Best Restaurants in Old Market & Pub Street
The walkable heart of Siem Reap: Psar Chas (the Old Market), Pub Street nightlife, riverside cafes, and most of the city’s restaurants within a few blocks.
This is the Siem Reap most visitors picture: a walkable grid of restaurants, bars, and market stalls where Psar Chas has traded since long before the tourists arrived. Pub Street runs loud until late on its own strip, but two blocks in any direction the noise drops away and you find riverside cafés, silversmiths, and the quiet lanes behind The Alley. Everything here is on foot; you will not need a tuk-tuk after dark.
Below are our picks for restaurants in and around Old Market & Pub Street — each one chosen editorially, with the practical detail (hours, prices, what to order or how to time your visit) that makes the difference on the ground.
Malis Siem Reap
The Kampot-pepper beef lok lak and the breakfast num banh chok are benchmark versions — elegant without being fussy.
Khmer Kitchen
When you want a reliable $5 amok two minutes from Pub Street without the Pub Street chaos, this is the answer.
Sister Srey Café
The post-sunrise breakfast spot: you watched dawn at Angkor Wat at 5:45, you are eating smashed avo and drinking real coffee by 8:30.