{"id":214426,"date":"2026-04-29T19:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214426\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T19:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:27:09","slug":"michelin-recognized-sf-fine-dining-restaurant-is-expanding-to-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214426\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelin-recognized SF fine dining restaurant is expanding to NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The team behind San Francisco\u2019s Michelin-recognized Thai fine dining restaurant\u00a0Hed 11<\/a> and its more casual sister restaurant Hed Very Thai is expanding to New York City<\/a>. Owner Billie\u00a0Wannajaro\u00a0is opening Hed NYC next month in West Chelsea, led by chef\u00a0Piriya \u201cSaint\u201d Boonprasan, according to a news release.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always been a dream and a plan that what we want to do is have a restaurant on the West Coast and the East Coast,\u201d Wannajaro told SFGATE.<\/p>\n

Wannajaro already owned three restaurants in Thailand<\/a> when she decided to open her first U.S. eatery in San Francisco. With the help of an investor, she opened\u00a0Hed Very Thai in Union Square in 2023, followed by\u00a0Hed 11<\/a> in\u00a0Japantown\u2019s Kimpton Hotel Enso in 2024.<\/p>\n

While\u00a0Hed 11 features an ambitious 11-course tasting menu showcasing regional Thai flavors,\u00a0Hed NYC is slated to offer a five-course tasting menu for $126 per person. However, instead of the typical tasting menu format where diners each receive individual courses, Hed NYC is debuting a new concept called \u201cThai sharing progression.\u201d Wannajaro said the new concept honors the family-style\u00a0way in which Thai\u00a0meals are traditionally experienced.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody has rice and then a little bit of everything and we share, and that is the Thai culture,\u201d she said. \u201cSo we adapted that Thai culture to go along with fine dining and the tasting menu process.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the first three courses will be individually served, the main course features multiple dishes\u00a0designed for sharing. The spring and summer menu includes a starting course of miyagi oyster with Thai sour green chile sauce, chile jam, fried shallot and ikura; a second course of grilled Hokkaido scallop with rice noodles, coconut curry, pineapple and fried shrimp; and a third course of soup with Andaman lobster. The fourth course (the main course) includes three items for guests to share: a stir-fried dish such as wok-tossed squid or braised caramelized pork belly, a curry like Southern Thai crab curry or a dry curry with minced pork, and a deep-fried dish such as whole red snapper or Southern red curry grilled chicken. The fifth course is dessert, with one option being salted plum and guava sorbet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wannajaro said that she wanted to try this new concept in New York because as one\u00a0of the \u201cfoodie capitals of the world,\u201d she thinks diners will be receptive to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are open-minded and will try new things,\u201d she said. \u201cAlso,\u00a0when you bring something that never exists in the market, I think that\u2019s going to be something that\u2019s not just going to excite customers but going to excite us as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hed NYC is set to open May 23 and at 461 W. 23rd St. in New York City. Wannajaro said she is grateful for how much success she and her hospitality group, East West Cuisine Hospitality\u00a0Group, have seen in such a short\u00a0period of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has been a very fantastic journey,\u201d Wannajaro said. \u201cThis would not have happened if we had not had the customer base and support from San Francisco.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team behind San Francisco\u2019s Michelin-recognized Thai fine dining restaurant\u00a0Hed 11 and its more casual sister restaurant Hed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64,71092],"class_list":["post-214426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-sfgfood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214426","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=214426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}