Sugar and Spice Restaurant and Inn, Phuket Thailand

29/09/2026

29/09/2026

Welcome to Sugar&Spice🥰🥰

28/09/2026

Steady progress now at Spice Sea Eat and Sleep. The model bathrooms are looking great with the new tempered glass doors. The restaurant is still slow, not sure what's taking them so long. Team B in the rooms are faster. The hotel will have three or four sizes of rooms, the smaller ones (shown) have this cool little pull-down desk. Saves space yet big enough for a laptop and they didn't forget charging plugs. The lighting in the rooms are going to be very nice too, not too bright, not too dark. Just right. Lots of space for a tiny room, reminds me of a yacht cabin.

Project Manager and MD Khun Ohn in the first picture. The electric company came to install protective covers on the high-tension wires outside so they can work safely on the façade.

20/09/2026

Things are moving quickly at Spice Sea Eat and Sleep, now that the plumbing, sewer and electric is all installed, Team A is working on a room mock up. Once we are happy with it they will order for the other 18 rooms from Lamphun, Thailand, which is just south of Chiang Mai. Hopefully the construction won't take too long to get all the way down here. The bathrooms look really nice and they are bigger than I thought they would be with sliding rather than folding doors giving more space.

Team B is hanging the restaurant's ceiling so that's starting to go quickly now too. Most downstairs construction is finished, just finishing up the bathrooms and the manager's onsite room.

The crews are working happily as you can see from the first photo.

19/09/2026

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18/09/2026

Some more additions to our menu this season: Bruschetta, cream of corn soup, pizza Capricciosa and finally, Thai larb with grilled pork neck. Fatty and delicious.

16/09/2026

A new more new menu items. Grilled salmon, beet root salad, seared tuna and Khao Soi with AU beef steak. Yummy yum yum.

15/09/2026

I went to our Spice Sea Eat and Sleep project yesterday in Kata Beach. It's coming along splendidly. Rooms are getting closer, many of the bathroom tiles have been installed and look nice, and the ceilings in many of the rooms especially on the 2nd floor are getting there. At least you can see the shape of them now. All walls are rendered and most of the room floors are tiled and covered with protective paper.

They are still slow on the restaurant but once they get whatever they are working on done, it will go quickly. There's still plumbing stuff going on for some reason. We're not worried. They are painting the ceiling pipes brown as they will be semi-exposed when the restaurant is finished, part of the design.

14/09/2026

Ohn and her staff have been working on some new menu items for the upcoming high season. She's taking some Western dishes up a couple of notches for the new place, Spice Sea Eat and Sleep. We'll also put some at Sugar Shack where Mr Em is doing a great job. We like to keep Sugar and Spice more Thai and casual which keeps prices down but we'll be adding a few new items to be sure.

Here are a few examples of what she's doing in the kitchen.

28/08/2026

An update on Spice Sea Eat and Sleep progress. I haven't posted in a while as we're at the "ugly stage" of the construction with all the concrete, electrical and plumbing behind the scenes work going on. Dusty dusty dusty.

However, yesterday I saw the rooms are finally beginning to look like something with the walls and floors mostly rendered. We've received some of the floor and wall tiles now and they will begin going in the rooms and the bathrooms.

The crews are doing a good job. Their finishing work is just the way it's supposed to be. It looks like Ohn hired two good teams.

The downstairs restaurant area is still a huge mess, not sure what's taking so long there, this is the architect's job. But we're not worried, we should be open by November 1st. Maybe earlier. All our rooms at Sugar and Spice Inn are fully booked from Nov 1 to March 1 so we need the rooms. Ohn's pretty sure we will fill up fast as there is under supply in Kata Beach during high season. Or course during low season (now), there is a huge, huge over supply--we can't give roooms away. The restaurants stay busy all year-round but the rooms are a little tougher. That's the way it's always been. I doubt it will change. With the amount of building going on on the island it will just get worse, not better.

The government is also working on all the local streets in Kata Beach, doing what looks like flood prevention measures. I'm sure glad they are getting it done now and didn't begin in high season like they sometimes do. I think they are almost finished but the noise for a few days was deafening. Hopefully when the rains come again--which should be soon--the streets will no longer flood as much.