Coco 51

SuperTonic · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:12 pm Post subject:

I found it to be absolutely atrocious. Expensive for what it is, dire food and pretty poor service. The only plus side was the location. I went once and didn't return after grey tomato soup that tasted more of chicken than tomato, and being given everything else wrong. Not a pleasant experience.

richard · Ace Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 1488 Location: Hua Hin

Supertonic

Are you sure it was Cocos?

i've been many times as have several of my friends and never had a bad meal

Maybe you picked the wrong night and the chef was visiting the family in Isaan

Give it another try and let me know your thoughts
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SuperTonic · Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:43 pm Post subject:

Yep, definitely cocos, near dukes. I got the impression they were having some staffing issues so that might have been a factor. Seriously though, the food wasn't a patch on pasta factory (or the rather lovely penang curries in Crawfords that I got hooked on).

richard · Ace Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 1488 Location: Hua Hin

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Lev · Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:52 pm Post subject:

Find out more:

http://huahinafterdark.com/coco51.htm
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Huahinian · Member Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 91 Location: Hua Hin

For those interested, Coco's now serves brunch between 11 and 3. Good breakfast menu and superb setting. thumbs up

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JimmyGreaves · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 589

Went there last week for the g/fs birthday, Food was delicious, Service good, location nice and bill not that expensive

richard · Ace Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 1488 Location: Hua Hin

The principle chef has left my once favoured eating place and has now moved to a location closer to town. My allegience has now switched to Crawfords for obvious reasons!!!
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BaaBaa. · Ace Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 1225 Location: England.

Looks nice but expensive.
What sort of price range is it?

richard · Ace Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 1488 Location: Hua Hin

Depended on what you ordered

I understand the menu has been changed and therefore cannot comment anymore

I suspect a lot of the special dishes have gone along with the chef
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rosso · Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:31 pm Post subject:

hi

was opposite of coco51 in the restaurant called "the duke". delicous thai food and not expensive. can recommend it !!

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Mestizo · Amateur Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 36

I don't know what the complainers were eating, but I've been to Coco 51 twice now (last week and about 2 months ago) and had good meals both Thai and western at reasonable prices. Normally, a street stall or inexpensive Thai restaurant is good enough for me , but sometimes guests may enjoy a little bit higher standard of dining experience. I would rate the atmoshere as excellent, the food as good, and the service and prices as fair.

Winkie · Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:13 pm Post subject:

Just had to let you all know about our first visit to Coco 51 last Saturday night.

We arrived without booking and ll was fine. We were given an acceptable table outside. No problems

Ordering, that's were the problems started, and continued, and continued......

Drinks. I ordered (form the Cool Beverages Section of the English Language Menu) and Iced Cafe Mocha.

A Cup of Hot Coffe was delivered.... which was returned

...then, after some VERY long wait, an Ice Coffee arrived..... this I could not obther to return, so accepted.

Food

We ordered a Penne with Bolognaise Sauce for our young girls to share. My wife ordered a 'Marriage of Seafood' and I ordered Salmon.

Penne Arriabata arrived.... we returned it....

My wife's food arrived, and it looked, smelled and tasted wonderful

The Penne with Bolognaise arrived also before my wife finished her meal.

The Salmon didn't arrive.

My wife finished, my very slow eating children finally finished

I questioned, where my Salmon was, was told 2 mins

20 mins passed.... I questioned again,... its coming.

After about 15 mins I asked for the bill.

I had to chase the bill 3 times, and just befor ethe bill arrived, so did my Salmon - it was exactly 1 1/2 hours from ordering. I sent it back as my children had reached the stage where remaining stationary in a restaurant was no longer possible!

They did remove the charge from the bill, of course. But no other ocnisderation was made, no appology, even though th eManageress-type lady was watching what ad happened.

Its seems thathe fod is very good, and hte price is not unrealist, assuming that food actually arrives. I happily drank (with my wife) 2 Carafes of ht eHouse White, which was very drinkable.

So, all in all, not a very good experience, but seems they have (or hadon that night) a very big problem with waiters.

That night there were many, and we were served, at some stage, by most of them. They were all next to useless.

Based on the taste of my wife's food, I may just try them one more time to see if I was just very very unlucky that night.

However, I'll laso make sure that I'm not very hungry when I go!

Good luck to others, like I said, based on the food quality (but not timeliness), it could be worht a try - up to you.

Winkie
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richard · Ace Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 1488 Location: Hua Hin

They do sometimes struggle when they are full

Especially at weekends

Try a brunch there early afternoon

I use the place many times and always get good service
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Winkie · Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:36 pm Post subject:

I might do that
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