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Haad Rin has the most restaurants, but you'll find plenty of simple seafood restaurants on other beaches as well.
Established by the son of a local fisherman in 2007, this restaurant offers delectable seafood dishes like deep-fried snapper in a masala fusion sauce, and New Zealand mussels served with creamy garlic sauce. People can eat in a longtail boat, steps from the lapping sea, or in the bamboo and rattan hut.
Lovers of Italian food are particularly well-served on the island, with several stellar options. One of the most memorable is where chef-proprietor Alessandro Paterno presides (usually with cigarette fixed to mouth) over a daily-changing selection of fish and seafood creations.
