NAM THAI KITCHEN & BAR – A NEW RESTAURANT UNDER JITTLADA GROUP

We were happened to be in the Pantai Indah Kapuk area and decided to go and visit the newly opened mall, PIK Avenue. Not many stores opened yet, but this particular restaurant attracted our eyes. Nestled at the ground floor of the mall, this restaurant has unique interior design. Chic décor at the front dining area with open bar concept. There were hanging colorful imitation flowers at the back with few Thailand painting on the wall. It creates an interesting atmosphere to the dining experience.

Found out it was part of Jittlada group, one of the recognized Thailand restaurant group in Indonesia, which owns Jittlada, White Elephant & Chandara. Thus we are expecting great food ahead of us, however few dishes was disappointing.

Ordered 2 Soup, their Tom Yam Goong & Tom Yam Potek. Tom Yam Goong is a Thai traditional soup with prawn, mushroom and lemongrass, whereby Tom Yam Potek is a clear soup with seafood and hot basil leaves. The serving suggestion for each soup is for 2 persons, but this came to a let down when the soup arrived. They only served 1 piece of prawn for each soup, not a jumbo one too. Luckily the Tom Yam Potek has few pieces of squid inside. Not sure on how we can share with 2 persons. The taste? Nothing special, we believe we could get better taste for Tom Yam soup at other Thai restaurants with the similar pricing & environment.

TOM YAM GOONG - IDR 85.000

TOM YAM POTEK - IDR 90.000

Hoping the upcoming dish could change our perception, but not pretty much. We tried their Thai Beef Noodle Soup/Guey Teow Nuer Sod. The taste is too sweet for our liking. The good side is that the glass noodle is not flaky and you will find generous portion of beef chunk.

BEEF NOODLE - IDR 75.000

Luckily among all, we finally taste something good. It’s their salad and vegetables which came out slightly later after the soups. For salad, we had Deep-fried Minced Catfish with Spicy Mango Salad/Yam Goong Foo Mamuang, they use young mango so it tastes sour yet it fresh, however combined with the crispy catfish, fish sauce, shallot and roasted peanuts just balance up the flavor. Believe they have this salad at Jittlada as well. For vegetables, we had Stir-fried eggplant with Garlic, Soya Bean, Salted Fish, Minced Chicken & Oyster Sauce/Mad Ke Yao Pad Pla Kem. All the elements are greatly mix together. We will definitely have this again if we visit back.

DEEP FRIED MINCED CATFISH WITH SPICY MANGO SALAD - IDR 70.000

STIR FRIED EGGPLANT - IDR 55.000

Personal opinion: All in all, Nam Thai Kitchen & Bar offers a great Thai upscale restaurant ambience. However not sure on their food taste delivery. We still have other Thailand restaurant in mind that serves better good Thai food at similar price point.

NAM Thai Kitchen & Bar

PIK Avenue Mall - Ground Floor

Jl Pantai Indah Kapuk

Jakarta

021-25570978