Coffee in Phuket Old Town
Sixty-odd coffee shops, cafés and tea houses inside the square kilometre, most of them good and most of them ฿1–200 (~$0.30–6) a head. This is the cluster that makes Old Town worth more than an afternoon.
It is also the one with the most misleading hours, so the useful part of this page is the clock. Nobody publishes what a flat white costs, here or anywhere else in the district.
Nothing is open when the streets are empty
Soi Romanee is quiet before 09:00 and photographed solid by 11:00. That is the argument for an early start, and it runs straight into the coffee timetable.
Barely anything is pouring at that hour. Café Mem on Phang Nga Road and Sixory open earliest, Coffee Talk not long after, and beyond those three you are waiting until eight or half past.
- Sixory Coffee4.8 from 458 reviews
Opens 07:00, and the nearest early option to Thalang Road. Runs to 19:30 at weekends, 17:30 the rest of the week.
Mon 07:00–17:30 · Tue 07:00–17:30 · Wed 07:00–17:30 · Thu 07:00–17:30 · Fri 07:00–17:30 · Sat 07:00–19:30 · Sun 07:00–19:30 · 265 m from Thalang Road
- Café Mem (คาเฟ่ เมม)5.0 from 519 reviews
07:00 to 22:00 daily, and the only place here open both before eight in the morning and after eight at night.
07:00–22:00 daily · 457 m from Thalang Road
- Coffee Talk Old Phuket Town4.3 from 479 reviews
Opens 07:30 and shuts 17:30. The weakest of the early three, and still open when the rest of the street is not.
07:30–17:30 daily · 429 m from Thalang Road
And a lot of it is shut by six
Most of the cluster closes at 18:00, and a good share of it at 17:30. Coffee here is a daytime scene, and if you planned an evening working through flat whites the district will hand you a bar instead.
The exceptions are worth knowing by name: Craftist on Bangkok Road, Café Mem on Phang Nga, and BAAN 125 for a V60 at ten at night.
The busiest, ranked
In order of how many people have been. Distances are along the pavement from the middle of Thalang Road, not straight lines.
- Campus Coffee Roasters - Phuket Old town4.6 from 1,366 reviews
The most-reviewed coffee shop in the district, ฿1–200 a head, 229 m off Thalang Road. Open 08:00 to 18:00 every day, which is the cluster’s standard shape.
08:00–18:00 daily · 229 m from Thalang Road
- MONDO Espresso & Tea Bar4.6 from 1,190 reviews
Runs to 21:00, three hours later than most of the list, which is the whole reason to know it.
08:30–21:00 daily · 204 m from Thalang Road
- Dou Brew Coffee & Craft4.8 from 879 reviews
฿1–200 a head, on Soi Romanee, and open at 08:00 when almost nothing else is. Shuts at 18:00 like most of the cluster.
Mon 08:00–18:00 · Tue 08:00–18:00 · Wed 08:00–18:00 · Thu 08:00–18:00 · Fri 08:00–18:00 · Sat 08:00–19:00 · Sun 08:00–19:00 · 90 m from Thalang Road
- GRAPH Phuket4.6 from 805 reviews
Shuts at 17:30. The one on this list people talk about as coffee rather than as a room.
08:30–17:30 daily · 313 m from Thalang Road
- BAAN 125 HANGOUT : coffee, V60, matcha and potteries.4.8 from 518 reviews
V60 and matcha, and it stays open to 22:00, which almost nothing else on this list does.
Mon 10:00–21:00 · Tue 10:00–20:00 · Wed 10:00–21:00 · Thu 10:00–20:00 · Fri 10:00–21:00 · Sat 10:00–21:00 · Sun 10:00–22:00 · 105 m from Thalang Road
- Pancake Corner and the Coffee Club4.1 from 1,092 reviews
The weakest rating of the busiest six, and pancakes are what people actually come for.
09:00–22:00 daily · 354 m from Thalang Road
Working from them
The guides describe Old Town as a laptop district. The reviews do not.
Three places in the district carry any review tag mentioning quiet, air conditioning or working: Momentary Coffee, GANO KAFAE and Pink Flamingo. What people write about instead is the room and the pancakes.
Bookhemian closed in 2025. It is the café every remote-work guide to Phuket names, at 61 Thalang Road, and it is gone. Several guides still list its opening hours, and the ones that do carry the closure date it to August 2026, a year late.What was in there, and photographs from 2018.
No review tag is not proof there is no wifi. It does mean almost nobody came here to work and thought it worth mentioning.
The animal cafés
Two of them, and both rate below everything else in this cluster.
- B Cat Café3.9 from 962 reviews
Cats, and the lowest rating of any busy coffee place in the district.
Mon 11:00–19:30 · Tue 11:00–19:30 · Wed closed · Thu 11:00–19:30 · Fri 11:00–19:30 · Sat 11:00–20:30 · Sun 11:00–20:30 · 248 m from Thalang Road
- WoHoo Cafe3.4 from 138 reviews
Owls. Handling wild birds for photographs is the business model, so decide what you think of that before you make the walk.
Mon 11:00–20:00 · Tue 11:00–20:00 · Wed 11:00–20:00 · Thu 11:00–20:00 · Fri 11:00–20:00 · Sat 11:00–20:00 · Sun 11:00–21:00 · 550 m from Thalang Road