[2025 Phuket Restaurant] Travel Guide for PRU (Updated Jun)

#PhuketTravel #100TravelWays 🍂 Let's have a special Fine Dining Dinner... at "PRU" Pru is the only restaurant in Phuket that has 1 Michelin Star and Michelin Green Star. Every dish serves modern food, highlighting 100% Thai ingredients. 🧊 The restaurant is located at "Trisara Phuket", an ultra-luxury resort in Phuket. The restaurant is a 2-storey building. The lower floor is the Arrival Lounge to receive guests. The upper floor is the Dining Hall, open to see the magnificent Open Kitchen and the chef's cooking at every step. The back of the kitchen is a glass wall with a distant view of the sea. The atmosphere is great. ⏱️ Closed on Sundays, Mondays-Saturdays from 6:00 PM to 10:30 PM (Dinner) and every Friday-Saturday there is lunch (12:00 PM to 3:00 PM).

Today, we will take everyone to taste the only 1-star Michelin restaurant in Phuket. It must be really good to be worthy of this award. Let's go and taste it. Pru Restaurant is located in Trisara Phuket, an Ultra Luxury Hotel. Pru Restaurant is a Fine Dining restaurant that has received the 1-star Michelin award since 2018. Pru is a definition of three words: Plant, Raise, Understand. Almost all ingredients are found in Thailand and mainly use Thai ingredients. Every dish is farm-to-table vegetables. The heart of this restaurant is conveyed by Chef Jim Ophorst. Jim Ophorst was only 28 years old when he opened this restaurant. Pru's food has only 5-course and 7-course Dinner Courses and there is also an A La Carte menu that can be ordered more. The price of the set course starts at 4,500++ and 5,500++ excluding Wine Pairing. Advance reservations are required because the tables are always full and only a few tables are available. For me, I stayed at Trisara. And booked a table more than a month in advance, got to eat 5 courses, I must say, very full because there were many appetizers and desserts that the chef prepared. Starting with Amuse-Bouche or bite-sized appetizers Caviar tart: Caviar from Hua Hin farm Vegetable tart Tempura: Crispy fried kale, decorated with peacock flowers Bread: Freshly baked, hot with fresh butter and smoked butter, delicious The first dish is another appetizer: Baby corn served with yellow passion fruit, helps stimulate the appetite The second dish: Black crab, eaten with sauce and raw mangosteen, the taste is strange but goes together very well The third dish is Pru Jumpa Phuket, which is the restaurant's signature: Chaiya salted eggs, boiled in Japanese stock made from mushrooms and Phuket abalone, has a rich, fragrant, and balanced flavor Vegetable side dish: Grilled carrots, sweet and delicious The fourth dish: Sunchoke served with caviar or called Kaentawan Baked with salt and served with high-quality caviar from our Hua Hin farm. Dish 5: The main course is a duck from a farm in Khao Yai, dry-aged for 5 days, grilled until the skin is crispy, served with shiitake mushrooms and tamarind seeds, before being topped with a sauce made from duck bones that has been reduced 4 times until it is rich. Normally, I don't eat duck, but this dish is very delicious. In between is the cheese station, with many choices. The dessert dish has 3 dishes to choose from. - Pineapple mousse served with basil ice cream. - Champada panna cotta served with sour citrus made from tung teng fruit, using very delicious Thai ingredients. - Petit (four) six, 6 small pieces per person, served in a luxurious wooden box, every piece is delicious. The course is very delicious, with a full flavor and creativity of the menu, but the price is quite high. But the new experience is worth it and all the staffs are very good. They give good advice on ingredients and menus. If you want to experience a fine dining restaurant that has received the Michelin 1 star award, the only one in Phuket, you must not miss it. #deliciousfood #recommendationofdeliciousrestaurants #Phuket

Dining at PRU, Phuket’s only Michelin‑starred restaurant, is less about opulence and more about purposeful connection—to place, produce, and people. Nestled within Trisara resort, the newly opened purpose‑built venue embraces an “inside‑out” design that invites diners right into the heart of its all‑electric kitchen. In buzz‑free atmosphere, you’re as likely to meet the chef over the counter as you are to witness the tender choreography of plating.  Chef Jimmy Ophorst’s ethos—“Plant, Raise, Understand”—unfolds across every dish. Ingredients are thoughtfully sourced from the restaurant’s Pru Jampa organic farm or nearby artisanal suppliers, with rare produce and wild foraged items making regular appearances on the multi‑course menu. Highlights include durian mousse wood‑roasted for hours then topped with local caviar, and charred young coconut ceviche, both striking blends of Thai essence and European technique. A standout Reddit review captures how “PRU is more about importing Thai ingredients… into a meal that is still very much built on a modern‑European tasting menu foundation.”  The tasting journey—typically six to eight courses paired with wines or artful non‑alcoholic infusions—feels intimate yet unhurried, with plates that arrive small in size but vast in creative spirit. The open‑kitchen layout dissolves the formality of fine‑dining, inviting genuine conversation and a rare glimpse behind the culinary curtain. Service was polished and personal, tying each dish to the stories of the farmers, foragers, and fishermen behind the ingredients. A meal here is as much about building community as it is about tasting exceptional food. Some guests find the textures uniformly soft, but others celebrate the culinary consistency and depth this approach brings.  By the last petit four, I felt I’d dined among friends—yet also witnessed something singular in Thailand’s gastronomic scene: a restaurant that merges sustainability, local identity, and culinary theater without pretense. For a meaningful, thoughtfully curated dining experience on Phuket, PRU is a benchmark worth experiencing. #phuketguide

Address - 60 Cherngtalay, 13 Srisoonthorn Road. Cherngtalay 1, Tambon Choeng Thale, Thalang District. Phuket, Thailand. Ambiance/Facilities - this is a charming and beautiful restaurant located in the tourists area of Phuket City. They serve wide range of modern cuisines from dishes to desserts in the menu. We ordered some of the most signature dishes to try on, the tastes are so great and yummy. Avg. Price per Person - reasonable price.