a dark dining room that opens into a beautiful back garden
Must-try: Crispy whole fried branzino, Noodles from lobster head, Back garden
📍 100 Forsyth St, New York, NY 10002
Regional Isan cooking in a tiny dining room that locals talk about for weeks afterward
Must-try: Whole tilapia, Spicy mee ka tee, Grilled chicken livers
📍 77-16 Woodside Ave, Elmhurst, NY 11373
reinterpreted Thai cooking with psychedelic heat and real showstoppers
Must-try: Beef tongue curry, Peach melba, Century-old recipes
📍 190 N 14th St, Brooklyn, NY 11249
A blue-and-white-tiled halal Thai room with a toy display and real cooking
Must-try: Five-spiced skirt steak, Steamed mussels, Lychee mojitos
📍 30-78 Steinway St, Astoria, NY 11103
Thai in the Meatpacking District — 4.7 on Resy across 6,005 diner reviews
Must-try: Uni & crab tartlet, Bang cha lobster, Bangkok gai yang
📍 641 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014
NoHo's Thai seafood destination with 16,000+ Beli ratings — the coconut crab curry is the dish that made New York reconsider what Thai cooking could be
Must-try: Coconut crab curry, Grilled cuttlefish, Pla pao (salt-crusted grilled seabream)
📍 55 Bond St, New York, NY 10012
Isan cooking from northeastern Thailand in Elmhurst — sour, funky, and genuinely spicy
Must-try: Larb, Som tum with salted crab, Grilled pork neck
📍 76-04 Woodside Ave, Elmhurst, NY 11373
The Woodside Thai restaurant that taught New York what it had been missing — no compromises on heat
Must-try: Crispy watercress salad, Boat noodles, Green curry with roast duck
📍 64-13 39th Ave, Woodside, NY 11377
Thai-American all-day cooking on the corner of Mott and Kenmare — the tom yum fried rice, the Thai disco fries, the pancakes
Must-try: Tom yum fried rice, Thai disco fries, Roti and coconut custard for breakfast
📍 186 Mott St, New York, NY 10012
a vintage denim shop turned Thai restaurant with psychedelic rock playing
Must-try: Fried tofu, Tamarind noodles with crab, Curries
📍 2051 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10029
The most interesting Thai restaurant in the area, in a very pretty yellow room
Must-try: Papaya salad, Sour sausage and crunchy rice salad, Jasmine tea-smoked ribs
📍 638 Bergen St, Brooklyn, NY 11238
central Thai cooking and a gazebo backyard, straight from Bangkok Chinatown
Must-try: Sukhothai tom yum noodles, Koong karee, Whole fried branzino
📍 204 E 13th St, New York, NY 10003