Restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand
Fifty years of Indonesian cooking, Michelin-recognized.
Aheesah Roddee has held a Michelin Plate in 2024 and 2025 while staying at Bangkok's lowest price tier, making it one of the clearest value propositions in the city's recognized dining circuit. The Indonesian-inspired kitchen has been running the same aromatic biryani and satay repertoire since 1975. Order the chicken biryani with hot and sour beef soup and arrive early.
Aheesah Roddee operates at the single-symbol price tier (฿) in a city where Michelin-recognized restaurants almost universally sit two or three brackets higher. That gap alone makes it worth understanding before you book anything else in Bangkok's Phra Nakhon district. The restaurant earned a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025, confirming that inspectors found the cooking consistently above the baseline, and it carries a 4.4 Google rating across more than 1,000 reviews. For a first-timer trying to figure out whether this is worth a detour from the more-discussed fine dining circuit, the answer is yes, with conditions.
Aheesah Roddee sits on Thanon Tani in the Talat Yot quarter of Phra Nakhon, which puts it in the older, denser part of central Bangkok close to the Grand Palace area. This is not a polished dining-district address. The surrounding streets are functional, market-facing, and unhurried by tourist infrastructure. That context matters for calibrating expectations: you are eating Indonesian-inspired food in a Thai neighbourhood setting, not in a curated restaurant corridor. If you are coming from the riverside hotel belt or from Silom, budget time for traffic or plan around the nearest BTS or MRT access points.
The restaurant has been run by the family of Indonesian migrants since 1975. That five-decade continuity is the single most useful piece of information for a first-timer: what you are getting is a fixed, practised repertoire built around aromatic spicing, not a chef-driven evolution menu. The dishes reflect that. Chicken biryani, beef biryani, and satay are the anchors of the menu. The Michelin listing specifically calls out the chicken biryani paired with hot and sour beef soup as the combination worth ordering. Follow that steer. At this price tier, the decision is not whether to order the full menu but whether to trust the house recommendation and commit to it.
The editorial angle here matters: for a solo diner or a pair, counter or open-kitchen proximity at a modest neighbourhood restaurant like Aheesah Roddee means watching a production line that has been running the same way for decades. That is not a drawback. At a ฿ price point, the value of counter-adjacent seating is seeing how a genuinely high-volume, low-margin operation keeps its cooking consistent enough to earn repeated Michelin attention. The aromatic intensity of biryani preparation, the layering of spice into rice, and the management of hot and sour broth at scale are things you absorb by being close to the action. If you have eaten Indonesian biryani in Jakarta or at a hawker-format stall elsewhere in Southeast Asia, you will find familiar reference points here; if this is a first encounter with the format, the counter vantage gives you context for what the kitchen is actually doing.
For comparison: at Bangkok's ฿฿฿฿ end, [Sorn](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/sorn-bangkok-restaurant) and [Baan Tepa](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/baan-tepa-bangkok-restaurant) deliver counter or chef's table experiences with significant production theatre. Aheesah Roddee is not competing in that register. What it offers is a different kind of transparency: the straightforwardness of a kitchen that has nothing to prove and decades of muscle memory behind every dish.
Booking difficulty is rated easy. No reservation system details are listed in the venue record, which for a restaurant at this price point and format typically means walk-in, cash-preferred, and early-arrival dependent. Come before peak meal hours if you want first pick of what's available. Phone and website details are not publicly listed in the current record, so advance contact may require a local intermediary or on-the-ground confirmation.
Aheesah Roddee's peer set for a direct decision comparison is unusual because almost nothing in Bangkok's Michelin-recognized Indonesian cooking operates at this price point. Against the ฿฿฿฿ tier — [Sorn](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/sorn-bangkok-restaurant) for Southern Thai, [Baan Tepa](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/baan-tepa-bangkok-restaurant) for Thai contemporary, [Gaa](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/gaa-bangkok-restaurant) for modern Indian, [Côte by Mauro Colagreco](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/cte-by-mauro-colagreco-bangkok-restaurant) for Mediterranean, and [Sühring](https://www.joinpearl.co/restaurants/shring-bangkok-restaurant) for German , Aheesah Roddee is not competing on occasion dining, tasting menu architecture, or service depth. It competes on cooking integrity at a price that removes financial hesitation entirely. If your Bangkok trip already includes one of those higher-tier bookings and you want a lunch that earns its Michelin attention without a budget line attached, Aheesah Roddee fills that slot better than any comparable option in its district.
If Aheesah Roddee is on your Bangkok itinerary, pair it with other neighbourhood and recognized dining across the city. Pearl's full guides cover Bangkok hotels, Bangkok bars, Bangkok wineries, and Bangkok experiences. For restaurant context in other Thai cities, see Aquila in Chiang Mai, Ayutthayarom in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, and Anuwat in Phang Nga. For Asian dining comparisons further afield, taku in Cologne and Jun's in Dubai are worth considering. The The Spa in Lamai Beach rounds out Pearl's Thailand coverage at the resort end.
| Venue | Cuisine | Price | Booking Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aheesah Roddee | Asian | ฿ | Easy |
| Sorn | Southern Thai | ฿฿฿฿ | Unknown |
| Baan Tepa | Thai contemporary | ฿฿฿฿ | Unknown |
| Gaa | Modern Indian, Indian | ฿฿฿฿ | Unknown |
| Côte by Mauro Colagreco | Mediterranean, Modern Cuisine | ฿฿฿฿ | Unknown |
| Sühring | German | ฿฿฿฿ | Unknown |
Key differences to consider before you reserve.
Aheesah Roddee is a neighbourhood-format restaurant at the ฿ price tier, which typically means compact seating and no private dining infrastructure. Small groups of two to four are the practical ceiling for a comfortable visit. Larger parties should check capacity directly before arriving, as no reservation system is documented for this venue.
Aheesah Roddee does not operate a tasting menu format. The menu is à la carte, with dishes like chicken and beef biryani and satay. At the ฿ price point, the question is simpler: order the chicken biryani, add the hot and sour beef soup, and the bill will be among the lowest you'll find at any Michelin Plate restaurant in Bangkok.
For a direct Michelin-recognized alternative at a higher price tier, Sorn (Thai southern cuisine, two Michelin stars) and Baan Tepa (seasonal Thai, one star) are the obvious step-up options. Gaa offers a tasting menu format for those after a structured experience. None of these serve Indonesian-inspired food, and none operate near Aheesah Roddee's price point, so they serve a different decision entirely.
This is a casual neighbourhood restaurant that has been operating since 1975 at the ฿ price tier in Phra Nakhon. Dress practically for Bangkok heat. There is no dress code documented, and none would be expected at a venue of this format and price point.
Yes. A neighbourhood restaurant at the ฿ price tier with an à la carte menu is one of the more comfortable solo dining formats in Bangkok. You can order one or two dishes, spend very little, and eat without the logistics of group coordination. The Michelin Plate recognition since at least 2024 means quality is documented even at this low cost.
Not in the conventional sense. There is no private dining, no tasting menu, and no ceremony to the format. If the occasion is specifically about experiencing family-run, heritage Indonesian cooking in Bangkok at its most affordable Michelin-recognized form, then it fits. For a celebratory dinner with service and atmosphere as part of the event, Sühring or Côte by Mauro Colagreco would be more appropriate choices.
Yes, straightforwardly. At the ฿ tier, Aheesah Roddee is among the lowest-priced Michelin Plate restaurants in Bangkok. The restaurant has held consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025, and has been operating since 1975. The value case is not complicated: you get recognized cooking at street-food pricing.
Keep this venue in your Pearl passport, rate it after you visit, and track it alongside every other place you collect.
