Baan PaeSeafood on the pier · Lanta Old Town
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Open today 11:00–22:00

Pick your catch.We cook itover the sea.

A wooden pier on stilts in Koh Lanta Old Town, run by a fishing family. Point at a fish on the ice, we weigh it in front of you and cook it your way: steamed with lime, fried with garlic or grilled over coconut charcoal.

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  • 07:00boats in, every morning
  • 8catches on today's board
  • 18:00sunset tonight, Koh Lanta
A tray piled with cooked blue swimmer crabs, bright orange with white spots

Today's board10:40

    Price per kg, weighed raw. Cooking from ฿80 a dish.

    How it works

    Three steps from the boat to your table.

    1. Whole fresh fish lined up on crushed ice01

      Pick it off the ice

      Everything on the ice came in on our boats or our neighbours' at seven this morning. Point at what you want, or ask us what's best today.

      See today's board
    2. Raw tiger prawns on a wire grill rack next to scallops on a wooden table02

      Weigh it in front of you

      We weigh it raw on the market scale at the counter. You see the weight, the price per kilo and the total before anything goes in the pan.

    3. Four whole fish grilling over glowing charcoal03

      Choose how it's cooked

      Five family recipes, from steamed with lime to curry powder stir-fry. A small cooking fee per dish, shown before you order.

      Compare cooking styles

    Today's catch board

    Market price per kilo. Rewritten every morning.

    Prices move with the boats. Pick a catch, set the weight, choose how we cook it and add it to your tray. Show the tray at the counter, or hold it on ice with your table booking.

    On the ice today

    Updated today 10:40

    Thai baht per kilo, weighed whole and raw; small figures show the change since yesterday. The final price comes from the scale at the counter.

    Seabass

    Weight
    0.8 kg
    Cooking style

    Your tray

    Your tray is empty. Pick something off the board, or let the “how much to order” helper fill it.

      Add sides
      Estimated total฿0

      Five ways to cook it

      Family recipes. One small fee per dish.

      Grandma Jaem's recipes, cooked to order in a big wok or over coconut charcoal. The cooking fee is per dish, whatever it weighs.

      How much should we order?

      Tell us who's eating. We'll size the tray.

      Seafood is sold by whole weight, shells and bones included, so it's easy to over- or under-order. Here's what our family serves a table like yours.

      Adults12 and over
      2
      KidsUnder 12, about half a portion
      0
      Appetite
      2.0 kgof seafood, whole weight

        Estimated
        ฿0

        Sunset table planner

        See which tables get the sunset before you book.

        Old Town faces the bay, so the sun sets across the cove in the cool season and behind the shophouse roofs in the middle of the year. We work out the sunset for Koh Lanta on your date and light up the tables that catch it.

        OLD TOWN the cove the bay · Koh Por → ICE · KITCHEN COVERED DECK FAMILY N
        Catches the sunsetYour tableToo small for your groupKids' corner
        Diners in silhouette at a seaside restaurant as the sun sets over the water
        Guests
        2
        Sunset18:00
        Arrive by17:15
        Golden light from17:20
        Pink sky until18:20

        Tide view

        Boats at the rail or mud flats? Check the tide.

        The deck stands on forty ironwood stilts. At high tide the sea is a metre under your feet and longtails tie up at the rail. At low tide the flats come out and kids can watch fiddler crabs from the stairs.

        2.4 m
        2.4 m

        Sample tide table

        TimeTideHeight

        Sample tide table for this demo, worked out from the moon phase. Not for navigation.

        A wooden fishing boat moored in a calm bay, seen from a stilted deck
        Grilled prawns in a herb and butter sauce

        Our pier

        Three generations on one pier.

        Grandpa Somchai built the first deck over the water in 1987 to sell his catch to the Old Town shophouses. His daughter Jaem started cooking it for the people who came to buy. Today her sons run two boats and the grill, and the stilts are still ironwood.

        Lanta Old Town was the island's first port: Chinese-Thai shophouses on stilts, Urak Lawoi fishing families and the morning boats from the Andaman. Come early, walk the street, then eat over the water.

        • 1987first deck over the water
        • 2family boats, out at 04:00
        • 40ironwood stilts under the deck
        A cook turning split lobsters on a big charcoal grill
        Split lobsters over charcoal
        Grilled lobster tails with lime wedges and a creamy dip
        Grilled lobster, lime, seafood dip
        “We only buy what came in this morning. If the boats stay home, so does the board.”Ton, captain and grill master
        A plate of grilled squid in olive oil, held up in front of a sea-view terrace
        Grilled squid, eaten with a sea view

        Guest notes

        Messy hands, happy tables.

        Book a table

        Hold a table and your catch.

        A booking is a request. We confirm on WhatsApp or LINE within 30 minutes while we're open. Walk-ins are welcome until the deck is full.

        Table request

        Demo form, nothing is sent.

        Opening hours

        • Every day11:00–22:00
        • Last order21:30
        • Catch board up10:30

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        Finding us

        End of the pier walkway, Old Town main street, Koh Lanta Yai. About 25 minutes by car from Saladan. Park on the street, walk out over the water.

        Good to know

        Before you come hungry.

        Still unsure? Message us on LINE or WhatsApp and someone from the family answers.

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