Pinto
Casual Thai Kitchen · Kathu, Phuket
Pinto. Thai food, packed with love.

A casual Thai kitchen at Vibes of Nature, Kathu. Real cooking, cold drinks, warm evenings — and the kind of unhurried Phuket you came looking for.

Open evenings · Kathu, Phuket
The Name

A lunchbox carried with care.

Pinto (ปิ่นโต) is the traditional Thai tiered food carrier — round containers clipped together and carried to school, to the temple, to the fields. Rice at the base, a curry above, soup or something sweet on top.

It was how Thai mothers packed love into a lunchbox. Simple, honest, complete. That is the spirit of this place.

01

Rice

The base. Steamed jasmine, sticky from Isaan, fragrant brown.

02

Curry

Built on fresh-pounded paste. Green, red, massaman, panang.

03

Soup

Tom yum, tom kha, clear broths bright with lime and galangal.

04

Sweet

Mango sticky rice, coconut custard, lod chong on ice.

A glass cylinder, wrapped in timber.
The Setting

A glass cylinder, wrapped in timber.

Pinto stands beside the Vibes of Nature Culinarium — a striking three-storey building wrapped in a 360° glass cylinder framed by a modern wooden slat structure. Designed to look beautiful, and to breathe.

The timber latticework filters light, encourages natural airflow and keeps the space cool the way good architecture should — without asking much of the planet. The roof quietly harvests solar energy to power the whole building.

Two dining floors

Wrapped in glass, looking out across gardens, Culinarium and sky.

Wooden slat skin

Filters light and breeze, no air-con required to feel cool.

Solar roof

Powers the whole building. Honest cooking, honest energy.

The Kitchen

Guided by Yannick. Cooked by Thai hands.

The food is guided by Chef Yannick Hollenstein — the Swiss-trained chef behind OMEMO, our acclaimed fine dining sister — who brings the same insistence on quality and freshness to Pinto's Thai kitchen. The cooking itself stays in Thai hands, true to its roots.

"We don't fancy this food up. We just refuse to cut corners on what goes into it."
— Chef Yannick Hollenstein
After Dinner

Cross the bridge to EMO.

When dinner is done, there's no need to go far. A bridge connects Pinto directly to EMO Lounge — Vibes of Nature's modern cocktail and cigar bar. The natural conclusion to a Thai evening: cross over, sink into something elegant, let the night carry on.

Visit EMO Lounge
Reserve

Save a table.

We open in the evenings. Walk-ins welcome — but a table by the glass is worth booking ahead.

Or call us directly
+66 61 272 33 66
Visit

Find us at Vibes of Nature.

Address
Vibes of Nature 33/66, Moo 1, Vichitsongkram Road Kathu, Phuket 83120 Thailand
Hours
Tuesday – Sunday 17:30 – 22:30 Closed Monday
Contact
+66 61 272 33 66
Contact
info@vibes-phuket.com
The Culinarium

One Culinarium. Three sister concepts.

Pinto sits inside the Vibes of Nature Culinarium — a glass-and-timber building shared with three other dining concepts. Each with its own personality, all under one roof.

The Culinarium at Vibes of Nature, Kathu, Phuket
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Fine dining guided by precision, purity, and the artistry of Chef Yannick Hollenstein.

Coby logo

All-day brunch, bakery, and Swiss comfort creations in a warm, social setting.

EMO logo

An intimate after-dinner lounge — cocktails, cigars, soft lighting, slow-living evenings.

A place designed for connection.

Four experiences. One shared soul.