Kilbirnie wrote:BTW had exactly the same experience as Margaret C. at the Itsara about 18 months ago. My Thai wife questioned the bin and yes we had been overcharged. Never been back, it was an overated place anyways.
Well... If we are several persons with the same bad experience, it's no more an individual case.
François
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I was almost as drunk as myself
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I agree with all the posters about Baan Itsara on Nebkahard road. Good food and value for a nice beach sea food restaurant.
Two relatively new ones that merit mention are Mini Farm Kitchen on Soi 88 just across the tracks next to 7/11 and Cool Relax on Sra Song Road just behind the old Hua Hin Shopping Mall (across from All In Hua Hin). Both of these places have excellent Thai and western food at very reasonable prices. Service may be a bit slow but this is Thailand after all.
richard wrote:Could have been abad day or maybe your attitude
My attitude? The food being inedible had nothing to do with me!
You're coming across as a bit of a drama queen with a tendency to exaggerate so I think Richard's got a point.
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Absolutely delicious though not quite as consistent as Moon Smile & Platoo. Also a bit expensive when you're used to Kim's Kitchen prices!
Mermaids (heading out towards Cha-Am though someone else will probably give better directions) is also damn good, absolutely enormous portions for not a lot of bahts and the penang curry is very very nice.
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Try two in Takiab. . . Madame Green's (seafood)... on the beach; take soi with yellow massage sign, at end inset on right. Take Five (Indian, but alsoThai), further away from HH, on the right (small black sign).
Take 5 is very nice, best Indian I've had in Hua Hin though it's a bit bloody expensive.
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Can I just bring up Sara Jane's again? I know every place has its good days and bad days, but we seem to get just the good ones. The food is consistently excellent, inexpensive and it has genuinely decent wine for under B800 a bottle (its the Chilean chardonnay if you want to know).
But what was most remarkable was that we went there the week before last for the first time since September, and the waitress not only remembered where we sat the last time but also what we ate. Top service.
Jim wrote:
But what was most remarkable was that we went there the week before last for the first time since September, and the waitress not only remembered where we sat the last time but also what we ate. Top service.
For us, a good place all round.
They have only had 2 customers since your last visit Jim so that was quite easy
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Always had good food there but the other night it was not good but the bosses were away in BK attending to their other restaurant
As I've said before on other threads make sure the boss and chef are their to make sure your meal is OK
Many many places lapse 'when the boss is away the mice will play'
i'll go back again and quietly chat to the boss
Think he already knows the problem but difficult when torn between 2 restaurants
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I'm going a bit bit postal today, with my holiday creeping ever closer and all, so thought I'd bump this one. I have been surprised that this thread has not continued to be more popular, topical and/or idiosyncratic
It was on HHAD, for example, that I first read about MOON SMILE AND PLATOO - which, BTW, must be one of the most perplexing restaurant names ever - and I was glad I did. Ate there several times , excellent, reasonably inexpensive Thai food, and seemed to cater well to a wide customer base.
In April this year I was introduced by a friend to the GREEN LOTUS, somewhere in Soi 88, and ate there several times again. (Admittedly, they had a jug of Chang advertised for 95 Baht, I think, but I thought the food and certainly the ambience were equally impressive) And it got a GOOD TOILET AWARD in a previous thread, also well deserved.
From this and another thread I am looking forward to KHUN OY , which sounds well worth a visit or two, so I suppose that cannot count as my favourite restaurant yet.
For farang food, I am mainly an unashamed lover of the UK-type leisurely breakfasts you can get out there. It's a meal I always skip back home, but in HH I like LUCKY, Soi Kanjomai, for an inexpensive light one, or JUNGLE JUICE for the bigger, fatter variety. (The bread at LUCKY sucks, but it's not the end of the world.)
Anyway, why don't more people keep this thread going?
I certainly would not have heard about one or two places I hope to try without it, and if I have helped to add GREEN LOTUS to the mix, that's worth trying too.
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