The neighborhood of Porter Square is situated around Massachusetts Avenue, between Harvard and Davis Squares. The area is home to a shopping mall, bars and numerous restaurants, and Thai food is a popular cuisine in the square. Most of the Thai restaurants in Porter Square offer takeout food as well as sit-down meals.
Sugar and Spice has all the classic dishes you would expect from a Thai restaurant, including Pad Thai, shrimp stir fry, coconut curries, lemongrass chicken and egg fried rice. The restaurant has received rave reviews from The Boston Globe, Boston's Weekly Digest and The Boston Phoenix. This colorful, cozy restaurant also has a takeout menu; customers can even place their orders on-line.
This restaurant has popular Thai dishes such as mild red and yellow curries, chicken and cashew nuts, seafood stir fries and noodle dishes. They also do lesser-known specialties such as mango chicken curry, shrimp with lychees and vegetables steamed in banana leaves; vegetarians are catered to with numerous choices. Tamarind is family-friendly and there is intimate booth-style seating as well as conventional tables and chairs.
9 Tastes has a cheerful décor, and the menu includes soups, curries, salads and specialties such as roasted honey duck and chicken with banana chunks and bamboo. There are non-Thai Asian dishes available such as teriyaki salmon and sweet and sour. Vegetarians have plenty options too, either with tofu or without. In 2007 this eatery won the Boston Magazine Best Neighborhood Takeout award.
This restaurant has been in existence since 1996, and has proved so successful a second branch was opened on 1st Street in Cambridge. During this period Brown Sugar Café has won numerous awards, including Boston Magazine's Best of Boston in 2000 and 2001 and AOL Cityguide's City's Best award in 2005. The menu includes pineapple curry, Bok Choi, Thai pastries stuffed with meat, chicken lollipops and salmon spring rolls. Dishes can also be ordered online as Brown Sugar Café has a takeout and delivery service.
