Baan Khanitha

Located in a converted house from the era of King Rama V that in addition to the restaurant, features an art gallery exhibiting the work of talented local and foreign artists plus a collection of carefully selected Thai antiques. The Thai style wooden furniture and orange ceramic tiled floor gives a warm feeling of an old Thai house. A large size restaurant with many different dining areas, reservations are recommended as it’s very busy most evenings.

To start ‘deep fried fish and prawn cakes’ each with their own dressing; ‘pomelo salad with prawns and lemon grass salad with shrimp’ that had a chili bite to the taste. The concept of art extends to the plates that are decorated with flowers carved out of raw vegetables.

The ‘tom kha kung’ had a delightful taste and to raise the profile of their food they served steamed snow fish.

With the meal we enjoyed a Sileni Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand, a perfect wine partner with Thai food. The service was impeccable and we concluded the meal with ‘mango, sticky rice and vanilla ice cream’.