Eat
You're in Thailand, so you know food is never far away. There are heaps of restaurants, food carts, food courts, food markets, motorcyle-sidecar hotdog and meatball vendors, fruit sellers both mobile and stationary, even a roaming coffee
peddling tuk-tuk. OK, so the germ theory of disease doesn't yet seem to be widely accepted but don't let that stop you from ordering the sushi.
Many (although not all) non-Thai-cuisine restaurants also have at least a limited menu
of Thai favorites as well.
Budget
The noodle stall next to the entrance to the North Pattaya Road bus station does a passable ba mii moo daeng (egg noodles with red pork) for 25 baht.
Carrefour food court, Pattaya Klang (near Third Road). has good food including
excellent & cheap Isaan treats like som tam (papaya salad) and khao neow (sticky rice).
Subway [54] now has four locations in Pattaya: South Pattaya Road, next-door-but-one to the entrance to Walking Street (24/7);
Beach Road, at the front of Tipp Plaza (09:00-02:00); Second Road, opposite Soi 1 (10:00-02:00); Central Pattaya Road, on the ground floor of Carrefour (09:00-23:00) - or dial 038360083 for free delivery. From 49 baht for a Veggie Delite
Deli Style Sandwich up to 2600 baht for a 6 foot Giant Sub!
Mid-range
Apex Hotel on Second Road (adjacent to Soi 11; see the Sleep | Budget section) serves all-you-can-eat buffets - American breakfast from 07:00-13:00 (110 baht/adult, 60 baht/child) and dinner from 18:00-22:00 (180 baht/adult, 100
baht/child).
Bier-Kutsche German Restaurant in Walking Street between Soi BJ and Soi Lucky Star is a good German restaurant with moderate prices.
Cool Kitchen in the PS Bowl/Tops Supermarket complex (junction of Central Pattaya
Road and Second Road) has good Western and Thai food including narm tok mu (spicy pork salad) and yum pla dook fu (crispy catfish salad), and is open 24/7.
Cool House (next to PS Bowl/Tops Supermarket) is Cool Kitchen's sister
restaurant, with much the same menu but more ambiance.
Food Wave food court, top floor of Royal Garden Plaza, is an upscale food court with decent views of the ocean. There's even an Orange Julius nearby - Mmmmm!
Lek Hotel in Soi
13 (see the Sleep | Mid-range section) serves a large variety of Thai, Western and international favourites and is open to non-guests. The buffet breakfast (07:00-13:00, 110 baht/adult, 60 baht/child) is especially popular, and the buffet
dinner (18:00-22:30, 180 baht/adult, 100 baht/child) also draws a crowd.
MK Restaurant has locations in various malls including Central Festival (Big-C). A chain of Suki restaurants whose jingle translates as "Eat what? Eat what?
Eat what? Go eat MK!" (it loses something in the translation) and that's just what you should do. Here you'll get to boil raw ingredients right at your own table with your own utensils. And don't worry about putting those chopsticks
in your mouth after touching that raw chicken - just dip them in the boiling water for a few moments.
Splurge
Benihana [55] international Japanese steakhouse chain has a location on the second floor of Royal Garden Plaza. Expect to pay around 1000 baht/person, excluding alcoholic drinks.
Bruno's Restaurant [56] on Thappraya Road is a fine
dining restaurant serving both excellent European cuisine and some Thai dishes. Multi-course set menus from around 400 baht/person, à la carte also available.
The Green Bottle on the ground floor of the Diana Hotel has good steaks and
other food.
Hard Rock Cafe [57] (in the grounds of the Hard Rock Hotel resort on Beach Road) serves American food from essentially the same menu as elsewhere in the world, from 11:00 until 02:00. Starters 99-377 baht, salads 199-266
baht, mains 277-810 baht, deserts 111-222 baht, beer 122-255 baht/bottle.
Vegetarian
Five Star J. Restaurant ("jay"="vegetable"), at the junction of South Pattaya Road and Third Road; tel. +66-38421105. A small inexpensive indoor place that's 100% vegetarian and has a vegetarian owner/manager who speaks
good English; also caters for vegans - open 09:00-21:00.
Vegetarian Club of Pattaya meets at 18:00 on the second Tuesday of every month for an "international vegetarian adventure buffet" (99 baht, reservations required - tel.
+66-38710805) at Café New Orleans, Soi Pattayaland 2 (Soi 13/4) - see also the Contact | Clubs & Associations section
Thai Vegetarian Union website has news and information on vegetarianism and veganism in Thailand.
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