Review Restaurant Pattaya Avenue
Yesterday I ended up in a restaurant in Pattaya Avenue, opposite Soi 13. It is nicely centrally located, well 'in the loop' and the front facade consists entirely of glass, which benefits the approachability. That has been thought about.
Other than that it is a very strange tent. You are not welcomed and you have to choose a table yourself. It soon became apparent that there is no service, and no menu. "The food is on the wall," so to speak, on plates. Plates that are furthermore missing, just as you will not find any cutlery. A la carte dining is discouraged by a maze of menus on offer, not all of which are transparent in terms of pricing. There are no alcoholic beverages and as long as you have not paid everything in advance, you will not get anything. I wanted to turn back, but in the end, out of curiosity and to satisfy the reader, I ordered something anyway. A potato variety and some kind of meat salad I believe.
The fries were a bit thinner than we are used to in the Netherlands, so they cool down extra quickly, but also pick up extra salt and fat. After a few chews, it tastes like what can be expected: a bite of fat cold salt. The nice red sauce of an unknown recipe does not change that.
The lettuce is wrapped in soggy soggy bread and some compressed residual waste from a slaughterhouse has been crumpled in between. Place a slice of heated cheese in between to glue everything together and spray the remaining cracks with fat-sweet sauce.
And you have to work that in with your hands. Typically Thai, that is, you really don't have to deal with that in the civilized western world.
To make matters worse, it turns out that you are also supposed to clean up your own mess.
Tears fail here. If you put this as a soup kitchen in an AZC, the turnips are done, take it from me. But yes, This Is Thailand! People would write black numbers (make a profit) and argue that it is the intention to open these types of restaurants in other locations as well. My God, may Allah forbid that with Zeus and Buddha! I think it will work out. I assume that the average consumer is not completely lost and whoever came up with this 'concept' will no doubt retrace his steps, be rebuffed by the investors, or put off by a customer. This is the ultimate insult to guest and food.
339 Baht that might as well have been thrown straight into the shredder.
One picture says more than a thousand words: goo.gl/photos/
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You love it or you hate it.
I don't think there is a middle ground.
I am an enthusiast.
I can appreciate those restaurant reviews. Something different from the constantly recurring questions about Thai visas. And for those who live in Pattaya, also useful to know. I hope that Frans continues with these kinds of reviews. It is also easy to read due to its writing style.
You can of course skip the constantly recurring questions about Thai visas and come up with something original yourself! I look forward with interest!
I prefer to eat a menu at l'Olivier in Jomtien complex for B 395, where I also get a linen napkin in addition to service.
For that amount I can have a nice hot meal 9 times in very, very many eateries with a cup of ice-cold water.
Mistake with the photo, I see the big M on it?
Thanks for your research, so we don't even have to try there.
Nico B
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Wonderful story and the all-revealing photo completes it!
Keep up the good work Frans, I always enjoy your stories.
We can also use this formula in the Netherlands. It is an emergency solution when you can still go for a stomach filling at night (when everything is really closed here).
But I do have one small caveat. The soft ice cream is good!
A dressed hamburger with fries from McDonald's is what I see when I press the uhrl and that for 8.82 euros. Almost for nothing. Thailand, the country of unprecedented possibilities and surprises, not to mention nice and cheap.
what do you mean almost for nothing????? Before 2000 it was more than 17 guilders /?
Wasted money. Did/will you spend that on a hamburger meal or less?
Nicely written by Frans. Really nice job but I do have a caveat.
Is Frans trained to express his opinion just like that? The great danger is that he can sometimes be wrong because things are not going well at that moment. Let's say an OFF DAY and if you get a visit from Frans who expresses his uncontrolled opinion, you will find it guaranteed in your turnover for the next few months.
A bit dangerous development in my opinion.
Best regards.
Hank and Elsbeth.
So you are basically saying that if the restaurant has an off day, I am wrong in sharing my experience, and that I should therefore be educated.
That seems a bit upside down to me. To my knowledge, there is no 'education' for restaurant reviews on social media, and one of the quality aspects of a restaurant is 'consistent quality', so that the consequences of a restaurant's off day are more likely to be part of the entrepreneur's business risk than that you can object that to the educated or untrained reviewer. The entrepreneur should better train his staff, I would think.
It is also not for nothing that I almost always refer to TripAdvisor, where you can read the opinions of countless guests. and in a somewhat disappointing review I recently explicitly advised not to rely solely on my opinion.
In addition, there is a comment option here, so that other guests who have already been there and whether or not they think like me can also give their opinion.
All in all, I think there are sufficient guarantees, perhaps even more than in newspapers and magazines.
Go have a nice meal
At Louis in soi 31, Naklua road.
There you eat perfectly.
You can decide for yourself how you want it.
Not too expensive and good quality.
At the lettuce part the light came on haha
Nicely described
The only advantage of that branch is that, if requested, they will bring it to the VW barbus in front of the entrance (at least that is what I experienced there experimentally in 2014)
Never visited a branch again after seeing the movie Supersize Me
The amount of 339 Baht can't be right, I now realize.
It must have been for two people or something (possible, many Thai bar girls love it).
According to the Big Mac Index, a separate Big Mac costs US$ 3.35 in Thailand and US$ 3.78 in the Netherlands.
Of course I knew in advance what I was buying, and my review has not been lied to, while I can't resist it every now and then. Completely irrational, or can we just not resist the salt and fat? Or is it the sky? Sometimes it smells good…
It remains incomprehensible that you can conquer the world with this. A horrible, but brilliant concept.
On to the next ?
A chicken with a crispy crust, Kentucky style? 🙂
May often like to take an espresso (as well as in a Starbucks), nothing wrong with that.
Whether there are not enough dishes in Thailand, people are going to eat a hamburger, a shame but yes Pattaya is of course not Thailand, I have never lowered myself to eat a hamburger in this country, the review is useful to warn people, I have in the past already eaten in Jomtien at ,,our Mother, great, but then always sit and admire the people who are enjoying a Dutch meal. yes 12 hours in an airplane to eat spinach with a ball of minced meat.
Do you think that all Chinese tourists in NL only eat Chinese, or Germans only Brattwurst.
Everyone can do what he/she likes.
I also like to eat McD or Burgerking for a change. Nothing wrong with that.
Know some compatriots who have the same criticism as you, however, when their Thai girlfriend (temporarily or not) stays in the Netherlands, they eat Thai food almost daily or otherwise often visit a Thai restaurant, I do not understand that, you will undoubtedly agree.
I recently had an excellent meal with some of my wife's Isan sisters at an Isan restaurant in Bangkok. These ladies, suddenly Bangkok ladies, ate Sticky Rice with a fork! Me with my hands of course! The Iranian restaurant owner absolutely loved me! I had made it completely clear to the owner despite the fact that it was not me who paid the bill but 1 of my wife's sisters with "Bangkok girl pretensions"