2 Best Restaurants in Bagan, Myanmar

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Bagan has a good selection of restaurants across Old and New Bagan and Nyaung-U, so if your first choice is full, there’s another option not far away. Among the cheerful Burmese, Indian, and Thai places are a handful of tasty, inexpensive Myanmar family-style restaurants.

Aroma 2

$$$$

This is one of the better spots along this happening strip of restaurants, where you're likely to bump into friends you've made earlier in the day during temple hopping. These places are geared to tourists and so prices are inflated, but the "no good, no pay" offer at this Indian restaurant is hard to resist. Curries are tasty but mild, so definitely ask for more spice if you like a kick. All the breads are worth a try, especially the hot, fluffy naan. Aroma 2 gets packed so it's best to have your hotel make reservations.

Indian $$$$ Lunch Dinner
Yarkinnthar Hotel Rd., Nyaung-U, Myanmar
09-204–2630
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Green Elephant

$$$$ | New Bagan
If you want to try a wide variety of Burmese food and aren’t ready to dive into street stalls, Green Elephant is a safe bet. It’s popular with tour groups, but don’t let that put you off: service is friendly and efficient, and the food, though certainly not mind-blowing, is toothsome and comes from a clean kitchen. Indeed, it was her own food allergies that drove Cherie Aung-Khin to open Green Elephant. Because Aung-Khin previously lived in Thailand, Thai and Chinese dishes are available as well, but we recommend the Burmese dishes, especially the tea leaf salad, eggplant salad, and fish curry. Prices for fairly standard Burmese dishes here are much higher than what you'll pay elsewhere, but this is a safe, clean place to sit down to eat.