VELA Phuket Old Town
Restaurant · Talat Yai
A three-floor shopping and dining building on the corner of Yaowarat Road and Phang Nga Road in Phuket Town, in Sino-Portuguese shophouse style with a modern design; "vela" means "time" in Thai, hence its hourglass symbol. The Starbucks on the corner is one of its smallest units.
Restaurant
About VELA Phuket Old Town
A new shopping and dining building on an Old Town corner that most passers-by take for a Starbucks. Upstairs, Pintxo serves Basque-style tapas on a terrace looking down over Yaowarat Road, a tiny omakase counter called Bastosai hides at the back, and the Bebop jazz bar next door fills the floor after dark; an ice cream shop downstairs opens onto the Shrine of Serene Light.
Also known as VELA Phuket, Vela
As the record has it
Good to know
- Cuisine
Its restaurants: Pintxo, the largest, with Spanish tapas by chef Sébastien Segurola from Saint-Jean-de-Luz in the Basque country; Bastosai, a Japanese omakase counter of a handful of seats with ingredients flown in from Japan; Meltory, an ice cream shop at the back.
- Setting
Pintxo's open second-floor terrace overlooks Yaowarat and Phang Nga Roads; the Bebop jazz bar on that floor (moved in in 2026) has a house band from about 21:00. Meltory opens onto the Shrine of Serene Light behind the building. The third floor and a rooftop were not yet filled.
- Booking
Arrive early or book at weekends (Bebop).
Phuket Old Town · Talat Yai district
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