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Recommended Restaurants: Thai

Price Guide: $ = less than $15, $$ = $15 - $35, $$$ = $36-$50, $$$$ = over $50

  • Price estimates are based on an average dinner for one, excluding drinks, tax and tip.
  • Listed restaurants accept major credit cards unless otherwise noted.
  • Symbols: L = lunch, D = dinner, BR = breakfast, B = brunch, R = reservations required, V = valet parking, W = wheelchair accessible, P = private room, BQ = banquet facilities.
  • Star Guide: 4 stars = superlative, 3 stars = excellent, 2 stars = very good, 1 star = above average. (Note: No stars will be assigned to a restaurant until it has been newly reviewed.)


Amarin Thai Cuisine

3555-B Mt. Diablo Boulevard, Lafayette     MapIt!
(510) 283-8883
$/L Mon-Sat/D daily

Amarin is a small but comfortable newcomer along this tree-shaded block of Mt. Diablo Boulevard. Both the succinct lunch and the extensive dinner menus offer traditional Thai favorites such as pad Thai noodles, barbecued chicken or pork, and a range of curries based on coconut milk. The lime prawn soup offers a crisp, clean counterpoint to the sumptuous curries.--Diablo

Jitr Thai

115-C Alamo Plaza Shopping Center, Alamo     MapIt!
(510) 838-5583
$/L Mon-Sat/D daily/W

Chef Penny Vetsri opened this Thai restaurant in Alamo after a stint cooking at San Francisco's venerable Thep Nom. She works fresh ingredients purchased daily in Oakland into a variety of traditional curry dishes as well as pan-Asian dishes of her own devising. An excellent and well-priced wine list is a fine complement to the cuisine.--Diablo

Nattika

301 Hartz Avenue, No. 106, Danville     MapIt!
(510) 838-0644
$-$$/L Mon-Fri/D Mon-Sat

This Thai restaurant in Danville's Clock Tower enjoys a stream of regular customers who must share owner Nattika Srisawang-Barranco's taste for "dishes on the sweet side." Dishes here are hit-and-miss, the fresh fish in the tod mun making up for the gluey mass of the kha nom bueng--a crêpe stuffed with ground chicken, egg, peanuts, green onion, mung bean sprouts, and lettuce. Ask one of the friendly servers for a recommendation.--Diablo

Sabuy Sabuy

5231 College Avenue, Oakland     MapIt!
(510) 653-8587
$/L Mon-Sat/D daily

Across Broadway from the California College of Arts & Crafts, this Thai café stands out because of the fresh ingredients the chef brings back daily from Oakland's Chinatown. The tung tong--plump bundles of curried potato and minced chicken wrapped in a rice-flour sheet and deep-fried--make a wonderful starter. Enjoy them in the tiny dining room or on the enclosed patio, where the noise from nearby Broadway is only a minor distraction.--Diablo

Thep Phanom

400 Waller St., San Francisco     MapIt!
(415) 431-2526
$/D /R /W

Thai cuisine, featuring basil prawns, poached salmon in curry sauce, minced chicken sautéed with garlic served on Japanese eggplant, marinated quail deep-fried to crispiness, and South Sea (fillet of catfish served with Japanese eggplant and southern Thai spices). Beer and wine.

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