"We're closing because chef Sirichai is just really tired and needs a long, long break," one of the business's partners writes. "While we'll miss the restaurant and all the great things that come with it, the upside is that this will give chef Sirichai the chance to work on a cookbook, which he's long been wanting to do."
Born in Bangkok, Sreparplarn moved to New York in his late 20s to study journalism. He worked at his aunt's Thai restaurant in the East Village, and the curry pastes came calling.
Ugly Baby quickly became regarded as Brooklyn's, if not the whole city's, best Thai restaurant, a place where, New York once wrote, "everything feels like a pure manifestation of its chef-owner's taste and personality."
Bon Appétit ranked Ugly Baby No. 3 on its list of the country's "Best New Restaurants," then- Times critic Pete Wells rhapsodized about the fried coconut cakes called tue ka ko, and here at New York we praised a deep-fried whole sea bream that was so compulsively edible it made "the evil food-science technicians" come across.
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