Drink and Dine
Laying the table.
Phuket's first Michelin star, and a Green Star with it
PRU
Restaurant
There is no wall between the kitchen and the dining room.
It came out, so you eat facing the pass with the sea behind it and the cooking at conversational distance, nearer a Japanese kappo counter than a European dining room. Chefs and guests talk across it, and the answer to most questions is a farmer's name.
The Green Star sits beside the star and answers a different question: not how well the kitchen cooks, but where the food came from and how little of it was thrown away.
The kitchen
Jimmy Ophorst
Dutch, in Thailand since his twenties, and co-owner of the restaurant as well as its chef.
Chefs and guests talk across it, and the answer to most questions is a farmer's name.
