Under 300 Baht ... And Good! (updated for 2024)

[Evil Penevil]

21 hours ago, nekkid said:

As regards the food - never mind the quality feel the width would be my summation. Rubbery chicken - but hey it's 99 baht for a full plate - dunno if they read EP comment re smaller portion?

Friendly staff, sport playing on TVs, good aircon indoors. What's not to like for an inexpensive fill up?

I doubt very much my comment had anything to do with the portion size at CM. For me, the Monkey Madness pork chop dinner was normal size and more than sufficient, but I know plenty of guys would have regarded it as small.

The pork chop special at  Kilkenny Bar and Guesthouse on LK Metro is larger than at the CM, but it also costs 175 baht.  It also comes with vegetables and mashed potatoes;  From an earlier post:

On ‎1‎/‎19‎/‎2018 at 09:57, Evil Penevil said:

 

It's also the special today at Kilkenny along with chicken fried rice.

There's no shortage of restaurants in the LK Metro area with bargain meals.

Evil

[Evil Penevil]

For those who enjoy breakfast burritos, Smokin Joe's on Soi Lengkee has a decent one:

 

 

The breakfast burrito is a Tex-Mex innovation that dates back only to the 1970's, but quickly became popular and was included on the menus of several fast food chains.  Now it's widely available as a breakfast item in all sorts of U.S. restaurants, not just those with a Mexican connection.   Breakfast burritos come in many variations and the one at Smokin Joe's consists of a 12-inch lightly browned wheat flour tortilla filled with scrambled eggs, cheddar cheese and bits of sausage and smoked bacon. Condiments from ketchup through Tabasco are available for those who want additional flavor.  It's very tasty, mainly because good quality sausage and bacon are used.

 

 

The price was 175 baht and includes a cup of coffee or tea.  I know a much bigger breakfast is available close by for 99 baht and that 99-baht or lower breakfast specials abound in Pattaya.  However, that doesn't help anyone who want a breakfast burrito rather than an English fry-up or American breakfast.  Retox Game On (2nd Road and Soi Honey) also has a breakfast burrito for 175 baht.  I haven't tried it yet, but will.  It comes with baked beans as one of the ingredients and I'll ask for them to skip that in my order.

 

 I have tried the breakfast burrito at the Golf Club on LK Metro for 80 baht (or is it 100 baht?).  It was good, but very different from the Smokin Joe's version.  At the GC, the breakfast burrito contained scrambled eggs, cheese, salsa and refried beans in a flour tortilla. It had more of a spicy Tex Mex flavor.  It  was wetter and messier than at Smokin Joe's and had to be eaten with a knife and fork.  Some foods don't photograph well and this is one of them, so I'll  skip the pic. 

 

Those were some suggestions for breakfast burritos in Pattaya.  Are there any others?

 

Evil

Edited October 19, 2018 by Evil Penevil

[geezerrb]

I do prefer to eat Thai as much as I can when in LOS but as I struggle with really spicy  for me "mai phet", often have a hankering for western some days and I prefer to eat small and often, so this place looks good particularly at these prices as it is quite competitive with some like "tin cup" which I felt I got "tourist charged" last couple of trips  I prefer the place nearly next door if it is still open when I get back in December and one around the corner from where I stay that's on Soi 15. Small portions, eat 3-4 times a day.

[KittenKong]

Casa Pascal has put its brunch up by 10B (+tax) but it still comes in at well under 300B net and is still good. Coffees, teas and soft drinks included, of course.

[Evil Penevil]

Casa Pascal has put its brunch up by 10B (+tax) but it still comes in at well under 300B net and is still good. Coffees, teas and soft drinks included, of course.

Is the price now 250 baht? It had been 240 b for quite a few years. Still one of the best bargins around.

Evil

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[aussieoutcast]

Is the price now 250 baht? It had been 240 b for quite a few years. Still one of the best bargins around.

Evil

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I was there today, 262 baht nett

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[Evil Penevil]

I had a look at Casa Pascal's Facebook page. The price is 245 baht plus 7% VAT. As I recall, the old 240 baht price included VAT. It's still a bargain, though.

Evil

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[SirL]

Cheap Charlies out there should head to the new Terminal 21 for free burgers!  Giveaway lasts until 26 Oct, sorry not much time left but I would have posted earlier if the site had allowed me to do so.

 

[KittenKong]

6 hours ago, Evil Penevil said:

I had a look at Casa Pascal's Facebook page. The price is 245 baht plus 7% VAT. As I recall, the old 240 baht price included VAT. It's still a bargain, though.

The old price was 235B + VAT @ 7% = 251.45B. The new price is 245B + VAT @ 7 = 262.15B. They always used to round up the 251.45 to 252B. Not sure what they do now with the 15 satang.

I apologise for not replying before but the site has been completely broken for posting for non-Tapatalk users since the "upgrade" on Saturday. I've been wondering how long it would take someone in charge to notice that hardly anyone had posted since then, as the same fault also made it impossible to contact admin to tell them.

[Evil Penevil]

Here's the menu (from the Website) at Casa Pascal:

Breads
Fresh baked Croissants  Toast Twist Bread  Whole Grain Bread  Sour Dough Bread
Half White Farmers Bread  Dark Rusticco Bread  White French Batard  Swiss Bürli Bread  White Crusty Bread

Terrace BBQ Grill
Eggs and Omelets,  2 different kinds of Bacon Ham and Sausages,  Chicken Breast  Pork Steaks  Waffles and Pancakes

Hot dishes
1 kind of Asian Soup; 1 kind of Western Soup; 3 Asian Specialties
6 Western Dishes (pasta, hash brown, baked beans, meats, veggies, etc.)  NOTE: You can have spätzle real Swiss rösti).

Cold dishes
Pork Loin Roast  Different kinds of Cold Cuts Smoked Kipper Herring  Pickled Fish
Cheese  Müesli & CerealsYoghurts & Fruits Salad bar  6 different Salads 
Variety of Dressings Russian eggs

Drinks
Juices  Cola, Sprite, Fanta, Soda,  Filter Coffee and Tea; Cappuccino, Espresso, Mocha, Hot Chocolate

Condiments
Homemade Apricot Jam Homemade Berries Jam Orange Marmalade  Honey  Maple Syrup  Butter

Desserts
Choice of Desserts   NOTE:  The desserts are tiny, but really good!

[KittenKong]

27 minutes ago, Evil Penevil said:

Juices

I dont know how they manage to produce such ghastly so-called juices when the food is entirely acceptable.

[likeaking]

After waiting 20+ minutes for a waffle at Casa Pascal, I received a perfect example of a frozen EGGO  waffle. Don't know who is immitating whom but I left unimpressed.

[onehunglo]

9 hours ago, SirL said:

Cheap Charlies out there should head to the new Terminal 21 for free burgers!  Giveaway lasts until 26 Oct, sorry not much time left but I would have posted earlier if the site had allowed me to do so.

 

what's that price 26baht and 75satung

[Evil Penevil]

2 hours ago, KittenKong said:

I dont know how they manage to produce such ghastly so-called juices when the food is entirely acceptable.

Yes, they are pretty bad.  I imagine using a cheap juice mixture is a way of reducing expenses on a buffet that's likely to have a low margin.  However, TGs and kids seem to like the juices and they are probably the main juice drinkers at CP.

Evil

[SirL]

2 hours ago, onehunglo said:

what's that price 26baht and 75satung

The price of the mineral water.

[aussieoutcast]

Cheap Charlies out there should head to the new Terminal 21 for free burgers!  Giveaway lasts until 26 Oct, sorry not much time left but I would have posted earlier if the site had allowed me to do so.


 

Thanks for that. Had an excellent burger and fries for 0 baht and looking forward to going back to Arno's to try their steaks

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[b0b]

On ‎30‎/‎09‎/‎2018 at 18:06, Evil Penevil said:

Oriental Trattoria is a 24/7 restaurant on 2nd Road at the corner of Soi 13/1 (Soi Yamato). It's the front section of the Privi Hotel and up a half-flight of stairs from the street. 

It's very much an international restaurant with no less than 12 national cuisines represented on its menu. However, most of the dishes are Italian or Thai.

The restaurant bills itself as a "fusion tea cafe."  I couldn't see any tea angle and the term "fusion" can mean several different things in a culinary sense. I imagine it's called "fusion" because there are so many cuisines under the same roof. There aren't many places in Pattaya where you can find laksa, wood-fired pizza, nasi goreng, hamburgers, Italian pasta and a few French, Russian, Chinese and German dishes on the same menu.

I had wanted to try an iconic U.S. dish, clam chowder, but it wasn't available.  That made me wonder how many other dishes on the extensive menu weren't available either, but that's just my cynical side.

I settled for the weinerschnitzel and it wasn't a bad choice at 150 baht. I had a choice of potato and went with the oven roasted. The pork schnitzel had been pounded thin and properly breaded and fried.  The potatoes had been seasoned with rosemary, which was a nice touch.

 A bottle of SML cost 90 baht and a ditto of water cost 20 baht.

Bottom line: If the rest of the menu offerings hold the same standard and can actually be ordered, Oriental Trattoria could become an interesting place to eat. One discouraging factor for me was the loud and off-key music from the Wonder Bar across Soi 13/1.  In the future, I'll be visiting Oriental Trattoria during the afternoon.

Nice Diner opened recently on Soi Buakhao about 100 meters south of Soi 15 on the east side of the street.  It's a small open-front restaurant that centers on U.S.  hamburger and hot dog staples.  It also offers breakfast, salads, wraps, spaghetti, some Thai dishes and desserts.  

Customers can sit diner-style at the counter or in booths. The decor is heavily U.S.1950s, but I found the red-tinged lighting to be irritating. 

I wasn't in a hamburger mood, so I had the mozzarella salad (119 baht) and the chicken wrap (129 baht).  The salad was a bit of a disappointment.  I wasn't expecting a Caprese salad (fresh mozzarella, tomato slices and basil) for the price, but the rectangular slices of industrial mozzarella were flavorless.  On the upside, the lettuce and tomato were very fresh and the oil-and-vinegar dressing good.

The chicken wrap was also good with strips of pan-fried chicken, lettuce, tomato and bell pepper in a flatbread. A bottle of water cost 25 baht.

 

Bottom line:  On the U.S. academic grading scale, I'd give the meal a B-, the lower end of  "Good."  

 

Most of the menu was pretty standard and it doesn't inspire a return visit.  I may, however, give the chicken-and-beef hybrid cheeseburger (259 baht with fries) a try. I've never had that combo in the same burger, so extra points for originality.  The pic is from Nice Diner's Facebook page.



Prices seem at the high end for the burgers compared with what's available elsewhere in the area. Location, location, location also figures in.  That section of Soi Buakhao doesn't get a lot of foot traffic, so the food will have to be good enough for customers to make a special trip. 

The September menu from Facebook:

 

Evil

Nice Diner is not on the east side, but on the west side of the street.

[Notherenow]

ZIP hotel and Bar 150b Pizza

So I had to go at the Korandos 199b Pizza last week and personally found it fairly average. To be fair I had been drinking and I can't put my finger on what it was that didn't bring it up to scratch but it just lacked something. 

Fast forward one week I find myself in much the same situation, drunk again and fancying a pizza and I noticed earlier this place on Soi Dianna doing a 150b special. They didn't do a Salami Pizza which is my favorite so I ended up with the safety Ham and Pineapple. Anyway found it extremely satisfactory in the way the Korandos Pizza was not. I haven't eaten a lot of pizza here but it was easily the best I have had and certainly worthwhile for the price. I think the special runs from 3 p.m. until 11 p.m. from memory. Sorry no pics, it looked a bit untidy by the time I got it home. 

ZIP hotel & Bar
198/6 Soi Diana 
038 421 334
https://goo.gl/maps/9Ldaa7aYbQ62

[jpmelville]

On 27/10/2018 at 04:06, b0b said:

Nice Diner is not on the east side, but on the west side of the street.

To say that, was it needed to quote mile long post?

[Evil Penevil]

On 28/10/2018 at 13:00, Iamkanga said:

ZIP Hotel and Bar 150b Pizza

...

I haven't eaten a lot of pizza here but it was easily the best I have had and certainly worthwhile for the price. 

Based on your recommendation, I had put the ZIP pizza on my "to eat" list, but had it last night due to special circumstances. While I can't agree it's the best I've had in Pattaya, I do agree that it's good and worth the price.

Here's my review:

I went to Harry's on Soi Diana to see if the 99-baht hamburger with fries was still on offer and to have another of Harry's Swedish dishes.  The hamburger special was available, but a waitress urged me to try the 150-baht pizza special.

I was surprised because I didn't recall Harry's having pizza on the menu.  But then I noticed the pizza didn't come from Harry's but from Pizeria in the ZIP Lounge and Apartments across the street.

I abandoned my plans for pyttipanna or biff à la Rydberg and went with the pizza.  I ordered what was called capriccosa (sic) on the card. It lacked two of the toppings that go on a classic pizza capricciosa, but I don't imagine you can put artichoke hearts and anchovies on a 150-baht pizza in Thailand and still make money.  The tomato sauce, cheese, mushrooms and ham were fine by me, though.  I'm not a fan of artichoke hearts on pizza and wouldn't have ordered it if it had been a classic capricciosa.

It was amusing to see the waitress, in the era of cell phones and the Internet, go to the top step of Harry's and yell "pizza!" across the street.  I don't know what sort of arrangement Harry's has with Pizeria, but there's a Swedish angle.  I lived in Stockholm a number of years while married to a Swedish woman and still remember some of variations available in pizzerias there.  One of Pizeria's offerings was called "Svenne's special" and it was topped with pork tenderloin and Bearnaise sauce,  definitely a Swedish touch.  "Kebabpizza" is also a Swedish invention.  It's not on the same level as durian pizza- yes, you can get that in Pattaya- but bizarre enough to have Raffaele Esposito spinning in his grave. 

I got more evidence of a Swedish connection when my pseudo-capricciosa arrived.

It was accompanied by a small bowl of what's called pizza salad in Sweden. It was introduced by the Italian  chef and restaurateur who opened Sweden's first pizzeria in 1969. He apparently based it on a Croatian cabbage salad.  Chopped cabbage is marinated in vinegar and seasoned with oregano and sometimes caraway.  It usually contains bits of red pepper and carrot as well. Unfortunately, the bowl of salad I got was inedible: way too much vinegar and what tasted more like cumin than caraway.  It resembled pizza salad, but tasted nothing like I remembered it in Stockholm.

The pizza itself was good; not great in my estimation, but good enough for 150 baht.  

It was a bit sparse with cheese, but had plenty of mushrooms and ham.  The sauce was OK.  

The thin crust was good with just the right bottom char and still soft inside.

Bottom line:  I don't regard pizza as a dinner dish and almost never have it as such.  I consider it a party food or snack, especially  a late-night snack when out drinking.  The pizza I had at Harry's would be fine along those lines.  I have to rate it as good, with the horrible side salad an irrelevancy.

Evil 

[jiz]

On 30/09/2018 at 06:30, jiz said:

Taco Taco announces: :

"Hello everybody.  Just to let you guys know that this Friday will be my last day working at the market.

Will be opening a restaurant next month , the restaurant will be on soi 9 Pattaya Klang opposite side from two lions."

Went looking for TacoTaco on Soi 9.

No signs of her new restaurant and nothing on her Facebook. 

[petermik]

11 hours ago, jiz said:

Went looking for TacoTaco on Soi 9.

No signs of her new restaurant and nothing on her Facebook. 

Soi 9 Pattaya klang is a small soi linking it with soi Boxin where the pub the Two Lions is located....she says she is opposite soi 9 on the Klang......same side and close to the Century Hotel 

[KittenKong]

On the subject of pizza under 300B, the Sportsman has a Friday evening buffet of pizza, salad and pasta that is quite decent for 250B.

[striderman]

today till 22.00 is a BOGOF offer at subways in pattaya

[jiz]

On 31/10/2018 at 18:46, petermik said:

Soi 9 Pattaya klang is a small soi linking it with soi Boxin where the pub the Two Lions is located....she says she is opposite soi 9 on the Klang......same side and close to the Century Hotel 

Her Facebook says: "the restaurant will be on soi 9 Pattaya Klang opposite side from two lions"