July 24, 2017

#142 Arun's (Taste of Thai Town)

Y'all know I'm not above a little fudging on The List if the situation calls for it, and this was one of those times.  The actual List thing is Arun's, a super fancy, fine dining Thai restaurant with a really lousy website.  

Sidenote: it in 2017, how do you run a business without at least a moderately user friendly website.  How?!

Anyhow, in looking at the website, it seemed like you could only get a prix-fixe menu and there was a LOT of shellfish.  Since, that would literally kill me, epi-pen or not, I was not sure I'd be able to cross this place off The List.  However, in Googling around, I discovered that Arun (the owner and chef at Arun's, unsurprisingly) had open a slightly more casual restaurant called Taste of Thai Town.

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The food was really, really good (especially the coconut ice cream), and the name was too punny not to go.

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Our Lyft driver back into downtown had a lot of questions about how we found this restaurant because we were tourists purposefully going to a Thai place out in the 'burbs that he had never even heard of.  But he did say, he might have to try it now.

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