Category Archives: Restaurant Reviews
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Nike’s Pizza House
There’s something decidedly quirky about a restaurant that plays hits from the Bay City Rollers as it serves steaming bowls of pesto pasta. It’s made stranger by the presence of two four-foot-tall mosaic-studded ceramic chickens and a selection of shiny…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Magnolia
For the best of seven years, I had the extreme pleasure of eating extraordinary Vietnamese food most everyday, prepared by a cook (who happened to be my wife) whose knowledge of her homeland’s gastronomy was encyclopedic and her culinary skills…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Deco
When I heard Deco was serving sticky toffee pudding, I was on the first tuktuk over. It brought back memories of warm gooey sponges swimming in rich butterscotch sauce served across the dinner table, after a pub lunch or even…
Phnom Penh Street Stories: Part 2
A little further down Sothearos is ‘The White Building’. Not so far as it is from the PM’s house, the Royal Palace and Sofitel, it epitomizes for me the ‘us and them’ situation in Cambodia. Below is an interesting you-tube…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Tacqueria Corona
In the spirit of full disclosure, I’m not usually drawn to Mexican cuisine. Though I’ve eaten my fair share of fish tacos on the beach in Ensenada and was patron to some of the local eateries when I lived in…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: ARTillery Café
For some restaurant operators, opening a new place is like making spaghetti. Throw it up against a wall and see if it sticks. For others, it’s more like baking a cake. Measure the ingredients carefully, add one at a time,…
What’s so Doubtful about a Doubtful Salad?
There’s a great beer garden in Phnom Penh that my friends and I like to go to often enough for it to be on our regular list. It’s on the corner of St. 360 and the delightful Tuk S’oy (smelly…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Hotel Nine
Dining at the Hotel Nine restaurant has dispelled a couple of myths for me: 1. Hotel restaurants aren’t usually very good, and 2. Tapas are too small to be satisfying. This unassuming little spot is quite the hidden gem. Unadvertised,…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Gastrobar Botanico
Getting into Gastrobar Botanico is a bit like foraging in the jungle. If you don’t have a machete on hand, it’s a bit of a challenge to skirt the hanging vines and push through the leafy plants flapping across the…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Fish and Company
Something Fishy? Spending an evening at Fish and Company is a bit like walking into a David Lynch movie. Imagine “Finding Nemo” meets “Fawlty Towers”. Toss in the scene from “Poseidon Adventure” where a band plays in the corner of…
