An Ode to Kaew Jao Jorm

There is a particular quality in Kaew Jao Jorm's work: a menu that moves through more range than most guests will expect, still built on recipes that have held their form for centuries, in a room designed with the same care as the food itself, that we could not imagine Raison d'Être without.

Thai food is one of the most familiar cuisines in the U.S., which makes it easy to assume there's nothing left to discover in it. Kaew Jao Jorm is proof of the opposite: a kitchen that reaches far beyond what most people have tasted, offering guests dishes they likely haven't encountered even within a cuisine they thought they knew well.