Battambang Restaurants

This is a German owned place, just down the road from the White Rose and is also popular with westerners. The name refers to the pot you put on a stove, not in a pipe. I came here and had half a chicken in a pepper and garlic sauce with rice.

This is one of the most popular places to eat in town for locals and westerners alike. They serve good, authentic Khmer and a laundry list of Chinese-style stir-fries, Thai soups and treats, and some Western cuisine. Don't expect much of a smile along with the service as it's always pretty hectic inside. They do some good fruit shakes here.

This is an excellent place that's situated near the end of the road which the Royal Hotel, the sister of the Star Hotel where I stayed at, is located. It's obviously very popular with westerners and serves a great breakfast with hash browns, bacon, eggs, toast, fresh cinnamon rolls, lovely coffee served in enormous cups and comfortable kerbside seating.

Pomme d'Amour was a new-ish restaraunt when we visited Battambang in early September 2009. While conventional wisdom points to La Villa's restaurant as #1 in town, Pomme d'Amour has to be a really close second. In fact, if you're vegetarian, it should be #1 for you, hands down.

The menu was excellent, and each of us tried one of the two veg items on the menu. They were both marvelous. We're thankful when we can find good vegetarian while traveling and this is it - not just warmed over standards you see over and over with no real character.

The place had a wonderful atmosphere, and the owner was a great guy.

Can't recommend this place enough for a "higher end" meal in Battambang. Light years ahead of White Rose, Smokin' Pot, etc. in terms of ambience when you're ready for a more special night out.

This is a pretty standard restaurant like many others that can be found all over Asia reminded me of Capitol GH restaurant in PP. The food is cheap plentiful and tasty. The service is what you would expect you always get that feeling of being a nuisance rather than a customer but the food makes up for that. We ordered 3 fruit shakes but only got 2, we made 3 requests trying to find out where it was to no avail we eventually found our original waiter who spoke pretty good English and he sorted it out however we had all eaten by this stage. There is a substantial menu consisting of mostly Khmer food.

Favorite Dish: Excelllent fruit shakes.

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In Battambang you don't have a big choice of restaurants. In the middle of the afternoon I guess the choice is even fewer then for dinner. We checked out Smokin' Pot but it looked closed. The White Rose was next and was crowed by locals and some tourists who arrived together with us by boat.

Favorite Dish: I took squid and for dessert a fresh fruite shake yummie

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Before we went to the circus show at Phare Ponleu Selpak we were looking for a quicke bite to eat. Gecko Cafe was the closest to our hotel.

We didn't have much time and when entering the restaurant we directly asked if it is possible to have a meal within 20 min ... yeah I guess typically german tourist well organised and punctual .... But it was possible and it was good that we asked in advance because they only had one or two hot plates and prepared the dishes one after the other.

Favorite Dish: We got curries, a vegetarian one and one with chicken. Very delicious!

Battambang isn't a big city at all, so you have to remember that finding a classy sit down place might be out of the question. I really like the Smokin' Pot because of the very reasonable prices and the good food. Also, they have a cooking class that I did not participate in, but witnessed many people taking it. They seemed to be having a very good time and they ate what they made at the end. While I was eating there one night I was surprised to see two rats run by my feet. That was the only downside, but don't let that keep you from experiencing it, it was outside.

Favorite Dish: At this point of my trip I was missing some home cooked meals and decided to order some spaghetti with meat sauce for $1.50 USD. It was very very good! It even had texas toast garlic bread! I was amazed and wanted to go back again.