Restaurant: Farmhouse Kitchen Thai Cuisine LA
Location: 5560 W Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016. (323) 592-3999
Date: June 23, 2024
Cuisine: Thai
Rating: Modernized local Thai
On this particular Sunday our regular SGV Sunday group fell through and it was just Bovon and I, so we stayed local and got some Thai.
Unicorns in West Adams.
Farmhouse Kitchen is a modern style Thai.
The menu.
Papaya Salad. Spicy! Hand shredded green papaya, cherry tomato, Thai long beans, garlic, fish sauce, bird eye chili, dred shrimps and peanuts. Nice and spicy, but missing a bit of that funky edge and the strong lime notes.
Mieng Kum Kung. Crispy-crusted Tiger prawns, leafy green warapped with a zesty mixture of lime, ginger, onion, roasted coconut and peanuts with tamarind reduction. Like coconut shrimp wraps.
Wagyu Beef jerky. Grilled Snake River Farm Wagyu beef jerky served with kaffir lime leaves, garlic, dried chili, cirspy shallots, and Nam Prik Noom Thai Chili Sauce. The jerky itself was nice and tender with good flavor. The chili sauce though had non and was very salsa-like.
Panang Neua. Slow braised bone-in Short Rib served in Panang curry with grilled broccolini, bell pepper, white onion, crispy basil and blue jasmine rice. The beef was great. I thought the curry paste itself tasted very good, if a bit sweet, but imagined and would have much preferred the rib in a whole (coconut milk) curry sauce. But still this was my favorite dish.
Run Juan Seafood Sizzling. Assorted Seafood sauteed in homemade spicy curry paste, basil, white onion, bell pepper, served with blue jasmine rice. A bit sweet and not enough seafood. Still, fairly tasty.
Live Lobster Pad Thai. Live Maine Lobster with tiger prawns, thin rice noodles, cage free egg, bean sprouts, chive, shallot peanuts, and Thai seafood sauce, white onion, crispy shallots. We originally wanted this, but they told us it wasn’t cracked. It half was, just the claws weren’t. It was tasty, but the noodles were better than the lobster itself and it was kinda expensive.
Overall, Farmhouse Kitchen was tasty, but nothing amazing, and kinda pricey for mid level Thai. It’s a bit in the Anajack direction, catering toward a whiter audience. Now don’t get me wrong, this is more interesting and flavorful Thai than the 1990s style generic Thai places, and the food is bright and colorful, but it’s no Jitlada.
