Food in Hua Hin

[PeteB]

OK - I'm ready for the flak.

Is it just me or has the standard of food and service in Hua Hin gone downhill?

Having just returned, let me start by talking about enjoyable restaurants and meals and then moving on:

Favourite - Orchids at the Fulay - good food, good service, good value.

Good Value and Service - Siam - Poonsuk Road

OK Food and Reasonable Value - Papa Johns - suited both Thai and Western tastes

Utterly Indifferent Food - Itsurra - great setting, friendly service, reasonably priced

Really Poor Food - Sailom (always had good reports). Here we had a variety of courses including Tom Yam Goong (the worst I've tried).

Bad Food and Service - The Italian looking place near the corner of Poonsuk and Bintabat - had a dodgy stomach (following Itsurra) so opted for Pizza and Lasagne - what a mistake. Waitress more interested in her mobile phone than service.

No Meal Eaten - Crawfords. (Sorry Ken) Despite being only moderately busy, the service for drinks was so slow that we decided not to eat there. This was rather a shame as the drinks were good, the air conditioning most welcome and the music at a sensible level. (Although there was also a Scottish woman in the bar whose voice managed to drown out the live band!)
Unfortunately we tried the Italian place above instead.... whoops!

The Italian place was obviously a mistake - Sailom and Itsurra though, were most disappointing.

There are other good restaurants in Hua Hin, our choice was perhaps unfortunate.

Strangely enough, I've never thought of myself as being 'fussy' over food.

Peter

[Bamboo Grove]

I just ate at Sailom three days ago and truly enjoyed all the dishes I had there, particularly the grilled pork in soy sauce and sea food phak cha were exellent.

[PeteB]

Hi Bamboo Grove,

It's good to know (I think) that we were just unlucky at Sailom. We were there last Thursday and only the chicken & cashew nuts was really acceptable.

We ate with an ex-pat resident and his Thai wife - who appologised for the food.

Peter

[JW]

Hi Peter,

Wee run down of good places for you.

Great Thai food at the restaurant on the corner of Nebkehardt and Dechanuit Road, near the 7 eleven round the corner from Sugar Cane and Johnnie Walkers. Also a place on Soi 51 on the right side driving towards petchkasem road (this place serves up so fast you wont believe and the food is very good.) Got a sign saying recommended by Mac Dang!
Little Danish Guest house - lovely guy owns the place, and his food is great also - very simple food - meat, pots and lovely gravy,
Lo Stivale for Italian - ok its not traditional italian but the food and service are consistently good.
Pizza at the Hilton downstairs restaurant, or La Villa.
Good pub grub and hearty portions at the place beside Nervana - cracking English breakfast.
Sunday roast at Dicks Office - it grieves me to admit but his roast beef is very good (taught by the owner of Little danish!).
Chang Sawan - at the top of soi 88 by the railway crossing - good value decent food.
Sangthai Sea food - pier restaurant opposite Fishermans Wharf
Monsoon - dodgy service but a very good steak.
Baan Monta - Dechaniut road - quality food great potatoes (jacket especially).

Ok Pete thats enough for now, you must have plenty there. Enjoy

[PeteB]

Thanx JW - just hit an unlucky streak.................

Peter

[chelsea]

Best thai food I had in HH was in one of the places on the street (think it was Nam Nam's or very similar to that) on the LH Side of the road where the London Lounge is (going up towards the Hilton).

Loved the vietnamese food and ambience at the Monsoon (did not try the steak)

Great seafood and Thai food in both the Rua Rimtarn (which is a boat parked on the land where the fishing village is, and the cafe/bar at the bottom of the steps where the big buddah and monkey mountain is in Koh Takiab.

Great food/drinks and best place to view the sunset was at the Lets Sea (on the front of the beach coming back towards town from Koh Takiab).

Two good Itailans in the street where the Hilton is. 1st one is on the corner by the Sofitel and the other one I think was the one JW mentioned (La Villa).

I was most amazed to have the best Indian meal that I have had (since I left the UK a long time ago) at Maharaja (turn left at the end of the street where the Hilton is and is just up the road on the RH side).

Had my GF's birthday dinner at the Chinese on the top floor of the Hilton. Had peking duck, food was excellent as well as the service, also got an unexpected suprise (complimentary deserts and happy birthday sang by staff for my GF).

All in all I was mad that I only decided to eat in the Thai place on the street on the last night, as most of the other Thai places we tried (although the food was very good), seemed to cater for those tourists who did not like hot/spicy food.

Anyway, there are so many choices for places to eat, you will never go hungry or thirsty in HH.

[lomuamart]

Cor,
I havnt eaten at any of those places and I live here.
Bit out of my league.

[chelsea]

Not bad for a day trip

[MartinJ]

Does any one know where you can get a good breakfast from, Back Bacon would be great, Great Sausages to, but I think I miss out the eggs most places I been only do the streaky type and I have to have more of that.

While I am on this, any on else got Fried Potato when asked for Fried Tomato? Or is it just they way I say it?

[tuktukmike]

Crawfords of course.

But i also think many other farang owned bars and resturants also do good breakfasts.

But Crawfords is my personal favorite, eat without dripping in sweat.

Mike.

[JW]

Ok Chaps - Breakfasts

Jungle Juice
Dicks Office
Crawfords
New Headrock
Coconuts 2

No particularorder here - all similar and good

[MartinJ]

Crawfords

it is then.

ta

[Jaime]

While I am on this, any on else got Fried Potato when asked for Fried Tomato? Or is it just they way I say it?

It is a common mix-up amongst Thai people. My wife has lived in the UK for getting on for 6 years and still mixes them up, as do my step-sons, sister in-law and friends.

[Limey711]

I agree with JW, with reference the breakfast at the Jungle Juice, I will give you an example.

My self, my wife and grand daughter, visited lovely Hua Hin for the month of October last year and because we are moving out there this year to take early retirement, we did a lot of walking around to get to know the town.

We visited the All In Hua Hin for breakfast one day, the food was okay, but not plentiful, because of the heat and the amount of walking we were doing, my grand daughter was playing up a little bit, sat at the next table was a Box Head, about sixty or seventy years old and all of a sudden he starts to tell off my grand daughter for miss behaving, speaking to her in German, if he was not that old I would probably have launched the ignorant bas$"*d. but instead we just left.

The next day, after again walking around Hua Hin, we called in at the Jungle Juice for a late breakfast, at around 11 oclock and my grand daughter again, being hot and bothered, was a little restless, she is four years old by the way, no one in the bar complained or looked at us funny, but instead the staff came over and knew exactly what was wrong with her, made a fuss over her and had her collecting glasses and keeping her busy while Marie and myself enjoyed our lovely breakfast. Which by the way was plentiful, if you look at the advert for Jungle Juice on this site and look at the picture of the breakfast, that is excactly what the breakfast looks like, when it is served up to you. ( It does exactly what it says on the tin ).

Needless to say we wont be frequenting the All In Hua Hin

[MartinJ]

Ok i am sold
Jungle Juice is worth a look

The staff sound just great

But is 11 really a late breakfast

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