Where to eat on Koh Phangan.

The island's pier town and administrative hub has the widest everyday eating - the island's biggest supermarkets, bakeries, a broad range of Thai restaurants, and the Walking Street night market every Thursday and Saturday evening, packed with food stalls selling som tam, grilled meats, seafood and desserts. The default base for practical, affordable, year-round eating.

The Full Moon Party beach in the southeast is dense with cheap Thai food shops, pizza, burgers and 24-hour convenience eating built around the party crowd. On the many nights without a Full Moon event it's a quiet, ordinary beach town with simple cafes and seafood shacks at a fraction of the energy.

The west-coast wellness corridor holds one of Southeast Asia's most concentrated vegan and raw-food scenes, grown up around the island's yoga studios and detox retreats - cold-pressed juice bars, raw desserts, smoothie bowls and plant-based kitchens line the strip. Reason enough on its own for many long-stayers to base here.

The working fishing village on the north coast serves the freshest and cheapest seafood on the island, landed daily and cooked simply at local Thai restaurants along the harbour. Quieter and more local than the west or south coasts, with a handful of diver-friendly cafes near the boat operators.

The calmer south-coast stretch between Thong Sala and Haad Rin mixes beachfront Thai restaurants with a few resort dining rooms, and works as an easy midpoint for residents who want both towns a short scooter ride away without living in either.

Koh Phangan has a fair claim to being Thailand's vegan capital by concentration. Srithanu's cafes serve raw pad thai, loaded smoothie bowls, cacao and cold-pressed juice cleanses aimed at the island's retreat and yoga community, with more plant-based kitchens scattered through Thong Sala and Ban Tai. Even committed carnivores will find the quality unusually high.

Grilled catch off the boats at Chaloklum, seaside spots in Thong Sala, and beachfront restaurants along Ban Tai and Ban Kai deliver some of the best-value seafood in the Gulf of Thailand - usually priced by weight and cooked simply over charcoal.

Smaller than Samui or Phuket, but growing: Italian, French, Mediterranean and fusion kitchens cluster around Srithanu and Thong Sala, with a handful of boutique sunset-view restaurants around Haad Yao and Salad Beach for a proper night out.

Once a month, Haad Rin's beach fills with pop-up stalls and vendors feeding tens of thousands of partygoers through the night - fast, cheap, and a completely different eating experience from the rest of the island's calendar.

The Thong Sala Walking Street runs Thursday and Saturday evenings and is the island's big weekly food event - dozens of stalls covering grilled meats, seafood, noodles, som tam and desserts, most plates under 100 baht. Smaller local markets pop up in other villages through the week.

Delivery coverage is thinner here than on Koh Samui, Phuket or Bangkok - app-based services have minimal or patchy presence on the island. Most restaurants take orders directly by phone or LINE for their own delivery, concentrated around Thong Sala and Srithanu; don't count on app delivery reaching a more remote villa.

Market and street stalls run roughly 50-100 baht; casual Thai and seafood restaurants 150-350 baht a head; a vegan or wellness cafe meal 150-400 baht, with cold-pressed juices and smoothie bowls sometimes running higher; and international or boutique dining from about 500-1,000 baht and up.

Popular Srithanu cafes and restaurants near retreat centres can fill up during big yoga or wellness events - booking by LINE is worth doing where possible. Tipping isn't obligatory; rounding up is common. Tap water is not for drinking - stick to bottled or filtered.

Two things stand out: one of Southeast Asia's most concentrated vegan and raw-food scenes, centred on Srithanu and grown up around the island's yoga and wellness retreats, and fresh Gulf of Thailand seafood landed daily at Chaloklum and other coastal villages. The Thong Sala Walking Street night market (Thursday and Saturday) is the island's best all-round food event.

Very - arguably one of the best islands in Thailand for plant-based eating. The Srithanu and Haad Salad corridor on the west coast has one of the region's densest concentrations of vegan and raw-food cafes, juice bars and health-food kitchens, tied to the island's long-running yoga and detox retreat culture.

Only partially. App-based delivery has minimal or patchy coverage compared with Koh Samui, Phuket or Bangkok. Most residents order directly from restaurants by phone or LINE for their own delivery, with the best coverage around Thong Sala and Srithanu - more remote villas may be out of range entirely.

Thong Sala for everyday eating and the Walking Street night market; Srithanu and Haad Salad for the vegan and wellness cafe scene; Chaloklum for the freshest, cheapest seafood; Ban Tai and Ban Kai for quiet beachfront dining; and Haad Rin for cheap, fast food built around the Full Moon Party crowd.

Market and street food runs 50-100 baht; casual Thai and seafood restaurants 150-350 baht; a vegan or wellness cafe meal 150-400 baht; and international or boutique dining from around 500-1,000 baht and up, before drinks. Overall, Koh Phangan eats more cheaply than Koh Samui or Phuket.