Food: Indian
Location: Thappraya Road (didn’t this just get renamed?)
Price: A bit above average
Rating: 3/5
Contact: +66 38 36 46 56
Indian By Nature
Indian By Nature is one of many Indian restaurants in Pattaya. I absolutely love Indian food and really can’t remember any I didn’t like. This would not change for this trip. I’d drove buy the place plenty of times before, but never really thought I that I just had to make it out there to try their menu. As usual a friend suggested we eat there, so of course I was down to get another review in the books.
Ok, so although Thappraya rd looks absolutely terrible, Indian By Nature really has a great look to it. Both outside and in. The inside has high ceilings and plenty enough room inside. Most of the Indian restaurants in Pattaya are quite small. I have to say though that it was almost too fancy for my tastes. I don’t really need all the fluff, just good tasting food at reasonable prices.
Nice looking inside and you can see my friend’s massive jug of pineapple juice
Menu for some regular meals. I believe our thali was close to 600baht. Maybe the owners of Indian By Nature would be kind enough as to leave the prices in our comments below.
Ok, so on to the food. I ordered one of the large plates that comes with a little bit of everything (thali), non vegetarian. My friend had the same. Early after our order we were given some sort of appetizer thingy…it was pretty bad. Just plain with not much going on in the taste department. Oh, and it was on top of a tomato.
Appetizer
I had some sort of Indian beer. I can’t remember the name, but it was ok. I didn’t take a pic of our receipt, but I think the beer was something like 130baht or so. My friend paid close to the same for a small glass of pineapple juice.
Ok, so the main dish, the thali was good tasting. However, it wasn’t as large as I was accustomed to in other restaurants. I didn’t really need much more as I was full after the meal, but if you’re going to be paying more than you usually do then you expect a little more. If not more at least be different from the rest. Their food was not. Don’t get me wrong, the food was good, but I think with Indian By Nature you’re paying more for the name and inside environment.
While we were eating there was a large group of people consisting of Indians and Thais. It seemed sort of like an after or before business meeting meal. So that’s the kind of atmosphere there is in here. A nice place to take someone if you want to show them a nice night out, but not really the place to go if you just feel like some good Indian food.
I have to say though that the service was good. There was only the other table and us though, so sure they could handle that. It was also good in regards to not having any blank stares of misunderstanding that you get fairly often in Pattaya. Also, the owner came over to see how everything was and seemed to be a pleasant lady.
Indian By Nature isn’t bad by any means, especially out of all the Pattaya restaurants. Try them, they might be the perfect fit for you. There just wasn’t anything that I saw in the food that would garner some of the rave reviews it gets from travel guides and posh Bangkok food critics. There are plenty of Indian restaurants that serve just as good of food and at a lower price. I doubt I’ll be going back to Indian By Nature.
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