Women-owned Thai restaurants in The Big Easy
Inspired by the dishes of their homeland, these women chefs are putting New Orleans on the map for authentic Thai cuisine.
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Inspired by the dishes of their homeland, these women chefs are putting New Orleans on the map for authentic Thai cuisine.
My New Orleans 04/01/2021 fdg Budsi’s Authentic Thai, a vibrant and buzzy newcomer in the Marigny, steps into two niches simultaneously. It is both unfamiliar (with a distinctively singular regional Thai menu) and rooted in the pleasures of home (i.e. the cooking that owner Budsaba Mason grew up with). Launched by the wife and husband team of Budsaba and Jared Mason, Budsi’s got its start as a pop-up in a series of bars before striking a major chord at Pal’s Lounge. Patrons there swiftly developed fierce cravings for the complex and fiery fare which made few concessions to Americanized ...