The Best Thai Restaurants in Israel (2026)

Thai food is arguably the most established Asian cuisine in Israel. It has been here for decades — Israel’s long-standing Thai agricultural worker community brought real home cooking with it, and a generation of Israeli backpackers came back from Khao San Road wanting pad thai, som tam and green curry that actually tasted like the trip. The result is a Thai scene that is broader and deeper than any other Asian cuisine in the country: Carmel Market alone has a cluster of tiny Isan kitchens, and you will find a Thai restaurant in almost every city from Nahariya to Eilat.

This guide is for anyone who wants the genuine article rather than a generic “Asian fusion” menu — Thai workers and expats missing home cooking, Israelis chasing the flavours of a backpacking trip, and curious eaters who want to know where the real pounded salads and chili-heavy stir-fries are. It is part of our guide to the best Asian restaurants in Israel, and a companion to our guide to the best Vietnamese restaurants in Israel. Every place below is a real, verified entry in our community directory — we have curated the strongest and most distinctive rather than padding the list.

Tel Aviv

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Tel Aviv has by far the densest Thai scene in the country, with a notable concentration in and around the Carmel Market.

Eisan

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An authentic kitchen from the Isan region of northeast Thailand, tucked into the Carmel Market on Rabbi Akiva Street. Eisan is the home of the 16-chili “Pad Ped” that i24 News singled out as one of Israel’s spiciest dishes — but the menu rewards anyone, with proper Isan staples, vegan options and Wolt delivery. If you want the real, fiery thing, start here.

Thai at Har Sinai

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A casual Thai kitchen tucked into the Great Synagogue courtyard on Har Sinai Street, and a Tel Aviv neighbourhood favourite for about a decade. It is known for leafy front-yard seating, Thai-basil cocktails and a proper papaya-salad-plus-curry menu. Open daily with a full website and delivery — a reliable, central choice that has earned its longevity.

Moolam

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A fiery Thai gastro-bar on Har Sinai Street — unapologetically spicy and proudly authentic. Expect pork croquettes, fried calamari in Thai spices, and a cocktail list that includes a drinkable som tam. This is Thai food as a night out rather than a quick lunch.

Geveret Kwaytiew

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A tiny Carmel Market eatery on Yom Tov Street serving bold Thai street-food flavours. The chef sometimes shuts the place down to go back to Thailand “for inspiration” — a good sign of where the cooking comes from. Small, genuine and worth seeking out.

Giveret Kotiyao

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A traditional Thai soup restaurant on Yom Tov Street in the Carmel Market. The focus is kuaytiao — Thai noodle soup done properly — which makes it a specialist worth knowing in a market full of generalists. Casual and inexpensive.

Khao-San

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Named for Bangkok’s famous backpacker street, Khao-San sits right by the Carmel Market on HaCarmel Street. It is the budget pick of the cluster — authentic Thai food at the lowest price point on this list — and leans on delivery, so it doubles as a reliable order-in option.

Thai House

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One of Tel Aviv’s veteran Thai restaurants, serving Thai cuisine on Bograshov Street since 1996. Three decades in, it is a sit-down restaurant rather than a market stall — a place that helped establish Thai food in the city long before the current wave.

Nam Thai

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A spacious Thai restaurant on Dizengoff with an authentic ambience and an extensive menu — spicy salads, curries, rice, noodles and soups all covered. Roomy enough for a proper group dinner, which sets it apart from the cramped market spots. (The “Nam” brand also runs smaller Dizengoff and King George cook-house branches.)

Thai 148

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An energetic Thai spot at Dizengoff 148, built on fresh ingredients and a tropical cocktail menu. The same group has since expanded out of the city — see Surin in Savyon below — but the original Dizengoff branch remains a lively central option.

El Mano Asian

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An authentic Thai gem on Yesud HaMa’ala Street with an extensive menu. The standing advice from diners: go with an empty stomach and a big group, because you will want to order widely. A solid choice for sharing.

The centre

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Surin

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A large Thai restaurant — about 180 seats — that opened in late 2025 in the G Center in Savyon, from the Thai 148 Tel Aviv group. Chef Omi’s menu emphasises pounded salads, curries and stir-fries, with a dedicated cold bar and a full cocktail programme. It is the most ambitious recent Thai opening outside Tel Aviv.

Chatuchak

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Named after Bangkok’s famous Chatuchak weekend market, this Netanya restaurant brings a diverse Thai menu to the city. It has a website, does delivery, and keeps long daily hours (closed Saturdays) — a proper full-service Thai restaurant for the Sharon coast.

Sakon Nakhon

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A Thai food house in the Rishon LeZion area, on Rothschild Street. It is one of the pricier entries on this list, which usually signals a more involved sit-down menu — worth a look if you are in the Shfela and want Thai beyond a quick bowl.

Jerusalem

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The Thai Jerusalem

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Billed as a “crazy noodles bar” on Jaffa Street, this is the Thai address to know in the capital. Jerusalem’s Thai scene is thin, so a dedicated noodle-focused spot in the city centre is genuinely useful. No website, so check current hours before heading over.

Station 9

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A modern Asian kitchen on David Remez Street in Jerusalem, listed under Thai cuisine. Details are thin in our records — no website, no published menu — so treat this as one to call ahead and explore. We list it because it is part of the capital’s small Thai map.

Haifa and the north

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Pan

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An authentic Thai kitchen on Oskar Schindler Street in Haifa. It is one of the established Thai options in the city — a straightforward, genuine kitchen rather than a fusion menu. Delivery via Wolt; no website, so call ahead for hours.

The Thai in the Market

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Authentic Thai street food in Haifa’s Talpiot Market — real Bangkok flavours built from ingredients brought straight from Thailand. It is the budget, market-stall counterpart to Pan, and the best pick in Haifa if you want street food rather than a sit-down meal.

Mosh Thai Kitchen

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A Thai kitchen in the Acre–Nahariya area, near Achziv beach. Records are thin — no website — but it is the Thai option to know on the far northern coast, where the cuisine is otherwise hard to find. Delivery via Wolt.

Koji

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A Thai restaurant in Rosh Pinna, on Ma’ale Gai Oni Street. The Galilee panhandle is not an obvious place for Thai food, which makes a dedicated Thai kitchen in the heart of tourist Rosh Pinna a genuinely handy find for travellers in the north.

Eilat

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Thaistory

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A Thai and Asian restaurant on Tarshish Street in Eilat. The Red Sea resort city has a small but real Thai presence, and Thaistory is a central, dependable option for a Thai meal between the beach and the reef.

Thai Way

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A kosher Asian restaurant in Eilat, on Gan Binyamin Street — worth flagging specifically because kosher Thai food is rare. For observant travellers in Eilat who want Thai flavours, this is the address.

Learn to cook it: Thai workshops

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ShamSiam

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Thai cooking workshops, private chef dinners and culinary events by Persian-Israeli chef Eli Shamsian, run from his kitchen in Rehovot or at your location. The range is wide — classic Thai, vegan Thai, Thai grill, Asian dumplings and street-soup workshops — making it a good pick for anyone who wants to cook the cuisine, not just order it.

Swadika Thai Food

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Thai cooking workshops and private chef meals by Chef Alon Hevel, who has 28 years of Thai cooking experience, based in Shemshit in the north. He offers regular, vegan, gluten-free and kids’ workshops, plus culinary tours and corporate team-building — and the workshops are kosher, which is unusual for Thai cooking.

Cooking at home

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If this guide leaves you wanting to stock a Thai pantry — fish sauce, palm sugar, galangal, kaffir lime, the right curry pastes — Israel’s Asian grocery scene has you covered. We map out where to shop in our guide to Asian supermarkets in Israel, essential reading for Thai home cooks.

Thai food’s footprint in Israel runs from market stalls to 180-seat dining rooms, from Nahariya to Eilat. It is the deepest Asian food scene in the country — and it keeps growing. If you know a Thai place we have missed, tell us; this guide and our directory grow with the community.