Phonsavan restaurants

[TravellingStrom]

Nishas Restaurant Indian Food - A very nice selection and a clean and tidy place. They also serve vegetarian food. The prices are very good and the servings a nice size.

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Bamboozle! - A new place, opened for 1 year and serves a mix of western and Laos food. They do not do lunch, breakfast from 6.30-10.30am then open again at 3.30pm until late with live music Tuesday and Friday.

The food and service is great and quite reasonably priced. The best breakfast in this town yet.

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Cheers
TravellingStrom

 

[KTMphil]

Simmaly Restaurant


Two doors to the right of Crater's Restaurant. Clean, great tasting Asian food. All the pilots eat here which is a good recommendation.


Co-ords:


N19.45056

E103.21776





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[2wheels]

Yep, good and inexpensive food and it has become extremely popular.
However; WARNING re Simmaly.

Keep a careful note of what you order and the total cost of it.
On the two most recent occasions I dined there the bill was very much in their favour!
Corrected with a smile of course.

Probably have the attitude, ' OK, we're popular now, so we can be greedy too. '

 

[KTMphil]

Another Nisha Indian thumbs up

Matt & Mr Sneds just gave the Nisha a huge thumbs up:


'If this place was in Chiang Mai it would make a fortune"

Nishas Restaurant Indian Food - A very nice selection and a clean and tidy place. They also serve vegetarian food. The prices are very good and the servings a nice size.

N19.45009 E103.22013

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Bamboozle! - A new place, opened for 1 year and serves a mix of western and Laos food. They do not do lunch, breakfast from 6.30-10.30am then open again at 3.30pm until late with live music Tuesday and Friday.

The food and service is great and quite reasonably priced. The best breakfast in this town yet.

N19.45014 E103.21975

Cheers
TravellingStrom

 

[bsacbob]

Have to agree Both the Bamboozle and the Nisha make Phonsavan worthy of at least a two night stop over and the breakfast in the BB is terrific, the owner is from the Shetlands of all places .

 

[KTMphil]

It seems to have become a great place to make a base for exploring for sure with decent food available.

 

[KTMphil]

Re: Phonsavan

Tom & Jerry Bakery


100 meters west of Craters run by a Vietnamese couple. Great Baguettes cheese & tomato etc....


(neither Bamboozle or Nisha were open for breakfast)


_DSC0352 by Triangle Golden 007, on Flickr

 

[Lone Rider]

Re: Phonsavan

Tom & Jerry Bakery


100 meters west of Craters run by a Vietnamese couple. Great Baguettes cheese & tomato etc....


(neither Bamboozle or Nisha were open for breakfast)


_DSC0352 by Triangle Golden 007, on Flickr

Yes, the Bamboozle is now only open during the evening starting around 5 o'clock and is no longer open for breakfast

 

[The Bigfella]

Re: Phonsavan

Great place for breakfast is the Lao & Falang Restaurant - only about 100 metres from Cranky T's... coming out of her place, turn left, walk 75 - 100 metres, turn left into side road and there it is - about 30 metres along on the left. Couple of Italians and their Lao friends.

 

[KTMphil]

Re: Phonsavan

Great place for breakfast is the Lao & Falang Restaurant - only about 100 metres from Cranky T's... coming out of her place, turn left, walk 75 - 100 metres, turn left into side road and there it is - about 30 metres along on the left. Couple of Italians and their Lao friends.

Gave the Lao Falang Restaurant a try, breakfast was excellent


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Nice cosy place with the wood burning fire


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[KTMphil]

Cranky T


The new upmarket place in Phonsavan. Currently only doing food in the evenings, they have muffins/ brownies for lunch.

Co ords:

N19.45058 E103.21829



Good wine list reasonable priced


DSC_0022 by Triangle Golden 007, on Flickr



Seared tuna

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Highly recommended

 

[KTMphil]

Nisha (& Bamboozle) are only open in the evenings now.

Rechecked Nisha, restaurant was packed


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Food was excellent


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[CraigBKK]

Nice meal in Nisha. Opened at 17:30. Food cooked fresh to order. Good portions and taste. No meat on the menu, only chicken and fish.



July 2017

Back again. Still the best Indian food I've eaten in Laos. Noticed that the prices are more expensive than other restaurants I've eaten in on this trip.

 

[Lone Rider]

Cranky T

The new upmarket place in Phonsavan. Currently only doing food in the evenings, they have muffins/ brownies for lunch.

Co ords: N19.45058 E103.21829

Good wine list reasonable priced

DSC_0022 by Triangle Golden 007, on Flickr
Seared tuna

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Highly recommended

Had a few snacks at Cranky-T. Good food and a nice atmosphere. They are now open for breakfast as well and have a few tables outside so you can watch the world go by while enjoying a few cold drinks. Unfortunately they are not always open as the owner/cook is often out of town which the restaurant closed.


Fresh springrolls and Tapas

 

[CraigBKK]

Had a few snacks at Cranky-T. Good food and a nice atmosphere. They are now open for breakfast as well and have a few tables outside so you can watch the world go by while enjoying a few cold drinks. Unfortunately they are not always open as the owner/cook is often out of town which the restaurant closed.

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Fresh springrolls and Tapas

Sunday's shuts at 1700.

 

[King of Jars]

Sad news again from the Plain of Jars. The total destruction of roads by overloaded trucks and zero preventive maintenance of Road 1D (from Pakxan) or Road 13N/Road 7 (via Vang Vieng and Phou Khoun) made traveling to/from Xieng Khouang a very, very tedious affair.
In their wisdom the goons furthermore decided to “renovate” the airport which resulted in the closure of the latter and got reopened only four days ago.
Most travelers arrived/departed overland which resulted in turning Phonsavan into a ghost town.

NISHA Indian Restaurant is the latest eatery to pull the plug; Hamil informed me that he moved to Luang Prabang to look for an appropriate location. He also wants to hop off for a social visit to his native India before starting a new venture in late autumn. I shall keep you posted on what he tells me.

The remaining gastronomic front on non-Lao food gets thinner by the day:
SIMMALY Restaurant
phone: +856-20-5546 0062, GPS: 19.450557, 103.217780, is local and will stay there.

CRATERS Restaurant
next door neighbour to Simmaly, phone: +856-20-5647 4022, GPS: 19.450526, 103.217792.

BOMBIE’s Restaurant, phone +856-20-2353 3809, GPS: 19.454748, 103.211528, more than one or two of you, then you might want to book as the place is rather small.

AROMA restaurant and bakery, phone: +856-20-5563 2019, GPS: 19.450116, 103.186041. Out of town, the lady is local but fluent in English.

 

[2wheels]

Thanks for the update 'King of Jars'.