Samui Brings up to date Thai cuisine and Burst of colour to Vanderbilt Avenue - DNAinfo

castle GREENE — a new Thai restaurant is bringing a pop of color to Vanderbilt Avenue.

A former rundown garage at 15 Vanderbilt Ave. changed into changed into Samui, a contemporary Thai restaurant marked via a brightly colored, geometric mural through graffiti artist Andrea von Bujdoss.

The eatery, which opened Wednesday simply throughout from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, will offer lighter and more healthy Thai delicacies created by way of owner and chef A Napadol, who grew up cooking in her grandmother's eatery in northeast Thailand, in line with the restaurant.

The menu will function dishes which have much less sugar and sauces than different Thai organizations within the metropolis.

The fowl Kaw Soi (fowl curry with egg noodle). credit: Samui.

foodstuff include turmeric garlic hen wings with a sweet chili peanut dip, papaya salad with roasted peanuts, black potato fritters with cucumber savor, mussel pancakes with garlic chives and spicy grilled pork with lime and mint. 

Small plates latitude from $6 to $13, and entrees range from $17 to $32. 

condo cocktails — priced at $12 each — include the Siam Martini (Maekong Thai whiskey, Chambord and pineapple), the Forbidden Cocktail (cognac, crème de vanille and white crème de cacao) and the Cool Samurai (bloodless sake and cucumber). 

there will also be a small wine list, plus a whole lot of local beers on faucet and a number of bottled beers, including some Thai brands.

Napadol and husband Hani Albader, who live subsequent door to the restaurant, recently bought the garage and transformed it into the 109-seat restaurant, which is called after a Thai island.

The renovated house, designed by way of architecture enterprise StudiosGO, points exposed brick, 15-foot-excessive ceilings, copper chandeliers, a white recycled glass bar, turquoise velvet cubicles and white leather chairs. 

Hand-blown glass "barnacles" creep up one facet of the bar's again wall, the place 3D projections of local artists' work might be displayed. 

The restaurant's soundtrack should be curated through Albader, who is additionally a song producer.

Samui could be open for dinner Monday via Thursday from 5:30 to eleven p.m., Friday and Saturday from 5:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. and Sunday from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m.