We eat first. Then write.
Kin Dee started as a shared spreadsheet between three friends who got tired of guidebooks recommending the same twelve restaurants. It's grown up, but the rule hasn't changed.
Our Story
A guide built by people who actually live here.
Kin Dee — กินดี, "to eat well" — began in 2017 as a private list three friends kept for visitors who kept asking the same question: where do you actually eat? What started as a shared note grew into something closer to a discipline. We stopped adding restaurants because they were new or loud on social media, and started asking a simpler question: would we send our own parents here?
Today the guide covers six neighborhoods and close to two hundred restaurants, but the process hasn't changed. Every listing is visited at least twice, paid for out of pocket, and revisited before renewal each year. If a kitchen changes hands, drops in quality, or starts phoning it in, we remove it — no matter how long it's been on the list.
How We Work
Three rules we don't break.
No paid placements
Every restaurant in this guide is here because an editor chose it, not because it bought its way in. We turn down every offer.
We eat anonymously
No press dinners, no comped tasting menus. We book under our own names and pay the bill, same as anyone else walking in.
We revisit before renewal
A listing isn't permanent. Every restaurant is re-checked annually — kitchens change, and so does our guide.
Restaurants Reviewed
Years Running
Full-Time Editors
Paid Placements, Ever
The Team
Four editors, four appetites.
Founding Editor
Nok Phattharin
Started Kin Dee as a shared note in 2017. Still writes the riverside and Old Town beats, and still won't reveal her actual favorite noodle stall.
Street Food Editor
Ton Wattana
Covers Yaowarat and the street-food beat. Believes no dish is worth eating if you can't watch it being cooked.
Fine Dining Editor
Mint Chaiyaporn
Handles the tasting-menu circuit across Thonglor and Sukhumvit. Keeps a running, brutal ranking of every nam prik in the city.
Maps & Data
Dao Sirichai
Builds and maintains the map, verifies every address and phone number, and quietly retires listings that stop earning their spot.