MICHELIN Guide Thailand Opening of the Year Award (2023)
The Best New Restaurant in The World:
2022 Hot List
We won awards!
Restaurant POTONG, helmed by Chef Pam has won 9 consecutive awards.
1 Michelin Star from Michelin Guide
“Michelin Thailand Opening of the Year Award”, Chef Pam (Pichaya Soontornyanakij) was the youngest female chef to receive this award together with 1 Michelin star for Restaurant POTONG.
#35 ASIA’s 50 Best Restaurants from The World 50 Best Restaurants Awards.
Awarded prestige accolade from TOP 25 Restaurants as “2022 Rising Star – POTONG Rising Star in Top Restaurants Bangkok”. It’s truly our honor to be awarded and officially featured in TOP25Restaurants.
Condé Nast Traveller's and World Culinary Awards as “The Best New Restaurant in the Word: 2022 Hot List ”. It's an absolute pleasure and honor for us to be selected and the only Thai restaurant in Bangkok to be featured in the article from Condé Nast Traveller's.
"Asia's Best New Restaurant 2022" was nominated for World Culinary Award. The voting will close in August 2022. Please vote for us by clicking the below button!
Listed in Michelin Guide Thailand 2022 with a special notation of “Particularly interesting wine list”.
Awarded as one of Thailand's Best from 30 'Thailand's Favourite Restaurants 2022 KOKTAIL Guide'
Awarded as “Chef of the year” - Chef “Pam” Pichaya Utharntharm - Restaurant POTONG, Bangkok
We can't wait to serve everyone our latest creations.
CHEF PAM AS YOUNGEST FEMALE CHEF TO RECEIVE BOTH MICHELIN STAR & OPENING OF THE YEAR AWARD
Chef Pam (Pichaya Soontornyanakij) was the youngest and first-ever female chef to receive this Michelin Thailand Opening of the Year Award together with 1 Michelin star for Restaurant POTONG.
The MICHELIN Opening of the Year Award is given to Chef Pam and POTONG for the successful opening of a dining venue over the past 12 months, with a creative degustation concept and cuisine approach, which has had an impact on the local gastronomic scene.
Being the first recipient of this special award in Thailand, Chef Pam is recognized for her successful opening of the restaurant, Potong, in the heart of Chinatown. She has renovated her family’s ancestral building that used to be a pharmacy, in spite of trying times during the Covid-19 period. It was the first restaurant of its kind to serve innovative/progressive Thai-Chinese cuisine in Thailand, with a 20-course Tasting Menu, whereby each dish embodies the 5-Element philosophy of “Salt, Acid, Spice, Texture, and Millard Reaction”. The restaurant also won its first Michelin star at the same time.
“Acid and Texture”
Chef Pam has been searching for the best local ingredients. This newest course menu will start from 15 May 2022 onward. Indulge yourself in the journey of progressive Thai-Chinese cuisine in our 120+ years old historical building of Chef Pam’s heritage right here in the heart of Chinatown, Thailand.
“memories of textures and spices”
RESTAURANT POTONG GRAND OPENING
It is the exciting new year of 2022, the “Tiger” year. Prepare to experience our finest chef’s tasting menu yet only (13 JAN - 14 MAY 2022). Indulge Chef Pam’s “memories of textures and spices” and her remarkable cuisine of Progressive Thai-Chinese.
FOOD IS MEMORIES.
5 Elements.
5 Senses.
20 Inspiring dishes.
Taste Chef Pam’s journal memories of Progressive Thai-Chinese cuisine.
Like how I seize my memoirs, all through my tasting course, you will go through occasions, recollections, and portray the excursion of my culinary. Historical, Spiritual, and Emotional - I'm giving my best here; a new generation of progressive Thai-Chinese cuisine.
Time moves in one direction, memories in another. I am delighted to share my passion with you.
I was born into a family of the 4th generation Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine producer (中草药制造商 - zhōng cǎo yào zhì zào shāng). Our family origin starts right here, at this very POTONG building.
I believe that dining can happen on a spiritual level - when the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambiance transpire in equal measure - At that moment, like a brisk snapshot, it captures your memory. I want to welcome you to my POTONG at Chinatown, through the tasting course, you will be traveling through a time of my memories.
5 Elements to perfect the dish, 5 Senses to formulate memory.
Restaurant POTONG is situated right in the heart of Yaowaraj, Bangkok. An old-school Thai-Chinese eating house turn into top fine dining spot that putting the soul of Thai-Chinese cuisine in the heart of the place with a juxtaposition take on the architecture. Be excited with our New York hangout space-inspired together with the spirit of late-night Chinatown.