Rice Thai Tapas

Dedicated to providing great food and attentive service at a reasonable price. Most of the staff have known each other and worked together for years at other restaurants. We are a family. Join our family in the plaza at Glenarm and Marengo.

Taking over the space that was for years occupied by Derek’s Bistro, a fine dining venue, is the casual, approachable Rice Thai Tapas; its owners also operate Oba, a Japanese izakaya in the same small center. Mounted on pink and chocolate walls are black-and-white photographs of Bangkok street food vendors, and the environment is stripped down with polished concrete floors and dark-stained...

Located in a mini-mall just off the Pasadena Freeway, this inexpensive Thai serves up both traditional and modern small plates; patrons enter the wood-lined room through a curtain, making a visit here seem a bit like a journey into a hidden culinary world.