Restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand
40-year family kitchen, Michelin-noted, very affordable.
Reunros has held a Michelin Plate for two consecutive years and earned a 4.4 Google rating across 614 reviews, all while staying at a ฿฿ price point. The third-generation family restaurant on Rama III Road serves medicinal Chinese cooking built on 40-year-old recipes — herbal braises, slow-cooked soups, and a spring roll that needs no reinvention. For the price and the pedigree, it is hard to argue against booking.
The number of Bangkok restaurants with four decades of unbroken family ownership, a medicinal cooking philosophy rooted in a founder's medical background, and Michelin recognition at a price point accessible to almost any traveller is vanishingly small. Reunros, on Rama III Road in Yan Nawa, is one of them. If you are in Bangkok and you want serious Chinese home cooking — herbal braises, slow-cooked soups, and a spring roll made from a recipe that predates most of the city's fine-dining scene , book this before you book anywhere else at this price.
Reunros opened more than 40 years ago, founded by someone from a medical background whose philosophy shaped the entire menu: dishes built around herbal and medicinal ingredients, slow-cooked to draw out flavour and function simultaneously. That founding logic has not been abandoned across three generations. The current, third-generation owner selects every ingredient himself each morning at market , a discipline that connects directly to the food on your plate rather than to any marketing narrative. The result is a menu where the slow-cooked soup is genuinely dense and layered, the stir-fried goat with celery carries the kind of specificity that only repetition over decades produces, and the spring rolls arrive with the confidence of a family recipe that has never needed updating. For dessert, the taro purée with sticky rice closes the meal cleanly, without theatrics.
Michelin awarded Reunros a Plate in both 2024 and 2025 , recognition that signals consistent, competent cooking worth seeking out, without the starred-restaurant apparatus of formal service, tasting menus, or dress codes. At a ฿฿ price range, Reunros sits in a different category entirely from the ฿฿฿฿ venues that dominate Bangkok's award conversation. That gap matters for your planning.
The Pearl editorial angle here is direct: does the service style at Reunros earn or undermine its price? The honest answer is that the service context at a 40-year-old, third-generation family-run Chinese restaurant in Yan Nawa is not the same as at a destination fine-dining room. You are not paying for tableside theatre, a sommelier, or a choreographed welcome. What you get instead is something arguably more useful at this price tier: the quiet competence of a kitchen and front-of-house that have been doing this together long enough to be consistent. The owner sourcing ingredients daily is a form of service , it means the freshness question is answered before you sit down. For explorers looking for depth and context rather than performance, that trade-off works well. If you need formal service delivery, go up two price tiers and book Sorn or Baan Tepa instead.
Reunros is the right call for a food-focused traveller who wants to eat something genuinely rooted , not a chef's interpretation of Chinese cooking, but Chinese cooking carried forward by a family across three generations in Bangkok. It works for solo diners who want to order deliberately from a short, specific menu. It works for pairs who want a low-cost high-return meal before or after exploring Yan Nawa. It is a reasonable group option if your party eats family-style, which suits the format. It is not the venue to book if your priority is a landmark dining room, a prestige wine list, or a tasting menu format. The Google rating of 4.4 across 614 reviews suggests this is not a secret among Bangkok locals , it is a proven address with a sustained track record.
Reunros is at 762/2 Rama III Road, Bang Phong Phang, Yan Nawa, Bangkok 10120 , a Rama III corridor address that puts it outside the main tourist and hotel districts. Plan your transport accordingly; this is not a walk from the BTS Skytrain's central stops. The ฿฿ price range makes it easy to combine with other Yan Nawa or Rama III exploration without budget anxiety. No website or phone number is available in our current data; walk-in or direct approach on arrival is the most direct option, and booking difficulty is rated easy , this is not a scarce-seat situation requiring weeks of advance planning.
For Chinese cooking specifically in Bangkok, the comparison set is narrow. Nan Bei sits at a higher price point with a hotel setting; Sanyod (Bang Rak) offers a different register of traditional Chinese-Thai cooking. For Michelin-recognised Bangkok restaurants outside the ฿฿฿฿ tier, Reunros is one of the more compelling data points. Internationally, the closest conceptual parallel might be Mister Jiu's in San Francisco , also a Chinese restaurant with deep family and community roots , though the price tier and format are entirely different. Restaurant Tim Raue in Berlin shows what Chinese-influenced cooking looks like at starred level in Europe, which underlines how different Reunros's proposition is: this is not reference-point fine dining, it is sustained, ingredient-led family cooking at a price that almost any Bangkok visitor can justify.
If you are building a broader Thailand trip, consider how Reunros fits alongside other regionally grounded restaurants: AKKEE in Pak Kret, PRU in Phuket, Anuwat in Phang Nga, Aquila in Chiang Mai, and Ayutthayarom in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya each offer a different regional register worth planning around. For a full picture of Bangkok's dining options, see our full Bangkok restaurants guide, and explore hotels, bars, wineries, and experiences in Bangkok.
| Venue | Awards | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reunros (Yan Nawa) | When Ruenros opened 40+ years ago, its owner came from a medical background, hence the focus on herbal and medicinal braised dishes. The 3rd generation heir now runs it and he chooses all the market fresh ingredients himself every day. Specialties include spring rolls using a family recipe, stir-fried goat with celery, fried rice with salted fish and slow-cooked soup, which is packed with flavour. For dessert, try the taro purée with sticky rice.; Michelin Plate (2025); Michelin Plate (2024) | ฿฿ | — |
| Sorn | Michelin 3 Star, World's 50 Best | ฿฿฿฿ | — |
| Baan Tepa | Michelin 2 Star, World's 50 Best | ฿฿฿฿ | — |
| Gaa | Michelin 2 Star, World's 50 Best | ฿฿฿฿ | — |
| Côte by Mauro Colagreco | Michelin 2 Star, World's 50 Best | ฿฿฿฿ | — |
| Sühring | Michelin 2 Star, World's 50 Best | ฿฿฿฿ | — |
A quick look at how Reunros (Yan Nawa) measures up.
Reunros operates at a ฿฿ price point with Michelin Plate recognition two years running, which means it draws a local and visitor crowd. Booking a few days ahead is advisable, especially for weekends. Walk-in capacity likely exists at off-peak lunch hours, but given the third-generation owner personally sources ingredients daily, the kitchen operates with no surplus to burn through.
Yes, firmly. A ฿฿ price tag for a Michelin Plate-recognised kitchen with 40+ years of family ownership and a medicinal braising philosophy is strong value by any Bangkok standard. The stir-fried goat with celery, slow-cooked soup, and taro purée with sticky rice are the draws; this is cooking with a documented family lineage, not a trend-driven menu. If you want comparable Chinese depth at a higher price point, Nan Bei exists — but Reunros is the better value argument.
No group-specific information is in the venue record, so confirm directly before arriving with more than four people. The Rama III location suggests a neighbourhood dining room format rather than a banquet hall, which typically means group bookings are possible but capacity may be limited. For larger groups wanting Chinese cooking in Bangkok, a hotel-dining option like Nan Bei offers more predictable group infrastructure.
Yes. At ฿฿ pricing with a menu built around individual dishes rather than shared tasting formats, Reunros is a practical solo stop. The medicinal braised dishes and fried rice with salted fish are all orderable as single portions, and a neighbourhood Chinese room at this price point rarely penalises single covers the way a counter-format omakase would.
Depends on what the occasion calls for. If the point is a meaningful, food-focused meal with genuine culinary history behind it, Reunros works — two consecutive Michelin Plates and a 40-year family story give it weight. If you need atmosphere, a private room, or a dress-code setting, the Rama III neighbourhood-restaurant format may not deliver that. For occasions where prestige setting matters as much as the food, Côte by Mauro Colagreco or Sühring are better fits.
No tasting menu is documented in the venue record, and Reunros's format — a family-run Chinese kitchen at ฿฿ — points to à la carte ordering rather than a set progression. Order the spring rolls using the family recipe, the slow-cooked soup, and the taro purée with sticky rice as a dessert anchor. That combination covers the documented specialties without needing a structured tasting format.
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