Phuket Restaurants and Dining

Where and What to Eat in Phuket

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 Restaurant Reviews Guide 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.

Featured Restaurants

Da Maurizio Bar Ristorante

Romantic, sophisticated but yet comfortably casual is Da Maurizio Bar Ristorante. The contemporary Italian cuisine combined with the traditional Italian flair is exceptional which is why it has won many awards including yearly appearances in Thailand Tatler's Best Restaurant Guide.

Da Maurizio continually strives to create new and exciting dishes using only the best local and imported ingredients. Enter down sandstone stairs through tropical gardens to tables only a few feet above the sand.

Read Da Maurizio restaurant review by Phuket.com!

Baan Rim Pa

The restaurant wins awards year and year. In 2009 it was listed in the Asian Miele Restaurant Guide and has been awarded Wine Spectator Award of Excellence consecutively since 2002. The Royal Thai cuisine is designed to suit all tastes from those who like hot and spicy to those who want it mild and tasty using only top quality local seafood and ingredients. The spectacular water views, the Piano Bar, the fabulous wines and exceptional Thai cuisine make Baan Rim Pa “Simply the finest in the Kingdom”.

Read Baan Rim Pa restaurant review by Phuket.com!

JOES Downstairs

The location alone brings guests to Joes for their well-known cocktails, cold beer or glass of wine from the extensive selection and sampling the excellent New World cuisine by award winning Executive Chef Aaron Hooper. The stunning white interior with NEW decking out across the rocks almost to the water’s edge offers something unique. Located between Baan Rim Pa and Da Maurizio, Joe’s Downstairs - winner of the 2008-2010 HAPA best casual dining restaurant – Asia award, is not to be missed.

Read Joe's Downstairs restaurant review by Phuket.com!

Phuket Best Restaurants 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. Read More...

RE KÁ TA Beach Club & Restaurant

RE KÁ TA is a trendy Beach-Club-cum restaurant on Kata Beach with an accent on healthy living. The base for the annual King’s Cup Regatta, it’s easy to see how the place got its clever name. Fresh, preservative-free products are the order of the day at RE KÁ TA and it prides itself on sourcing only the best. Read More...

Into the Sea Restaurant

Into the Sea in Evason Phuket is one of the most romantic restaurants on the whole island. Located on a terrace overlooking the east coast, with the sound of the waves below and an unsurpassed view out to nearby Koh Lone Island it’s the stuff of gastronomic dreams. Price Range: $$$ Read More...

Phuket Restaurants by Areas - Where to Eat in Phuket

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...

Top 10 Best Local Thai Restaurants in Phuket

Top 10 Local Restaurants

Discover 10 of the most popular local restaurants you can try during your holidays if you feel like trying local daily life! Some are not for the first timers. Read More...

Top 10 Thai Food

Discover 10 of the most popular Thai Food and Dishes you should try during your holidays! Read More...

1st Time Thai Food in Phuket

Many foreigners know something about Thai food from going to Thai restaurants in their home countries. Others have never tried it but have heard of its reputation for gorgeous if mouth-searing tastes - and plan to give it a try while in Phuket. Read More...

Do's & Don'ts

There are a few unique things about Thai table manners that you should be aware of. Most of the manners of Thai eating come from the fact that most Thai meals are taken communally rather than in small groups or couples. Since dining is such a social activity and status matters so much in Thai society many of the rules of etiquette are based on perceived status among the group. Read More...

Fresh Markets in Phuket

There's a saying that if you really want to get to know a country, you should visit its local markets. In Thailand that's certainly true; you can soak up a whole lot of local flavour just by walking around the local market. To go to a fresh market in the west is considered a treat; a good day out. Read More...

Fried Insects

Just call it a 'cultural divide' but strange as it may seem, a favourite snack in Thailand, originally from the northeast of the country but now found everywhere, is a yummy plate of fried insects. The theory is that the northeast is the poorest part of Thailand and that for some time now crops have been hard to grow there. Read More...

Phuket's Floating Restaurants

Phuket’s floating seafood restaurants (‘ krachang’ in Thai) are a novel way to dine out and can be found along the east coast of Phuket. The trip involves a fun and short long-tail boat ride from Laem Hin Pier to the restaurants. It’s a great day out all year round, come rain or shine! Read More...

Phuket Seafood

One reason many tourists choose to return to Phuket again and again is because they love the food available on the island. The variety of dishes is huge but one type of food that plays a big role in Phuket’s Thai-and-international culinary culture is seafood. Read More...

Street Food and Hawker Food

Phuket, already well known for its fresh succulent seafood, is rapidly gaining a reputation as a great place to find excellent Thai and international food in some very picturesque venues. Places to eat vary from roadside noodle stalls, air-conditioned restaurants, open air restaurants with great views, or fast food outlets. You won't go hungry! Read More...

Sunday Brunch in 5 Resorts

Much of the pleasure of living or visiting Phuket is choosing from the wonderful selection of restaurants whose international executive chefs present foods that are hard to find anywhere else in the world. Though many of the tasty ingredients found on the menus of the island’s five star resorts are imported from Europe or Australia, a lot is fresh from the surrounding Andaman Sea or grown in organic gardens sprinkled around the region. Price Range: $$$ Read More...

Thai Cooking Classes in Phuket

Thai cuisine is becoming more popular throughout the world, and there's no better way to learn the art of Thai cooking than with some local chefs. Many classes also offer the chance to shop for all the fresh ingredients in local markets. Read More...

Thai Food

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 and 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...

Thai Food and Wine

Wine has been around a long time in Asia but sometimes we are still confused about which wines to enjoy with Asian Food. Luckily, here in Thailand the art of balancing sweet, salty, sour and bitter flavour sensations in wine along with richly flavoured Thai cuisine is as effortless as wine itself. Read More...

Thai Recipes

We all love Thai cuisine but what’s the best way to prepare it? Find out through our monthly recipes – brought to you by us from the island’s top chefs. Tips, short cuts to great taste and useful tips to ensure you make the best of the best – Thai food at its dizzy heights, up where it belongs. Read More...