Café & Restaurant 08:00 – 20:00 Aow Leuk Bay

Good food.
Every day.

Southern Thai cooking · Homemade bread · Daily gelato
— The Kitchen

Southern Thai
cooking, homemade
bread, daily gelato.

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We serve food from the terrace above Aow Leuk Bay, every morning, noon and evening. Breakfast runs until eleven — smoothie bowls, fresh bread baked that morning, Thai eggs.

Lunch and dinner are shaped by whatever came from the market. Southern Thai recipes, cooked carefully. Nothing reheated, nothing pretended otherwise.

Breakfast
08:00 – 11:00Buffet included for guests
Restaurant
08:00 – 20:00Open every day · walk-ins welcome
Café Bar
08:00 – 20:00Coffee + bakery from opening
// pour-over · espresso bar · 08:00
Morning & All Day

Coffee
& Sweets.

Single-origin pour-overs brewed to order, iced coffee, homemade cakes that change daily, and fresh juice from the market that morning.

Pour-over฿ 110

Single origin, freshly ground, brewed to order. Chumphon Highland beans.

Espresso & iced฿ 90 +

Espresso, latte, flat white. Made with the same care as everything else.

Homemade cakes฿ 140

Changes daily. Banana bread, carrot cake, coconut sponge. Worth asking what's on.

Fresh juices฿ 120

From the morning market. No powder, no concentrate, no sugar added.

// sourdough crumb · 06:30
Breakfast & Take-away

Homemade
Bakery.

Everything baked in-house each morning. Sourdough with a proper crust, pastries when the dough agrees, smoothie bowls with house granola.

Daily bread฿ 120

Baked in-house each morning. White and wholegrain. Sells out by noon.

Sourdough฿ 180

Long ferment, proper crust. Served with good butter. Limited each day.

Smoothie bowls฿ 220 +

Açaí, dragon fruit, mango. Topped with house granola, fresh fruit, honey.

Pastries฿ 90 +

Croissants and sweet rolls when the dough agrees. Pain au chocolat Sundays.

// yellow curry · market fish · 13:00
Lunch & Dinner

Thai & International
Menu.

Southern Thai recipes alongside burgers, pastas, healthy bowls and salads. Everything cooked from what came from the market that morning.

Curries฿ 240 +

Tom Kha, Green Curry, Panang, Tom Yum. Proper chilli, fresh coconut milk.

Market fishmarket

Whole fish from the morning market, grilled or steamed. Priced by the catch.

Stir-fries & rice฿ 140 +

Stir-fried vegetables, cashew chicken, morning glory, prawn garlic. Rice 30.

Salads & sharing฿ 160 +

Som tam, Garden Salad, Burmese Tea Leaf. Fresh herbs throughout.

// mango sorbet · today's churn
Dessert · All Day

Gelato.

Made in-house every day. The flavours change with the season and whatever Mama feels like making. Mango sorbet, coconut, dark chocolate, lemongrass.

Made daily฿ 90 / scoop

Different flavours each day. Always in-house. Always fresh — no carrageenan.

Seasonal flavours

Mango, coconut, dark chocolate, lemongrass, pandan. Ask what's on the board.

By the litre฿ 380

Take a tub home — packed in dry ice if you're heading to the boat.

Affogato฿ 140

Vanilla bean scoop drowned in a double shot. A proper after-dinner.

In the kitchen

Made slowly,
made well.

The way we cook matters as much as what we cook. Bread proved overnight, sauces and pastes from scratch, as little waste and packaging as a small island kitchen allows — and food that leaves you feeling good, not heavy.

The process

Nothing reheated, nothing from a packet. Bread is baked each morning, gelato churned daily, curry pastes pounded by hand. Slower, but it tastes like it.

scratch · daily · by hand
Sustainability

We buy what's on the island that day, cook to order to cut waste, compost what we can, and keep single-use plastic out of the kitchen wherever there's an alternative.

local · low-waste · seasonal
Wellness food

Plenty of plants, fresh fruit, fermented and whole ingredients. Food that sits well before a dive, a class, or an afternoon in the sun — generous, never heavy.

plant-forward · fresh · whole
Sourcing

Where it comes
from.

Almost everything on the plate was on the island this morning. Fish from the boats at Mae Haad, herbs from our own garden, fruit from the Chumphon market, and the bread, gelato, sauces and dressings made in our kitchen — by us — every day.
The bay

Reef-line fish, squid, prawns. Bought daily from the Mae Haad boats before service.

// 8 km · 15 min by truck fish · squid · prawn · crab
The market

Chumphon morning market. Mango, coconut, banana, lime, papaya, pineapple, ginger.

// daily ferry · fruit + dry goods fruit · coconut · rice · dry goods
The garden

Our own herb garden behind the kitchen. Thai basil, lemongrass, kaffir lime, pandan.

// 0 m · 30 sec walk basil · lemongrass · pandan · mint
In the kitchen

Bread, gelato, granola, sauces, dressings, curry pastes, sambal — all from scratch, every day.

// kitchen · daily prep bread · gelato · pastes · sauces
A Special Occasion
// mama's table · set for eight · 19:30
By Reservation Only

Mama's
Chef Table.

A private dining experience hosted by our head chef. A long table, a set menu of Southern Thai dishes, cooked to order and served family-style on the terrace above the bay. For groups, celebrations, and anyone who wants to eat particularly well.

"I cook what my mother would have cooked. Slowly. For a long table." — Mama Kaen, Head Chef
FormatSet menu · 7 courses
Seats6 – 14
From฿ 2,400 / pp
Hours Breakfast 08:00 – 11:00
Restaurant 08:00 – 20:00
Open every day
Location On the terrace above Aow Leuk Bay
Baan Talay Resort · Koh Tao
Walk-ins always welcome
A note Breakfast included for all resort guests.
Special events & buffets available for groups.
Cash & card accepted · service included