Uncle Boons Releases Campy Thai Restaurant Short:
Here's a surreal video from the team at Uncle Boons that tells the story of a Thai family who go out to a restaurant with their collegiate son and are surprised by a mystery guest. This short was was created by May Redding (owner Ann Redding's sister) and inspired by 70s era crime shows and the funky, retro feel of the restaurant.
Forward-thinking Thai food via Per Se vets has folks flocking to this NoLita entry fielding a menu that includes both casual and elaborate dishes, chased with beer slushies; Bangkok flea-market finds on the walls and Thai takes on American pop on the stereo lend a festive feel, while a back room with a mirrored ceiling has private party written all over it.
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TOP CHEFFAGE — Last night on Top Chef New Orleans, the brave contestants had to cook, musical chairs-style. And then they had to prepare a potluck style meal for musicians. There was strep throat, frog legs, and the guest judges were musician Kermit Ruffins and chef Sue Zemanick. Comedian Alison Leiby returns to make sense of it all. [-EN-]
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This dark, woody, half-underground Thai pub serves some of the freshest and most dynamic Thai flavors in the city. At one end of the bar by the entrance is a motorized ice bucket that shake bottles of Singha until they turn into alcoholic slush that you drink through a straw. At the other is a kitchen window showing off a rotisserie and a charcoal grill, where baby octopus and blowfish tails...