Thai Food and Cooking

Songkran Festival 2013: Thai New Year Celebration in Photos

Songkran, the traditional Thai New Year, was celebrated this past weekend at Wat Phrasriratanaram (890 Lindsay Lane, Florissant; 314-839-3115). The only Buddist temple in the St. Louis area, Wat Phrasriratanaram is home to a half-dozen monks. For Songkran, local Thai restaurants and families prepar ... More >>

Thaidentity Crisis: At Ocha Thai & Japanese, it's too easy to lose your culinary bearings

Slideshow: Inside Ocha Thai & Japanese

Small and unassuming, Fork & Stix is unlike any other Thai restaurant in St. Louis

Slideshow: Photo tour of Fork & Stix

Review Preview: Fork & Stix

This week I visit Fork & Stix (549 Rosedale Avenue; 314-863-5572), a tiny Thai restaurant unlike any other in town.

Fork & Stix to Bring Northern Thai Cuisine to Delmar Loop

As Sauce was first to report, a Thai restaurant called Fork & Stix will open this fall at 549 Rosedale Avenue, the east Delmar Loop storefront vacated earlier this year by the Ethiopian restaurant Selam. Opening a Thai restaurant in the Delmar Loop might seem foolish, as the neighborhood already bo ... More >>

First Look: Thai 202 Offers Sweet and Spicy Take-out in the Central West End

Restauranteur Art Lee keeps it all in the family when it comes to food. Growing up in Thailand, his family ran an open market grocery store. He says the skills he gained then come in handy even now for the new business, Thai 202 (235 North Euclid Avenue; 314-367-2002), which he runs with his wife an ... More >>

Thai 202 Opens in Central West End

Thai 202 is now open at 235 North Euclid Avenue in the Central West End, the address vacated earlier this year by Audi-K's.

St. Louis Earth Day Festival Food Preview

With more live entertainment slated for the St. Louis Earth Day Festival on Sunday, April 22, than ever before, this year's celebration is bound to knock St. Louis up to the second largest Earth Day festival in the country -- after all we are world champs, at things both big and small (but mostly bi ... More >>

Dude, It's The Top Six Delivery Restaurants For 4/20, Check It Out

Have you ever thought about how weird fingernails are? Is it possible that an entire other world exists beneath our fingernails and every time we trim them we snuff out countless fingernail-people lives? Are we the Adolf Hitler of our nail beds? These and other questions are the things that April 20 ... More >>

Traditional Thai New Year Festival Restaurant Preview

On Sunday, April 22, the Thai Association of Greater St. Louis hosts its annual Traditional Thai New Year Festival, also known as the Songkran Festival, from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Thai Buddhist Temple of Greater St. Louis (890 Lindsay Lane, Florissant; 314-839-3115). The event is free to atten ... More >>

Soup Countdown #1: Tom Kha at Pearl Cafe

January is National Soup Month, which makes sense, considering the first month of the year is typically marked with below-freezing temperatures, snow and slush. What's better than a delicious, hot bowl of soup on a chilly day? A delicious, hot bowl of soup that you don't have to make -- that's what. ... More >>

The Five Best Thai Restaurants in St. Louis

Selecting the Riverfront Times Best of St. Louis 2011 was no picnic. Choosing the winner meant several worthy candidates would go unmentioned -- until now. This year, Gut Check is celebrating five contenders in several categories.Jennifer SilverbergA dish at this year's Best Thai Restaurant​One t ... More >>

The Veggielante Visits Pearl Cafe

​The Veggielante has had it up to here with people bitching that St. Louis restaurants are vegetarian unfriendly. Sure, we'd like to see more restaurants offering more meatless dishes, but there are excellent choices out there if you take the trouble to look for them. We're not here to prosely ... More >>

Lynne Truong of Banh Mi So #1 Saigon Gourmet: Recipe for Bun Ga Xao

This is part three of Antonio Pacheco's Chef's Choice profile of chef Lynne Truong of Banh Mi So #1. Part one can be found here. Part two, a Q&A with Truong, is published here. Antonio Pacheco​While chef Lynne Truong prepares myriad Vietnamese dishes, a highlight of Banh Mi So #1 -- Saigon Go ... More >>

The Veggielante Puts Bobo Noodle House to the Test

​The Veggielante has had it up to here with people bitching that St. Louis restaurants are vegetarian unfriendly. Sure, we'd like to see more restaurants offering more meatless dishes, but there are excellent choices out there if you take the trouble to look for them. We're not here to prosely ... More >>

The Black Metal Vegan Chef and Five Other Musical Cooking Instructors

Do you like vegan pad thai cooked in Satan's fires? Of course you do! The Vegan Black Metal Chef, a dark-souled fellow from Orlando, Florida, knows this. He's created an instructional video with 14 minutes of growling instructions for a wicked vegan pad thai. That's right. When they're not scream ... More >>

Con Fusion: A Visit to Thai Pizza Co.

Ian FroebThe panang curry pizza (?) at Thai Pizza Co.​I last visited Thai Pizza Co. (608 Eastgate Avenue; 314-862-4429) five or maybe six years ago -- before I was the RFT's restaurant critic. Though the restaurant is located right down the street from Gut Check International Headquarters, I ... More >>

Ginger Bistro takes "Asian fusion" to the next level: Down

Remembrance of Wings (and Curries and Briskets) Past: The Best Dishes of 2010

#2: Gang Kua Ped Yang at Addie's Thai House

Jennifer SilverbergWe don't have a picture of the red curry with duck, but I was sitting at the table in the foreground when I ate it.​The best Thai curry I've eaten in St. Louis, probably the best Thai dish I've had here and maybe the best duck dish, period. Remarkably, though the duck was choppe ... More >>

At Addie's Thai House in Chesterfield, the serious eater finds true love

Review Preview: Addie's Thai House

Jennifer SilverbergMiang of Smoked Trout is a "small snack" of flakes of smoked trout, cilanro, shallots and Southeast Asian herbs mixed with a Thai chutney on Bibb leaf lettuce.​To say gang kua ped yang is a red curry with duck is a gross understatement. It's the best Thai curry I've eaten in St. ... More >>

Wang Gang Asian Eats brings fast-casual Chinese and Thai to St. Charles

FoodWire: Sweet Basil Thai Cafe Now Open Downtown

I'm about a week behind the curve on this one, but anyway: Sweet Basil Thai Cafe is now open at 903 Pine Street. The restaurant is open from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. There is a lunch buffet for $6.95, but you can also order from a full menu of Thai dishes. Sweet Basil has the same owner ... More >>

Thai Breaker: Looking to add a little spice to his curry, Ian visits Pearl Café

Review Preview: Pearl Café

Jennifer Silverberg​This week I visit Pearl Café, a Thai restaurant that opened earlier this year at 8416 North Lindbergh Boulevard in Florissant:The Thai restaurant Pearl Café doesn't hide so much as hunker down -- one more squat, featureless building on a long stretch of Lindbergh Boulevard lo ... More >>

Life Is a Carnaval: Côco Louco Brasil brings churrasco and cachaça to the Central West End

FoodWire: Baan Thai Express Now Open Downtown

Baan Than Express has opened at 711 Olive Street, the space formerly occupied by the short-lived restaurant Zaytoon. The restaurant is something like a cafeteria: Customers pay based on how many different items from the daily selection they choose. One item and rice is $6.99, two items with rice $7. ... More >>

East Meets West: With Thai Sawadee, Chesterfield has a winner

Three for Three: 6.27-6.29

The Pla Song Kruang Remains the Same: Basil Spice puts the newest Thai twist on South Grand

Review Preview: Basil Spice

Spice Is Nice

Ian likes it hot -- way hot.

A Tale of Two Curries

Best Thai Restaurant

Thai Bu-ree

Color My World

Graffiti Global Grill is as bright and appealing as a brand-new box of Crayolas

Grand New

Another Vietnamese restaurant on South Grand? Yes, and the food is superb.

Have Palate, Will Travel

The Blue Elephant does Thai food with a gourmet twist

Best Thai Restaurant

Thai Country Café

Thai Cuisine

The King & I

Sen Resurrection

Thai one on at the relocated, renovated Sen

Thai Score

Peasant dishes taste like a million bucks at Thai Country Cafè

Thai Score

In Maryland Heights, Thai Kitchen hits a winner

Best Bubble Tea

Little Saigon

Thai Cuisine

The King & I

Best Pad Thai

The King & I

Siamese Twin

The new Sukho Thai provides a meal every bit as enjoyable as the offerings of its West County sibling

Thai, Thai Again

A new seafood restaurant takes the plunge in the former Thai French Caf é space

Yes, Siam

Manee Thai brings welcome spice to bland suburbia

Using Their Noodles