Blue Elephant Phuket
Fine dining · Talat Nuea
A high-end Thai restaurant in Phra Pitak Chinpracha Mansion, a restored governor's house of about a hundred years in a large garden on Krabi Road in Phuket Town; it also runs a cooking school and a boutique.
Fine dining
About Blue Elephant Phuket
Phuket Town's grandest Thai dining room: Blue Elephant restored Phra Pitak Chinpracha Mansion, a century-old governor's house that stood empty for years, and set its restaurant inside. You drive up through a large garden, climb the front steps and walk through a gallery to rooms inside or a terrace outside. The Thai menu is long and original, the house recommendations marked with a red elephant, and the curries — lamb, massaman, duck massaman — are mild rather than fiery. Expect around 1,500 THB a head. Cooking classes run upstairs.
Also known as Blue Elephant Phuket Cooking School & Restaurant
As the record has it
Good to know
- Operator
Blue Elephant, the Thai restaurant group that also has a restaurant in Bangkok.
- What to do
A Thai cooking class upstairs.
A look round the restored mansion and its boutique.
- Cuisine
Thai, a long and original menu; the house recommendations are marked with red elephants.
- Dishes
Lamb curry.
Massaman and duck massaman curries.
- Prices
High: about 1,500 THB a person with a drink or two (phuket101).
- Setting
A drive up a long garden alley to the mansion; dinner is served in air-conditioned rooms inside or outside on the terrace, reached through the Blue Elephant Gallery.
Phuket Old Town · Talat Nuea district
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Stands inPhuket Old TownTalat Nuea district