About Pomme d'Amour
Pomme d'Amour (French for 'Love Apple') has operated from this Street 117 colonial-era address for over fifteen years and is Battambang's longest-continuously-operating Western-friendly restaurant. The kitchen serves a French-Khmer menu. French bistro classics (steak frites, beef bourguignon, ratatouille) alongside Khmer signatures (fish amok, lok lak, prahok ktiss). In a comfortable casual format that's particularly popular with French-speaking and European travellers.
The signature dishes are the cross-cultural plates. Beef Lok Lak ($6.50). The Cambodian national wok-fried pepper-and-lime beef, here served with a small portion of rice and the standard fresh-tomato-and-cucumber salad, but with the lime-pepper sauce balanced more carefully than the typical Phnom Penh version. Fish Amok ($7.50). The coconut-fish curry, here in its banana-leaf-steamed traditional form (most modern Cambodian restaurants serve it as a curry rather than the traditional steamed mousse). Steak Frites ($12). Proper bistro-style with house frites and a green-peppercorn butter.
The room is the architectural set-piece. A colonial-era ground-floor space with the original tiled floor, exposed wooden beams, and bay windows facing Street 117. Capacity is forty across the main hall plus a small upstairs section. Walk-ins always work; the kitchen is open lunch and dinner with a quieter mid-afternoon coffee-and-cake service. Cards are accepted; the staff speak strong English and basic French.
What makes Pomme d'Amour the right Battambang dinner choice for travellers seeking a comfortable French-Khmer middle ground is the dual cuisine. The Khmer signatures are properly cooked (the chef trained at a Phnom Penh hotel restaurant for ten years before opening the Battambang restaurant) and the French bistro plates are competently executed. The restaurant has long been a stopover for French-speaking expat aid workers and tourists in transit between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap.
Best Occasion Fit
First dates. The colonial-architecture setting, the cross-cultural menu, and the unfussy French-cafe atmosphere do the work. Solo travellers fit the corner tables; the small-plate ordering allows for solo-tasting across multiple cuisines. Birthdays. The multi-course French-bistro format absorbs four to six and the staff will arrange a small dessert with notice.
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