The best Thai restaurants The United States Of America

The general opinion of the Angelenos (and ours as well) is that Thai Town's Thai restaurants are frankly mediocre. That's probably why Night + Market Song, this small ultra trendy restaurant located on Sunset Boulevard run by Kris Yenbamroong, is a real hit. This young film graduate chef has no culinary training other than growing up in a family of Thai restaurateurs in L.A. The whimsical, colourful and trendy decoration is the ideal setting to uncork a Thai beer before an evening in the neighbourhood's bars! Surprisingly cheap, Night + Market Song offers an authentic cuisine, with sharp and fresh flavours. Try coconut rice, a sticky rice cooked in coconut milk, and, at lunch, Thai Boxing Chicken, a barbecue chicken traditionally served around Bangkok's boxing rings by street vendors.

This Asian restaurant has not been empty since it opened in 2012. The Thai specialties as well as the kimchi (fermented and spicy cabbage) are unanimously acclaimed. You will also find pho soup - a little disappointing - and Japanese ramen noodles. The menu is enhanced by a few daily specials, which are a little more expensive. Be prepared to wait for your dish if the restaurant is full, as locals and holidaymakers alike order take-away. However, this authentic cuisine deserves a few sacrifices. After all, you are on holiday, so enjoy!

This family-run restaurant located at the south exit of Hallowell serves Thai and Japanese cuisine, which is not far away. The large hall decorated with plastic flowers and pieces of cloth from Thailand seems to delight the locals, who come here as a family. Others prefer the formula to take and warm home. This is about the somewhat slow service that has to handle multiple fronts at a time. However, experience is an interesting alternative to American cuisine.

Call siam in the heart of Russian Hill. Owner and Chef Toi Sawatdee offers a map where curry is king, and a wide selection of vegetarian dishes.

While most Asian restaurants often do in the decoration level cliché, Hoy-Ka is more in the modern and connected. But don't deceive yourself, you are in a Thai family restaurant whose authenticity of recipes cannot be disputed! The dishes are spicy, especially in the Hoy-Ka Dim, a secret recipe from the owners'village. An explosion of the flavours of the Orient at a very low price that you cannot deprive yourself of!

This downtown address is very popular with the locals thanks to a delicious Thai card. The many dishes are shown in chalk on a long slate over the counter. After ordering, you choose to settle on the small terrace or in the large interior room. Here you can share a huge table with other guests under very nice pictures of Thailand, or on smaller tables more isolated, or even on waxed concrete counter… The atmosphere is cheerful, the prices are very affordable, the dishes are rich and tasty. So this chicken soup/coconut milk/Asian spinach absolutely divine. Very accessible prices are also a real plus.

There are many Asian restaurants in Davis. This one is in the city centre, in a charming area in a small way small wooden thaïes houses, with patio, terrace, green and flowers, pleasant room and bar. Many students live there and they get eaten in it. The service is very friendly and very efficient. The lunch menu is perfect: Many choices, freshness, traditional Thai dishes all as good as others, a careful presentation… What a good thing! In the evening, events are organised regularly. Every Tuesday it's the quiz night, Wednesdays sometimes hold open mic evenings, Thursdays and Saturdays offer concerts of local groups… In short, a stroke of heart, both for the atmosphere and for the palate!

Impossible to miss in Downtown, Le Thai is, as its name suggests, a Thai food restaurant. Chef Dan Coughlin's specialties include his famous three-color curry - a mix of red, yellow and green curry - his homemade noodle soups and his signature Waterfall sauce. There are also delicious pad see ew and pad thai, as well as the inevitable mango sticky rice for dessert. The icing on the cake: a great drinks menu. An address with unbeatable value for money; nevertheless, beware of chillies!