FERN FOREST CAFÉ

Coffee Shop in Muang Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand

The vibe: gorgeously tropical and elegant, soft-jazz fills the air, not too loud in the outdoor pati...o. It's a breezy day and soothing cooling mist feels great, on this end of hot March day. There are bamboo white umbrellas over each table. It is easy to be outside here in the noon sun. There is a koi pond off to the side. It is really quite beautiful.

Menu prices are much higher than most, geared towards more affluent tourists and with lots of American menu options.

The servers, albeit very polite, had much difficulty helping me with basic questions. I have a dairy allergy so I can rarely order if the menu item lists ingredients that include “etc."

I ordered a garden salad for 155 baht. Salad arrived looking fresh, but sparse. A nice sized beautiful white ceramic bowl with a couple of small pieces of chicken and an obvious absence of the promised crunchy bacon, which was the selling point for me.

It was mostly a basic simple green leaf lettuce salad, a single slice of thin radish, a couple of tiny baby tomatoes, a bit of raddichio and a small boiled egg.

Delicious oil dressing, quite perfect actually and overall very clean tasting ingredients. I enjoyed it. They eventually brought me a tiny amount of crumbled bacon, but only after I pointed it out twice and halfway through my lunch.

Maybe you need to order one of the 200baht items to get better service. I think I stressed them as the server stopped checking my water glass until I took my final bite. And yes, this is the kind of place that watches over your water.

With the featured dessert of mango sticky rice for 155 baht, (30-80 most everywhere else) I could have guessed this was $$$ and maybe a risk for people that expect value when having a fancier lunch.

I would consider returning just for tea or smoothie as the ambience is quite lovely.
For food, although fresh and delicious, so many more incredible options in Chiang Mai. See More