Su Va Na

Dinner only, seven nights a week, 7pm to 11pm. That single fact tells you most of what you need to know about this place. It isn't somewhere you drift into after a morning of shopping. You go in the evening, you sit down properly, and you give it a couple of hours.

The setting is the B Floor of Central Phuket Floresta, which puts a lot of people off before they've read any further. I'd get past that. Mall dining in Phuket runs from food court noodles to genuinely ambitious kitchens, and this sits at the far end of that scale: a contemporary Thai dining room aimed at unhurried meals rather than a quick refuel between errands. It suits a birthday, an anniversary, or simply a night when you want the food to be the point. Families with restless small children will probably be happier elsewhere, given the hour and the pace.