Name: Zaab-E-LEE Thai Street Food
Address: 3021 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625
Telephone: (773) 856-6242

Zaab-E-LEE Thai Street Food

Super GemAlbany Park · Thai (Isan) Community-sourced, unverified

📍 3021 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60625

Zaab-E-Lee is the Albany Park spot for people who think most Chicago Thai menus play it too safe.

★★★★☆ 4.5 (190 reviews) via Google

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Nam tok beef and a basket of sticky rice, then pad kee mao for the table and mango sticky rice to cool down.

📈 Scores in the top 25% of Chicago Exclusive Gems on ChicagoSpecials.com

The name means delicious, owners Jessie and Dennis Netisingha have said, and the kitchen leans into Isan, the food of Thailand's northeast: sticky rice, grilled meat, lime, chili and toasted rice powder doing the heavy lifting. Start with the street-food section, where moo ping pork skewers come with warm sticky rice, sai krog Isan sausage is fermented with rice and garlic, and the grilled steak called Tiger Cry earns its name. The salads are the real flex. Larb moo krob swaps ground meat for crispy pork belly, nam tok beef is the grilled steak salad of the region, and the ZAAB Special som tum pu and plara brings green papaya, salted crab and fermented fish sauce that central Thai menus usually leave out.

If you came for the classics, the pad kee mao, khao soi and creamy tom yum goong are all here, and the house specials run up to the three-flavor fish and a tum tad seafood-and-pork-belly platter built for groups. The room matches the food, with hut-shaped booths, neon and a ceiling full of parasols and lanterns. They take reservations online, which is worth doing on weekends, and close at 9:30pm most nights.

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4.5 stars on Google. A couple of reviews flag slow pacing at busy times, so book ahead on weekends and plan for a relaxed meal.

Hours

Sun-Thu12PM-9:30PM

Fri-Sat12PM-10PM

📅 Reserve online 🥡 Takeout available 📞 (773) 856-6242 ✉️ Email

Amenities & accessibility

🥡Takeout available

❔Wheelchair access: unverified

📅Reservations accepted

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Zaab-E-LEE Thai Street Food

Zaab-E-Lee is the Albany Park spot for people who think most Chicago Thai menus play it too safe.

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