Koy Kulakasai Restaurant — Restaurant in Krabi Province

With a brush of luck we were recommended to this secret garden only known to the local. From the reading of its name to finding the location, it was manifest that their main clientele are not tourists. It was a long ride from Ao Nang (19km) but we enjoyed the sunset vista having limestone as the backdrop viewed from behind the tuk tuk. The restaurant itself has a main hall for bigger functions and a few pavilions overlooking a pond, in a precinct thrived with an abundance of lush greenery. Staff was prompt to sit you in and recommend their best catch. Seafood is the theme here and a gamut of Thai favorites await you with the likes of flower crab, river prawn which is the huge prawn, clam, lobster and of course the must eat fish dishes cooked in various Thai styles. Strange enough, the dish that stole our hearts was the fried prawn cakes. Though ubiquitous, they were perfectly made here with fresh prawn meat, rolled into huge chunk and fried till crunchy crisp! The seafood items were all tasty matched with an outback setting, to slow you down for the day. Price is on the lower side compared to the beach areas. If you intend to visit here be sure to hire a tuk tuk that waits for your return trip. Transport is impossible to...

We wouldn't have found this place without our guide. It's up a dirt road, and around a couple of tricky corners. It's a restaurant for locals with booths around a pond full of very large koi fish. We had a very nice lunch of local Thai dishes. It's up against the side of a rocky hillside so the setting is quite spectacular. If your visiting Krabi its worth a visit to see where the locals go. The Tab was just over 400bht for 4. You can spend more if you're a drinker, but its still cheap by western standards. If you go there and are wondering what the large concrete building with all the pipes sticking out is. It's a man made cave! The pipes are for swallows to enter and build their nests. These can be harvested for bird's nest soup. Does it work? No idea, but...

Three words - terrible customers service. This place should be extremely avoided if you are non local. Staff greeted us in english and escorted us to the table. Everything went well, but only before the order. They served dishes we did not order - wrong count of rices, chicken instead of crab etc. We reminded the order once again and that two people out of 4 are still missing their dishes, but multiple waitresses did not bring remaining dishes at all, just kept staring at us from a distance and were afraid to approach. How hard was to understand that 2 persons were missing their dishes, especially that we ordered the same... The lunch and our mood was...