Phnom Penh’s need for ever-swankier places to eat just landed a new destination. Les Cocktails in BKK1 (where else) serves sirloin steak and cocktails by the tower in low-slung beanbag chairs in the garden of its massive new-deco villa. The menu is mostly Khmer. Honey chicken wings with plum sauce, an appetiser, are $4.90; the Hot Pat Pet, baby clams with dry red curry, is $5.50. Steaks start around $18 and go to $40, but most of the mains cost half that or less. There’s indoor seating and a small stage for live music, but outside in the garden, where the burble of a massive water feature multiplies the tranquility, offers the best digs in the house.
Les Cocktails, #44 Street 352.
