Common Bay Area Thai restaurant Farmhouse Kitchen to open Berkeley place

Farmhouse 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.