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Eating
Patong has stacks of restaurants and the trick is to steer around the watered-down
Thai and poorly executed Western food clogging most main drags. The most glam-
orous restaurants are in a little huddle above the cliffs on the northern edge of town.
Bargain seafood and noodle stalls pop up across town at night - try the lanes on
and around Th Bangla, or venture over to the
Patong Food Park
(Th Rat Uthit;
4pm-midnight)
once the sun drops.
LIM'S $$$
( 0 7634 4834;
www.lim-thailand.com
;
28 Th Phrabaramee, Soi 7; meals 300-600B;
6pm-midnight)
Lim's is 500m uphill from the coast road to Kamala. It's a mod-
ern, moulded-concrete dining room and lounge serving upscale Thai cuisine. When
celebrities land in Phuket, most spend at least one evening here.
Thai
MENGRAI SEAFOOD $$
(Soi Tun; meals 120-300B)
Located down a sweaty, dark soi off Th Bangla is a won-
derful food court serving fresh, local food. The stalls towards the end of the soi
serve daily curries that local expats swear by.
Seafood
CHICKEN RICE BRILEY $
(Patong Food Park, Th Rat Uthit; meals 35-45B; breakfast & lunch)
The only diner
in the Patong Food Park to offer sustenance when the sun shines.
Hai
Drinking
Th Bangla is Patong's beer and bar-girl mecca and features a number of spectacu-
lar, go-go extravaganzas, where you can expect the usual mix of gyrating Thai girls
and often red-faced Western men. That said, the atmosphere is more carnival than
carnage and you'll find plenty of Western women pushing their way through the
throng to the bar.
TWO BLACK SHEEP
( 0895 921 735;
www.twoblacksheep.net
;
172 Th Rat Uthit; 11am-2am)
Owned
by a fun Aussie couple (he's a musician, she's a chef), this old-school pub is a great
find. It has good grub and live music nightly. From 8pm to 10pm there's an acoustic
set, then Chilli Jam, the house band, gets up and rocks till the last call. And it bans
bar girls, which keeps everything at a PG level.
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