Phuket Cafe
Thai restaurant · Northwest District
1818 NW 23rd Pl, Portland, OR 97210
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Highlights
Phuket Cafe serves inventive Thai dishes in a vibrant, train car-inspired patio setting with killer cocktails and standout desserts.
Phuket Cafe serves inventive Thai dishes in a vibrant, train car-inspired patio setting with killer cocktails and standout desserts.
"This Northwest Portland Thai restaurant may offer the most creative patio in town: Instead of opting for a straight outdoor patio, Phuket’s covered and heated seating is modeled after a train car, with custom mint wooden booths and little red-lined windows that look out onto Northwest 23rd Place. For dishes best suited to a cool evening, opt for one of the restaurant’s nuanced curries, particularly the panang served with a 21-day dry-aged steak." - Thom Hilton
"This colorful Northwest 23rd Place Thai restaurant from star restaurateur Akkapong Earl Ninsom can adapt well to the mood, depending on what you’re going for: Grab a seat at the bar to keep things low-key, where you can knock back tropical-vibed cocktails or a glass of orange wine. Split an order of pork belly bites or Thai pickles, and if you’re willing to graduate to full-on dinner, you can grab a seat on the cool train car-inspired patio or in a low-lit corner of the restaurant." - Asia Alvarez, Brooke Jackson-Glidden
"This Northwest Portland Thai restaurant from Akkapong Earl Ninsom is often buzzing with excited energy in the evening, when diners gather at the chef’s counter for Langbaan’s tasting menu or order rib-eyes and pork chops on the main menu. Lunch is a much more relaxed affair: Sitting out in the heated, pink train car outside or at one of the indoor tables, diners order standards like pad see ew, massaman curry, and pork belly fried rice, perhaps alongside a glass of Thai iced tea — spiked as a clarified milk punch, if the day is ending early. The restaurant also offers takeout curries and noodles for lunch." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden
"This stylish Northwest Portland restaurant often turns heads for dishes like Thai paella with manila clams or albacore with peanut brittle and mint, but the restaurant’s simple oysters on the half shell are a worthy beginning to any meal here. Oysters arrive with a chile-laden nam jim and fried shallots, plus a touch of lime for acidity. They’re available by the dozen and half-dozen." - Krista Garcia
"In terms of straight-up inventive options, the patio at Thai destination Phuket Cafe is meant to look and feel like a street car, which gives it an intimate vibe while also feeling well ventilated. And yes, the heaters keep the space warm; no shivering through meals here." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden
