bananna pancakes at home.

[hhfarang]

There's the Great American Rib Company and the California Cantina.

[T.I.G.R.]

If you're going to be here a couple of months you probably should just take your chances and pick places that look good.....it would be hard to tell what you would find acceptable not knowing where you come from and what restaurants you are used to.

If you give us a short list of your favorites I think we could be more helpful in telling you where to find something similar.

For my tastes and budget here are my favorites:

Veranda Hotel for breakfast Omlettes and pretty good burgers.
Black Mountain for it's unbelievably good Fillet on Toast for only 320 baht ( a long drive but well worth it).
Courtyard by Marriott for good burgers and fries, but not quite as big as some others (although they fill me up).
Delize downtown behind the night market for pasta.
Banyon for the best combination burger/breakfast I ever saw (huge burger covered with fried egg, and fries....really two meals in one).
Downtown has in one shopping area: Burger King, McD's, Subway, Ribs and Sirin Hotel with a nice little restaurant....not American but you can find some good things on the menu.
The only Mall which is downtown has Pizza, KFC, a good bakery, a couple of good Japanese restaurants and a couple of Ice Cream shops.

There are many more good places to eat as mentioned, but it all depends on your level of comfort with other styles of eating. As I said, a list of your favorites at home will be of great value in determining exactly where to point you for starters. Also your general location here and method of travel would be helpful.

[T.I.G.R.]

I forgot one very important thing to tell you.

Most of the local restaurants serve Thai beef which is very tough......if you're a steak eater you'll need to rely on your own instincts in selecting an eatery you will be happy with.

[richard]

T.I.G.R

Agree 100%

Although I am not from the US I always check whether the beef or lamb is imported otherwise it is as tough as boot leather

They just dont know how to hang meat or for that matter game in Thailand.

Apparent there are some places run by farang where they slaughter and hang the meat but they are few and far between

OP my preferences are:

1) Buffalo Bills for ribs

2) Sara Janes for steak (run by a lady from Boston and her Thai husband who was educated in Boston). The steak is Thai but a special breed and slaughtered US and UK style

3) Jungle juice for roast lamb (Sundays only)

4) Admirals for steak (scandinavian style)

5) Best breakfasts (English of course) are Murphys, Jungle Juice, Victoria, Buffalo Bills

6) For a sumptious meal Thai, European or US, Coco 51 (need a fat wallet though)

7) Bernies bar for pork chops and chip butties

One other point. I alway specify precisely how I want my steak done. For me it has to be blue




Enjoy your stay

Oh one other point. I always make sure the boss is around and knows my order. Many places go down a couple of notches if the boss is not overseeing

[margaretcarnes]

Agreed Richard - Admirals is good for steaks. I'm sure they'll cook them plain if asked. But I think the reason many steaks found at Thai restaurants are so tough is that they aren't beef as in from cows. More likely buffalo. Which probably sounds OK except that water buffalo are stringy beasts.
Thinking about 'American' food more though - most places do American style pancakes with maple syrup as opposed to the English version, and there's no shortage of corn or peanut butter!
OP - try the corn cobs to be found bubbling away at many street stalls. And an idea of your preferred foods would be helpful.

[stgrhe]

For steaks Natta's on Soi 88 opposite Mark Twain hotel is also very good. He has both local and imported beef but the imported variety is actually very tender. I really do not know how he manage to get the local beef so tender.

The owner is a very nice Thai man around 40 and the prices are moderate. One can get a very tasty steak prepared to your liking with your choice of potatoes, very tasty sauce bearnaise and salad for 295 baht.

[Randy Cornhole]

Or lets say for a wild experience you could go local. After all how often do you get the chance to eat Thai food in Thailand?

I personally would choose Thai food over stodgy western food anyday...

[hhfarang]

For steaks Natta's on Soi 88 opposite Mark Twain hotel is also very good. He has both local and imported beef but the imported variety is actually very tender. I really do not know how he manage to get the local beef so tender.

I agree that this is one of the best for steak (across from the Markwin hotel).

I also have a friend who owns another restaurant and he had me do a taste test on two steaks, one from Thailand, and the other very expensive prime from Australia. The Thai beef tasted better and was very tender. He told me it just depends on where (what distributor) you get your local beef from. It can be just as good (or better) than the much more expensive imported variety if it is cut and aged properly.

[hhfarang]

Oh and I know it's not Hua Hin, but since we are on the subject of Thai beef; on the way back from Issan a couple of days ago we stopped to eat dinner at Chok Chai Farms (the biggest beef grower and distributor in Thailand) which is a couple of hours north of Bangkok.

I had one of the best and biggest fillet mignon steaks there that I've ever had and it was only 300 baht including baked potato and veggies. They had several grades of (local) fillet on the menu and I got one in the middle (the best one was 800 baht!).

So Thai beef can be very good and can also be a very good deal. You just have to know where to eat it.

[Winkie]

I've eaten at Chok Chai in Bangkok, Nawanakorn and Korat, quite often over the last 10+ Years.

The beef is quite reasonable, they rear some (but not all of the beef, I believe) themslves.

Certainly they concentrate on size (a Filet Mignon can, in reality only be about 1-2" Diameter, and 1-2" thick), and value for money.

The place does make an interesting stop-over when travelling south back to Bangkok (I often have to do this for work).

I like the Milk at Chok Chai, which I belvie actaully comes from a cow - rather the reconstituted powdered milk that is sold elsewhere.

An alternative, when travelling to from Bangkok in that direction is Lex's, at Muek Lek. The owner (Khun Lek), lived in the US for many years, running a reastaurant. Now he has semi-retired back to Thailand.

The steak there, truely can be wonderful (but isn't always).

Be warned, they follow a more European understanding of how to cook steaks, so if you order medium-rare (which is seldom bloody in Thailand), it will be extremely rare indeed (the menu explains the cooking time, so that you are forewarned - if I remember, medium rare is 2 minutes each side)