Downtown’s Ocha Thai Cuisine Expands to Henderson
The Thai restaurant joins Those Guys Pies and The Codfather’s fish and chips
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A retail strip in Henderson has once again upgraded its casual dining options, with the latest tenant a surprise sequel to a local favorite, renowned for serving classic Thai dishes for over 30 years.
Now open at the Sunset Ridge Shopping Center, Ocha Thai Express replaces the short-lived Tiki Thai, a few short steps from The Codfather’s very popular fish and chips menu and the East Coast-inspired pizzas from Those Guys Pies.
December 21, 2020 at 9:45am
Tiki Thai, a bar and restaurant, will officially open its doors at 11 a.m. today (Monday) in Reston.
The business, which combines elements of Polynesian and Thai culture, is located at 12100 Sunset Hills Road. The team behind Sense of Thai St. a popular Thai food restaurant in One Loudoun is also behind the latest venture in Reston.
Here’s more from the owners on what inspired the business:
While it’s fun to celebrate Polynesian culture, at TIKI THAI we also honor it.Without compromising of integrity and staying true to the history, we aim to deliver the same experience that historians like Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt (aka Donn Beach) feel in love with in the early 1930s while traveling the islands of Oceania . Around the same time the kingdom of Siam transitioned to what we know as Thailand today. Thailand’s deep culinary history pays homage to neighboring country’s like Malaysia, Indonesia and India that have heavy influence within ever