Savoey Seafood: one of Phuket’s oldest seafood restaurants, established in November 1980 in Phuket and one of the Patong’s most popular.
Savoey Seafood Restaurant, established in November 1980 in Patong Beach Phuket, is under the S.T.P.Group Co.,Ltd, which is owned and operated by Mr.Thaveesakdi Phucharoen, and partners. The restaurant is firstly positioned as casual dining restaurant, featuring all Thai, Seafoods, Chinese dishes.
Flash back to 1 November 1980 , Sovoey Seafood opened with 50 Tables (100 seats) and 50 staffs on Beach road (During that time, it was dirt road) and only few shops open. We operated seafood kitchen in front of the restaurants (This layout has not been distorted since the opening), and we have other 2 cuisines which are Chinese and international foods cuisines
In 1984 Savoey expended to Bangla road and extremely enlarge to 600 seats and provide Thai dancing and culture performance every night.
Savoey Seafood is considered as one of the landmark of Patong Beach and We have been considered by our customer as one of the leader Phuket’s seafood restaurant. This acknowledgement is not only the outcome of our freshness, competitive selling price but also and taste.
On 26 December 2004 ,Tsunami disaster has significantly destroy Savoey’s physical evidence. Fortunately we don’t have the number of casualty, this was due to the staff’s team effort of helping each other.
Mr.Thaveesakdi and his staffs (about 135 staffs during that time) renovated Savoey and Safari Beach hotel since the first days after Tsunami with no electric and no water supply. Mr.Thaveesakdi used the power generator from his friend (free of charge) and water from artesian wells. We are compensated by the insurance company only at 2 million Baht which was incomparable to our loss. Our boss has just one direction on the hiring policy “None of our employees should be layoff”, we pay full amount of their salary.
It was only 10 days aftermath, Savoey has been re-opened on 5 January 2005 among dark(no electricity) and Tsunami remnants. With only 30% facilities and equipment readiness, we were the first on beach road that run the business. Savoey just want to express our people’s merit to the public that we still hear and ready to welcome the tourist back, in order to recovery Patong tourism’s industry.
After disaster we further opened Beach way Coffee shop in 8 September 2005 and Concaved Rest. in 1 October 2005 and in the year 2007 our company expanded our serving outlet to the beach unit as Beach house which is designed to support over customer from Savoey Seafood.
Currently we have 215 Staffs and operating a new 5 star hotel named “Laflora Patong”.
Savoey has pink and green tablecloths with terracotta floors. Ceiling and floor fans keep things cool and there's an open-plan kitchen.
The essential aspect to note is that the restaurant is open sided – to the hotel swimming pool out back and the Beach Road out front.The area fringing the swimming pool is actually quite cozy but this cannot be said of the road side of things where huge ice-filled food display trays are inspected by throngs of passing would-be diners.
Atmosphere
Busy, busy, busy. No one has yet created an intimate 400-cover restaurant and it'll be a few years until they do but since Savoey has had 20 years practice it appears that they've thrown the towel in, intimacy-wise, and welcome the nightly rush of people.
From seven o'clock onwards diners pour in and order dishes at top speed. The wait staff flit to and fro, their walkie-talkies buzzing and crackling while sudden gusts of flame reach almost to the kitchen ceiling as swirls of barbecue smoke and the aroma of fresh seafood drift on the night breeze. This is not the sort of place to bring that special date, although by the look of things many try
Food
Like many tourist-orientated restaurants Savoey has a picture menu and the eatery appears to have a hard-and-fast ethic: 'If it swims, serve it up'. Grilled, deep-fried, steamed, barbecued and raw seafood is doled out by the ton but Savoey also deals in 'international' food too, meaning Thai dishes, Western food and snacks.We are served tiger prawns (1,000 + baht for three) calamari (350 baht) and a huge steamed garoupa in coconut milk sauce and ginger (650 + baht).
Anyone expecting five-star cuisine here will be disappointed but to be fair the place certainly doesn't claim to be five star yet neither is it cheap. All in all, a very busy food outlet in a central location. Your call.
Wine
Savoey has 28 labels, the most expensive being 2,000 baht, and offers wines from Chile, Italy, France, South Africa and even Thailand.
House wine is a reasonable 90 baht a glass. We choose a bottle of Chianti (1,300 baht) and are happy with it. Of course there's a whole raft of cocktails and beers to go for and indeed most tables order large bottles of beer and share them.
The Savoey is open daily serving lunch and dinner from 10.30am – 12 midnight. According to its Executive Chef, its three most popular dishes are: Tiger prawn baked with butter & garlic sauce: Crab stir-fried with spring onion, ginger & garlic; And Tom-Yam-Koong (Traditional spicy & sour soup with shrimp).
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Savoey Seafood
136 Taweewong Road, Patong Beach, Phuket, 83150
Tel: +66 (0) 76 341 171-4 Fax: +66 (0) 76 340 231
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