Jitlada is the only restaurant in the Los Angeles area specializing in southern Thai food, which is said to be insanely spicy. (I read somewhere that Thai cuisine had been scientifically determined the world’s spiciest, so this is saying a lot.) After an excellent meal of unusual flavors there, however, I have to say that […]

Wes and I recently went back to L.A. for the weekend, where we stayed with a friend in Hollywood, putting us strategically close to my favorite Thai restaurant of the moment, Spicy BBQ by Nong & Family.
An article in the L.A. Times about regional Thai restaurants alerted me to this tiny, family-run place in (of […]