Sood by Chef Ton is a thai fine-dining restaurant in George Town, Penang.
Editorially verified August 27, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: The upstairs SO-OD bar is the louder half, built for fun dining with live bands and DJs; try it when the dining room is booked out.
Address: 33 Lebuh Farquhar, 10200 George Town, Penang
Mémoire stages chef Chong Chian Fung's molecular tasting menus on Beach Street, Penang childhood nostalgia rebuilt with smoke, dry ice and sparklers.
Tip: Choose the longer tasting; the interactive courses, including a paint-your-own flatbread, only appear on the full menu.
Curios-City hides an unsigned wabi-sabi dining room on Lebuh Victoria, pairing European technique with Malaysian twists across set menus in Penang.
Tip: There is no signage at all; look for the bare concrete frontage at 164 and book the seven-course set to see the range.
Blacklinen dry-ages beef beside a charcoal grill on level nine of The Millen hotel, chef Benny Yeoh's dark-toned grillroom above Penang's seafront.
Tip: The set-your-own two-course lunch is a fraction of dinner pricing; ask for a window table over the infinity pool.
Firewood cooks everything over an open flame in a lofty heritage building on Pitt Street, Penang's purest expression of live-fire restaurant dining.
Tip: Ask for counter seats facing the grill; the smoke, sizzle and plating are half of what you are paying for.
La Vie serves Asian-inflected European dinners in the Le Dream Boutique Hotel on Rope Walk, a Michelin-listed Penang room without the ceremony.
Tip: The kataifi-wrapped tiger prawn is the plate the guide singles out; order it whatever else you choose.
Mémoire stages chef Chong Chian Fung's molecular tasting menus on Beach Street, Penang childhood nostalgia rebuilt with smoke, dry ice and sparklers.
Tip: Choose the longer tasting; the interactive courses, including a paint-your-own flatbread, only appear on the full menu.
Curios-City hides an unsigned wabi-sabi dining room on Lebuh Victoria, pairing European technique with Malaysian twists across set menus in Penang.
Tip: There is no signage at all; look for the bare concrete frontage at 164 and book the seven-course set to see the range.
Blacklinen dry-ages beef beside a charcoal grill on level nine of The Millen hotel, chef Benny Yeoh's dark-toned grillroom above Penang's seafront.
Tip: The set-your-own two-course lunch is a fraction of dinner pricing; ask for a window table over the infinity pool.
Feringgi Grill has run since 1973 at the Rasa Sayang resort, old-world trolley service and ocean views at the smartest table on Penang's beach strip.
Tip: Dress code is enforced: long trousers and covered shoes for men; ask for a window table at sunset.
Firewood cooks everything over an open flame in a lofty heritage building on Pitt Street, Penang's purest expression of live-fire restaurant dining.
Tip: Ask for counter seats facing the grill; the smoke, sizzle and plating are half of what you are paying for.
La Vie serves Asian-inflected European dinners in the Le Dream Boutique Hotel on Rope Walk, a Michelin-listed Penang room without the ceremony.
Tip: The kataifi-wrapped tiger prawn is the plate the guide singles out; order it whatever else you choose.
