Samrub Samrub Thai

Samrub Samrub Thai is a Bangkok restaurant serving traditional and regional Thai food, run by chef Prin Polsuk and his wife Thanyaporn Jarukittikun. Its name means a set of dishes for Thai people, and each menu is built around one region or one theme.

The restaurant grew out of evening meals that Polsuk cooked for other chefs after work. He and Jarukittikun turned those gatherings into a restaurant in 2017, first without a fixed home, and later found a room off Charoen Krung Road, the old riverside street of the city. It then moved to Silom and on to a larger building in Sala Daeng, where it fills the lower floor of the house in which the couple also live.

Polsuk’s menus bring back dishes that have fallen out of everyday cooking and use ingredients from small producers around the country. One season followed the fishermen of the Urak Lawoi’ people and the food of the seashore, another the island of Samui, another the roads of the east, and another Ubon Ratchathani in the Isan region, known as the city of the pink lotus. A menu runs for about two months before the kitchen moves on to the next region.

Jarukittikun designed the interior, with black wood and brick floors, and the uniforms of the kitchen staff carry motifs from past menus. The logo, a cross between a dog and a pig, began as a drawing of a pineapple. The Michelin Guide gave the restaurant a star in 2023, and the couple appeared in the chili pepper episode of Omnivore, the documentary series created by René Redzepi and Matt Goulding.