Hemlock / HemlockArtRestaurant — Restaurant in Chana Songkhram Subdistrict

Though the restaurant is located near tourist area, each Thai dishes is cooked as Thai taste. Beware of the spicy dishes if you are not the spicy chili lover. Many old Thai dishes are also served here and worth trying even you are Thai since they are hardly found elsewhere.

It is seemed pork is not their expertise, I would recommend to avoid pork and better order the fish, shrimp or others. Western dishes should also be avoided, except you are curious to know the Thai-nised version.

Re-visits May 2023 After the COVID-19 pandermics, the number of staffs was decreased. It would take loner time to wait for the food if there are more than two table of guests in the restaurant. The quality of food is still very good with very humble price. The restaurant still serve non-fancy Thai dish with well-trained Thai cooking skills. Many dishes is rarely seen today. I would suggest to order Nam Prik. Nak Prik is composed of a dipping source and accompanied vegetables. The dish was considered as main dish of Thai meals in the old day. When the life of drive with go fast, Thai full course was simplified to a single dish and Nam Prik disappear from regular food culture. Here, Nam Prik was well made served with various vegetables (boilded, deep-fried, raw) as it should be. It is a shame to accept that in the capital of Thai, a good Thai food is rare. The fancy Thai restaurant charging with over-price, along with claiming as fine dining, is cooked by non-skill staffs, as they are trained under international kitchen curiculum, but never trained under Thai kitchen, nor know the language and grammar of Thai cooking. Here is the place that you may find a normal Thai taste and too humble...

What a wonderful place ! The menu is so refined yet so authentic with a ribambelle of choices more and more unexpected, you will be able to taste ancient recipes made with whole and tasteful ingredients, for the more adventurous they even serve the famous croco thai! You will literally travel time thanks to the hosts delightful taste of music and decoration which will made you feel strangely at home and yet in a romantic dream. More than a restaurant it is also a café, which propose very good tea. I strongly recommend this address, the owners were so sweet and happy when I said ( or mimed ) that their food was really good. Yes the price is higher than others but the quality is there and I have seen ancient recipes that I have never seen anywhere else, and let be honest a generous plate there is almost the same price as a coffee in Paris, I...

Intrigued by the idea of trying crocodile meat in curry (spoiler: it’s good, though very expensive by Thai standards), the four of us showed up early at Hemlock.

On the plus side: the menu is extensive (maybe too much?), each dish seems freshly prepared and is excellent. However, be warned about the major downside: the service takes a very VERY long time. We arrived around 8:00 PM, and the first dish was served about an hour later (and I mean one dish, not one per person). The next item, six (delicious) dumplings, came 15 minutes after that. The main dishes, fortunately served all at once, arrived a bit after 9:30 PM, when we were nearly the only ones in the restaurant. Needless to say, the family that came in at 9:00 PM left by 9:30 PM without ordering anything. So be warned if you’re hoping for a quick bite or if you’re just...