After our last several dinners out, I’ve decided to go on a no Michelin star free diet. Andrea’s been wanting to go back to Nari, so here we are! We last ate hear almost a year ago.

We went with the Chef’s Pick, which is a great way to go in our opinion because you get to try to many of the dishes. The dishes from the first course menu were served in rapid succession (which was great since we were hungry) included the gaeng gradang tod (pork croquettes with curry) which were a great start, the laab jin (seasoned beef tartare with black rice crackers) which was very flavorful, squid and pork jowl with sticky rice (fantastic), and the pork chop with lettuce wrap (the weakest dish of the nice. pork wasn’t flavorful in and of itself and seasoning was less flavorful than every other dish).

Fortunately, service slowed a bit before the second course dishes came out. The dishes included the gaeng bumbai aubergine (crispy eggplant and curry) which was one of our favorites, the carmelized fish sauce cabbage (love me some fish sauce), and the priking gai (crispy chicken with curry paste, dried shrimp, salted duck egg) which I enjoyed (Andrea not as much).

There there was a big lull in service before dessert as the restaurant filled up, which was fine by us since it gave us a bit of time to relax and let our food digest.

Desserts included a halo halo type dessert and the other a pandan parfait with a bit of saltiness to it. Both were enjoyable and similar to what we had last time we dined here.

All in all , it was a very enjoyable dinner and we’d definitely come back again (and again!).