Best Kid-Friendly Restaurants in Siem Reap
Our family spent one week in Siem Reap and managed to try a good number of local restaurants during our time there. To find restaurants we want to try, we typically look for highly rated restaurants on Google Maps and also check out some of our favorite online forums and blogs for recommendations. Based on that research and our in-person testing, these were the stand outs:
Wild Creative Bar & Spring Rolls
Little Miss and Young Mister WorldSmith (age 5 and 7) LOVED this place. They both separately declared that this was their new favorite restaurant anywhere on earth. We ordered six different plates of spring rolls, one order of potatoes (yummy!), and one dessert spring roll (pineapple), split between two adults and two kids. Everyone was full! All of the spring rolls were delicious, but our favorites were Dolce Vita, Taco Loco, and Pineapple Power.
They have a lovely shaded garden area to sit and enjoy. We also loved their social mission, which seemed to be a big thing in Siem Reap. Cost per person was 7–10 USD.
This restaurant was slightly removed from the main tourist drag, while still being very accessible. The food was very good — we tried both the western food (chicken cheeseburger on a homemade milk bun, anyone?) and some of the local fare at this place (pumpkin and tofu curry), and everything was excellent.
If you prefer to sit outside, be warned that there were a ton of flies hanging around the small front patio (they’re big pests in Siem Reap in December, apparently), but it looked quite comfy inside. We highly recommended this spot for a very good and inexpensive meal with fussy eaters. They also do takeaway.
This was another place with a good story and a strong social mission. The cost per person was 3–5 USD.
This place was not actually right on the river, so you don’t have that ambiance, but it does serve up good inexpensive local food. The restaurant is no frills, but it certainly adds to the authenticity of the experience.
We very much enjoyed our food and would recommend this spot for an inexpensive foray into local Cambodian food. The cost per person was 3–5 USD.
While this place was a little risqué in terms of the names of some of the menu items, the innuendo sailed right over our kids’ heads. This restaurant is very reasonably priced and offers up tasty Mexican-style soft tacos. Four or five tacos will satisfy most adults and with the cheapest tacos being only 1 USD, it’s an inexpensive meal out.
There’s also the opportunity to combine whatever you order into a combo with various alcoholic beverages — our favorite was the “X-Rated Chub” (lol), which was 10 tacos of your choice plus a small pitcher of sangria for 24 USD.
We enjoyed the food and appreciated that their recommendations to put the hot sauce on the side for the kids. The cost per person was 4—6 USD.
We were nearly gobsmacked when stumbled upon an outpost of one of our favorite Parisian bakeries on the main street in Siem Reap. Any of the baked goods are delicious, although we were partial to simply enjoying the Parisian croissants for our lunches.
The cost per person for a croissant was under 2 USD.