Red Lotus Thai Restaurant
Red Lotus Thai Restaurant is located in New Rochelle and was ranked as "very good" by the New York Times and Zagat dining guides. The eatery is about three miles from Bronx's municipal 18-hole, par-70 Pelham Bay Golf Course.
Red Lotus is open for dinner only on Sundays, but serves food all day Mondays through Saturdays. Entrée options include pad Thai with shrimp and pad khi mao which is a dish of spicy noodles, mixed vegetables, basil and chicken, beef or shrimp.
Red Lotus Thai Restaurant
227 Main St.
New Rochelle, NY 10801
(914)-576-0444
redlotusthai.com
Tangerine Thai
Tangerine Thai is in the Westchester suburb of Tuckahoe, which is about a five-minutes drive from New Rochelle. Visiting golfers can stop by this eatery--also close to Sarah Lawrence College--after playing 18 holes at Yonkers' municipal Dunwoodie Golf Course. That facility, which also features a 20-stall driving range, is less than 10 minutes from Tangerine Thai.
The restaurant serves lunch and dinner daily. Lunch options range from Thai fried rice to red curry. Those stopping by at dinner time might try a crispy crab-roll appetizer and an entrée such as spicy basil duck noodles.
Tangerine Thai
90 Yonkers Ave.
Tuckahoe, NY 10707
(914) 771-8200
tangerinethai.net
Siam Square Thai Cuisine
Siam Square Thai Cuisine, located less than 10 minutes from New Rochelle, is in the Bronx borough and thus officially part of New York City. The eatery serves dinner only and is closed on Mondays. The restaurant is about a mile from Bronx's municipal Van Corlandt Park Golf Course, which offers 18 regulation holes of golf at par-70.
Appetizer choices at Siam Square Thai Cuisine range from chicken or steak satay skewers to crepes stuffed with seafood and Thai spices. The menu also features eight types of salads for the lighter eaters. Traditional main course options include the "drunken chicken," which is minced chicken breast sautéed with green beans and sweet peppers in a spicy basil sauce, and Siam Square fish, which is a whole filet of salmon or snapper steamed in soy-ginger sauce with shiitake mushrooms and scallions.
Siam Square Thai Cuisine
564 Kappock St.
Bronx, NY 10463
(718) 432-8200
siamsq.com
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