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3 Nagas
This acclaimed guest house has a charming restaurant (diners can choose to sit indoors or out on a patio). It’s a good spot for lunch or dinner; the menu is focused on Laotian cuisine with French touches. Thanks to its...
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Café Ban Vat Sene
This café-restaurant is run by the people behind L’Elephant and has a largely Western-inspired menu, including such French dishes as croque monsieur. With rustic wooden tables, ceiling fans and wicker chairs, Bat Vat Sene has a relaxed ambience and is...
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Icon Klub
This tiny bar, run by an artist, is a nice spot for a pre-dinner cocktail. The owners’ Hungarian roots are visible in such touches as the presence of Unicum liquor on the menu. The cozy spot is close to Tamarind...
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Joma Bakery Café
Located near the entrance of the night market, Joma is the kind of place where everyone seems to be working on a novel or blogging for Lonely Planet. It has delicious pastries, sandwiches, soups and salads, and a menu of...
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L’Eléphant
Considered the best in town, the menu has both French and Lao food. Not only is the décor charming but so is its setting at an intersection of two small twisting roads. We each had soup to begin: onion and...
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Le Banneton
This charming breakfast spot, opposite Wat Sop and close to Xiengthong temple serves incredible croissants, pain au chocolat and chausson pomme. It’s the perfect place to spend an early morning, once the monks’ Tak Bat has passed.
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Tamarind
One of the town’s most renowned restaurants, Tamarind was opened in 2005 by Lao-born chef Joy Ngeuamboupha and Australian Caroline Gaylard as a place to celebrate and feature Laotian cuisine. It’s as much a place for a fabulous meal as...
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Many first-time travelers assume that Laotian cuisine is closely related to Thai (and some dishes are), but the culinary traditions of Lao, a landlocked country that borders Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Burma and China, are uniquely its own.