After our first in-person Les Dames d’Escoffier Board of Directors meeting, most of us headed to Sabai Thai, a nearby restaurant, to grab a bite and continue our camaraderie.

We started with cocktails and a few appetizers. Some eclectic cocktails sipped included a gin lavender rose gimlet ($18), cucumber mezcalitas ($17), a few Singha beers and some shots.

The apps were all good. They included a dumpling platter ($19) with steamed shrimp, chicken and pork dumplings with a sweet soy reduction homemade curry puffs filled with potatoes, green peas and carrots (two large for $15), deep-fried spring rolls (6 poh pia tod $13) with plum sauce and chicken satay (four skewers for $14) grilled chicken, spicy peanut dipping sauce and pickled cucumbers.

All the entrees were just as good, especially the tender Thai-style fried seabass ($38)  topped with colored bell peppers and young green peppercorns. Their pad thai gai yang ($13) came with a hearty portion of grilled chicken with rice noodles, scallions and bean sprouts sprinkled with chopped peanuts. The flavorful flank steak Massaman curry came with roti canai bread ($26).

Their name Sabai translates to happy, something we all were — satiated, too — as we finished.

I do recommend Sabai Thai.

Sabai Thai
Kips Bay
432 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
(646) 476-4521
sabaithai.nyc