Page 2 of 3 FirstFirst 123 LastLast
Results 26 to 50 of 68
  1. #26
    Thailand Expat
    thailazer's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2010
    Last Online
    Today @ 01:56 AM
    Posts
    3,102
    The Gekko Pub is also a good place to hang out, and has a usual crowd of expats. Rudi does a great job with the food and it is located not far from the downtown haunts.

  2. #27
    Thailand Expat
    Iceman123's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2013
    Last Online
    Yesterday @ 04:24 AM
    Location
    South Australia
    Posts
    5,526
    Quote Originally Posted by thailazer View Post
    The Gekko Pub is also a good place to hang out, and has a usual crowd of expats. Rudi does a great job with the food and it is located not far from the downtown haunts.
    Nidhogg was looking for the best restaurants in Chiang Mai.

    Gekko offers a cheap pub meal in a very grimy low class setting.

  3. #28
    Hangin' Around cyrille's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Location
    Home
    Posts
    33,534
    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    That'll set off the TEFLrs.
    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    You're just going to troll every thread on the forum?


    .....

  4. #29
    Thailand Expat harrybarracuda's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    96,555
    Quote Originally Posted by Iceman123 View Post
    Nidhogg was looking for the best restaurants in Chiang Mai.

    Gekko offers a cheap pub meal in a very grimy low class setting.
    YD thanks you for the tip.

  5. #30
    last farang standing
    Hugh Cow's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2015
    Last Online
    15-03-2024 @ 01:44 PM
    Location
    Qld/Bangkok
    Posts
    4,110
    Quote Originally Posted by Edmond View Post
    Agree with Dukes and Riverside (and Good View beside it).

    For a Khao Soi lunch next to the river go to Rimping Boat Noodles, Hoi Kaa style (feet dangling down over the riverbank), great Khao Soi (peeset) 50thb, pik gai tod 55thb, the moo penang is also recommended. Not fancyschmancy, a nice litle place for lunch if in the area.

    Google Map with 2000 photos
    Fond memories of the good view with my ex GF.

  6. #31
    Thailand Expat harrybarracuda's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    96,555
    A trio of extras:

    The Ironwood - Thai food in an outdoor setting in the forest. Chickens and Ducks walking around. Well presented, tasty food and not hideously expensive. Got a Michelin star for one of its dishes a couple of years ago.

    Time - in the grounds of the Na Nirand hotel. Pricey but amazing food and a lovely riverside setting. They do a minced prawn in crispy lychee in a crab sauce, it is fucking lovely.

    River Rock Cafe - off the main road near Mae Sa Waterfall, medium price, good food, great coffee and desserts and an Indiana Jones style bridge to cross to get to it, although you sometimes have to wait a few minutes while the selfie mob take a dozen fucking pictures on it.


    best restaurants in CM-300034439_612933810219946_8550560613256494376_n-jpg
    The next post may be brought to you by my little bitch Spamdreth

  7. #32
    Thailand Expat
    malmomike77's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2021
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    13,674
    Hazza there is nothing wrong with being frugal, cheap even, so why not admit it.

  8. #33
    Thailand Expat harrybarracuda's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    96,555
    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    Hazza there is nothing wrong with being frugal, cheap even, so why not admit it.
    I once booked the tasting menu with wine pairing at The Dome at Lebua as a treat for a couple of friends who'd just got engaged. It was probably out of the "25 quid gourmand"'s price bracket to be fair.

    Trouble is two days before I left Chiang Mai I got a steaming cold, so by the time we got there I was treated to the other three telling me how delicious everything was when I couldn't taste a fucking thing

    We live in a country where some of the best food cost peanuts, but I'm enjoying swanning around the north finding different places to try, some turn out to be expensive tourist shit, some are cheap tourist shit, some are expensive and worth it, some are cheap and unbelievably good.

    If you want one of the best khao soys you'll ever taste, squander 40 baht here (I stopped counting in "quids" 35 years ago).

    I actually really like the beef version.

    Google Maps

    Oh, and did I mention that execrable River Market will be reopening as a Mediterranean restaurant?

  9. #34
    Thailand Expat
    malmomike77's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2021
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    13,674
    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    I once booked the tasting menu with wine pairing at The Dome at Lebua
    Amazing, and you a soccer fan too...

  10. #35
    Thailand Expat harrybarracuda's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    96,555
    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    Amazing, and you a soccer fan too...
    They were dear friends and I wanted to treat them. They loved it, so from their point of view it was superb, so mission accomplished.

    From mine I might as well have been eating papier mache and drinking Blue Nun.


  11. #36
    Thailand Expat
    Iceman123's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2013
    Last Online
    Yesterday @ 04:24 AM
    Location
    South Australia
    Posts
    5,526
    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    I once booked the tasting menu with wine pairing at The Dome at Lebua as a treat for a couple of friends who'd just got engaged.
    Not a big deal Harry, I have stayed at Lebua (always go for Tower Club to get lounge access and better room) many times. Have dined at Sirocco restaurant more times than I care to remember. My evening tab would probably sustain you for 6 months of your pov living in CM.

    Now friends that just got engaged? Where would a cantankerous old curmudgeon like you you get friends? Are you sure it wasn’t last year when you were celebrating the wife’s 21st.

  12. #37
    Thailand Expat harrybarracuda's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    96,555
    Quote Originally Posted by armstrong View Post
    I mean there's a thread title...
    I guess there is a difference of opinion as to what consistute the "best restaurants" (plural) in Chiangmai.

    For me it's 100% about the food as opposed to whether or not they put the Blue Nun in a pint glass


    This is arguably the best Bt40 you'll ever spend on food in CM, but if you rate the place on the tablecloths, you'd never go there.


    best restaurants in CM-299825164_10160750380947518_8805507149922739217_n-jpg

  13. #38
    Thailand Expat harrybarracuda's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    96,555
    I should add for the 25 quid gourmand that you can pay two or three hundred for a poor imitation of the same dish, but it's "deconstructed" so he'd probably go for it.

    best restaurants in CM-2021-11-13-jpg

  14. #39
    Thailand Expat
    Reg Dingle's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2021
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    4,225
    ^^ 3 scraps of chicken/pigeon in that 90p one

  15. #40
    Thailand Expat harrybarracuda's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    96,555
    Quote Originally Posted by Reg Dingle View Post
    ^^ 3 scraps of chicken/pigeon in that 90p one
    That's why I go for the beef

  16. #41
    5 4 Knoll
    david44's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2011
    Last Online
    @
    Location
    At Large
    Posts
    21,088
    I like Sunflower Chinese lunch buffet on 22d floor Dunagtawan Hotel Loy Kroi twixt the Muay Thai and Night Market open to non guest, rarely eed book unless ou first time ad wat a window view but saves going out in the rain, precious few locals as fairly stiiff eveinng weekend pricing excludes lace ironers ad DIY crowd.Buffet lunch s 666 plus taxes I recall with a few scoops about 1000 a head

    Standard Yum Cha , in cool elegant , impeccable service serene surroundings with the best views of the hoi polloi from Doi Suthep to chez noona's and the in-laws

    Duangtawan Hotel Chiang Mai




    Address: 119 Loi Kroh Rd, Tambon Chang Khlan, Mueang Chiang Mai District, Chiang Mai 50100, Thailand




    I've know David of kitchen fane decades ad he is really top notch, my step bro is only chef I've met better.

    As others suggest of you want Int food the chain Hotels know how to do it a t a hefty surcharge
    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer View Post
    I just want the chance to use a bigger porridge bowl.

  17. #42
    Hangin' Around cyrille's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Location
    Home
    Posts
    33,534
    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Oh, and did I mention that execrable River Market will be reopening as a Mediterranean restaurant?
    Any fool could see from some distance that it was for the tourists when it was 'River Market'. Let's hope they realise now that local expats are the 'bread and butter'.

    And that nobody is stupid enough to confuse it with 'Riverside'.
    Last edited by cyrille; 13-09-2022 at 05:35 PM. Reason: typo

  18. #43
    Thailand Expat
    Iceman123's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2013
    Last Online
    Yesterday @ 04:24 AM
    Location
    South Australia
    Posts
    5,526
    David,
    Duangtawan hotel has an excellent gym - top notch for a hotel
    unfortunately that is only thing I can recommend about it other than it’s very good location
    Takemy BSamcook home 16 for a restaurant recommendation-it has the added benefit that you won’t see Harry there

  19. #44
    Thailand Expat harrybarracuda's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    96,555
    Quote Originally Posted by Iceman123 View Post
    David,
    Duangtawan hotel has an excellent gym - top notch for a hotel
    unfortunately that is only thing I can recommend about it other than it’s very good location
    Takemy BSamcook home 16 for a restaurant recommendation-it has the added benefit that you won’t see Harry there
    And don't forget to listen to the chef when he begs you to give him five stars.


  20. #45
    Thailand Expat harrybarracuda's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    96,555
    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    Any fool could see from some distance that it was for the tourists when it was 'River Market'. Let's hope they realise now that local expats are the 'bread and butter'.

    And that nobody is stupid enough to confuse it with 'Riverside'.
    Yeah, I put it down to you being semi-literate.

  21. #46
    Thailand Expat harrybarracuda's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    96,555
    Had a delightful lunch at Terra, behind the Four Season in Mae Rim the other day. Not cheap but worth it.

    Has anyone tried the revamped River Market yet? It appears to have reopened as "international cuisine" although the sign while remodelling said "Mediterranean".

  22. #47
    Thailand Expat
    Iceman123's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2013
    Last Online
    Yesterday @ 04:24 AM
    Location
    South Australia
    Posts
    5,526
    What has happened to your 6 quid little buffet restaurant? I see you have deleted all references of it on this thread. Possibly because you made a complete arse of yourself, but nothing new there.

  23. #48
    Thailand Expat harrybarracuda's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    96,555
    Quote Originally Posted by Iceman123 View Post
    What has happened to your 6 quid little buffet restaurant? I see you have deleted all references of it on this thread. Possibly because you made a complete arse of yourself, but nothing new there.
    I don't know. Perhaps the mods have got used to deleting large swathes of posts when you're polluting threads with your pointless drivel. It seems to happen a lot.

  24. #49
    Thailand Expat harrybarracuda's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    96,555
    ^

    Re the River Market, it seems they haven't finished and they're doing more than revamping it:

    There's a completely new building going up, and talk of a late night DJ or music.


    best restaurants in CM-img20221010125130-jpg
    Last edited by harrybarracuda; 10-10-2022 at 10:42 PM.

  25. #50
    Thailand Expat harrybarracuda's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    96,555
    Michelin have updated their "Bib Gourmand" list:

    189 Thai eateries win Michelin Guide's Bib Gourmand

    There are 27 Chiangmai eateries on their list. Look forward to trying a few of them out.

    You can't get near Khao Soi Kad Gorm anymore, because every time I go past it there is a queue of top-knotted youtuber wankers thronging around it.

    The list:

    Chiang Mai Region Bib Gourmand MICHELIN Restaurants – the MICHELIN Guide Thailand

Page 2 of 3 FirstFirst 123 LastLast

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •