Everyone at Chedi Thai would like to thank all our patrons who dined at the restaurant over the busy Christmas and New Year period.The added bonus of the Cricket Test and the Sydney Festival have all bought additional diners to our door.

Merry Christmas from Greg, Kai and staff at Chedi Restaurant

Due to our location at the city end of Newtown in close proximity to Sydney University, Chedi Restaurant attracts many foreign tourists to dine. Often when these visitors are paying the bill, I hear them say to each other “in Australia you don’t have to tip”. This I find surprising as in countries like America, a mandatory tip of 15% or more is added to your bill in most restaurants. And if you are in a place like New York and leave a restaurant without tipping, angry waiters will confront you in the street to extract their tip by force.

So what influences a customer’s word of mouth? It all depends of expectations. In Australia there are no Michelin star restaurants; so we must rely on the SMH Good Food Guide awards to know; which restaurants are at the top of the foodie chain. Sydney’s’ 3 hat restaurants are: Bilson’s, est, Marque, Pier, Quay and Tetsuya’s. So it must be all gastronomically downhill from these dizzy heights of gluttony. But then this makes it so much easier for casual dining restaurants like Chedi Thai, with no hats or awards but so many regulars.

This delightful and very photogenic little girl came to dine at Chedi Restaurant with her family. She ate all her food and was forced to give up the spoon only with a bribe of a vanilla sundae.

McDonald’s four year old burger and fries.

I would suggest his book “A Taste of My Life” by Raymond Blanc.

How to eat a chicken wing.

The Answer a hot young band from Ireland, visited Chedi Restaurant during February. The Answer was the support for AC/DC during their American and European tours and came to Australia with the Young brothers to watch the local boys perform. Great customers who left 3 signature guitar picks along with a generous tip. Who would [...]

The children of Baan Tharn Namchai were never a threat to Donut King; but they did manage to raise Baht 100,000 which was given in the form of a cheque to a school in Victoria.