"Jitlada is now on Resy!"
Resy's Los Angeles editor Jamie Feldmar put that line in the middle of a July 15, 2026, essay and apologized for burying the lede. She had a point. Jitlada has been in Thai Town since the late 1970s. For most of that time, eating there meant a wait in the strip mall parking lot on Sunset Boulevard. Her essay describes groups standing in the lot and blocking the entrance to the Armenian smoke shop next door.
Now that wait is optional, and that changes the rest of the day around it. Dinner has become the easiest Thai Town meal to plan. The meals that still need timing come at either end of the day. Weekend breakfast jok can sell out, and after 11 p.m. one kitchen on Hollywood Boulevard is still cooking. You can't book either of them.
Dinner Became the Plannable Meal
Food Journal Magazine confirmed the change in early August. It reported that the Southern Thai restaurant was live on Resy with bookings open, and called that "nothing short of a lifestyle upgrade" for anyone who has stood in the lot on a Friday night. At the start of October, Resy's booking page for Jitlada showed open tables, with the next two-person slot on Tuesday, October 6.
Some details from the restaurant's own site haven't caught up. Jitlada's homepage at 5233 1/2 W Sunset Blvd still shows a "NO RESERVATIONS" notice above its hours. The live Resy listing and both summer reports are more recent than that notice. No source since the switch says whether walk-ins are still seated or how many tables are held for them, so a booking is the safer bet.
The hours on that same homepage show a schedule with a gap in the middle:
| Day | Lunch | Dinner |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Closed | Closed |
| Tuesday through Sunday | 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. | 4:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. |
Food Journal also lists Jitlada as closed Mondays. The kitchen's reputation is the same one that made the wait worth it. The restaurant earned Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition in 2019, 2022, and 2023, and chef Sarintip "Jazz" Singsanong received back-to-back James Beard nominations for Best Chef: California.
Feldmar's essay shows how a booking changes the kind of visit. For years she treated Jitlada as a big-group, special-occasion place. Then it slipped out of her rotation while she ate around Thai Town and beyond, including a run of regular meals at Sanamluang. She went back on a random Thursday with just her partner, ordered crying tiger pork jowl, fried morning glory salad with shrimp, kua kling dry curry, and a crab fried rice that was new to her, and found that the cooking "still hits." Her return trip was a walk-in that happened before the Resy switch. A Tuesday or Thursday table for two can now be booked days ahead.
The Two Meals That Still Run on Timing
With dinner settled, the parts of a Thai Town day you can't reserve stand out more. Here is what the current sources confirm for the early and late ends:
| When | Where | Address | What's confirmed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early morning | Siam Sunset | 5265 W Sunset Blvd | Toast ordering page shows a 6:45 a.m. opening |
| Dinner | Jitlada | 5233 1/2 W Sunset Blvd | Bookable on Resy, closed Mondays |
| Until 11 p.m. | Ruen Pair | 5257 Hollywood Blvd | Closes at 11 p.m. |
| Until 2 a.m. | Sanamluang Cafe | 5176 Hollywood Blvd | Open daily, 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. |
Siam Sunset and Jitlada sit a few doors apart on Sunset. The breakfast spot is attached to an America's Best Value Inn motel. Eater LA's January 2026 dining report called it one of the city's truest expressions of a Thai breakfast, with Thai news or dramas on the televisions and Thai newspapers on the tables.
The menu's best-known dish is pork jok, a congee with pork meatballs, fresh ginger, and white pepper. Eater suggests adding a soft-boiled egg and a side of pa tong ko, the fried Chinese crullers that go into the porridge or get swirled with condensed milk. Fried chive cakes and guay jub, a rolled-noodle soup in five-spice pork broth with crispy pork belly, round out the order. According to Eater's insider tip, the kitchen runs out of jok and pa tong ko, especially on weekend mornings, so get there early. Nobody takes a reservation for a bowl of congee. The 6:45 a.m. opening on Siam Sunset's ordering page is the closest thing to one. Current sources don't confirm its closing time, so call ahead before planning a late lunch there.
At the other end of the night, the late options sit on Hollywood Boulevard. Ruen Pair, at 5257 Hollywood Blvd, used to stay open until 4 a.m. The Infatuation's June 2026 guide says it now closes at 11 p.m. That isn't new: Time Out was already reporting the 11 p.m. close in March 2024. The menu still covers takeout classics and less common Thai-Chinese dishes. The Infatuation recommends the stir-fries, especially the sautéed morning glory stems, crispy catfish with basil, and sweet-spicy fried egg salad.
That leaves Sanamluang Cafe at 5176 Hollywood Blvd. Its official site lists it as open daily from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. After Ruen Pair closes, Sanamluang covers the three hours until 2 a.m. on its own, seven nights a week. That makes it the one fixed point for a post-show meal or a late craving.
A Room on Hollywood Boulevard Went Dark in September
The boulevard also lost a restaurant this month. Eater LA's September 2026 closures roundup reported that Kurrypinch planned its last day of service for the end of September. Chef Shaheen Ghazaly built a following for modern Sri Lankan cooking from a small Van Nuys storefront starting in 2018. He then moved into a larger Thai Town space at 5051 Hollywood Blvd, which opened on February 27, 2025.
Its run on the boulevard lasted about 19 months. Eater noted that besides being one of the few Sri Lankan restaurants in Los Angeles, Kurrypinch hosted community events, including fundraisers, live music, DJs, and trivia nights. No replacement for the space has been announced. Kurrypinch filled an evening with programming, not just a meal, and none of the other Thai Town restaurants in this post is described that way in the sources.
Eater's late-September roundup of new Los Angeles openings didn't list anything new on this stretch of Hollywood Boulevard. Going into fall, the neighborhood's eating calendar rests on its long-running anchors, and one of them has just become bookable.
October and November, a Short Drive North
The Thai cultural calendar this season is centered in North Hollywood. Wat Thai of Los Angeles, at 8225 Coldwater Canyon Ave., lists two events:
- Ok Phansa, October 17.
- Loy Krathong, November 15. The temple calls it the Festival of Lights, where decorated krathongs are floated on water, with traditional music, performances, and Thai food.
Closer to home, the Siam Night Market at 1711 N. Cahuenga Blvd, just outside the Thai Town corridor, posts a notice on its website saying it is temporarily closed and will reopen in summer. The notice isn't dated, and the site lists no fall dates.
A Saturday in November could start with a 6:45 a.m. bowl of jok at Siam Sunset. After an afternoon at Loy Krathong in North Hollywood, you could come back to a Jitlada dinner booked days earlier, and Sanamluang would still be open at 1 a.m.
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