Bodhi Thai Dining: Authentic and Modern Thai Cuisine

With this in mind, the restaurant sources local ingredients, and even has its own organic garden. Tipvaree calls on cooking techniques from across cultures, including French and Italian, fusing them with Thai flavors and spices to deliver a distinctive menu he dubs a “modern take on Thai.”

“Nivit is a very artistic person by nature and brings to bear a lot of what he likes to refer to as ‘art on the plate,’” says Tim Brown, the restaurant’s general manager. To highlight this, he describes a martini that turns from indigo blue to bright purple with the addition of lime juice, and chor muang, an appetizer of steamed dumplings with traditional Thai spices that are hand-fashioned into flowers and dyed shades of blue and white with color extracted from the butterfly pea flower. “We have a little bit of magic that we like to work here,” Brown says.