After perusing the neighborhood options for restaurant week, we chose Pinto Garden, a Thai restaurant from Chef Teerawong “Yo” Nanthavatsiri that opened in 2016 on 10th Street.

We chose the $45 restaurant week dinner menu, being happily flabbergasted that it included a cocktail.

I tried their Smoke Gets in Your Eyes smoky old-fashioned, my dining partner their I Like Me Better with gin, Melon Calpico, lime juice and italacus liqueur. Both tasty.

We shared the fresh rolls of rice paper wrapped with vegetables and spicy peanut dressing and the papaya salad of green papaya, tomatoes, snake beans, peanuts and garlic in a palm sugar vinaigrette. I loved the flavor of the papaya salad, only wishing that the chef had sautéed the snake beans, as they were too chewy. I still highly suggest it. 

Our entrees include their pad Thai sunrise with rice noodles with chicken, peanuts, bean sprouts and chives topped with a sunny side egg and their ka pow gai kai dao,  sauteed ground chicken with garlic, chili, Thai basil and jasmine rice, also topped with a sunny side egg. 

We ended with macarons, then headed to & Sons Steakeasy’s speakeasy, called Father’s Study. If you’re interested, make a res as it’s a cozy room upstairs from the restaurant. Loved how they presented their cocktail menus inside an old paperback.

There, we bonded with mixologist Maura, enjoying her libations. My friend tried her rum punch; I tried the Pistols at Dawn ($21 each).

I’d also recommend.

Pinto Garden
West Village
117 w 10th St
New York, NY 10011
212.366.5455
pintonyc.com

& Sons Steakeasy’s Father’s Study
Greenwich Village
62 West 9th
New York, NY 10011
andsonnyc.com/home-gv.php#speakeasy