Pub Street
Siem Reap's nightspots are unexciting but I can recommend some good places to eat, none of them on Pub Street.
I liked Andre Malraux which is around the corner. A few blocks away, a place to definitely go is owner-chef Joannès Rivière's Cuisine Wat Damnak, which in March 2015 was effectively named best restaurant in Cambodia (it listed in UK Restaurant's Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants at no.50, a first for a Cambodian restaurant; it's affordable, open five days and you have to book ahead). Thai culinary expert David Thompson likes it too.
Marum was great (more on Tree Alliance's restaurants later) and I recommend Sugar Palm and the ice cream and coffee at any Blue Pumpkin. I went to Embassy as the chefs Pol and Sok had been mentored by a Michelin-hatted chef, but the degustation menu with wine, although interesting and a genuine try for haute cuisine, was expensive for Siem Reap (the food outclassed the wine).
The best local travel guide is a quarterly free giveaway (available for Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Sihanoukville) by publisher Canby: www.canbypublications.com/
Pub Street
Siem Reap's nightspots are unexciting but I can recommend some good places to eat, none of them on Pub Street.
I liked Andre Malraux which is around the corner. A few blocks away, a place to definitely go is owner-chef Joannès Rivière's Cuisine Wat Damnak, which in March 2015 was effectively named best restaurant in Cambodia (it listed in UK Restaurant's Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants at no.50, a first for a Cambodian restaurant; it's affordable, open five days and you have to book ahead). Thai culinary expert David Thompson likes it too.
Marum was great (more on Tree Alliance's restaurants later) and I recommend Sugar Palm and the ice cream and coffee at any Blue Pumpkin. I went to Embassy as the chefs Pol and Sok had been mentored by a Michelin-hatted chef, but the degustation menu with wine, although interesting and a genuine try for haute cuisine, was expensive for Siem Reap (the food outclassed the wine).
The best local travel guide is a quarterly free giveaway (available for Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Sihanoukville) by publisher Canby: www.canbypublications.com/