The Places · Thailand
Chiang Mai
Made By profiles 9 places in Chiang Mai, spanning authentic pan-thai royal cuisine, authentic south indian & north indian cuisine, modern thai rice-based cuisine — each tied to the people and producers behind it.
01.Traditional Thai Beef Cuisine
Sanae
Chiang Mai, Thailand
A halal kitchen beside the Ping River, Sanae has earned back-to-back Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition in 2024 and 2025 for its creative à la carte Thai cooking. Chef Saiyut's beef fat rice and spicy beef shank soup are the dishes that define the menu, balancing smoke, spice, and depth at some of the most accessible prices in the city.
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02.Authentic South Indian & North Indian Cuisine
Chai
Chiang Mai, Thailand
A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient for two consecutive years (2024 and 2025), Chai on Nimmana Haeminda Lane 9 has earned its reputation through a focused menu of local seafood prepared in bold, well-crafted Thai dishes. The stir-fried crab curry is a consistent highlight. Spacious enough to handle groups without a dip in service pace, it sits in the accessible ฿฿ tier.
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03.Traditional Chinese Deep-Fried Dough Sticks
Go Neng (Wichayanon)
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Go Neng on Wichayanon Road has held Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition in both 2024 and 2025, placing it among Chiang Mai's most consistently rated street food addresses. Operating at the lowest price tier in the city, it represents the kind of rooted, ingredient-focused cooking that the Bib Gourmand category was designed to surface. For street food eaten at its source, few addresses in the old city carry comparable Michelin-verified credentials.
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04.Northern Thai Kanom Jeen
Sanpakoi Kanomjeen
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Established in 1977 and awarded a Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2025, Sanpakoi Kanomjeen is a Chiang Mai institution at Thongkam Market in the Wat Ket neighbourhood. The stall has built its reputation around fresh rice vermicelli served with a choice of northern Thai curries, with the Nam-Lo, a combined spicy pork and chicken curry sauce, drawing regulars from across the city. Unlimited side vegetables at single-digit prices make it one of the most substantive budget meals in northern Thailand.
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05.Modern Thai Rice-Based Cuisine
Meena
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Meena holds consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition (2024 and 2025) for its home-style Northern Thai cooking at the Lhong Him Kaw creative compound in San Klang, just outside Chiang Mai. The open-air setting and mid-range pricing place it in a different register from the city's fine-dining counters, with the five-coloured rice and longan-curry pork ribs drawing the most consistent attention from both locals and visitors.
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06.Traditional Thai Street Food Dumplings
Lung Khajohn Wat Ket
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Opposite Wat Ket Karam on Chiang Mai's east bank, Lung Khajohn has earned consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition in 2024 and 2025 for its steamed rice dumplings and tapioca parcels, some of the most precisely executed traditional sweets in the city's street food circuit. At single-baht pricing, it occupies a tier where craft and value converge in ways that larger, more prominent venues rarely manage.
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07.Northern Thai
Krua Lawng Khao
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Krua Lawng Khao holds back-to-back Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition (2024 and 2025) for Northern Thai cooking that earns those nods without the price tag to match. Set in a two-storey wooden pavilion overlooking rice fields in Mae Rim, it occupies a different register from the city's tourist-facing restaurants. The spicy pork salad and the hot and spicy fish soup with morning glory are the dishes regulars return for.
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08.Authentic Pan-Thai Royal Cuisine
Saiyut and Doctor Sai Kitchen
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Operating since 2004, Saiyut and Doctor Sai Kitchen on Chotana Road brings pan-Thai cooking, including dishes drawn from royal culinary tradition, into a domestic setting that feels closer to a family home than a restaurant. Consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand awards in 2024 and 2025, a Google rating of 4.6 across more than 2,000 reviews, and a menu rooted in recipes passed from a former cooking instructor across generations make this one of Chiang Mai's most quietly serious kitchens.
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09.Modern Thai with Bold Flavors
Magnolia Café
Chiang Mai, Thailand
A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient in 2024 and 2025, Magnolia Café on Rattanakosin Road brings together à la carte Thai cooking from across the country in a four-table room decorated with vintage objects and chandeliers. The menu skews toward bold, direct flavours, fried sun-dried squid with peanut sauce, fresh watermelon with desiccated salmon, with a complimentary pandan pudding to close. Accessible pricing sits at the ฿฿ tier, making it one of Chiang Mai's more credentialed value propositions.
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