Meena Cafe’s (www.fb.com/meenacafe2017) view is the stuff of oil paintings.

The entire glass-walled front of the cafe faces out onto lush rice fields with the pagodas of Wat Tham Sua rising in the distance.

With this view in hand, the owners clearly decided that any decor would be secondary, and the bare industrial decor is fittingly casual.

Take a cold coco (B60) to the high bar that runs the window, or better yet to the mesh seats outside that sit level with the fields. For a snack, orange cakes and blueberry cheese pies go from B70 a piece.

The cafe’s best hour is sundown.

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