{"id":342033,"date":"2026-09-09T18:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342033\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T18:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:24:12","slug":"fish-cheeks-is-one-of-nycs-best-thai-seafood-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342033\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish Cheeks Is One of NYC\u2019s Best Thai Seafood Restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City\u2019s Thai food landscape<\/a> is unparalleled in America: In that jam-packed scene is Fish Cheeks<\/a>, a Nolita restaurant focused on excellent Thai seafood since 2016, served in a vibrantly poppy space with no pad Thai in sight. The restaurant became so popular that co-owners, brothers, and chefs Ohm and Chat Suansilphong, along with Jenn Saesue and Pranwalai Kittirattanawiwat, expanded<\/a> with a Williamsburg location in spring 2025.<\/p>\n

The Nam Gin martini is a savory cocktail thanks to the garlic-chile brine and gin base. I particularly enjoyed the lychee drink I had that was creamy with black sesame and egg whites.<\/p>\n

The space is vibrant with fish head-shaped faucets in the bathrooms and fish lamps hanging over the bar. It\u2019s great for families and catch-up friend dates.<\/p>\n

For those who don\u2019t want to trek out to the physical restaurants, there\u2019s a to-go outpost<\/a> of Fish Cheeks: Little Cheeks<\/a> offers DoorDash pickups and deliveries with many of its favorite dishes, including that crab curry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City\u2019s Thai food landscape is unparalleled in America: In that jam-packed scene is Fish Cheeks, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17863,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-342033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-dining-reports","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342033","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=342033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}