Khao San Eatery & Bar is a Thai restaurant on Davis Crescent in Newmarket, Auckland, with a modern fusion twist on Thai street food. The website says the menu uses fresh New Zealand Wagyu beef, South Island salmon and local lamb shanks alongside South East Asian flavours. It is built for sharing: guests come with friends for shared plates and a variety of drinks, and the website describes the room as lively, in the spirit of Bangkok's Khao San Road. Takeaway can be ordered online, and tables can be booked on the website.
The owner's aim, as the website tells it, was to bring a Thai food scene with more energy than the usual restaurant. The menu changes as the kitchen experiments, so a dish that tastes good may appear on it. Our pick in Newmarket for a group that wants to share plates and drinks.