Let's Eat Thai

The surest way for a Thai restaurant to set itself apart from the crowd is to make its own curry pastes, and that's what Let's Eat does. It's a simple, modern place that jumps even on weeknights, and the menu offers some unusual dishes. Nam khao tod is a salad of crunchy roasted rice with herbs and tangy pork sausage. The same rice also appears in finer form in nam tok, cubes of tender beef zinging with chilli, fish sauce and lime. If the luxurious massaman duck curry is on, it's a must, heady with cloves, cinnamon and coconut. Diners after dumbed-down, cookie-cutter Thai need not apply.