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The Best Thai Restaurants in Sydney

Updated 6 months ago

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What most of us think of as “Thai food” is better conceived as several regional cuisines that share common ingredients and techniques. We're lucky – Sydney is one of the few places outside Thailand where you can experience many of those cuisines distinctly.

From the grilled meats and eye-watering som tam salads endemic to Isan in the north-east, to the familiar curries and soups found in and around Bangkok, Sydney does real-deal Thai dishes that’ll transport your taste buds. Here are our favourite joints around town.

  • Porkfat

    Restaurant

    A Long Chim alumnus is behind this 30-seat Chinatown restaurant, where you’ll find punchy takes on classic Thai street food and home-style cooking. Think deep-fried barramundi with mango salad, Phuket-style curry with tiger prawns and betel leaves, and a refreshing coconut ice-cream with roasted peanuts and candied pumpkin.

  • Spice I Am

    Restaurant

    This slamming Thai institution has all the classics you know. Plus, a hardcore Thai following to rival the corporates and students dropping in for an affordable lunch and dinner.

  • Long Chim

    Restaurant

    Thai cuisine by David Thompson, one of the world’s most lauded Thai chefs.

  • Chat Thai Haymarket

    Restaurant

    A trailblazer in Sydney’s Thai restaurant scene. When the late, great Amy Chanta opened it in Darlinghurst in 1989, it brought Bankgok flavours that were then-unknown to Sydney diners. The Thai street food here is fine-dining quality, served at very reasonable price points. Today, it’s a super-popular chain with stores all over Sydney.

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  • Joe's Table

    Restaurant

    It's all about that cold fermented sweet glutinous rice with mango and coconut cream.

  • Viand

    Restaurant

    Thai-food legend David Thompson’s right-hand woman is behind this seductive eatery. From the theatrical open kitchen, she’s celebrating the nuances and beauty of Thai cuisine, with flavour-punching dishes you might not find anywhere else in Sydney.

  • Yok Yor Thai Food Factory

    Restaurant

    For fast-paced, real-deal Thai.

  • Dodee Paidang Haymarket

    Restaurant

    Thai food that pulls no punches.

  • Alphabet Street

    Restaurant

    Thai cuisine meets industrial aesthetic.

  • Khao Pla

    Restaurant

    Bangkok-inspired plates matched with 90s hip-hop.

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  • Caysorn

    Restaurant

    A restaurant in Haymarket specialising in southern Thai cuisine.

  • Boon Cafe and Jarern Chai

    Cafe

    Find this cavernous Thai grocer and cafe in the heart of Sydney’s Thai Town. Despite serving burgers, bowls and pasta, Boon doesn’t mix elements of Thai and western cuisine – it reimagines them like they always belonged together.