Best Restaurants in Sala Kamreuk
A residential commune southeast of the center where garden restaurants and small resorts hide among local neighborhoods.
Southeast of the center, Sala Kamreuk is where Siem Reap goes home at night — a residential commune of lanes, wats, and small businesses where garden restaurants and pool villas hide behind unassuming gates. Prices are noticeably kinder than the tourist core, and mornings sound like school runs rather than tour buses.
Below are our picks for restaurants in and around Sala Kamreuk — 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.
Cuisine Wat Damnak
A five-course menu built on Khmer market produce for a fraction of what this cooking would cost anywhere else. Book ahead — it is small and deservedly famous.
Spoons Café
The other great social-enterprise table alongside Marum, and quieter: the cooking is confident modern Khmer, and every plate funds a hospitality career.