Phuket Food Guide: Restaurants, Cafes, and Other Food Spots You Should Visit in Thailand's Party Island

This article is part of the Phuket Food Trip series. Check out the installments in this series: Phuket Food Guide | Chuan Chim (Thai-Chinese Food) | Go Benz (Dry Porridge) | Fatboys Cafe & Restaurant (British Food) | Jadjan by Ko Dang (Restaurant by Former Hotel Chef) | Mee Ton Poe’s Hokkien Mee (Phuketian Stir-Fried Noodles) | Mu Krop Chi Hong (Crispy Pork Belly and Roast Meats) | Mad Hog Tavern Phuket (Harry Potter-Themed Tavern) | One Chun Cafe and Restaurant (Phuketian and Southern Thai Food) | Prime Burger (Award-Winning Smash Burgers) | Roti Taew Nam (Roti and Breakfast Spot) | Thaivetro Oldtown (Ice Cream) | The Charm Dining Gallery (Thai-Peranakan Food)

Located in Southern Thailand, Phuket is the largest island in the Land of Smiles. While tourists flock to Phuket for its beaches and parties, it is undeniable that the island also offers amazing food. With a wide array of culinary influences—Chinese (Hokkien), Indian, Malaysian, and even European—your taste buds will be in for a treat at Phuket.

In this food guide, I’ve compiled the restaurants and other food spots I visited during our Phuket trip. I’ve separated the food spots that offer local food from those that serve international cuisines, and have also created a separate category for cafes and dessert spots.

Please take note that most are located in Phuket City/Old Town. Only a couple are located outside of it (namely in Patong). And to know more about every spot, just click on the provided link.

So here are the Phuket restaurants, cafes, and other food spots you should visit:

Local Food

Chuan Chim

Chuan Chim is a Thai-Chinese restaurant with over seventy years of history and now run by its second generation. It’s known for their delicious, wok-fried dishes that even the MICHELIN Guide noticed, awarding it with a Bib Gourmand. It was also featured by Bangkok-based American food vlogger Mark Wiens. He’s the reason I found out about Chuan Chim.

My favorites there include Chicken with Cashew Nuts, Pad Krapow Moo Sub (Holy Basil Stir-Fry with Minced Pork), and Tom Yum Pla (Fish Tom Yum or sour soup). All the dishes are so good and it won my heart to Thai food! Check out my experience by clicking the link below.

From Left to Right: *Pad Krapow Moo Sub,* *Tom Yum Pla,* and Chicken with Cashew Nuts

Address: 37/3 Montri Rd., Tambon Talat Yai, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket, Thailand | Operating Hours: Monday-Saturday, 11:30AM-1:30PM & 5:30-10:30PM | Contact No.: +66 76 215 825

Go Benz

Also awarded with a MICHELIN Bib Gourmand, Go Benz is a hole-in-the-wall famous for its dry porridge or boiled rice (yes, there is such a thing) and other pork dishes. It’s popular among locals and tourists that it’s still packed with diners late at night.

Address: Krabi, Tambon Talat Nuea, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket, Thailand | Operating Hours: Daily, 5:30PM-1AM | Contact No.: +66 84 060 7799

Jadjan by Ko Dang

Jadjan is a hole-in-the-wall headed by Chef Dang (or Danny), who worked in the hotel industry for 20 years (including Marriott) and, at one point, for Benihana in Texas. The restaurant specializes in both Central and Southern Thai cuisine.

We tried the “Mark Wiens Menu”, which consists of Fish Curry, Squid with Crispy Garlic, and Stir-Fried Kale with Crispy Pork. All the dishes are amazing!

Address: 4 15 Sakdidet Rd., Tambon Talat Nuea, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket, Thailand | Operating Hours: Daily, 10:30AM-1:30PM & 5:00-7:30PM | Contact No.: +66 89 868 1954

Mee Ton Poe

Mee Ton Poe is an institution in Phuket City. It’s been serving its signature Hokkien Mee, a stir-fried noodle dish composed of thick egg noodles, pork, seafood, and veggies, since 1946. If a food spot has been around for such a long time, you know that they’re really good!

Mee Ton Poe’s Hokkien Mee is my favorite dish in our entire Phuket trip! Find out why by clicking the link below.

Phuket City Branch Address: 214, 7-8 Phuket Rd., Tambon Talat Yai, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket, Thailand | Operating Hours: Daily, 9AM-6:30PM | Facebook

Mu Krop Chi Hong

Mu Krop Chi Hong is an unassuming hole-in-the-wall that specializes on Moo Krob/Mu Krop (crispy pork belly) roast meats. Their meats are so good that the MICHELIN Guide has recently awarded them with a Bib Gourmand distinction.

Address: 66/6 Vichitsongkram Rd., Tambon Talat Nuea, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket, Thailand | Operating Hours: Daily, 6AM-2PM

One Chun Cafe and Restaurant

When I was researching for food spots to visit in Phuket, consistently present in every list is One Chun Cafe and Restaurant. It is known for serving Phuketian and Southern Thai food. Its food is so good that it was awarded a MICHELIN Bib Gourmand.

One Chun is housed in a Sino-Portuguese structure. It has a retro interior adorned with antique furnitures, old wall clocks, and vintage TVs and radios. All of these make the restaurant charming.

Left to Right: Deep-Fried Eggs with Minced Pork, *Moo Hong*, and Stir-Fried Squid with Salted Egg

Address: 48, 1 Thep Krasattri Rd., Talat Yai, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket, Thailand | Operating Hours: Daily, 10AM-10PM | Contact No.: +66 76 355 909 | Facebook | Instagram

Roti Taew Nam

Located in Phuket Old Town, Roti Taew Nam (sometimes spelled as Roti Thaew Nam) serves Roti that’s cooked on a griddle heated by charcoal. You can pair their Roti with curries and Thai coffee or tea.

Address: 6 Thep Krasattri Rd., Tambon Talat Yai, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket, Thailand | Operating Hours: Daily, 7AM-12PM

The Charm Dining Gallery

A MICHELIN Bib Gourmand awardee, The Charm Dining Gallery is a restaurant that specializes in Thai Peranakan food. To the uninitiated, the Peranakan is an ethnic group with Chinese and Malay descent. They can be found in Phuket, Malacca and Penang (Malaysia), and Singapore.

A visit to The Charm is like visiting a museum. The shophouse-turned-restaurant have renovated its interior to keep it as close as possible to the original house.

Left to Right: Roast Duck with Homemade Orange Sauce, Old Fashion Hainanese Pork Steak, and Wok-Fried Black Mushroom, Eggs, and Shallots

Address: 93 Dibuk Rd., Tambon Talat Nuea, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket, Thailand | Operating Hours: Thursday-Tuesday, 11AM-9PM | Contact No.: +66 76 530 199 | Facebook | Instagram

International Cuisine

Fatboys Cafe & Restaurant

Fatboys Cafe & Restaurant is a restaurant serving authentic British food. Located in Patong, it’s owned, according to the waiter, by a British national, so customers are guaranteed that they’ll be served legit British food.

Address: 205, 23 Nanai Rd, Patong, Phuket, Thailand | Operating Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 9AM-9PM | Contact No.: +66 80 810 9133 | Facebook

Prime Burger

A brainchild of the Swedish national Tobias Garneij, Prime Burger opened in 2019 and one of its burgers won an award a few months after. Their “Stockholm” burger, named after the owner’s hometown, won in Phuket’s Best Burger, which claims to be Asia’s biggest burger event, with burgers, beers, and live music.

Prime Burger started in Patong and eventually expanded throughout Phuket and outside, including Bangkok, Koh Samui, and Pattaya City. It also opened abroad in Dubai, U.A.E.

For branches and operating hours, check out Prime Burger’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, and its website.

Cafes, Dessert Spots, and other spots

Mad Hog Tavern Phuket

Mad Hog Tavern Phuket is a bar and cafe that will bring joy to Harry Potter fans. It is formerly known as Hog’s Head Phuket, named after the fictional, disreputable pub and inn in the wizarding village of Hogsmeade that’s frequented by shady customers.

But unlike the Hog’s Head in the book, Mad Hog Tavern is a fun place. There are many Harry Potter paraphernalia inside, such as the Nimbus 2000, the broomstick that Harry rode in a Quidditch game.

Address: 27 Yaowarat Rd, Talad Yai, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket, Thailand | Operating Hours: Daily, 10AM-12AM | Contact No.: +66 93 645 7969 | Facebook | Instagram

Origami Cafe

Origami Cafe is a cafe chain in Phuket serving all-day breakfast, coffee, and locally-inspired cakes. One of their branches is conveniently located at the ground floor of our hotel, Blu Monkey Boutique Phuket Town.

We tried several cakes that are inspired by local desserts or made with local ingredients (or both).

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Address: 183 53, 54 Phangnga Rd., Tambon Talat Yai, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket, Thailand | Operating Hours: TBA | Facebook | Instagram

Thaivetro Oldtown

Thaivetro is a local ice cream shop that offers more than 80 flavors, ranging from classic ones such as Chocolate and Madagascar Vanilla, to Thai flavors such as Thai Tea, Phuket Pineapple, and even Tom Yum Kung (sour soup with shrimp). They even make ice cream with beer, vodka, and a local energy drink.

Address: 54 Yaowarad Rd., Tambon Talat Yai, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket, Thailand | Operating Hours: Daily, 9:30AM-9:30PM | Contact No.: +66 83 919 8255 | Facebook | Instagram

I hope this food guide helps you for your Phuket (food) trip. I will continue to update this as we get to try more food spots in the island.

What Phuket food spots should I try next? Comment below!