Ratatouille Restaurant

Ratatouille is run by Thomas, a chef with three decades behind him, and the menu shows it — a genuinely European spread of French, German, Italian and Swiss dishes with a handful of Thai plates thrown in, rather than trying to be everything to everyone in a shallow way.

The setting is a covered outdoor garden surrounded by plants, which gives it a fresh, relaxed feel that's a step up from the plastic-table norm — with an indoor pool table and bar area if you want to hang around after dinner rather than just eat and leave. Open daily from mid-morning until midnight, so it works for a late lunch as easily as a proper dinner.

People who write about it tend to focus on exactly that mix — home-cooked European comfort food, made by someone who's clearly been doing this a very long time, in a setting that doesn't feel like a tourist trap.