Some families build houses. Ours builds tables.
We are three siblings — Aileen, Annie, and AK — with thirty years of restaurant life between us: opening rooms, running kitchens, learning what makes a stranger relax into a chair. Somewhere along the way, Huntington Beach won us over — the salt air, the long gold light down PCH, the way this town waves at itself on the walk to the pier.
So we did what our family has always done with the places we love: we cooked for it. Narwhal Thai Table is the promise we’ve been keeping our whole working lives — Thai recipes rooted in the royal-court tradition, made fresh for every single plate, from ingredients we choose the slow, stubborn way. No shortcuts, no almost.
If this address feels familiar, it should. For years it was Thai Gulf — a neighborhood standby. Our family bought the business, hung a new name on the door, and made it our own: our recipes, our mortar, our welcome. If you got here looking for Thai Gulf — welcome back. The table is still here. Read the whole story →
Because what we serve isn’t just dinner. It’s everything around it — the warmth, the welcome, the wanting you back.
