Best budget restaurant in the Pattaya Area

by Jack Corbett

Is Peter's on Naklua Road just before you get to Soi 12--not Peter's Bakery, which garners my number one overall best, but German Peter's, not Belgium Peters.  Confused?  Naklua the municipality just North of Pattaya is blessed by a large number of German Restaurants, many of them excellent.  Peter's deserves the Looking Glass number one rating for the area's best budget restaurant because it's actually better than at least two thirds of the other German restaurants at 25 to 50 % lower prices.

For example every day Peter's offers its daily special at only 99 baht which is only about $2.75 U.S.  This special is normally a meat dish such as Schnitzel or Sauerbraten, with a snall salad portion that is absolutely delicious, and your choice of either potatoes or noodles which the Germans call Spatzel served in an extremely tasty gravy or sauce that is so good that I can't bring myself to wasting a single spoonful of it.  Like Panino's, our top rated restaurant overall, which is ironically also called Peter's Bakery, Peter's also has a bakery on the premises so what I often do is to purchase a mini loaf or two of German bread for about 13 baht each which I will then eat while sopping up that excellent  sauce.

One can of course come in just to buy one's bread here which I will often take home with me.  Peter's also offers a nice selection of imported cheeses and meats from a refrigerated display towards the back of the restaurant.  Like Panino's the service here is excellent.  And although normally I will simply order whatever's on the daily special, I'm still not a fan of blood sausage and since Wednesday is blood sausage day, I'll order off the menu.  Which is like Panino's menu both interesting and extensive.  Although there's many items that are considerably cheaper, and no doubt not nearly as filling, I will usually opt for a 129 baht dish.

My favorite day is the restaurant's Schnitzel buffet day when Peter has four different German salad dishes laid out on the buffet table with the Schnitzel and other meat, potato salad, tomatoes and onions, a German slaw dish, and a cucumber salad.  Helluva deal for 99 baht.