The Best Restaurant (in Queens, in NY, in the USA?)

1 - I can do better 2 - Jury's out 3 - Pretty darn good 4 - Splendiferous 5 - Awesometastic by 7 people | Log in to rate

Ranked #7,101 in Food, #176,308 overall

Sripraphai isn't a restaurant. It's a way of thinking, a claim on the great, not the average, the remarkable, not the status quo. So special, it deserves its own lens.

Menu Highlights (courtesy of Chowhound and others) 

  1. First things first: don't be safe. Order stuff you've never had before.

  2. Order food spicy. Really. It's worth it.

  3. Here are a few dishes to try: Catfish Salad, Watercress Salad, Drunken Noodles, Chu-chee Talapia

  4. I want to reiterate something: order the Watercress Salad.

  5. Stand up and get dessert from the rack near the cash register. Get the banana leaf rice thing. And the green cubes with white stripes. Definitely.

  6. Also, be SURE to order the coconut sorbet with sticky rice for dessert.

Not just the best thai restaurant, but an extraordinary experience 

How to get there
A google map. You'll get lost the first time, it's okay.
The New York Times review
2 stars. For a little storefront in Queens. Go figure.
Picture of the storefront
So you won't miss it as you drive by
A terrific review
A blogger (have I seen her there before) rhapsodizes about Srip.

What the Chowhounds are saying 

Sripraphai is the Chowhound poster child

Top chowhounders
Eric Eto, Dave Feldman and Jim Leff on Srip.
Spicy?
More than 100 posts about spicy (or non-spicy) menu items at Srip
All of it!
More than 500 posts on everyone's favorite Thai restaurant

Arguing about the menu 

One of many discussions
About what's great. Too many items, too little time.
Dishes people DIDN'T like
Yes, there are more than a dozen posts here. And most of the unliked dishes are adored by others.
What technorati finds
The latest Blog ramblings on Sripraphai

Four Thai Cookbooks I Love 

Thai Food

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True Thai: The Modern Art of Thai Cooking

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Cracking the Coconut: Classic Thai Home Cooking

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It Rains Fishes: Legends, Traditions and the Joys of Thai Cooking

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Not as Good as Sripraphai... bestselling thai cookbooks 

Complete Thai Cooking

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Healthy Thai Cooking

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Chowhound: The Mother Lode of Good Advice 

The Chowhound's Guide to the New York Tristate Area

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The Chowhound's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area

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Directions, Etc. 

Google map
or take the 7 train.

CLOSED WEDNESDAYS! Don't forget.

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