Los Angeles · Cuisine

Thai

Thai Town specialists, Silver Lake street food, Western Avenue Isaan, and Valley wine-forward Thai.

Thai Town is short and strip-mall honest, with Southern Thai heat, sprawling menus, a Chiang Rai steam-table specialist, and a Hollywood Boulevard papaya-salad shop with more than a dozen som tum variations. Just east along Sunset, chef-driven rooms push northern Thai street flavors and natural wine. Along Western Avenue, northeastern Isaan cooking shows up as a Koreatown street-food counter and a busier East Hollywood room known for boat noodles and chalkboard specials. In Sherman Oaks, a decades-old Ventura Boulevard Thai room now runs as a wine-forward chef kitchen with Thai Taco Tuesday and hard-won reservations. The restaurant pages below cover a Thai Town Southern Thai institution, a Chiang Rai Northern Thai Food Club counter, a Thai Town som tum specialist, a Silver Lake Night + Market sequel, an Isaan strip-mall specialist, an East Hollywood boat-noodle and Isaan room, and a Valley family classic under second-generation leadership.

Focus areas: Thai Town, Silver Lake, Koreatown, East Hollywood, Sherman Oaks