For years the answer to a Thai dinner in Courchevel was: there isn't one. That changed in December 2025. MayaBay, POM Thai, Asian Chalet and Nama, where to book each one, and the private chef alternative for larger groups.
For years, anyone hoping to book a Thai dinner in Courchevel got the same polite answer: there isn't one. The resort could sell you a three-star tasting menu, a wheel of raclette or a €200 truffle pizza, but not a proper pad thai. That changed in December 2025, when two serious Asian openings arrived within a fortnight of each other, and 1850 suddenly acquired a genuine Thai and Japanese dining scene.
This guide covers the four addresses worth knowing, how each one takes bookings, and the one alternative that skips the reservation problem entirely. For the resort's starred tables, our Michelin guide to Courchevel has the full list, and our honest restaurant guide covers the rest of the scene.
MayaBay: Thai-Japanese Fine Dining at the Maya Hotel
MayaBay is the name that made this scene credible overnight. The original restaurant has been a Monaco institution for years, with siblings in Dubai and Porto Montenegro, and the group chose Courchevel for its first mountain outpost. It opened in early December 2025 inside the new Maya Hotel at 193 rue Park City, a 14-room boutique property a short walk from the centre of Courchevel 1850.
The kitchen runs two traditions side by side: refined sushi and steamed dishes on the Japanese side, proper curries on the Thai side. The dining room mixes alpine timber with Lalique crystal, and there are three private salons for groups. It serves lunch and dinner daily, with the bar handling the mixology in between.
Booking is the easy part, which is rare in this village. MayaBay takes online reservations through SevenRooms, plus phone (+33 4 58 24 20 20) and email. One honest note on budget: the restaurant does not publish its prices online. Expect Monaco levels rather than mountain-restaurant levels, and plan accordingly. The restaurant closed with the season in April and announces its return for December 2026 on its own site.
POM Thai: the Ibiza Cult Favourite, Transplanted
POM Thai took a different route to the Alps. Founded in 2014 by Johnny, a wine obsessive, and Pom, the Thai head chef whose name is on the door, it spent a decade building a following among Ibiza's DJs, chefs and long-summer regulars before opening in Courchevel on 19 December 2025, at 28 rue des Verdons.
The cooking is the point here: old Thai recipes treated seriously, with an unusually deep list of vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free dishes for a mountain resort. The other point is the cellar. The wine list is built from small artisanal producers and is half the reason the Ibiza original became a cult address.
POM Thai opens seven nights a week from 7pm, dinner only. Reservations by phone (+33 6 07 67 67 67) or through the website. Prices are not published online here either; it sits below MayaBay on formality but this is still an 1850 dinner, not a takeaway. The restaurant has not yet published its 2026-27 opening dates, so check before building an evening around it in early December.
Asian Chalet 1850: the Casual Option at Le Forum
Not every night calls for a tasting menu. Asian Chalet, in the Galerie Commerciale du Forum in the centre of 1850, is the resort's casual Asian kitchen: spring rolls, pad thai, fried rice, poke bowls and mango sticky rice, open daily from 9am to 9.45pm through the season, with takeaway if the chalet sofa has already won the evening.
It grew out of the former Le Chalet and now runs a second branch in Courchevel Moriond at 395 rue Sainte-Blandine, useful if you are based in 1650. No ceremony, no dress code, and after two gala dinners in a row it is exactly what a table of teenagers wants. Order by phone (+33 6 02 09 80 59) or drop in.
Nama at Le Mélézin: the Japanese Benchmark
One address predates the 2025 arrivals and still sets the Japanese standard in the village. Nama, inside Aman Le Mélézin at 310 rue de Bellecôte, serves washoku under chef Keiji Matoba: sashimi and sushi of real precision, plus grilled Wagyu, in a slope-side dining room with some of the calmest service in Courchevel.
Two things worth knowing. First, non-residents are welcome, which is not obvious from the outside of an Aman. Second, it books out fast in the festive weeks, like every good table in the village; our Christmas and New Year guide explains just how early those weeks lock up. Reserve through the hotel.
The Alternative: a Thai Chef in Your Own Chalet
There is a fifth option, and for larger groups it is often the best one. Courchevel's private chef network includes cooks who will run a full Thai or pan-Asian dinner in your chalet kitchen: the shopping, the cooking, the service and the washing up, with the wine already in your own fridge. No 7pm slot, no minibus down to the village at midnight, no table of twelve to negotiate.
This is also the honest answer to the second question we hear most, which is how to eat this well with small children asleep upstairs. Our private chef guide covers how hiring works, what a chef costs and how far ahead to book, which in February half-term is further ahead than you think.
How to Plan an Asian Dining Week in 1850
A workable rhythm for a week: book MayaBay for the marquee dinner the day your dates are confirmed, since the room is small and the hotel's own guests get first call. Slot POM Thai mid-week, when the wine list gets the attention it deserves. Keep Asian Chalet in reserve for the lazy night, and Nama for lunch off the slopes if the light is right on the Bellecôte side.
And if your week falls between 20 December and 3 January, move every one of those bookings forward by two months. The village's Asian tables are new, small and fashionable, which is the worst possible combination for a walk-in.
Ten years ago this article could not have been written; Courchevel's idea of Asian food was a sushi counter in a hotel lobby. Now a Monaco institution, an Ibiza cult favourite and an Aman kitchen compete for the same hundred metres of snow. Nobody in 1850 is complaining.
