Nicky's Restaurant Review

This evening Mem and Stan, Pui and I drove to Soi Buakhow for some fine British food at Nicky's... which is a little more the standard Pattaya guesthouse upstairs, bar with pool table downstairs to the right, and restaurant with big screen TV to the left. (The only deviation from the standard recipe being that the downstairs room is closed in and air conditioned as compared to the usual open-to-the-street format.)

Prices for food were reasonable, and the dining room was clean and bright with new furniture and pleasant-enough decor. The staff seemed generally competent and the service was error-free. Everything was more than acceptable for an establishment that isn't focused exclusively on food.



Stan and I started off with shrimp cocktails for an appetizer: I had small at 75 baht, and Stan had large at 125 baht. Note to Americans visiting Thailand: Shrimp cocktail in Thailand is served the British way, which is shrimp on lettuce covered with Thousand-Island-style dressing, and is only rarely served the American way, with the horseradish-based cocktail sauce. Regardless though, the small was a very generous size, and the large shrimp cocktail was a meal in itself.

For entreés, the girls had Thai food while Stan had a Yorkshire pudding upon which lay potatoes, some really nice sausages, onions, and gravy. Stan claimed the Yorkshire pudding is as good as you can hope to find in Thailand. I had the gammon steak which was served with peas, fries, and 2 fried eggs, which was a lovely piece ham-style cured pork. (For the diet, I only ate about a qurter of the steak and all of the peas, sampled Stan's platter, and took the rest of it home.)

Overall, Ricky's on Soi Buakhow (about halfway between Soi Diana and Pattaya South Road, on the "Third Road" side of the street) is a nice little restaurant serving reasonably-priced, high quality British food. Definitely worth a visit for a middle-of-the-road budget combined with a good appetite.