Eating out / Restaurants
RA BIENG GAO
284/3 T. Yomarat, Phone: 044-267765
This is a great restaurant. Nice ambiance, good prices, excellent
food. Big parking behind. Try: YAM HUA PREE (Spicy thai salad with banana flowers)
KA MU (Pig’s leg)
And everything is good anyway. Google
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SUAN TIP
Beautiful restaurant near Royal Princess Hotel, with a lake, waterfalls,
and lotus flowers. Very popular with Thai. Try the Pla Rai Gang (great
fish with a mango sauce)
DOK MAI CAFE (Flower café)
One of the ‘hot spots’ to be seen in Korat. Beautiful waitresses,
good food, sophisticated people. Nice garden, inside and outside tables.
Quite large restaurant, with a parking a little further down the street. A kind of Golf kart will take you to the restaurant! Try Kai Tod
Yot Ya. Fabulous fried chicken with a sweet lemon sauce served on fried
spinach. Lab moo tod is also pretty good (meatballs of pork, deep friend, with a spicy sauce)..Google Earth
KIAU SAWOI KOREAN BBQ
There are many Korean BBQ in Korat but this one is, we believe, the best.
You cook your own meat and vegetables on a small BBQ at your table.
Chicken, pork, liver, seafood. Most tables are outside, some under a
roof which is nice in the rainy season. It is located just beside a famous bar called BAN KORAT..Google
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KORATBURI
This is quite a nice restaurant, outside and inside, located just beside Bule's Saloon. They have English menu, a live band, a nice garden but you can also eat inside, with air conditionning if you prefer. We would recommand dishes like Pu Pak Pong Kali (Yellow Curry crab) or the beef with aThai pepper sauce.
Restaurant KoratBuri
KOH CHANG
2/6-7 Soi Seubsiri 3 Seubsiri Rd.
This estaurant opened in 2006, is just beside Blue Pavilion (recently
closed). They serve GREAT seafood and the ambiance is relax. Prices
are higher but quality is there. One of the best TOM YAM KUNG I had
in my life…with a little coconut cream inside, yummy! Google
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BAN LAN LOOK MAI (ลานลูกไม้)
309 Soi Savai Lieng, Mukkhamontri Rd. (behind Tesco/Lotus), Phone: 044 253281
Excellent restaurant behind Lotus. Nice Issan hors d'oeuvres but I prefer
the chicken cooked in banana leaves. English menu, BEAUTIFUL garden. Check your bill.
Romantic places to take your "geik".Verify your bill...Google
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BAN LAN TA WAN
1469/8 Ded U Dom,rd T.Naimuang Nakorn Ratchasima
Nice view on the lake. Try to sit upstairs, to
see the lake. Google
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BARISTA
This is a small coffee shop just in front of Osaka, on Suranaree street. They opened in 2008. They have good cakes and a wide selection of coffee, capucinno, etc. Wifi Internet. But the best is a very small menu, only few dishes, but very good value for the price. Example: Pork Steak, with rice, egg on top, and a soup, all that for 50 baht!
HUA PREE and SIP SONG PANNA
NIGHT BAZAAR SONG (Number 2)
There is a very nice night market selling all kinds of food beside
the city gate called "Pollan" ("Pollan Batu")
Most of items are 20 baht. Pad Thai are good, 20 to 30 baht. For eating,
it is much better than the Korat
Night Bazaar(#1). At #1, it is mostly for shopping cheap stuff.
DEE DEN ICE CREAM RESTAURANT
This is a very old restaurant in Korat located in the old city, not far from Klang Plaza 2. They have a very large selection of Thai dishes, Yam, Ka Praow, Ki Mao Kung, etc. Food is good, the place is clean and they have an English menu. It's a very popular spot for Thai people. Most of the dishes are between 40 and 80 baht. It's a very nice place to have a quick lunch or a cheap dinner. Google Earth
SARUNGKHAM
Eclectic mix of Thai and farang food including lovely pork steak, chicken roll, gaeng hanglei and about the only kao soi that you'll find in Korat. It's right at the entrance of Moo Baan Krung Thai, next to Kim Yik Haeng hardware and about 200 meters east of the nice outdoor Thai restaurant called Baan Rim Nam.
Sarunkham restaurant
(Thanks to Mike for his comments and picture about this restaurant!)
BUFFET
To my knowledge, there are 3 buffet restaurants in town:
SIMA THANI
Probably the best one in Korat, around 250-280 baht for dinner and cheaper for lunch. Good
steaks, sushi, salad bar, Thai and foreign food. Google
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DUSIT ROYAL PRINCESS
Now managed by the Dusit group (2008) and have a very good buffet.
But the restaurant looks really nice.Google
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RACHABRUK
This hotel in the middle of Korat (near the intersection
of Big C) has a DIM SUM buffet. If you like Chinese food... Google
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FARANG FOOD
BIG CHILI
On Chakkri Road, Phone: 01-8784335
Probably the only Mexican food in town. Fajitas are very good, (about 200 baht) Want to drink Corona? Tequila? or watch football
and eat burritos? Also pictures of Elvis...Google Earth
BEE's RESTAURANT
Small restaurant just beside Sri Pattana Hotel. You can eat tasty Thai and Foreign food, good price and clean restaurant. Bee speaks English very well.
430 Suranaree Road, Korat, Tel: 044 261 251
Swedish meatballs with cranberries, and other foreign dishes are available.
This place opened more than 10 years ago.
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5-7 Manat Road, Kobkaew House, Phone: 044 289 556, Fax: 044 289 557
Swiss restaurant, in the middle of the city with a large parking. Just beside the night bazaar.
They are now having even pizza and lasagna.
(Tel: 087 - 2594899)
Small restaurant near Pegasus hotel own by a Danish guy and his wife,
serving steaks, spaghettis, salads, etc. Click on their website
to see the menu and its location.
P.B. Restaurant
Thai and European food just behind Sima Thani, on corner of Soi 13. Paulo, a Danish citizen, will be glad to meet you with his large selection, including pizza, snitzels, BBQ, steaks and much more. Good prices and large portions. Here are some pictures and comments about this place.
KURODA (Japanese restaurant)
213, Tanon Sapasit, Amphur Muang, 044 258 274.
This is a beautiful and hidden place in Korat. Just in front of the main police station, in a small soi. Many clients there are Japanese people living in Korat. Outside,you will see that board:
 
This restaurant offers some of the best Japanese food in town. Click here to see pictures of this restaurant and get more information. They have a branch at Klang Plaza 2, 24 Tanon JOmsurangyarta, tel: 044-260 458.
There are also other Japanese restaurants in Korat, including FUJI at The Mall and another one at the Chao Phraya Hotel, very close to Klang Plaza...
SIEW SIEW (Chinese restaurant)
77 Tanon Bua Rong. (close to Klang Plaza 2)
77 ถ.บัวรอง โทร. 044 243180 , 044 242863
A big Chinese restaurant in the middle of Korat. Large parking. Probably the best Chinese restaurant in Korat. They even have Peking Duck.
Click here for Google Placemark.
35 Thanon Kudan, in the old city, near Pollan Gate.
One of the best place to eat in Korat. Swiss restaurant with foreign and Thai food. Gaston (French Swiss) will be happy to see you at his brand new place that moved in August 2008. Try the swiss salad with cheese, the fondue (all you can eat!), some Vienna snitzels or the raviolis. Also pizzas, hamburgers, everything you can't imagine, like Tiramisa, French liver Pate and more. Click here for details.
Brand new in Korat (2008). They have a selection of foreign food, a bar, a restaurant, and some excellent German bread, daily made by Dirk. They also served cheap Thai food and SNAKE!!! Have a look at the place here. Closed on Mondays.
Tony and his wife
German Bread by Saiman and Dirk
In the Joho area / Choho zone
1236 Tannon Rattanabhithan (on the way to Home Garden), in the area of Joho, Phone: (044) 371-378
The first Italien brick oven pizza in Korat! They are located in Joho, closed on Monday and open only after 5pm. Click on their website to see the menu and its location.
Address:- 69 Moo7, Tambon Khoksung, Amphur Muang, Nakhon Ratchasima, 30310.
Telephone:- 0862492207 (Thai/English), 0862706357 (German/English)
Also located near Joho. Detlef, a German guy, will
be happy to meet you and serve you drinks, mixed BBQ grill or a great
Spaghetti Bolognese. They open around 4pm and are closed on Monday.
The best way to find it is take the 205 road going north from the
city, go straight through Joho and after you pass under the by-pass
there is a PTT station on the left. Take the first "tarmac"
road on the left about 0.5Km past the PTT station. Follow this road
for about 1.5Kms then turn left when you see a white and brown wall
on the corner. O & D Pub is the second building on the left. Google
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SATAPORN RESTAURANT
Located in Choho, you can have a buffet meal every night for just 99 baht. They have the typical Thai buffet with the charcoal boiling pot on the table and you help yourself to noodles, vegetables and a selection of meats to cook yourself. (Like the Korean BBQ in Thailand). But if you prefer western food, they have a "soup of the day", freshly cooked steaks (beef, pork, chicken) with french fries, onion rings, battered prawns, barbequed fish, salad etc.Ice cream, draft Leo Beer and other brands in bottles. Opening at 6pm every day. Google placemark
Near Ban Sung Area
DI DI PIZZA
Just opened in December 2008. They have pizza, burgers and Thai food. This place is near the hospital. Go on the main road, past the sign to turn left for the hospital, and the Pizza shop is on the left hand side. Owned by Eddy from Finland and his Thai wife.
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