Friday, April 13, 2007
Leelawaddi - restaurant and second home
Leelawaddi gets a mention in my diary several times.
I took almost no photographs of this favourite cafe this year and so I am painting a picture, using some of last year's pictures and the three that Jamie has used on his Phuket blog - and I am quoting his words too.
This is what you see from the road - the restaurant sign and a couple of little kiosks where people can pick up food to take away.
This is a leelawaddi ( I presume).
Please note - this is an orchid, not a leelawaddi.
Jamie says that leelawaddis are white flowers like on the sign.
These are Jamie's words......
One of the restaurants we visit most often is Leelawadee, situated on the road between Wat Chalong and Phuket Town, next to the Kajonkiet School, about 3km from the Central Festival Mall. Despite being by the main road, it is a quiet place, full of plants and flowers, with a pond outside full of fish. Service is friendly (note they do not speak much English), food is inexpensive. The menu has everything from Thai salads (the Yam Neua - Beef Salad - is great) to pizza (only 90 Baht) and club sandwiches. They also do breakfasts but the sausages and ham are Thai style (not great). Coffee tastes good here. Cold beers in the fridge. Free drinking water. Tables inside and outside.
This is the view of the front garden with a water feature and plants amongst the outside tables.
This shows Jamie and John (last year) on the bridge. There is water on two sides of the restaurant with golden fish swimming amongst the plants.
This is the main counter and some of the people who work in Leelawaddi. The owner is the woman with short hair on the right.
The staff hadn't changed since last year.
They work from early morning, providing breakfasts to workers and school children. Jessica's school is next door. Many children and parents pop in after school too.
I think they finally close at around 9 o'clock in the evening.
So, they are a hard working team and always seem to be on top of things.
Chairs and tables are simple, but flowers make the room feel really attractive.
Bill and Mam are at the table.
Mam feeding John - last year. Leelawaddi is so familiar to Jessica and John and they normally wander off into an adjacent room and play with whatever they can find there. It feels like a second home and they treat it as such - those packets of crisps and things are a real temptation; at home the children can help themselves to things - and they opt to do the same in Leelawaddi.
Jessica loved her spaghetti bolognese last year - and this year too.
Bill enjoying a quiet moment at an outside table.
I took this picture one evening this year. We were sitting by the large open windows overlooking the water garden and the fish. The fish were fun to feed with grains of rice.
I took almost no photographs of this favourite cafe this year and so I am painting a picture, using some of last year's pictures and the three that Jamie has used on his Phuket blog - and I am quoting his words too.
This is what you see from the road - the restaurant sign and a couple of little kiosks where people can pick up food to take away.
This is a leelawaddi ( I presume).
Please note - this is an orchid, not a leelawaddi.
Jamie says that leelawaddis are white flowers like on the sign.
These are Jamie's words......
One of the restaurants we visit most often is Leelawadee, situated on the road between Wat Chalong and Phuket Town, next to the Kajonkiet School, about 3km from the Central Festival Mall. Despite being by the main road, it is a quiet place, full of plants and flowers, with a pond outside full of fish. Service is friendly (note they do not speak much English), food is inexpensive. The menu has everything from Thai salads (the Yam Neua - Beef Salad - is great) to pizza (only 90 Baht) and club sandwiches. They also do breakfasts but the sausages and ham are Thai style (not great). Coffee tastes good here. Cold beers in the fridge. Free drinking water. Tables inside and outside.
This is the view of the front garden with a water feature and plants amongst the outside tables.
This shows Jamie and John (last year) on the bridge. There is water on two sides of the restaurant with golden fish swimming amongst the plants.
This is the main counter and some of the people who work in Leelawaddi. The owner is the woman with short hair on the right.
The staff hadn't changed since last year.
They work from early morning, providing breakfasts to workers and school children. Jessica's school is next door. Many children and parents pop in after school too.
I think they finally close at around 9 o'clock in the evening.
So, they are a hard working team and always seem to be on top of things.
Chairs and tables are simple, but flowers make the room feel really attractive.
Bill and Mam are at the table.
Mam feeding John - last year. Leelawaddi is so familiar to Jessica and John and they normally wander off into an adjacent room and play with whatever they can find there. It feels like a second home and they treat it as such - those packets of crisps and things are a real temptation; at home the children can help themselves to things - and they opt to do the same in Leelawaddi.
Jessica loved her spaghetti bolognese last year - and this year too.
Bill enjoying a quiet moment at an outside table.
I took this picture one evening this year. We were sitting by the large open windows overlooking the water garden and the fish. The fish were fun to feed with grains of rice.
