Café de Siam @Le Naview Hotel — Restaurant in Chiang Mai Province

Well, I'm just walking along the street, fancied a Latte and croissant. Walked in, ordered both at 135 baht, sat down to do some work, coffee and croissant arrived. Latte is ok, I've had better in the many other cafes in Chiang Mai. Took the knife to open the croissant, came up against a block of ice inside, wow, why would you defrost a croissant from frozen?, when there are many bakeries producing freshly baked ones in a daily basis??. Only answer to this conundrum is, the owners are buying in bulk to freeze the products, so not having to throw away or sell off cheaply any that are unsold. To the owners if they actually read this, my advice, that comes with decades of sales, marketing and presentation experience is this... Get your act together, buy fresh and DONT freeze the food your selling. Will I return here?.. Debatable..... Staff were good in refunding the cost of croissant immediately.. Thank you to them...

Just a footnote to this review... I am now in the Zhong Cafe, 450 metres from Cafe de Siam... Lattes are better and they have Fresh cake too......

Great location to have a western-stile break. European/American breakfast, salads, sandwiches, and more. Fresh coffee, fruit shakes, juices, smoothies,... Vegetarian food, Thai typical rice-, and noodle-dishes, omelettes but also Siam-style starters and finger food... you can have it all, either inside, well sheltered from the blazing heat by great air conditioning. Alternatively, on a fancy and cozy terrace equipped with rattan couches under the classic Thai-style roof of the "Le Naview" Hotel. Food is fresh and tasty, sizes fit for western guests, prices very moderate for the quality and quantity. Staff is very friendly and fluent in english. Wifi is strong and free for guests. Ideal place if you are fed up with fried noodles with shrimps, popcorn with shrimps, rice with shrimps, shrimps with shrimps,... though you could have finger shrimps if you wanted, they're actually quite...

The burger was filled with chewy, unedible tendons. I returned the unfinished burger and they just said sorry.

As you can see with their extensive menu, don't expect quality as they don't specialize in anything.

Some of their juices & smoothies are fresh and no added sugar, so that's good if you want something healthy, but they're not served cold. Slightly cooler than lukewarm.

Stay for an iced coffee and AC but don't expect...