Samutr Bar — Restaurant in Patong

This place is well designed and has a nice view. If you’re coming here for the photos, I’d actually recommend it. However, the food and service were atrocious. Ordered the tea set and additional drinks. We were informed of a 15 minute wait for drinks and 40 minute wait for food which I was fine with. Just asked them to bring the tea when it was ready. What I was not ok with was a 40 minute wait for the tea and drinks. The tea was a couple of teabags and hot water. 40 minutes to boil water?!?! The food was even worse. Over an hour wait to be served premade bread and cake. And the food was horrible. Egg salad on stale white bread, the driest cake I’ve ever eaten, and jello that had the texture of taffy. One piece was just a mini loaf with sriracha sauce on it. I can’t put into words what a bad dining experience this was. Neither my partner nor I had more than one bite. The only saving grace was a decent scone. It is just pretentious to think you can serve food like that for nearly 900 baht. So overall, if you’re there for the photos, decent enough place. I’d even say it’s worth the overpriced drinks. But be prepared to wait a long time and do not...

I can’t speak for the other desserts, but the matcha tiramisu with the price of 200baht+ was honestly really bad. I’m not sure if they even know what tiramisu is? Maybe they should start learning it properly because there’s absolutely nothing about it that resembles tiramisu. It actually tasted like an egg tart, which makes no sense at all. I’ve seen so many reviews and complaints about the desserts, yet nothing seems to change. Maybe it’s time to take the feedback seriously and actually do something about it. Honestly, it feels unfair, not just to me, but to other customers as well. At this price point, the quality should be much better. I’ve never had a problem with paying more when the taste and quality are worth it because that’s how it should be.

Yes, the place is beautiful, I’ll give it that. But beyond the aesthetics, there’s really nothing else to justify the hype. If you just want a nice photo of the café, pay an overpriced bill, and leave disappointed then sure, go ahead. But if you’re expecting great food to match the vibe, prepare to...

It’s worth the visit if you got plenty of time, plenty of money, and is in needed of photos to post on your instagram.

The good: Nice view, as pretty as it seems on the photo. It’s very instagrammable. Drinks are served rather fast

The bad: High price. My matcha frappe is 220++ baht. And the taste and quality is very cheap, I wouldn’t pay a 100baht for this. Really only good for photos. We paid by scanning the bank QR Code. Staff A said it didn’t work and the money will be refunded in the evening so please pay again. Staff B said the payment didn’t work and they didn’t do refund process, please pay again. We argued quite a bit because my bank app states that the money was transferred successfully and the balance in our bank has decreased. At the end they compromised and asked for our contact in case they really didn’t get the money. (We used a high reputable Thai bank by the way) Until today there’s no contact so I guess they...