Penang Steakhouse & Fusion Food — Restaurant in Phitsanulok Province

It's a decent restaurant, lighting is a little stark for my liking. A lot of dark wood tones to the furniture and walls with wrought-iron accents.

You pay for everything, including 20 bhatt for bottled water. They only sell beer, so if you want a nice red wine with your steak, it's okay to bring your own bottle. They have a wine shop and a "premier" noodle shop in the building as well. Wine and small selection of liquor has a 50% mark-up from retail. The 590 bhatt (approximately $16) was immature, thin, and tannins/Esther's were it's primary flavor.

The Ribeye was literally 1cm thick cut of meat definitelynot from the rib, and was more chewy than a good sirloin steak. It was fried, tough, and no fat was present.

The Tenderloin was much better, was served on a plate already cut into medallions, which I didn't appreciate and it was not stated on the menu that it would medallions. The meat was cooked a proper medium rare, but I was hard pressed to see 6oz of meat let alone 8oz. There was a big glob of fat that took up half of 2 of the medallions, indicating poor butchering or cutting corners at the diner's expense.

The ribeye was ordered with red wine sauce and mixed vegetables, the sauce was okay but uninspiring, the mixed vegetables fit on a 4"×4" dish, half of the dish had mashed potatoes, then one roasted tomatoe, and 2 small broccoli crowns, and 2 small cauliflower crowns.

The Tenderloin (I guess not to be confused with a Petite Filet) came was ordered with a truffle sauce. The sauce was mediocre at best. Mashed potatoes were ordered, which did not cover the 4x4 dish. The potatoes tasted as if they were made from freeze dried potato flakes.

No bread was provided.

Both meats came with what looked like a pat of garlic butter on top. The waitress took a blow-torch to each pat of butter to melt it while the plate was on the the table.

I guess if you enjoy have your meat blow-torched, this our place.

The total food cost was 1720 bhatt including VAT of 112 for 2 people. At conversion of 32-35 Bhatti/$, price is approximately $49- $54. The cheap wine added $17.

Don't order the ribeye, bring your own alcohol/wine, bread and...

Save your money, avoid this place. It looks nice inside, but service and food are both sub-standard. My son ordered a Thai dish, and roughly 10 minutes later, the waitress returned to tell him they did not have any more sour curry. Though I ordered a “Tomahawk” Wagyu steak at the same time, it took another 10 minutes, after they told my son they could not fill his order, for them to tell me they did not have the Tomahawk steak. I ordered two different Wagyu steaks (200 grams each). The picture in the menu shows a marbeled, thick, Wagyu Rib Eye and New York strip. What showed up was a lukewarm wafer, perhaps 10 mm thick. It was obvious the steaks had been sitting in the kitchen for some time, prior to being brought to our table; the steaks and vegetables were not hot, they were room temperature. My wife and son both commented their Thai food was not delicious at all.

You can get a much better meal - same thing my wife, son, and I ordered at Penang Steak House, including beer, for 1/2 the price we paid at Penang (2,600 THB). Do yourself a favor, have a much better, and much less expensive, meal somewhere else. We didn’t bother finishing the meal; it...

“Penang Steak” is located downtown Phitsanulok. Parking lots are available. It has a contemporary Western vibe which I enjoyed.

Although not mentioned on the menu, my order of Mac and cheese came with a lot of ham in it. I don’t like ham in general and Thai ham in particular. Ham does not belong in a Mac and cheese.

The second order of some kind of Japanese Curry was served at a lukewarm temperature and the rice was even cold. The onion rings were oily.

The restaurant provides you with free refills of ice cold water.

The staff’s performance did not impress me much when it came to speed and attentiveness.

All in all and considering the price, it was a less than...