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Best Restaurants in Koh Samui
Koh Samui’s food connects southern Thai family recipes with the island’s seafood and coconut-growing landscape. These choices range from a cash-only beach kitchen and an airport-side pavilion to a reservation-only plantation meal and polished Choeng Mon dining.
Phensiri
Phensiri cooks southern Thai and older Samui recipes with seasonal island produce and seafood. Chef Santi Wongsawat’s menu includes sour fish curry, nam prik and coconut-heart soup, served indoors or on the wooden terrace. It is a useful place to explore local cooking beyond familiar resort dishes.
Jun Hom
Jun Hom serves southern Thai seafood at open-air tables on the Bang Por coast. Crab coconut curry comes with shrubby basil, with wild betel leaves available instead. The kitchen cooks to order, so allow time for a beachside meal and bring cash.
Khao Horm
Khao Horm serves family recipes in an open pavilion and an air-conditioned dining room near the airport. Stir-fried minced pork with yellow curry paste gives a clear taste of southern Thai spice. Its location works for a final island meal before a flight.
Baan Suan Lung Khai
Baan Suan Lung Khai serves three southern Thai set menus on a wooden veranda in a coconut plantation. Local catch shapes the meal, with crab, grilled prawns and pandan-coconut rice among the dishes. Reservations are required; this is a planned trip to the southwest coast.
FishHouse Restaurant & Bar
FishHouse serves grilled seafood, crudo, seafood towers and prime meat cuts beside Choeng Mon Beach. The airy beach-house dining room at Kimpton Kitalay makes a more formal meal possible without an enclosed hotel atmosphere. Food orders finish before the bar closes, so reserve dinner with that distinction in mind.