Bamboo Lounge

Top choice in Northern Laos


With its moss-green facade, this place is the favourite in town for travellers. It offers young people from remote villages employment and has donated more than 3000 books to local schools. It's alluring by night with its twinkling fairy lights, top tunes and outdoor terrace piping delicious aromas from its wood-fired oven. Myriad thin-crust pizza choices, plus regular specials like Mexican burritos.

And, unusually for Laos, it's completely nonsmoking.