New York City · Thai
SriPraPhai
Woodside Thai institution since 1990 with a vast regional menu and a flowered back garden.
- Price
- $$
- Opened
- 1990
- Neighborhood
- Woodside64-13 39th Ave, Woodside, NY 11377
About
Sripraphai Tipmanee, a former nurse, began with Thai sweets and takeout for the local Thai community and opened the Woodside restaurant in 1990; the house later expanded into a larger dining room, a backyard garden, a bar, and a Long Island location. The spiral-bound menu runs to dozens of pages across regional Thai cooking. The Infatuation still calls it the pioneer that paved the way for serious Thai in New York; Eater and Zagat historically ranked it at or near the top of city Thai lists. It is no longer cash-only. Closed Wednesdays.
Menu highlights
- Pork laab
- Green curry (often with eggplant; duck variations appear in critic notes)
- Som tum (green papaya salad)
- Khao soi; soft-shell crab; pork leg over rice
Diners say
Diners still praise breadth, bold flavors, garden seating, and value relative to Manhattan. Dishes or spice calibration can run inconsistent (ask for spicy); service slows when slammed; a long-running debate asks whether quality dipped versus earlier decades. Many still treat a Queens trip here as a reference Thai meal.
Review synthesis as of 2026-07-28. Themes from public reviews; not a rating or ranking. Confirm hours and prices before you go.