Staten Island's Talay Thai Plans Monolithic Leap to Yorkville

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More pad thai for the Upper East Side.

It's not often that Manhattan gets a Staten Island import -- Artichoke has been the only place in recent memory to even vaguely fit the bill -- but that isn't stopping Talay Thai from making grand plans to tear it up in Yorkville. Crain's reports that the family-run restaurant has signed a 10-year lease for a 2,300-square-foot space on First Avenue near East 95th Street. Its new location, which previously housed the bar Wild Spirits (and before that, Hogs & Heifers), will be called Andaman, and the owners expect it to open within the next four to six months.

[Via Feast]

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