McKinney | July 2023

DINING FEATURE

BY KAREN CHANEY

MUSTTRY ITEMS The owner encourages guests to be adventurous and try new things, such as these menu items. 1 Pad kee mow (“drunken noodle”) ($13) is a rice noodle dish that includes egg, broccoli, onion, bell pepper, Thai chili, garlic and basil. 2 Panang salmon avocado ($17) is pan- seared salmon with Panang curry, coconut milk, bell pepper and avocado. 3 Thai basil combo ($16) is a stir-fried dish featuring Thai chili and basil, bell pepper, onion, and scallion bamboo.

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Spoon + Fork Thai Kitchen Local eatery encourages cuisine adventure in north McKinney W hen Thana Trepetch and her mother, Naruemol Tapaneeyakul, opened lot of customers from the previous location,” Trepetch said.

Thana Trepetch opened Spoon + Fork Thai Kitchen in McKinney in October 2020.

and said the recipes they use in the restaurant have been passed down through her family for 50 years. Trepetch compares Bangkok to New York City in that it is a melting pot of dierent cultures; thus, the food she serves has origins that reach beyond Thailand, such as Japanese and Chinese cuisine. “I have a lot of customers who have only tried, in terms of Thai or Asian food, fried rice or pad thai, and they didn’t know about anything else on the menu,” Trepetch said. “There is nothing wrong with pad thai or fried rice; we’d just like you to be a little more adventurous; it’s fun. If you don’t like it, I’ll take it back and give you your fried rice.”

Before opening the rst location in Austin, Trepetch was trying to decide on a business name while making a list of things she needed to get for the restaurant. “We tried to stay away from ‘Pad Thai,’ ‘Bangkok,’ ‘Thai Kitchen,’ anything everyone else has as a restaurant name,” Trepetch said. “I was already in bed and thinking I needed to order new spoons and forks for the restaurant ... and then I thought, ‘Oh my gosh!’” She added Thai people eat with a spoon in one hand and a fork in the other, solidifying her decision. Trepetch grew up in Bangkok

Spoon + Fork Thai Kitchen 3905 W. University Drive, Ste. 500, McKinney 972-547-0436 www.spoonandforkkitchen.com Hours: 11 a.m.-9 p.m. daily

Spoon + Fork Thai Kitchen in McKinney in October 2020, they did so with 10 years of restaurant ownership experience. In 2010, they bought into a part- nership with a dierent Thai restau- rant in McKinney, and later, the mother-daughter duo became the sole proprietors. Trepetch and her family moved to Austin, and in 2018, Trepetch and her mother opened the Austin Spoon + Fork location. In 2020, they relocated their McKinney restaurant to West University Drive and opened as Spoon + Fork. “Very fortunate for us we got a

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