Kaset Nawamin Restaurants: Where to Eat Along Prasert-Manukit Road

How Kaset-Nawamin eats: one 12 km road, parking at every door

The road changes as you drive east. The first stretch, still in Chatuchak district and within walking distance of the BTS, is where the shaded, café-style Thai restaurants are: Camin at the mouth of Soi Prasert-Manukit 2 (also signed Phahon Yothin 34), and Up To Jug under pillar 18 beside a KFC. The middle of the road, in Chorakhe Bua subdistrict of Lat Phrao, holds the large family restaurants. Ob-Aroi and Ayoi Sushi Tengoku share a frontage at numbers 288 and 282, opposite Nawamin City Avenue, and Krua Muang Hue sits opposite The Walk Kaset-Nawamin, just past Hua Mum market. Beer Hima & Panya Seafood is at Soi 25.

Further east, the Ram Inthra expressway frontage road (Pradit Manutham Road) crosses it, and the road runs on into Bueng Kum. Both cafés on this list are out here, on Khlong Lam Chiak. Addresses on this road are given three ways: a house number, a soi number or the pillar in the median outside, such as pillar 18 at Up To Jug near Kaset. After dark the road is better known for drinking than eating: a 2021 Chillpainai round-up listed twenty places along it, most of them bars that open in the late afternoon and close between midnight and 02:00.

Seafood on Kaset-Nawamin Road

The two seafood restaurants on this list suit different evenings. Ob-Aroi is the one to take parents or visiting relatives to, because nothing on the menu is “market price”. Its own site sells the house fish sauce as a product at 120 baht, and it turns up on the deep-fried sea bass at 420 and on raw prawns marinated in the same sauce at 240. Grilled river prawns come in two sizes at 450 and 900, and there is a separate vegetarian (jay) section of seven dishes from 100 baht. On Wongnai’s delivery page, the medium crab fried rice is the item customers recommend most.

Beer Hima & Panya Seafood is louder and hotter. The kitchen cooks southern Thai: prawns with shrimp paste and sataw beans, yellow curry of sea bass with coconut shoots, and prawns fried with bai lep khrut leaves at 220 baht. Wongnai ranks it second among seafood restaurants in Lat Phrao district. Come as a group, because reviewers say the portions are too big for a couple to get far into the menu. For something different, Chillpainai’s 2021 list included Lobster & Oyster at 229 Prasert-Manukit, a grilled seafood bar run by a chef from Hix Oyster & Chophouse in London, with ingredients imported from France and the Netherlands.

Kaset Nawamin restaurants for family dinners: southern Thai and Hue-style Vietnamese

Camin is the garden lunch. The dining room is glass and air-conditioned and looks onto tall trees and a stream, and the café is a short walk across the same plot, so the coconut cake can come to your table after the curries. Menu prices on Wongnai include kaeng som sour curry with sea bass at 329, moo hong braised pork belly at 345 and kai kolae grilled chicken at 260. The room fills at weekend lunch and service slows, so reviewers advise booking.

Krua Muang Hue mixes two kitchens. The owner credits the Vietnamese recipes to a grandmother from Hue and the Isan side to Mukdahan on the Mekong. That makes it the easy answer for a mixed table: banh xeo at 195 and pork grilled in betel leaves at 180 for the mild eaters, som tam pla ra with five chillies as standard for the rest. Eat the Vietnamese pizza as soon as it lands, while the base is still crisp. Up To Jug, near Kaset intersection, covers central Thai food, and owner-chef Jug runs a chef’s table with a menu that changes monthly, booked through LINE.

Japanese: Gulf of Thailand sashimi at Ayoi Sushi Tengoku

Time Out Bangkok’s write-up of Ayoi Sushi Tengoku centres on the daily sashimi platter, made from eight to twelve fish caught in Thai waters, mostly white fish such as sea bass and needlefish, with a fish-of-the-day cart and the odd challenge like steamed bluefin tuna eyeball. Wongnai reviewers paid 290 baht for the Thai fish platter and 650 for 500 g of sashimi. Not every local species will suit everyone, so ask what is on the plate that day. Wongnai ranks it fourth among Japanese restaurants in Lat Phrao district. For the wider city, see Japanese restaurants in Bangkok.

Cafés along the Ram Inthra expressway road

The two cafés here keep different hours. Davin Cafe works from breakfast to midnight: one guide puts lattes from about 140 baht, the menu runs to more than 40 Thai and European dishes, and cocktails start once the Vinsens bar opens at 18:00. Its décor runs to neon-lit columns and copies of classical statues, and its signature drinks pair espresso with mandarin juice or coconut water. Reviewers say it gets crowded at weekends, and pets are not allowed inside.

Plantation Cafe is an afternoon stop. Time Out lists it closing at 19:00 on weekdays and 20:00 at weekends, it takes last orders half an hour earlier, and it is shut on Mondays. It roasts twice a week and sells its beans, including a Brazil Cerrado Mineiro at 290 baht for 250 g, and Wanderlog recommends the Ninety Plus Kule drip. Reviewers rate the coffee above the food. More options across the city are in the guide to cafés in Bangkok.

Getting to Kaset-Nawamin without a car

No train runs along Prasert-Manukit Road yet. BTS Sena Nikhom on the Sukhumvit Line is the stop for the Kaset end: Camin is about a 15-minute walk and Up To Jug about 17 minutes, or a quick motorbike taxi. The MRT Yellow Line stations at Lat Phrao 101 and Chalong Rat are 2 to 3 km from the road, too far to walk to dinner. The MRT Brown Line, which will run above this road, is still under construction. Mid-road restaurants and the cafés off Khlong Lam Chiak mean a Grab or a taxi.

If you are eating your way across the north-east, the road links south to Lat Phrao restaurants and Central Ladprao restaurants via the expressway road or Lat Pla Khao. West of Kaset intersection are the Chatuchak restaurants, and south-east past Bang Kapi are the Ramkhamhaeng restaurants.