Battambang offers a variety of options for tasty lunch or dinner. To tell about all the places is not possible, but for some restaurants to fold the word. For example, "Jaan Bai" On Street 2, a restaurant founded by the Cambodia Children's Trust organization with the support of the Australian Chef David Thompson - a man who is attributed to a lot of thai food to the world culinary arena. This simple beautiful restaurant offers delicious Thai and Khmer dishes.
A restaurant "THE WHITE ROSE" On the same street is still popular for many years now, and here you can count on large portions of cheap (main dishes - about $ 3) Khmer food, and even greater queues.
Not far from this restaurant, also on Street 2, you can see a restaurant "Lan Chov Khorko Miteanh" Or "Chinese Noodle Shop": a great place to try homemade noodles with different sauces. Soup with noodles and duck strictly recommended! The dishes are an average of $ 1.75 for a bowl, and what is still very nice - this is what you can eat calmly in this restaurant, because it's always quiet here.
Nary Kitchen (at # 650 Street 111) opened in 2009 and there is a restaurant within walking distance of the city center, offering chic amok (maybe the best in the city). The atmosphere and interior are very simple; In essence, this is the owner's house with four tables under the canopy. Cook, Nara, prepares food for customers in its own kitchen, using only fresh ingredients (at least they say). True, even despite the small number of tables, some dishes have to wait for 40 minutes (those that are made from scratch). In addition, the culinary master classes of Khmer cuisine are held for $ 10 per person - you prepare four dishes, including dessert.
Hid down 2.5 Street, FRESH EATS CAFE It was created in order to help local disadvantaged children learn social skills and English in a similar scheme as in the famous restaurant "Friends" in Phnom Penh. All the profits of the restaurant goes to ensure accommodation and training of these kids. The restaurant is very good necks and juices, and well - Khmer and Western dishes, a good choice of breakfasts and salads, pancakes and sandwiches. If you want to dine here, it is better to book a table in advance. Prices are average, the service is beautiful, although sometimes not the fastest.
Located in the heart of Battambang, restaurant "KHMER DELIGHT" (on Street 119) offers a wide range of typical Khmer dishes, as well as the Western Food Scene Favorites, such as Hamburgers, Fish and Chips, Meat Pies, etc. For $ 5, you can order a big and tasty, but there are cheaper options . And even excellent coffee from New Guinea!
Further, night market who split along the bank of the River south of the urban museum afternoon. A beautiful lively place where you can join the crowd of local residents, drink evening beer mirkeling and try inexpensive traditional dishes. Very fun and cheap.
A restaurant Flavors of India - This is a pretty standard "Anglo-Indian" menu with several additional dishes of Nepalese cuisine (the main manager of Nepal). Snacks from $ 3 to $ 5, the main dishes are about $ 5-7 (many worthy vegetarian dishes).
Beautiful and carefree romantic restaurant "The Pomme d'Amour" (on Street 2.5) is managed by one French guy. Therefore, in the French and Khmer fusion dishes with a very good value for money (the main dishes are from $ 5 to $ 9). And the restaurant offers an excellent choice of Roma. Place for those who want to pamper themselves a little.
"AU CABERET VERT" (Street 154) - Another restaurant who owns a Frenchman, and where the same exquisite traditional French dishes are offered, although, compared with the previous restaurant, this is clearly lacking a luxurious decor, and the location is not quite comfortable. Although the restaurant is a lot, it is located in a colonial style villa with an outdoor terrace emerging to a small garden. Main dishes - from $ 6 to $ 19 (a lot, for this country, in fact).
Surprisingly little decent cafe is on the waterfront, but "Cafe Eden" (Between Psas Nath and the Sar Kheng Bridge, on Street 1) - Very even anything! Cafe positions itself as a bistro with an eclectic choice of dishes and products. It pleases a wide range of dishes for breakfast - pancakes, bagels and pellets, etc. Dinners and dinners are also good: these are Thai, Khmer, Korean, Japanese dishes, Chinese cuisines, plus pasta, pizza, hamburgers and sandwiches. If this is not enough for you, try the dishes of the day. Prices in restaurant are reasonable - for example, pizza costs about $ 6, the sandwiches of about $ 4.50-5.50, Lock varnish is about $ 4, pancakes - $ 2.50. There is also a comprehensive beverage menu: coffee, juices and popular happy hour from 15:00 to 19:00. The cafe decor is simple, but cheerful (tourists like, for example, the old wine bottles as a menu and old jams from under jam as glasses - here this interesting design was organized long before the world has become hipfer). Also in this cafe are sold local objects Art and crafts.
"Green Mango Cafe & Bakery" (on the Street 155) - a large restaurant on the eastern bank of the river next to the guest house hereeal, Here Be Dragons. With a wide selection of Western dishes (largely), salads, soups, hamburgers, as well as soup with sweet potatoes and coconut milk, this place attracts a lot of people. The furnishings in the restaurant are A la 70s, with comfortable leather chairs, gray walls and splashes of a saturated green in the interior. In the same building there is a spa and boutique.
Nightlife city There is, and in recent years the situation is developing. Today you can drink beer or wine and after 22:00, while not necessarily enter the local karaoke bars, which do not always like to tourists. You can intercept the Ryumshka in Riverside Balcony Bar , And on the other side of the river, look at the bar with Here BE Dragons, even if you are not a guest of this gesthaus.
Closer to the city center can be found not bad Madison Corner with a large selection of drinks, as well as recommended "Libations Bar" on Street 2 and "Lotus Bar and Gallery" on Street 2.5.
