Little Siam Thai Fusion Restaurant Phuket

The midnight close is what makes this one worth pinning. Most kitchens around Cherngtalay start winding down not long after nine, so if you've come back sunburnt and late from Bang Tao or Laguna and still want a proper sit-down meal rather than a 7-Eleven toastie, this is the sort of place that solves the problem.

The cooking is Thai at its base with a fusion angle, which usually makes me wary, but here it reads as familiar flavors handled with a bit of thought rather than mangled for foreign palates. It's not a street-side plastic-stool operation and it isn't trying to be. Think a proper table, a slower pace, somewhere you'd take people you like. Works for a mid-afternoon plate after the beach just as well as a long dinner.

The consistency is the real story. Lots of restaurants in this stretch of Phuket open strong and drift. This one hasn't, judging by how steadily people keep rating it.