Baan A Din (restaurant): 'hidden secret" with a very questionable online rating
Let's be honest: You are never going to drive or get a taxi this far out of your way to enjoy a French restaurant in Chiang Mai. However if the mood strikes you to go all this way to what is essentially a residential area then i say "kudos to you" for accomplishing that. However I gotta be honest: Baan A Din is not really all that great.
This place is rated very highly on easily corrupted review-websites such as TripAdvisor, but from years of being involved in the industry I think that perhaps this place might be on the list for why I wish TripAdvisor didn't exist.
My group ordered almost everything on the menu. We went full-spectrum. We had Lasagne, duck, steak, fish, and shellfish. I didn't eat all of this but I was there with trusted friends and everyone kind of reported the same. It tasted OK.
lasagna
duck with a side of potatoes au gratin
ribeye with side of the same
shellfish salad
I do not have a pic of the fish.
I don't think that a visit to this place is warranted for anyone that is staying in this town for a short amount of time. The food was decent, but it was really not anything special. If this was in the center of town I would be singing its praises. However, since it is well out of the city and actually quite difficult to find and near no hotels I can say with certainty that everyone out there can go ahead and give this a miss.
out of everything what we ate while we were here there was really only one thing that everyone loved and that was the lava cake with ice cream.
what's not to love about that though?
This restaurant clearly caters to the local community that lives in this distant subdistrict of Chiang Mai. The (some of which i presume to be fake) reviews that are seen on TripAdvisor would indicate that it is worth the taxi ride out there but I am here telling you as someone that was just there mid-week with a group of 8 that sampled all of the various dishes that we ordered..... that it is in-fact not worth the trip. There was nothing particularly special about any of the meals or the prices that are charged for them. I think that if someone doesn't live in this part of town (and i would imagine almost everyone doesn't) then there is no particular reason to go here.
Contact information anyway!
location with a link!
246/5, Soi Mu Ban San Sai, San Sai Noi, Amphoe San Sai, Chang Wat Chiang Mai 50210, Thailand
+66 81 593 9807
https://www.facebook.com/Baan-A-Din-238681109627549
Good grief! What a review!! I love it!
Because today I had a very bad experience of a ‘famous’ Indian restaurant in the heart of Bangkok! This one got five star review in the English popular review websites as you mentioned.
The food was terrible, every single dish was badly cooked with a lot of dilution of ingredients! I was very disappointed!
And the sweet was also fake Indian sweet!! The butter they used was also from another planet!
I came out still feeling as if I didn’t have any lunch!
By the way, they also had som-tum! I took one look at it and refused to eat. My Malaysian friend took one spoonful and told everyone that it wasn’t good.
I was afraid of being poisoned by the staff there as I was saying quite openly that the food was not good at all!
Looking around there were only two occupied tables in the whole restaurant!
It had been a really crazy gastronomical experience! LoL
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Oh please tell me that this wasn't the Michelin rated restaurant in the middle of BKK. I had so been looking forward to trying that place. Great follow up, full upvote for you!
Sorry for my slow reply! I have to do some research about all the Michelin rated Indian restaurants in the area.
Luckily, this one is just highly recommended by the web, not rated by Michelin!
So, you can carry on with your gourmet journey!
Have a wonderful time!
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I really trust your food reviews as you know and have tried more places than anyone I know. Sounds like fake reviews to get more people to drive out to them. Smart tactic but a bit obvious I think. I would be disappointed if that was it. The pudding looks good though.
Well, it still looks better than my lunch today!