We’ve enumerated the joys of Thai Curry Simple in the International District, where the curries are made of freshly mashed spices from Thailand, where the food is so affordable ($5 for lunch) you’ll never want to eat anywhere else again, where the owners Picha and Mark are so damn adorable you’ll want to marry them both.
Well?
Well, they’re opening a second place on Capitol Hill. The former Barista Boyz coffee stand on 12th and Madison will be converted into a Thai hut of to-go awesomeness. “We got the lease signed last week and are working on fixing up the place and putting things together,” owner and chef Picha Pinkaow writes in an email.
Unlike their other restaurant, “This one will be all veggies (GO GREEN!),” Pinkaow continues. “The highlight will be spinach green noodles served with red curry broth (Guiw Tiew Gank), similar to Kao Soi but more flavorful and healthier. This is an opportunity to bring back my favorite recipes, such as son-in-law tofu (tamarind + palm sugar), green curry with avocado and fresh basil puree, larb mock duck with mints and shallots, and more.”
Pinkaow says they’ll open up in November.
And if you don’t like all that rain, you could just keep driving a little further north to Calgary and open up shop here…
YAY! This will be awesome!
…Wait… all veggie?! This is acceptable. No longer will it be considered awesome.
This makes me want to come to Seattle.
This is excellent news.
All veggie plus loads and loads of fish sauce, most certainly.
(that’s sauce. made out of of fish. people. almost all curries have it. make sure to ask your server if you are trying to eat vegetarian/vegan)
And yet another awesome lunch joint* opens up in my front yard. God, I love living here.
* where “awesome lunch joint” is ideally: fast, cheap, good, & healthy. It’s a scant few places that can be all four at once.
That place is too close to my house for this to be good for my health (no matter how healthy it is). Definitely stoked.
i love Thai Curry Simple, but when i went with my vegetarian husband they brought him chicken green curry instead of the tofu he ordered. Then they brought the correct one but half way through he discovered bits of chicken in it…turns out the server had just scooped out the chicken (or most of it) and replaced it with tofu. My husband felt nauseous all afternoon…..then when i went back to buy the curry paste to make at home i discovered that all but the red curry have shrimp in. Fair enough, but he had been specifically told that the green curry was veggie. So please have some respect for vegetarians and don’t serve them meat products unwittingly or don’t pretend to cater to them at all Thai Curry Simple.