Hat yai fried chicken served at Farmhouse Kitchen area Thai Cuisine.
Photo by Tiffany P. on YelpFarmhouse Kitchen, the Bay Region Thai restaurant recognized for its festively adorned eating rooms and lively blue rice served with the preferred hat yai fried hen, is opening a new area in Berkeley. In accordance to Berkeleyside, the community mini-chain plans to open in the previous Dara Thai Lao Cuisine place at 1549 Shattuck Ave., just a number of doorways down from Chez Panisse.
This will be Farmhouse Kitchen’s fifth location — the restaurant has spots in San Francisco, Oakland, Portland and, as of previous fall, Menlo Park. The proprietors, chef Kasem “Pop” Saengsawang and Iing Chatterjee, also have a spinoff restaurant called Daughter Thai in Oakland’s Montclair Village, a quickly-informal iteration identified as Farmhouse Specific in San Leandro and San Francisco, and an Instagram-deserving brunch place in the Tenderloin referred to as Son and Backyard that opened in early 2020.
Saengsawang and Chatterjee bought the Shattuck Avenue space again in June 2019. Nevertheless, an intensive renovation undertaking as nicely as the pandemic pushed again their opening for months, Berkeleyside claimed.
Lastly, although, the Berkeley spot is shut to the end line, with plans to open up by the finish of 2021. Assume a rooftop outdoor eating region and all your regular Farmhouse favorites, from lobster pad Thai to crab fried rice to a cocktail variation of a Thai iced tea served in a enjoyment pineapple-formed cup.