Whiskey Soda Lounge Ny serves Thai “drinking food”. Every bit of that sentence sounds good to us, and the fact that it does the serving in a fantastically kitsch setting is just gravy. We’re in Brooklyn, just down the road from sibling restaurant Pok Pok on Columbia Street. Walk through the door and all of a sudden you’re back to the days of floor-to-ceiling wood panelling, brown and beige tiling, and an Asian budget dining icon – the stainless steel table.
This follow-up to a successful Portlandia venue is more than a pastiche; it feels authentic thanks to the attention to detail. The Muay Thai pictures, for example, are not displayed in fancy frames, but stuck up there like the barman did it with blu-tack in an idle moment. Fragments of Thai script, unintelligible to most, are dotted decoratively around, but are meaningful and functional rather than the nonsense phrases of Chinese tattoos. Incidentally, because we want We Heart readers to be the best informed out there, here’s a little factoid for you: The Ny in the name doesn’t mean New York, it’s a Thai word that roughly translates as “in the city”, and is pronounced “nigh”. Drop that into conversation and watch your stock rise.
Photography, Daniel Krieger
