3 Best Restaurants in The Gulf Coast Beaches, Thailand

This beachfront diner serves salads and sandwiches, both traditional and inventive. Among the latter are tasty vegetarian sandwiches baked inside a bread bowl.

The alluring scent of fresh baked goods immediately delights all who enter this funky place. The owner, who picked up his baking skills while living and working in Germany, opened Nira's in the mid-1980s, before the island even had electricity.

The homemade chocolate rolls and croissants at this bakery are fresh and tasty, and the decor featuring vintage Kellogg's boxes, toy soldier figurines, and cherry-red Sugar Bloom lettering evoke a quirky sense of Americana. The coffee, made with local, medium dark-roast beans, are great as well.