Laos - Vientiane Restaurants and Bars

[benbaaa]

^ Thanks, TP. I really like the eagle one. When's the next photo competition, DD?

[MARC]

I have been told that many Western imported food items, ie: cheese, etc., are available in Vientiane, and are less money than they are in Thailand, due to low duty?
Any recommendations or locations of shops that sell Western food items?
Thanks.

[qwerty]

I just loved the fresh baguettes you could get there. Here's a chicken sandwich I had:



And here's the girl who made the sandwich:

[dirtydog]

This was on Samsenthai Road, they got a few restaurants that do the fresh fruit juice, me, I'm not into all that healthy stuff do had a sausage Baugette, although why they think sausages are actually hotdogs I have no idea.



Inside the restaurant.



8,000kip or about 30baht for this baugette, wish Thailand had something compareable price wise.

[dirtydog]

Due to getting pissed and passing out in my hotel at 6.30pm my plans of having a Mexican meal then an Indian meal that evening were slightly messed up, luckily Nazims opens at 9.30am.

I have a feeling that they have also put their prices up, my chicken rogan josh was 28,000kip, ie about 110baht, still well worth the money and got to admit I had a couple of cigarette breaks whilst eating it due to the amount of chicken in it.

Inside the Nazim restaurant.



I sat outside as I am not sure if you can smoke inside, probably can and there was no one else there that early in the morning.



Lovely rogan josh with plain rice



and onto my second helping.

[dirtydog]

So what better to do Laos than sample the Lao beer, this was a Lao restaurant but I didn't bother eating here, so here's my first beer



Pretty tatty restaurant on Mahosot Road but it was next door to my hotel.



Then it got exciting, this old Lao guy came wandering out of the toilet pointing at something and shouting, a couple of the girls run off, by the time I got up to look it had got under the crates, the old guy then asks me to help him lift the cooler box to catch the thing, hmmmmm, I asked if it was poisonous, they said yes, so they expect me to lift the cooler box where some unknown animal that is poisonous is lurking under there, I assumed it would have been a big monster cobra, we then discussed what sort of animal it was and I felt a bit braver.



Yep nearly a foot long of nasty centerpede

[jandajoy]

Did it taste good?

[dirtydog]

No idea, the old guy let it go across the road.

Anyway if your looking for some action in Vientiane then they have the Etoile Nightclub right by the That Dam monument thingy.

[dirtydog]

Here is a better picture of the evil bugger.

[Aquaman]

They have a Nazim restaraunt in Pakse as well. worst bathroom ive ever stepped foot in. nearly puked.

[dirtydog]

Indians and bathrooms do not go together.

Is this Indian restaurant on the river front a new one? It's called the Fathima Restaurant, first time I saw it anyway.

[dirtydog]

This Mexican restaurant down on the river front in Vientiane has got to be good, well a lot better than the crap in Pattaya, just wish I didn't spend my days getting pissed and actually made it there

[Aquaman]

Ive only drank beer there, cant say anything about the food.

[dirtydog]

Vientiane unlike Thailand doesn't charge extortionate taxes on wine, so here's one place to go.



Some french wine and some fruit, things don't get better than this.

[Dick Rangerous]

Nazim's curry house is pretty so-so these days... sounds like your meal was fine but BE WARNED Nazim's gets so much business they don't have to try with their food anymore. I was left very disappointed from their shop in Luang Phrabang and have since boycotted their chain. The curry was dead plain, had few raw spices in the mix and the nans were like old cardboard. Lazy chefs in Nazim's.

Instead, give the FATHIMA place a try in Vientiene, I was well pleased with the vindaloo, meaty samosas and garlic nan....
but the best value INDIANS in Laos for those that know are NISHA curry houses. There isn't one in Vientiene but there's a shop in Vang Vieng and another in Luang Phrabang..as it says on the menu.... "NISHA -CHEAP AND BEST". Great Indian food and at far better rates than just about the rest of SEA. (Though there is one place on Weather Station Hill, Sanookville that just about beats allcomers but that's another story.)

[Key Knock]

what about La terrace? they had the best long island iced teas in town...

[benlovesnuk]

i would have to disagree with you about the atm's as there is an atm outside the grande hotel(whatever it might be called), and it dispensed me 1 million kip, there might have been an option for more however my mid is rotting away so i cannot remember..........

yes my brains all gone!

[Aquaman]

[Aquaman]

Had quite a good feast there.
rather hung over from the previous evening while there, 7pm.
right to bed after that.

[sabang]

Le Cote D'Azur restaurant is on the riverside promenade in Vientianne, the farang strip.

Had an excellent meal there, and run by a nice Thai/Laos couple. Definitely one to try, and for about a third the price it would cost you in Bangkok for similar standard French fare.

[peterpan]

To add to the food thread, this is the best Value in Lao. a Bottle of Chilean Cab Sav and a French roll with salad and Pork Terrine for less than 300 Bt.
Fvcking so awesome I ordered one more of each after finishing this one. The bread was great in fact much better than the Scandi Bakery one I had this morning. The wine was more than adequate, the 2 nd bottle even better.
If only the same could be had in Thailand.

[Aquaman]

Its amazing the difference, i could never get over why you couldnt find nice food close to Lao. The food in vientiene is great.

[benbaaa]

i would have to disagree with you about the atm's as there is an atm outside the grande hotel(whatever it might be called), and it dispensed me 1 million kip

You're quite correct, er, ben. The ones that only dish out 700,000 kip are the BCEL bank ATMs. We also discovered the ATM opposite some big hotel, and I think it allowed upto 2m or 3m kip.

You'd never be able to get all that in your wallet, of course.

Regards,

er, ben

[Watanaporn]

To add to the food thread, this is the best Value in Lao. a Bottle of Chilean Cab Sav and a French roll with salad and Pork Terrine for less than 300 Bt.
Fvcking so awesome I ordered one more of each after finishing this one. The bread was great in fact much better than the Scandi Bakery one I had this morning. The wine was more than adequate, the 2 nd bottle even better.
If only the same could be had in Thailand.

Hi..it looks good. Where is this place?

[dirtydog]

This is the latest place to open in Vientiane, I went past it in the day time and thought it would be a good place for the evening due to the girls sign



Sadly it seems the girls haven't found this place yet and there was just 2 sad lonely male customers and the barman, maybe next month?