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Thai Sawatdee—known to my friends as “Teeter Thai” for its location in the Harris-Teeter grocery store on Cloverdale Avenue—has opened up a second location. The new restaurant is on Healy Drive in the strip-mall spot formerly occupied by Miss Annie’s Caribbean and French restaurant.
The one thing lacking in the Harris Teeter location has always been ambience, and the new spot rectifies that. It’s small, but with lovely, Asian-elegance decor. And there aren’t flourescent lights shining down on piles of grapefruits and apples a few feet away.
More important, the food is outstanding and a great value—and the menu is larger. At lunch, there are 24 specials to choose from, with tofu available in all but a couple of meat-specific dishes. For $6.95, you get a healthy entree portion, rice, two spring rolls and a salad with yummy peanut dressing. My pad eggplant (No. 24) was bright and colorful, with purple-skinned Asian eggplants, julienned carrots, onion, mushrooms, bell peppers and basil—and the best tofu I’ve had in quite awhile.
Dinner dishes are also reasonably priced, at $8.95 for an entree with tofu.
