Phuket Restaurant Directory, Dining and After Dinner Entertainment Guide

Nestled in the award winning Phuket Pavilions, The Verandah Restaurant in The Plantation Club is a newly born phenomenon that is out to attract your culinary curiosity.

Newly opened amid a Sino-Portuguese approach by designer Rene Ozorio, the dining room has a birds eye view of lush surroundings and endless skies that flow towards the heavens.

The cuisine is best described as serving eclectic southern Thai and Colonial Mediterranean dishes. The restaurant is encased in a casual setting with an unpretentious yet stylish approach, inviting to all who enjoy good food and a welcome sensation that makes one feel that they are at home.

The Thai starters are delightful, a must try are the spring rolls with sweet chili sauce. Curry is a house specialty, and there are many to choose from. Tender veal shank in Massaman, ox tail in red curry, or a Cape Malayu influence of braised melt in your mouth lamb shoulder accompanied by warm griddled Thai roti bread.

The seafood options are also tantalizing, the kitchen team boast freshness. All seafood and fish are local, and is delivered daily by fishermen from the Bang Tao piers.

It is nice to have options, and The Verandah also boast their humble yet refined approach to what they call “Colonial Mediterranean” cuisine. Dishes historically reflect the integration of foreign traders into Phuket culture, particularly colonial Portuguese influences as found in dishes such as the seafood salad with a tangy smoked tomato cumin dressing.

Enter the mains without disappointment. Try the chicken piri piri with spiced couscous, or local sole fish pan fried crispy with simmered dumplings and asparagus. The house made pasta is also evident of the kitchen’s commitment to strive for guest satisfaction, when eating the Chef’s tortellonis, in which goat cheese is paired with a fabulous sauce of walnuts and mushrooms.

Please the sweet tooth with a warm apple pie on a sauce crème anglaise. Or for those chocolate lovers, bite into a dark chocolate Ganache tart with raspberry purée. What a way to end a memorable meal…

All and all it is well advised to try the cuisine at The Verandah. Who would have thought that ages ago there was a rubber plantation planted right underneath the restaurant? An historical journey, a culinary adventure, come and see for yourself.