Best Thai 2012

GOLD: MAENAM

Silver: Sala Thai  |  Bronze:  Pink Elephant Thai |  Honourable Mentions: Bob Likes Thai Food & Sawasdee Thai

Chef Angus An’s use of fresh local ingredients, paired with authentic Thai flavours, and an excellent wine list clinched Gold for Maenam, which offers “a refinement unequaled in this town.” Sala Thai (Silver) has terrific value at lunch and on daily special menus; gold shrimp cakes and Pa-naeng tiger prawns and scallops (sautéed seafood, coconut meat, and kaffir lime in a fiery red curry) are as authentic as they come. Alberni Street swag meets Thai House tradition at Pink Elephant (Bronze), where the well-heeled snack on modern Thai tapas and sip cooling Ko-Chang sangria in a stark white and hot pink room. Honourable Mentions to Bob Likes Thai (where Main Streeters patiently queue at dinner) and Sawasdee Thai (especially for its searingly hot Crying Tiger beef).

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