Chef Eddy Thretipthuangsin has turned over a new leaf at his new restaurant, BITE, located in the Oak Lawn neighborhood. The menu is made up of a fusion between Thai and New American and showcases Chef Eddy’s favorite techniques and ingredients.

I was invited in the try out the new restaurant last night before they opened officially today and while the meal took 3 hours to complete, the dishes we quite delicious. Starters included a salad the baby kale and spinach salad with coconut, shallot, red onion, spiced pecans and palm vinaigrette. The carpaccio was flavorful paired with caper berry and miso garlic aioli. My dining partners decided that the favorite entree at our table was the Chilean Sea Bass with baby bok choy, wild mushroom, dashi soy reduction and black forbidden rice. It was well balanced, meaty and had a nice bite from the dashi. We also sampled the slightly overdone braised short rib with soft polenta and nicely grilled salmon again atop polenta.

There is an extensive dessert list but the clear winner amongst those present was the lemongrass panna cotta with black sesame sponge cake and macerated berries.

BITE opens this evening and will be serving dinner every night of the week!