Both areas are reasonably priced and fun; – you could have a couple of pre-dinner drinks and snacks in the ‘local’ area, move to the nearby ‘tourist’ section for a more formal style dinner then perhaps head back round the corner to catch a local band or a Chiang Rai United game on the big screen TV. (The local team is very popular and, unusually for Thailand – Buriram excepted – you’ll see as many residents wearing the orange Chiang Rai shirts as you will wearing those of top English Premier clubs.)