Sala Mae Nam Restaurant — Restaurant in Chiang Saen district

Elephants graze beside the nam ruak river - while diners are pleasantly distracted by this scene that might be from a wild safari movie. Not for long though. What's on the plate lures this diner to taste what has been artfully presented before him. Be adventurous - try the North Thai cuisine: Gang Ho, Kao Soi and especially the Northern Thai Lanna Dips - a beaut blend of traditional local tastes served with steamed vegetables, egg and freshly harvested bambòo shoots - yum - or as the locals say "lum teh teh" (delicious). Service is pleasantly divine - an overall experience sure to boomerang you back...

Restaurant on the premises of Anantara resort, serving Thai and Italian food. We had dishes from local menu, which is further subdivided into Lanna (northern style) and mainstream Thai. Our choice as on attached images, was quite good, the best being appetizer set and young mango salad with fried fish. There is also extensive beverage menu with pretty much all one can imagine (craft beer we had was very good). All in all, good choice for diner with a nice view over elephant grazing land, which comes with a certain rather...

Atrocious service. We waited 20 minutes and gave up. Despite 8 service attendants standing around AND asking to place our lunch order 3 times we gave up and left. Our group had fluent Thai speaker so there was no language mix up here, just good old fashion poor service. Completely unacceptable for Anantara, which is...