I crave Thai......!

[Kurt]

Kurt, I would like to put the word out to find a chef who cooks authentic Thai! Where can you suggest to begin?

Bangkok!

:funn:

Fort Walton Beach - there is a Buddhist temple there and I imagine it would be a great place to meet Thai folks.
Wat Mongkolratanaram - Thai Buddhist Temple
741 Mayflower Ave., Fort Walton Beach, FL, 32547
(850) 863-2906

https://www.facebook.com/mongkoltemple
http://nwfnow.com/The_Buddhist_Temple.html

Talk to Sam, Rose, or Donna at Daddy's:
http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/126/896547/restaurant/Destin/Daddys-The-Place-For-Ribs-Mary-Esther

You might also talk to Connie at Royal Orchid in Miramar Beach.
http://www.royalorchidthaicuisine.com

 

[Zebraspots]

All I know is we could use a Thai place- far more than yet another pizza place or tacky turtle.

 

[Iris]

We really like Oishi but something has changed since their move. The food is not quite as good as we thought it was when on Hwy 79. We have also noticed that their old location is now a new Thai place...lol. Has anyone had the Thai Pizza at Pickle Factory? It is excellent....Kee Mau or something like that. Jasmine on Thomas drive has not been very good. Yes, we travel for good food.

 

[beachmouse]

The Thai restaurants around here seem to be largely driven by local traffic and the occasional tourist who realizes how perfect Thai food can be on a warm summer day. Given the year-round population growth on SoWal, what didn't work five years ago might work now.

The key seems to be finding retail space cheap enough to work- the Thai restaurants that have been popping up in the Navarre-Gulf Breeze area in the past 2-3 years seem to be finding buildings and strip mall space where rents are pretty reasonable, and where a previous restaurant closed and left behind kitchen, tables, and chairs.

(And speaking of Navarre, wish that the folks who own Cactus Flower would open up an outpost between Destin and Grayton Beach because I'm so addicted to their mahi tacos.)

 

[Teresa]

We really like Oishi but something has changed since their move. The food is not quite as good as we thought it was when on Hwy 79. We have also noticed that their old location is now a new Thai place...lol. Has anyone had the Thai Pizza at Pickle Factory? It is excellent....Kee Mau or something like that. Jasmine on Thomas drive has not been very good. Yes, we travel for good food.

Fortunately we have had the same great food in the new oishi location as in the old... But I did not realize there is another Thai place in the old location! Will check it out. Do you know the name?

 

[kwalsh0001]

Re: starting an new Thai restaurant on 30A......

Perhaps.....we don't need a new "start up" Thai restaurant.

Perhaps......we ought to try to get some newly opened, innovative existing restaurant to add several Thai dishes to their menu. Think of it..... Need to perhaps only hire one or two good local Thai chefs, while the infrastructure of the restaurant (building, kitchen, tables, etc) was already in place. At least that would be a good start!

Perhaps......(read the thread regarding La Playa) we already know of a newly opened innovative restaurant we could "enlist" into trying. They'd only have to expand their restaurant's name to read "LA PLAYA, LA PATTYA" (Ohh-La-La)

I can see the bumper sticker now: "Thai one on, at La Playa, La Pattya!....." (say THAT fast, ten times!)

I'd go there at LEAST weekly--and I'd bring a LOT of my friends...... I can taste the Massamun curry now.....!!!!!

 

[Andy A]

How come no mention of Lin's? Their Thai Curry is a wonderful dish and I would imagine that if someone approached them with a request for more Thai dishes and suggestions for such, they would respond favorably.

 

[Mello Yolo]

Andy....the topic is no Thai restaurant on 30A.

Lin's not on 30A, is it? I thought it was somewhere around Royal Orchid.

 

[James Bentwood]

Hi Andy - I eat at Lyn's often and not that impressed. It's mediaocre in my opinion but fills the bill when needed.

As for their Thai dishes - I've had them and the curry is OK but nver trust non-thai to cook thai food. These chinese places that try to do other asian cuisines never can quite pull it off.

 

[James Bentwood]

Re: starting an new Thai restaurant on 30A......

Perhaps.....we don't need a new "start up" Thai restaurant.

Perhaps......we ought to try to get some newly opened, innovative existing restaurant to add several Thai dishes to their menu. Think of it..... Need to perhaps only hire one or two good local Thai chefs, while the infrastructure of the restaurant (building, kitchen, tables, etc) was already in place. At least that would be a good start!

Perhaps......(read the thread regarding La Playa) we already know of a newly opened innovative restaurant we could "enlist" into trying. They'd only have to expand their restaurant's name to read "LA PLAYA, LA PATTYA" (Ohh-La-La)

I can see the bumper sticker now: "Thai one on, at La Playa, La Pattya!....." (say THAT fast, ten times!)

I'd go there at LEAST weekly--and I'd bring a LOT of my friends...... I can taste the Massamun curry now.....!!!!!

See my post above - you need authentic Thai people. Antone can make thai but only thai cooks can elevate it to the level that makes it Thai!