Green curry
Coconut, green chilli, Thai basil. The one people order twice.
VANG VIENG · LAOS
Curries, steamed fish, and the best seat for the sunset.
A riverside kitchen in Vang Vieng, open to everyone — you do not have to be staying at the hotel. Breakfast from 7am on the quiet terrace, or take a rooftop table and watch the sun go down behind the karsts.
Open07:00 – 22:00, every day
Find us4th and 5th floors — take the lift in the hotel lobby
SeatingRiverside terrace, rooftop, and indoors
Known forGreen and red curry, and steamed fish with lemon and garlic
GroupsParties of eight or more, please book a day ahead
What we cook
Southeast Asian cooking served by the river and up on the roof — the curries and the steamed fish are what people come back for. Open to everyone, not only hotel guests: walk in, or book a table and we'll keep the good seats for you.
WHY LÁ ME
Why people choose Lá Me
01
Three kitchens in one
Vietnamese, Lao and Thai cooking on the same menu. Ordering for a table where nobody agrees is easy here.
02
Open from 7 in the morning
Breakfast on the terrace while the river is still in shadow, lunch, and dinner at sunset. The kitchen does not close between meals.
03
The view is the reason people stay
The rooftop looks straight across the Nam Song at the karsts. At sunset it is the best seat in Vang Vieng, and people book it days ahead.
04
4.7 on Google
From 64 reviews, higher than most places in town. The curries and the steamed fish are what people write about.
05
Three places to sit
Riverside terrace for a quiet lunch, rooftop for the sunset, indoors when it rains. Same kitchen, same prices.
06
Open to everyone
You do not have to be staying at the hotel. We are on the 4th and 5th floors — take the lift in the lobby. Walk in, book a table, or order takeaway.
Best sellers — food
The three plates that leave the kitchen most often.
Red curry
Deeper and sweeter than the green. Good with the rice from Laos.
Steamed fish, lemon and garlic
A whole fish, steamed and brought to the table.
Best sellers — drinks
What the rooftop orders while the sun goes down.
Espresso martini
The one that keeps the table going after dinner.
Mojito
Mint, lime and soda. Ordered all afternoon.
Piña colada
Coconut and pineapple, cold enough for the heat.
Margarita
Sharp, salted, and quick to arrive.
We recommend
If it is your first time, start here.
Breakfast by the river
From 7am on the terrace, before the heat and before the crowds.
Sunset on the rooftop
Come at 16:30 with a drink. The light on the karsts is why people stay a second night.
Fresh juice
Whatever came in from the market that morning.
Floating breakfast
Served on a tray in the pool. Ask reception the night before.
Lá Me means tamarind leaf in Vietnamese. Small, sharp, a little sour — the taste that sits behind a lot of our cooking.
Tell us if it's a birthday or an anniversary. We do something for it.
The menu
Everything we serve, with prices, straight from our kitchen system. Browse it, or order for collection.
Gallery
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Cook with us
A half day in our kitchen, then you sit down and eat what you made. Small groups, English spoken, no experience needed. Tell us when you would like to come and how many of you there are, and we will send the details and the price.
Private dining and celebrations
We host set-menu dinners, birthdays, proposals and small weddings. Tell us the date and how many people, and we will send you a menu and a price.
Cooking class
Half a day in the kitchen with our chef, then you eat what you cooked. Good for couples, families, and anyone stuck for something to do between the caves and the river.
Set menus
For groups who would rather not order one by one. We build a menu around what your table eats, at a fixed price per person.
Birthdays
A reserved corner, a cake brought out when you say, and the sunset if you time it right.
Proposals
The rooftop before the sun goes down is the quietest it gets. We hold the best table, keep the space around it clear, and stay out of the way.
Small weddings
The riverside terrace and the rooftop together take a full party. Rooms for your guests are next door at the hotel.
Book a table or order takeaway
🎆 New Year's Eve Gala Dinner — 31 Dec · 23-dish buffet & Sky Lounge until 1:30 AM. Booked separately.
See the Gala →
How long we hold your table
We keep your table for 15 minutes after your booking time. You have booked 19:00, so we hold the table until 19:15. After that it goes to someone else.
Running late? Just send us a message and we'll hold it — we only release tables when we haven't heard from you.
The Gala has its own booking page with the buffet menu, Sky Lounge tables and prices. See the Gala →
🎆 The evening of 31 December is our New Year's Eve Gala Dinner.
Please book the event here — or choose an earlier time that day.
Ready in about 30 minutes. Pay when you collect, or we charge it to your room.
Why Lá Me
Lá Me is Vietnamese for tamarind leaf. The tamarind is not a rare tree here — it grows along the Nam Song, in yards, at the edge of rice fields. You have almost certainly walked under one in Vang Vieng without looking up.
The leaf is small and doubled, dozens of them on a single stem. At dusk they fold shut, the whole tree closing itself for the night, and open again in the morning. People who grew up around tamarind trees know this and stop noticing it. People who did not always ask what is happening.
The young leaves are sour. In Vietnam they go into canh chua, the sour soup, and the sourness is the point — not sharp like lime, not sweet like tamarind fruit, something quieter that sits underneath and makes everything else taste like more of itself.
That is the cooking we wanted. Not loud. Sour, salty, sweet and hot in the right order, so that you finish the plate and are not sure which part you liked best.
So the name is about the taste rather than the tree. Come for what the tamarind gives a dish, and for a terrace over the Nam Song to sit on while you eat it.
Find us
Lá Me Restaurant
Unit 08, House No 112, Nam Son Street, Vang Vieng, Laos
On the 4th and 5th floors. Take the lift in the hotel lobby — everyone is welcome, not only hotel guests.
- AddressUnit 08, House No 112, Nam Son Street, Vang Vieng, Laos
- Getting inOn the 4th and 5th floors. Take the lift in the hotel lobby — everyone is welcome, not only hotel guests.
- Phone+856 20 988 60 666
- Open07:00 – 22:00, every day
4.7
64 reviews on Google
Walk in, or book a table so we keep the good seats for you.