{"id":188766,"date":"2026-04-07T20:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188766\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:49:12","slug":"prainam-thai-closes-in-port-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188766\/","title":{"rendered":"Prainam Thai closes in Port Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prainam Thai was a promising new restaurant in Port Washington from the owners of a Newsday Top 50 restaurant<\/a>. But the ambitious concept closed at the end of March after just over one year following a money dispute between co-owners, the business partners said.<\/p>\n

Married couple Vorragun “Brian” Vongdarunee and\u00a0Kasamaporn “Masi” Chansaksri are the duo behind Tonnam Thai in Bohemia, a hidden gem spot\u00a0not much larger than a takeout place that serves highly executed renditions of Bangkok street foods. Shortly after Tonnam\u00a0got on Newsday’s radar, the couple \u00a0partnered\u00a0with real estate broker Oakar Reinstein to open\u00a0Prainam, a flashy date night spot<\/a> on Main Street in Port Washington in late 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reinstein is originally from Myanmar\u00a0and also owns a KC’s Pizza and Wings in Islip Terrace and Holtsville. For Prainam, he\u00a0brought in Thai servers from Queens and Manhattan to help customers navigate a large menu with crowd-pleasers and harder-to-find Thai dishes. The\u00a0crispy duck curry, with an ample portion of tender duck breast in a red curry, was a highlight on the menu.<\/p>\n

But a financial\u00a0dispute led both parties to part ways and close, the co-owners\u00a0said.\u00a0Chansaksri confirmed that she’d sold off the concept to new owners, who plan to open a Thai-Mexican fusion spot. She and her husband are still running the original Tonnam, and also plan to look for a new location with more ample seating that they can run\u00a0without another partner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reinstein on the other hand, said\u00a0he wants to take some time off from the restaurant business, and focus more on his housing properties on Long Island and upstate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I might do another Thai place, but it\u2019s not something that I\u2019m thinking about right now,”\u00a0Reinstein said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Andi<\/p>\n

\n\tAndi Berlin is from Arizona and does not know where she is going. But when she gets there, she\u2019ll find something beautiful and delicious that the world needs to taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prainam Thai was a promising new restaurant in Port Washington from the owners of a Newsday Top 50…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8695,8696,9,11,10,49,51,50,821],"class_list":{"0":"post-188766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-feedme","9":"tag-fmclose","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-new-york-state","14":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-state-news","16":"tag-restaurants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}