Bangkok Palace

Hallelujah for Bangkok Palace, where delicious Thai dishes are made from family recipes. Don't expect goopy pad Thai or the usual lineup of boring curries, because the Kasinpila family makes its curry pastes from scratch and turns out a few dishes you probably haven't seen before. There's a delicious fried-egg salad, dinner-sized bowls of wonton and pork soup (kiew nam), a spicy and warming seafood clay pot filled with mussels, shrimp, scallops, and calamari, and half a dozen inspired noodle dishes. Don't miss the special Bangkok Palace rolls, miniature bites of bliss to roll up with lettuce and cilantro. Charming, cheap, addictive.