From passion and love of cooking to
Michelin Star, ASIA’s Best Female Chef and Culinary Pioneers

Internationally renowned, multi-award Chef Pam Pichaya Soontornyanakij has opened a string of successful restaurants and bars. Pam is also the first ever and youngest Female Chef to receive both Michelin Star and “Opening of the Year” awards from the Michelin Guide at the same time. She is also the quickest and youngest Thai female chef to receive ASIA’s Best Female Chef from World 50 Best Restaurants. From New York to Bangkok, Pam becomes a critically acclaimed chef, food consultant, and television personality and is one of the most recognized faces in cooking in Thailand today.

CHEF PAM WON ASIA’S BEST FEMALE CHEF 2024

MULTI-AWARDS WINNING RESTAURANT

MULTI-AWARDS WINNING RESTAURANT

MEET CHEF PAM’S LATEST RESTAURANT POTONG

The Best New Restaurant in The World: 2022 Hot List

Restaurant POTONG, helmed by Chef Pam has won 8 consecutive awards

  • 1 Michelin Star from Michelin Guide

  • “Michelin Thailand Opening of the Year Award”, Chef Pam (Pichaya Soontornyanakij) was the youngest female chef to receive this award together with 1 Michelin star for Restaurant POTONG.

  • #35 ASIA’s 50 Best Restaurants 2023 from World 50 Best Restaurants Awards.

  • Awarded prestige accolade from TOP 25 Restaurants as “2022 Rising Star – POTONG Rising Star in Top Restaurants Bangkok”. It’s truly our honor to be awarded and officially featured in TOP25Restaurants.

  • Condé Nast Traveller's and World Culinary Awards as “The Best New Restaurant in the Word: 2022 Hot List ”. It's an absolute pleasure and honor for us to be selected and the only Thai restaurant in Bangkok to be featured in the article from Condé Nast Traveller's.

  • "Asia's Best New Restaurant 2022" was nominated for World Culinary Award. The voting will close in August 2022. Please vote for us by clicking the below button!

  • Listed in Michelin Guide Thailand 2022 with a special notation of “Particularly interesting wine list”.

  • Awarded as one of Thailand's Best from 30 'Thailand's Favourite Restaurants 2022 KOKTAIL Guide'

  • Awarded as “Chef of the year” - Chef “Pam” Pichaya Utharntharm - Restaurant POTONG, Bangkok

We can't wait to serve everyone our latest creations.

WATCH CHEF PAM’S LATEST ADVENTURES

Chef Pam (Pichaya Utharntharm) is one of the top influencers in the culinary world of Thailand today. After her work in 3 Michelin stars restaurants, she returned to Thailand, opening her multi-successful restaurant and bar group before and taking on multiple TV Shows and Media that drive today's culinary world. Join her latest “In search for the Best Ingredients” from Gastrofilm.

2022 RISING STAR
FROM TOP 25 RESTAURANTS

Chef Pam has received her latest accolade, “RISING START” (2022) from TOP 25 Restaurants, showcasing progressing Thai-Chinese cuisine.

Here’s some of what TOP 25 Restaurants have mentioned about us:

“At POTONG, Chef Pam delivers a contemporary and exciting experience of progressive Thai-Chinese cuisine. Located near the entrance to Sampeng Market, the restaurant is located in a 120-year-old Sino-Portuguese architectural building and the traditional medicine house of Chef Pam’s great-great-grandparents. POTONG’s fine dining menu is designed to take you on a journey through time, not only culinary but sensorial as well, as patrons progress from one floor to the other, feeling the spirit and vibrations of the building’s history…”

BE EXTRAORDINARY

Chef Pam and her partner set up THE X PROJECT group that caters specifically to catering requirements for such extraordinary events. Watch some of Chef Pam’s latest catering.

Led by visionary Executive Head Chef Pam, Pichaya Utharntharm, our passionate chefs create unique menus which are influenced by global cuisines and trends. Whether the menu is modern Thai, Chinese, European, elegant fusion, luxury comfort food, or cutting-edge molecular gastronomy, Bubble uses the highest quality seasonal and ethically procured ingredients to create vibrant and seductive culinary delights.