Thai food
Roslindale to lose only Thai restaurant, but to gain first West African restaurant
By adamg - 11/18/11 - 11:07 am
Soon to be ex-Thai restaurant.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports Bangkok Cafe on Poplar Street is being replaced by Suya Joint, which promises "unique, Nigerian recipes." It may be the city's only Nigerian restaurant following the closing of African Cuisine in Hyde Park earlier this year.
Bangkok Cafe never seemed to achieve critical mass in Roslindale, even after expanding its menu to include Korean and Japanese dishes.
Roslindale Thai fans will have to make their way to Asian Thai Cuisine on River Street in Hyde Park or Thai Spice, Phuket or Sticky Rice in West Roxbury.
West Roxbury gets third Thai place
By adamg - 3/8/11 - 2:45 pm
Lunch is served.
Sticky Rice Cafe opened this week on Centre Street, where The King/Samia's used to be, just a short walk from Phuket and up the Street from Thai Spice. Unlike those two, however, Sticky Rice Cafe also has Japanese and Korean dishes on the menu - with sushi on the way.
No more Thai Spice for her
By adamg - 10/19/08 - 12:53 pmFrom now on, when West Roxbury's Tammy needs Thai food, she's going with Phuket instead of Thai Spice, because Thai Spice can't get its act together: Last night, she and some friends ordered food at 5:15 and it didn't arrive until after 7:
... We only had 2 dinners, 1 rice dish and 3 appetizers. The food was good, it was still warm (no piping hot) and the adults survived (barely)... but the kids were in a tizzy and stuffed themselves on Go-gurts before the food even arrived. If you have children, you understand what a 4-yo with low blood sugar, surviving on a sugar-ladened dinner can be like. Let's just say it wasn't pretty. ...
Thai food returns to Hyde Park
By adamg - 11/26/07 - 7:54 pmOr maybe it was there all along and I just didn't know about it - until I happened to be sorting the mail the other day and noticed a menu.
In any case, Hyde Parkians don't have to go all the way up to West Roxbury, JP or Norwood for Thai anymore - unless they want a large menu to choose from. The unassuming Asian Thai Eatery, 1084 River St., is really mainly a Chinese restaurant with a few Thai dishes thrown in - don't even think of stopping by if you want pad Thai or golden cups, for example.
Pad thai ice cream
By adamg - 10/4/07 - 7:37 amPam braves all four of JP Licks' new Thai ice-cream flavors, which, yes, include pad thai:
... The ice cream is filled with short noodles, slices of green onion, chunks of peanut, and specks of cilantro. Is that a hint of garlic as well? This ended up being my favorite of the bunch because of how well it pulled off the unique combination of ingredients. I would never order this as a dessert, but for a savory snack, it was pretty tasty. ...
A Thai restaurant with an unadvertised special
By adamg - 5/22/07 - 6:53 amThe Herald claims it may be an urban legend, but Harry Mattison wonders which Thai restaurant in Allston has a basement refrigerator stocked with new stem cells.
Arrivederci, Salute
By adamg - 4/23/07 - 11:57 amSeth Gitell reports that Saluté, Roslindale's latest cute little Italian bistro, has been sold and is now Geoffrey's, Roslindale's latest cute little American bistro:
They will also offer a weekend brunch menu, which is something the Square could use.
Roslindale Ed. note: Brunch? Did somebody say brunch?!? I am so there.
Gitell also has news of chef/menu changes at Bangkok Cafe.
Now you can Thai two on in West Roxbury
By adamg - 10/6/06 - 5:08 pm
Who'da thunk it? Centre Street in West Roxbury now has two places to get Thai food - Thai Spice (really more of a take-out place than a sit-down restaurant) and Phuket, which recently opened where Cafe Le Royal used to be (1856 Centre St.).
Nancy and I went to Phuket for lunch today. It shows promise, but could use a bit of work.
How much longer for Thai food in Roslindale?
By adamg - 10/21/05 - 12:13 pmThe last few times I've been to Bangkok Cafe, there haven't been very many diners. Today, I went to order some chicken massaman curry for lunch. There was nobody in the dining room. When I went back 15 minutes or so later to pick it up, still no people. Unless they're doing a land-office catering business, that's not a real good sign. Oh, well.
Some people say the quality's gone downhill since it opened (see the last review); the limited number of dishes I tend to order (basically, chicken massaman curry and more chicken massaman curry) still taste good.
At last!
By adamg - 4/27/05 - 8:47 pmBangkok Cafe is, finally open, and now my Rozzie experience is complete. Stopped by tonight for some takeout - chicken massaman curry and golden cups. It's only been open since Saturday and yet the place was near full - shows you how truly desperate we were for a Thai restaurant (OK, OK, I shouldn't project my eagerness onto the 29,999 other people in the neighborhood).
The chicken massaman curry was everything you could ask for - rich and curryish. Sweet potatoes instead of potatoes. I could've used more rice to sop up all the sauce, though. Even more of a shortage issue with the golden cups. It consisted of two smallish containers of ground-up vegetable stuff with these tiny taco-ish cup things. There were only enough of the taco cups to scoop up the contents of one container - really should've had more of them.
But in general: Yum! Now if only Rozzie could get an Indian restaurant ...
