Phuket Restaurants and Dining Guide

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If you love food, you will love Phuket. There are restaurants to suit every taste serving a huge selection of western and Asian food. The variety of cuisine and dining experiences is one of the major attractions of the island. You can eat breakfast at your hotel, lunch at a local noodle stall by the roadside, and have dinner with fine wines in a sophisticated air-conditioned restaurant.

Fancy a snack in between? One of the wonderful characteristics of Thailand is the reverence for food and eating, so you can eat at almost any time of the day. Tropical fruit, banana fritters, barbecue chicken and sticky rice? It's all here... (try out TOP 10!)

While Thai food is renowned world-wide for its wonderful flavours and fresh ingredients, Phuket is especially famous for its seafood, and, you don't have to empty your bank account to enjoy the most sumptuous of dishes. Browse through our location and food guides, or go straight to our handy directory with contact details and reviews of restaurants all over the island. If you'd like to learn about Thai cooking, check out the information about schools which offer short courses.

Phuket.com Monthly Restaurant Reviews

When does a chef take over a restaurant with his personality? Where are the cheap eats? Is Thai food always mouth burning? Is Patong the only place in Phuket to look for haute cuisine? Find out with our monthly restaurant reviews.

Da Maurizio (Patong Beach)

There are very few restaurants that emit romance, mode and sophistication in the same breath, yet at the same time deliver world-class cuisine. Naturally, one tends to think in clichés in this select department: New York, Paris, London – and one certainly envisages a severely damaged wallet after dining out at one of these venues.

9th Floor (Patong Beach)

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Thai Food Overview

One of the greatest things about the diversity of the human experience is the way people express their culture through food. This is especially true with Thailand, where food is so central to the culture. One of the most common ways Thais great each other is by asking “Have you eaten yet?” Thai meals are not just rituals of nourishment, they renew social and family bonds, bringing communities together... (Read More... )

Dining in Phuket by Area

Where to Eat in Phuket? Browse through our guide to some of the best places around the island or select a location from the map. We have selected some of the best and most popular restaurants around the island categorized by type of cuisine or by location... (Read More... )

Phuket Best Restaurants Reviews 2008

Some visitors to Phuket have been known to confess that they harboured at least one preconception about this popular tourist destination – that its local restaurants and hostelries could not likely match up to worldwide tourist standards, or at the very least, those of Bangkok.

Rest assured, however. Phuket island is large enough, both in character and land size, to absorb different types of cuisines, lifestyles and tastes that the island – fast becoming a health-tourism as well as a retirement hub – has long since learned to cater to food lovers' every whim. (Read More...)

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