Sawasdee kohyao Restaurant

Beautiful fresh local seafood, cooked to perfection. Everyone was so friendly and welcoming. We ordered the river prawns in advance, and they were delicious - in fact everything was! Will come again.

The best seafood restaurant in KYN. The food is extraordinary. The setting is perfect. The staff are friendly and helpful. Say hello Panda (the resident cat) for us. Couldn't of asked for a better experience. We got the fresh shrimp, crab and squid. It was so good we went back again.

Really nice place. Excellent seafood, super local. The staff is very kind and the food taste delicius! A must in Ko Yao noi

A very nice restaurant with good English speaking and very friendly staff. There is a large selection of fish, which also tastes very good. It is a bit secluded which makes it nice and quiet. You have a direct view of an adjacent river or part of the sea.

The food was so great we had to come back two nights in a row. Excellent service, fair prices, and a wonderful atmosphere.
Highly recommended.

People on the island eat early and the restaurant closing times reflect that. So don't come rolling in here looking to order at 8:15pm, just as they are getting ready to close.

The only thing to improve on would be consistency. We ordered the same dish both nights, and the second night it tasted (and looked) quite different.

Squid in black sauce is a must! Also tried spicy shrimp paste dip with veggies, first time having winged beans 😊

Our favourite restaurant on the island, definitely worth a visit (away from the main tourist bits)... The fried fish is delicious!

Wonderful lunch at reasonable prices. 700g of steamed fish at 280baht. The amount of food could feed 3-4 but 2 of us gulped down everything.

Fresh and tasty. Highly recommend the stir-fry squid, prepared in fresh squid ink extracted from squids and seasoned with salt. Lobster sashimi is once in a lifetime experience for us, sweet-tasting and a little more chewy than other crustacean sashimi such as amaebi and snow crabs. Highly recommend this place.

Contact them via FB messager to reserve table or lobster if you want to try it.

We have tried almost all the restaurants on the Island and liked this one most by far. They serve beautifully prepared fresh seafood for a great price and in a clean and pleasant atmosphere. The service is friendly and swift. Definitely give them a visit if you are on the islasnd.

The best seafood we had on island, with a wonderful setting overlooking a working fishermen's canal. We knew the seafood was very fresh here, as we saw fishermen selling their catch to the restaurant as we walked in!
We had the fried crab in spring onion and the chili salted prawns (paired with a medium squid fried rice), and I will find myself dreaming about these for weeks to come.
The fried crab was done in a wonderfully tangy sweet sauce base, which was good enough to lick off the crab shell as you peeled the crab! The mud crab itself was on the smaller side, necessitating a fair bit of picking, but the sauce provided great flavors while cracking legs. The prawns were equally delightful and highly recommended, not very spicy, but a similar tangy sweet sauce and a nice crisp fry that, with the fried garlic on top, provided great crunch.
Fried rice was also great, and added great filler in between seafood dishes!
I only wish we'd gotten a fourth dish, as with, two crabs, 8 or so prawns, and a medium rice, I was full but eager to try more meals from such a great restaurant!
Service was also phenomenal, and our server was a great resource for recommending the most popular dishes!
With the ambiance over the canal, great service, and even better food, I can't believe this was also one of the lowest priced meals we had on the island. Take the trip out here, it is worth the time!

Very fresh seafood with reasonable price. Friendly staffs. Good taste also. Been there twice during our stay. Recommended! We order about 5 plates of variety seafood with 2 rice dishes and fruit shake for 900thb including half kilo of prawn.

A very romantic setting, right on fisherman canal with boats passing by.
Nice big dining area with wooden tables for couple and group seating.
English speaking and gracious staff. Despite being near dock, the smell isn’t too bad but the insects and mozzies are aggressive.
They provide OFF spray right away.

Nice chill music and good menu too. Fresh juices and shakes. They make the BEST SHRIMP TEMPURA on the island (and possibly the best in Thailand?).

There are fans and Wi-Fi.

I normally do not expect much about food on any touristy islands but this one is just exceptional. Their dishes are super tasty with real real real thai taste. Ingredients are fresh. Service is very nice. Price is affordable. Highly recommend this and Will revisit again next time for sure!

We loved the food so much that we came for dinner every night of our stay on Koh Yao. Super fresh fish and seafood, garlic chilli schrimps, local fish curry, tom yam soup, everything was sooo delicious. Also, the view was so nice and romantic.

Good food and location, nice service, price are reasonable, we love it here. Recommend as well will comeback.

OPEN KITCHEN!! You can see how clean it is and their hygiene practices. Superb food. Excellent service.

Great Seafood and a great restaurant find. We were a little late getting there, so we were the only ones dining. We thought that perhaps we would be neglected, but they treated us like royalty.

We like to order multiple items and share. The fried fish was a little large, so they warned us and gave us an option of them cutting it in half and only cooking half for us. This tells of their integrity as they were worried about over serving.

Nice location near the river with a wide choice of traditional thai dishes and fresh fish and seafood. The price of the seafood is in line with other places but here you can chose ot alive from a big pool. The price of other dishes is very competitive. Fresh coconut only 20 b. The cheapest I ever found on Thailand. People also very friendly

We tried the food here on day 1 we arrived on the island, the food was amazing, we ordered sweet and sour fried fish also two noodle, absolutely delicious, stuffs were friendly with big smile! Even helped us with our rental scooter problem

We had a beautiful meal here on our first night on Koh Yanoi. Fresh crab, fresh prawns, delicious fried rice. The coconut crab curry was especially delicious and the staff were so friendly! Highly recommend :)

Excellent food and a happy local feel. Service was perfect. It is a little hard to find so stick with it. I asked them not to make it spicy and they did not. I wish I had asked for a little more spice. The bill for two main courses, a bottle of water and a mango shake came to 375 bhat. About USD$12. Very reasonable price. I will definitely be back!