Chef Su-Mei Yu's Mission Hills Thai institution — a James Beard Best Chef: California nominee and SD's most-respected Thai restaurant for decades. The Thai BBQ chicken is the signature; the jasmine ri...
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Original Sab-E-Lee Thai
Thai · Linda Vista
Linda Vista's Sab-E-Lee Thai since 2004 — the SD Thai-community reference for regional Thai cooking, a menu of spicier preparations than other SD Thai rooms usually attempt, and a strip-mall format th...
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Plumeria Vegetarian Restaurant
Thai / Vegetarian / Vegan · University Heights
University Heights' all-vegetarian Thai kitchen — a vegan pad thai, mock-duck applications across the menu, and a Park Blvd dining room that SD's plant-based Thai eaters have treated as the default fo...
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Koon Thai Kitchen
Thai · Kearny Mesa
Koon leans Northern Thai on Convoy St — boat noodle soup and pad see ew in a dining room that fills late with Thai-community regulars who know the menu cold. It's one of the more serious Thai kitchens...
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Spices Thai Cafe
Thai · Hillcrest
Hillcrest's Thai standard on Fifth Ave — pad see ew with real wok char, crispy fish with the right sauce ratio, green curry that doesn't apologize for the heat level. The sidewalk patio feeds the neig...
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Roxy Encinitas
Thai / Asian Fusion · Encinitas
Roxy sits on the 101 in Encinitas doing Thai and Pan-Asian on the kind of sidewalk patio that makes the Coast Highway feel like it was designed for restaurants, not cars. Thai curry, a vegetarian-frie...
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Candor Thai Kitchen
Thai · Liberty Station · Liberty Station modern Thai
A Liberty Station modern Thai restaurant — a chef-driven regional Thai menu, a strong noodle-and-curry program, and one of the Liberty Station food-hall-era standouts in the Point Loma dining corridor...