Meeeeeh is the only way to describe this place. Like the Moon House, it's attached to a small hotel/guest house, but it's far more up-market. The Captain's Bar rises above the ground on lovely slate stairs, and enters an open air lounge that has excellent views of the harbour. They seem to play a few Michael Buble CDs on continuous repeat (I think he's really big in Thailand). It's very clean, and is the closest to a North American-type restaurant as we've seen here in Thailand. For one, there's actually a cash register like you'd see in a McDonalds, with a neatly labelled screen of menu items (I think. It was in Thai.)
With all that going for it, you'd think it be a winner, but unfortunately, the Captain's Bar seemed determined to disappoint us.
1) It's only open for breakfast (6 to 9), lunch (12 to 3), and dinner (6 to 12?). Scheduling your meals around that isn't particularly easy.
2) It serves cocktails in what I believe are double shotglasses. Tiny for the 140 baht price tag.
3) The food was the first flavourless thing that either of us had managed to eat in Thailand. Bland and expensive, my pineapple fried rice came with very pretty garnishes and was served inside a hollowed out pineapple, but it had little flavour other than a touch of curry. Lucky Star's Pad Thai seemed to have been cooked without seasoning, leaving it about as flavourful as a sock.
All together, both LuckyStar and I agree that this place is DEFINITELY not worth visiting. It gets a 1 out of 5 on the Regrettable to Edible Scale of Restaurant Judging.
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