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Zaab Zaab
Isan
The dining room looks like it was decorated by a child who just discovered neon, which turns out to be exactly right for Isan-style Thai cooking this loud and alive. This Elmhurst restaurant earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand for fiery northeastern Thai food built for sharing, heavy on dried shrimp, electric fish sauce, and whole fried fish. Showing up alone is technically possible but spiritually inadvisable. A New York Times top-100 pick.
The awards strongest first
- The New York Times 2022 · 3 stars, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The New York Times The Restaurant List
- The New York Times #38 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in New York City
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Bryan Chunton and Pei Shan Wei
One number, weighted & current 84
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
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Duck larb
“Choose among items like duck larb, roasted tilapia, and gai yang vichean buri whole chicken, which is roasted and grilled and served with papaya salad.”
Eater, 2026 -
Gai yang vichean buri
“Choose among items like duck larb, roasted tilapia, and gai yang vichean buri whole chicken, which is roasted and grilled and served with papaya salad.”
Eater, 2026 -
Larb ped udon
“The house special larb ped udon pulls no punches with duck breast and fried duck skin jolted with fried lime leaves, mint, fried garlic and lime juice.”
Michelin Guide -
Prawn pad Thai
“Fried whole fish and bubbling hot pots tempt alongside excellent mainstays like prawn pad Thai and rotisserie chicken marinated in coriander and lemongrass.”
Michelin Guide
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