While the piles of spiky green durian and cute cool room loaded with bundled snake beans and Vietnamese herbs might have you thinking you're somewhere exotic, this Haymarket store is part of the popular Chat Thai group. At night time, Boon Café switch out their Thai influenced toast and sandwich daytime menu for Isaan food from the Northeastern Thailand. With a flavour palate that includes fermented fish, crabs, pickled and brined veggies, and plenty of spice, this probably isn’t the Thai food you’re familiar with.
Thai dessert ninja!
This place has the most unique set up, half cafe in the morning and dinner by night ... Not only that but they have a thai grocer next door .... Crazy place. The food are very rustic and tasty but may be different to people who are used to the modified thai version's for the white folks. Come try .... Until next time .... Keep eating !!!!!
Boon Cafe is the new it cafe at the Haymarket area. It occupies a relatively small space, sharing space with a small grocery shop under the same roof top. Despite the slightly intimate atmosphere filled with bright and modern decor.
Despite naming itself as a cafe, it also doubles as a restaurant. They serve Thai food as well as cake, coffee, and other drinks.
The foods on offer do have high price points with limited serving sizes, it is almost not worth the money especially when considering there are a lot of high quality, more affordable Thai restaurants next door and all around the block. The seafood salad that we ordered tasted alright, and the barbecue chicken that we ordered was quite small and was not boneless, which is very different to what they usually serve Thai style. The brown rice is at $4 per bowl.
For dessert, we tried out the black sesame chiffon cake but it was pretty underwhelming sponge cake.
