🌿 Best Thai in San Diego
12 thai spots in San Diego, scored and ranked for 2026.
🍽️ Open Interactive GuideTop 10 Thai Spots
1
Saffron Thai
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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2
Original Sab-E-Lee Thai
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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3
Plumeria Vegetarian Restaurant
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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4
Koon Thai Kitchen
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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5
Spices Thai Cafe
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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6
Roxy 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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7
Candor Thai Kitchen
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...
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8
Sovereign Modern Thai Cuisine
Sovereign Modern Thai Cuisine works a contemporary take on Thai food on J Street in Downtown San Diego, in the East Village. The menu runs from Thai Tacos to salads like the Pomelo Salad and Lao Papay...
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9
Taste of Thai
Taste of Thai is a Thai restaurant in Hillcrest, San Diego, serving the neighborhood since 1988. The menu covers Thai and Pan-Asian dishes, from stir-fries and noodles to curry, with online ordering a...
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10
Cake De Partie
A Thai restaurant on Convoy Street, San Diego's dense Asian-food corridor in Kearny Mesa. It sits among the neighborhood's long run of Asian kitchens, the kind of area you go to specifically for this ...
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All 12 Thai Spots in San Diego
Swaddee Thai Restaurant of Coronado
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Lotus Thai Cuisine
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