Mae Hong Son Restaurants

Reposting a missing thread

2013

Herbert from Pizza Primavera in Bangkok, has opened the Pizza Primavera restuarant in Mae Hong Son. Great pizzas and other Italian and international favourites, together with good wine selection. The restaurant is on the right on the main road just past the left turn down to the lake.
Herbert can also give you some tips on good local sights to see.



A classy establishment with excellent service & very good food.









Well worth checking out if you’re not on a budget.

2010
THE SALWEEN has moved.
The new location is down by the lake, next to PA Motorcycle Hire & opposite Chilli Bar.
21 Praditjongkham Rd
Tel: 053-613421






From Moto_rex
Coffee, sliced banana in pancakes with honey, while surfing the web with free WIFI.


There’s even a GT-Rider whaling wall……….for the whalers.


Pumpkin soup with freshly baked bread and NZ butter. Yum

2014
George's Sunflower by the lake - the happy hour meeting spot






Looks a bit like a cave alright


& you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d see Fred Flinstone, Wilma & Barney Rubble. Not all the locals in MHS are impressed either.

2014
Some other establishments

KAIMOOK
The best Thai food in Mae Hong Son

30 years & still going strong.
When Air America was being filmed in MHS this place rocked.
I have fond memories of enjoying numerous – continuous Irish Coffees in the Kai Mook in the cold cold season







Some of the best Thai food you can get. Highly recommended.

Son & Mom
a couple of hundred metres up the road – hill from Salween



Run by Dar, the cook from the original Sunflower & the current Sunflower.; she now has her own funky little place.




A standard breakfast


Now once upon a time the original Sunflower(pre George by the lake) used to be the # 1 brekky & coffee shop.
Run by La, a trekking guide who was once married to an Aussie gal, had the best & only real cakes & pies in MHS.
And these were made by Dar.
Dar now makes cakes & pies at her Son & Mom shop. Carrot, chocolate, cheese cake; but they are not kept out on display – you have to ask for them.

AIR CON COFFEE SHOPS
MHS has a lot of coffee shops, but few aircon ones.
From what I can gather there are only 4, maybe 5; & if you’re a bit hot from walking round town it’s good to be able to cool off in an aircon coffee shop.

ALAWAA




right around the corner towards the temple from Piya, but is so tucked away on the corner you’d almost never see it or know it is there.




HUAI HOM Coffee


Coffee Shop & Pub
owned by the Fern Resort
big, spacious, modern.
The coffee & day time service is very good.
It’s also a cool spot for a happy hour drink – the music starts at 7P

I did note however that there is only one waiter on duty in the evening & he obviously can’t cope when it is busy or full.
Despite getting the menu & myself & trying to order a solitary beer I had no success getting served & left after 20 minutes.
So I tried again & returned the next night – early, the first & only customer & promptly got my preferred beer that night. All’s well that ends well.

SAIFON COFFEE


a cute Thai fashion coffee shop.



The Mimi is another aircon coffee shop at the top north end of town as you leave. But sorry no photos.

PRE SUNSET COFFEE
is on Doi Kong Mou where you go to watch the sunset & the lights come on in Mae Hon




the dusk view from Doi Kong Mou





Pre Sunset Coffee & Doi Kong Mou is well worth a visit at the end of the day.

October 2014
BEER WUN / WOON ?
is a new popular pub on the bus station road south of town
I found the music, atmosphere + service all good = I shall return


Good jazzy music


a wonderful giant of a waitress

impressed by the size of the Versys.

MELODY
is a cheap & popular roadside Thai restaurant also with coffee & ice cream


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200 metres downhill passed the Fern restaurant.
Run by the delightful Miss Mai, who likes to hang out in the Crossroads Pub; albeit with her cop husband, the local fitness champ & body builder, who too is a really cool guy.

Enjoy Mae Hong Son now. Its worth at least 2 or 3 nights. There are loads of good food & drinking spots.

Shine Coffee

in the main street just down the hill from Crossroads, heading North.


A nice little friendly open air coffee shop & restaurant


The coffee was surprisingly very good, but I went for the all day breakfast (the Salween was closed for the annual holidays.)


Well worth a try. Nice atmosphere in the main street.
GPS: N19 18.179 E97 57.917

The Folksong Society Pub & Restaurant


A cool layed back open air pub


biker friendly


big screen for the football


nice easy going music


Friendly waitresses.


On the bus station road, south end of town.
A few hundred metes south of Beer Wun
GPS: N19 17.127 E97 57.563

DavidFL said:

2010
THE SALWEEN has moved.
The new location is down by the lake, next to PA Motorcycle Hire & opposite Chilli Bar.
21 Praditjongkham Rd
Tel: 053-613421
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From Moto_rex
Coffee, sliced banana in pancakes with honey, while surfing the web with free WIFI.
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There’s even a GT-Rider whaling wall……….for the whalers.
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Pumpkin soup with freshly baked bread and NZ butter. Yum
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The Salween has moved yet again to a spot diagonally opposite on the other side of the lake.


The GTR dinner at the new Salween on 26 August 2020


a huge buffet meal by Nang








Always top value for money in MHS.
The new location: Google Maps

A coffee shop with style & class.


The new Coffee in The Mist, located in the old original old hotel from 1956.










Nice coffee, cakes, service & ambiance. Super friendly owners with good English spoken.





Location: Google Maps

If you are lucky you can inspect the beauifully restored old hotel upstairs.




I actually stayed in this old building 40 years ago on one of my first visits to MHS with the ex wife.
An old image from the balcony in 1980. Golden times.

DavidFL said:

The Salween has moved yet again to a spot diagonally opposite on the other side of the lake.
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The GTR dinner at the new Salween on 26 August 2020
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a huge buffet meal by Nang
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Always top value for money in MHS.
The new location: Google Maps

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Well covid killed the Salween restaurnt, & Nang had to retreat to her house on the outskirts of Mae Hong Son, as she could not afford rent for the restaurant.
So a couple of months ago I hunted Nang down for an update.

Fans of Nang Salween and her cooking who have been wondering where's the Salween now & what's happened with Nang will be pleased to know that she is still around, but struggling like many from the covid-19 tourism collapse.
Nang closed her restaurant as we know but would like to invite ex customers and bikers to contact her direct for a meal at her house, as she would like to get going again slowly, generate some business and hopefully re-open at her house on the outskirts of MHS.

George HuaHin said:

A little remote from town. Same before a nice place with good food

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Thanks for the response.