Explore our curated restaurants, hotels, bars, and wineries in Phnom Penh.
Accolades in Phnom Penh
Our guide counts two exceptional wine programs citywide, at Topaz Restaurant in Khan Chamcar Mon and CUTS in Khan Daun Penh. Pi Sa, in Wat Phnom / Old Market (Phsar Chas), adds a curated, extensive list and a tasting menu.
Topaz Restaurant, in Khan Chamcar Mon, is a classic French fine dining restaurant with an exceptional wine program. The list is extensive and sommelier-led, and the kitchen serves a la carte and a tasting menu. World Culinary Awards named it Cambodia's Best Restaurant for 2025, in first place. The kitchen's legacy is training Cambodian chefs in classic French technique under Master Chef Alain Darc.
CUTS, in Khan Daun Penh, is a modern steakhouse and grill at Rosewood Phnom Penh with an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. Meals are a la carte or a tasting menu. The restaurant is on the 38th floor, with panoramic Mekong River views, and it is Cambodia's highest restaurant. Dry-aged steaks and Chocolate Wagyu are on the menu, with local sourcing.
Pi Sa, in Wat Phnom / Old Market (Phsar Chas), is modern Cambodian fine dining with a curated, extensive wine list and craft cocktails. Chef Sothea Seng cooks seasonal dishes from the market, including Mekong fish and Khmer sour soups, in a colonial-era bistro overlooking the Old Market. Formats are a la carte, a tasting menu and a set menu. Conde Nast named it to the Hot List in 2026.
Le Royal at The Raffles, in Khan Daun Penh, serves Khmer cuisine from recipes gifted by the Royal Palace. Elephant Bar, in Sangkat Wat Phnom, and Sora, in city center, hold bar rankings in our guide.
Le Royal at The Raffles, in Khan Daun Penh, is the fine dining restaurant in the Raffles hotel, serving traditional and modern Khmer cuisine with recipes gifted by the Royal Palace. The wine program is curated and sommelier-led, with craft cocktails. Service is a la carte and a set menu. La Liste scored the restaurant 75.5 points in 2025 and 75 the following year.
Elephant Bar, in Sangkat Wat Phnom, is the hotel bar at Raffles Hotel Le Royal, with a curated wine list, gin, classic cocktails and craft beer. Food & Wine ranked it number 7 among global hotel bars for 2026. The Femme Fatale was created for Jacqueline Kennedy in 1967. The gin selection is among Asia's largest, including a house gin and an exclusive Sipsmith bottling.
Sora, in city center, is the most decorated bar in our Phnom Penh guide, set on the 37th floor of Vattanac Capital Tower. It was ranked #65 in Asia’s Best Bars in 2025, #100 in 2026, and #141 in the Top 500 Bars in 2025.
Our guide counts zero Michelin-starred restaurants in Phnom Penh. Rosewood Phnom Penh, in Phnom Penh business district, holds Michelin 2 Keys. Raffles Hotel Le Royal, in Daun Penh, and Shangri-La Phnom Penh, in Riverside, each holds Michelin 1 Key.
Two venues in our guide have exceptional wine programs: Topaz Restaurant in Khan Chamcar Mon and CUTS in Khan Daun Penh. Topaz is classic French fine dining with a sommelier-led extensive wine list, served a la carte and as a tasting menu. CUTS is a modern steakhouse and grill with an extensive wine list, also served a la carte and as a tasting menu.
Pi Sa in Wat Phnom / Old Market (Phsar Chas), Topaz Restaurant in Khan Chamcar Mon, Brasserie Louis in Daun Penh and CUTS in Khan Daun Penh serve a tasting menu. Pi Sa also serves a set menu and a la carte. Brasserie Louis also serves a buffet, a set menu and a la carte. Topaz Restaurant and CUTS also serve a la carte.
Daun Penh and Tonle Bassac tie for the highest neighborhood count in our guide, with exactly four venues each. That pair leads the citywide neighborhood counts for Phnom Penh. In Daun Penh are Brasserie Louis, Café Monivong and Raffles Hotel Le Royal.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Le Royal at The Raffles sits at the intersection of French colonial heritage and Cambodian culinary identity, earning consistent La Liste recognition with 75 points in both 2025 and 2026. Set within one of Phnom Penh's most historically layered properties, it represents the city's most formal expression of French-Cambodian cuisine, drawing on regional provenance while operating within a tradition that predates Cambodia's modern restaurant scene.
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Pi Sa brings Sothea Seng’s ingredient-led Cambodian cooking to Phnom Penh’s French Quarter, close to the Old Market that supplies its produce. The appeal is not novelty for its own sake, but a capital-city expression of seasonal sourcing, Mekong fish, Khmer sour soups, and a room that places Cambodian materials inside a restored colonial shell.
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TOPAZ occupies a prominent position on Norodom Boulevard, one of Phnom Penh's most recognisable thoroughfares. The restaurant sits within the city's established fine-dining tier, where French technique and Cambodian context have shaped a durable dining culture distinct from the rest of Southeast Asia. Visitors planning ahead will find TOPAZ a useful reference point for understanding where the capital's premium restaurant scene has settled.
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Brasserie Louis belongs to Phnom Penh’s high-rise dining tier, where the city’s business core meets a brasserie format built for long service windows and mixed occasions. Its value is less about awards than positioning: a polished room in Vattanac Capital Tower, useful for travelers comparing central dining options across French-leaning, hotel, Japanese, patisserie, and steakhouse formats.
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Café Monivong sits in Phnom Penh’s hotel-dining corridor, where all-day restaurants often act as a city’s soft landing: breakfast meetings, family meals, and low-friction international menus. Its appeal is less about chef theatre than about reliable pacing in a capital where Cambodian produce, French influence, and regional travel habits meet at the table.
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CUTS, a modern steakhouse and grill at Rosewood Phnom Penh, pairs dry-aged steaks and Chocolate Wagyu with skyline and waterfront views, an extensive wine list, and local sourcing.
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On the corner of Streets 71 and 400 in Phnom Penh, Ox Club occupies a position that reflects how the city's dining scene has quietly matured: grounded in provenance, oriented toward fire and aged protein, and aimed at a crowd that takes ingredient sourcing as seriously as technique. The address has become a reference point for meat-focused dining in the Cambodian capital.
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Occupying a leading floors of the 39-story Vattanac Capital Tower, Rosewood Phnom Penh trades the colonial-era playbook for a vertical urban resort with 360-degree Mekong views, 175 rooms starting at 538 square feet, and a dining programme spanning French brasserie, Chinese cooking, and one of the city's most-discussed rooftop bars. Rates from $364 per night. Scored 91.5 points on the La Liste Top Hotels 2026 list.
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Open since 1929, Raffles Hotel Le Royal is Phnom Penh's most historically significant address, scoring 93 points in the 2026 La Liste Top Hotels ranking. Its 208 rooms blend Khmer, Art Deco, and French colonial architecture around a courtyard pool, while Restaurant Le Royal holds exclusive rights to ancient Royal Khmer recipes gifted directly from the Royal Palace. The Elephant Bar runs one of the city's longest happy hours.
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Rates from $233 per night place it at the upper end of the capital's hotel market, with dining spanning Khmer-inflected local dishes, refined Chinese cuisine at Shang Palace, and rooftop cocktails at Altitude.
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A MICHELIN Selected boutique hotel occupying a restored colonial villa on Street 19 in Phnom Penh's riverside quarter. Pavilion sits in the city's design-led independent tier, where low key counts and architectural character define the offering rather than brand scale. The address places it within walking distance of the Royal Palace precinct and the dining and bar strip along the Tonle Sap riverfront.
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Carrying Michelin Selected recognition for 2025, Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra occupies a prominent position on Sothearos Boulevard, where colonial boulevard geometry meets the Accor luxury standard. The property belongs to a tier of large-format international hotels that anchor Phnom Penh's premium hospitality map, offering a design presence and service infrastructure that places it alongside the city's most established addresses.
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Positioned along Phnom Penh's Tonle Bassac waterfront near the Monivong Bridge, SUN & MOON at Riverside Hotel holds the Country Winner designation for Luxury Conference and Event Hotel — placing it in a distinct tier among the capital's full-service properties. For travellers whose plans hinge on event facilities married to river-facing address, it occupies a specific and practical niche in the city's hotel mix.
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An 18-room five-star property affiliated with Great Hotels of the World, The Balé Phnom Penh positions itself in the quieter, low-capacity tier of the Cambodian capital's luxury accommodation market. Where larger Phnom Penh hotels compete on scale and conference infrastructure, The Balé trades on restraint and proximity to the city's cultural core. For travellers seeking space over spectacle, it occupies a distinct position.
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Perched on the 37th floor of Vattanac Capital Tower, Sora is Phnom Penh's most decorated bar, ranked #65 in Asia's Best Bars 2025 and #141 in the Top 500 Bars globally. Open daily from 7am to 9pm, it occupies a tier above the city's standard rooftop offering, with award-level cocktail programming and a 4..
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Elephant Bar is a Phnom Penh cocktail address with a rare piece of drink history: the Femme Fatale, mixed for Jacqueline Kennedy in 1967, remains the reference point. The modern programme stretches beyond nostalgia with house gin, an exclusive Sipsmith bottling, bottled Negroni, Cambodian-produce infusions, monthly themed menus, master classes, and daily happy hours.
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Altitude is a rooftop bar in Phnom Penh, useful for readers comparing the city’s open-air drinking rooms rather than chasing a documented awards trail or chef-led narrative. Its appeal sits in the capital’s skyline format: a high-level setting, cocktail-first expectations, and a position among Phnom Penh’s growing hotel and terrace bar circuit.
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