Thursday, February 1, 2024

50 Most Influential DC Restaurants of the Last Century!

50 Most Influential DC Restaurants of the Last Century

Washingtonian Magazine September 2020

Ann Limpert writes:

"This Baileys Crossroads dining room was one of the first restaurants in the suburbs to offer an affordable menu and a date-night atmosphere (servers in silk dresses, a Trumpian amount of gilt). It went beyond Americanized Thai staples, and its success helped spur the Thai-restaurant boom in the 1990s". 

Thank you Washingtonian Magazine, Ann Limpert, our loyal patrons and dedicated staff for supporting us for over 3 decades, through thick & thin!  What an honor it is to be named amongst DC's esteemed institutions!  

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

"ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK" IS NOW OPEN!

Dear friends, our retro Thai street food venue is now LIVE!

HOURS

MON    CLOSED
TUES    4 - 9
WED    4 -9
THUR    4 -9
FRI    4 - 9:30
SAT    11 - 9:30
SUN    11 - 9

 “One Night in Bangkok” is a fun, casual, whimsical and immersive Thai dining experience.  The café's retro vibe is a throwback to my vivid recollections of the sights, sounds, smells and flavors of Thai street food, night markets and nightlife as seen thru the lens of my teenage-self for the first time, in the '80's.  This coming-of-age moment left a life-long lasting impression on me.  I can't wait to transport you back to Thailand with me and share "One Night in Bangkok"!


Cheers,

Eddie Duangrat


* Featuring Thai street food, sweets, Asian pantry, gift shop, 

beer & wine, Dim Sum and grab & go, 

80's tunes and lots of neon * 


(Located @ Duangrat's, 2nd floor) 


MENU 

(more to come)
















Sunday, December 3, 2023

SCAM ALERT: DUANGRAT'S DOES NOT PARTICIPATE W/ UBER EATS


Dear patrons,

It has been brought to our attention that Duangrat's is listed on the Uber Eats platform.  For the record, Duangrat's has never partnered with UE or any other third party delivery service- this is a fraudulent listing!

Apparently, a scammer posing as the business owner has copied and pasted an (outdated) online menu onto the UE platform and has opened up a Duangrat's "storefront" using his own credentials.  Ironically, this means that the real owner of Duangrat's, does not have matching credentials to verify and access the bogus account in order to remove this fake storefront.  In short, our own business has not been hacked per se, but hijacked!  

We can only speculate that the scammer has set up his own deposit bank account to receive sales proceeds from payments captured via the UE payment portal.  Remember, since the REAL Duangrat's is not officially partnered with UE, Duangrat's does not have any interface to actually see or receive orders and payments.  Therefore, any cancellations and payment refunds must be pursued with Uber Eats.  

Furthermore, the scammer has listed an incorrect business address for Duangrat's.  We believe this is to divert attention and buy time by keeping the real business, the customer and delivery driver in the dark with the scam in order to make it difficult or impossible for the customer to make a timely order cancellation and receive a refund.  

Uber Eats is also not inclined to help merchants (especially those who can't verify their own identity) because for now, it receives easy passive revenue in form of a 25-30% commission from every purchase on its platform!  This is another reason to not support these third party delivery services...

Duangrat's can only advise that any customer who has fallen prey to this scam; to report it to Uber Eats and to dispute the charge with the credit card issuer.  Perhaps UE will remove the listing if enough customers report this scam and it starts losing money from chargebacks.  We apologize for the headache, we are victims too!


Tuesday, July 25, 2023

COMING SOON EARLY AUGUST 2023!

After an extraordinary 40+ year run of our beloved Duangrat’s Market and Rabieng Restaurant around the corner, the Duangrat family has decided to consolidate those two businesses into one unified, streamlined concept that pays homage to the best of both.  With the closing of one chapter, begins the next ….

 

As a Generation X’er, the 80’s were my formative years as a young adult.  One of my fondest adolescent memories was a high school graduation trip to my parents’ hometown of Bangkok, Thailand.  Fast forward to present day; this trip in the Summer of ’89 serves as the inspiration and theme of my newest concept.  

 

“One Night in Bangkok” is a fun, casual, whimsical and immersive Thai dining experience.  The café's retro vibe is a throwback to my vivid recollections of the sights, sounds, smells and flavors of Thai street food, night markets and nightlife as seen thru the lens of my teenage-self for the first time.  This coming-of-age moment left a life-long lasting impression on me.  I can't wait to transport you back to Thailand with me and share "One Night in Bangkok"!


Cheers,

Eddie Duangrat


* Featuring Thai street food, sweets, Asian pantry, gift shop, beer & wine, weekend grab & go, dim sum, 80's tunes and lots of neon * 


(Located @ Duangrat's, 2nd floor) 











Thursday, June 29, 2017

DOOR DASH (Post Mates, Grub Hub, Uber Eats) customers please read!

Third-party delivery customers please read

Some restaurants are partnered with third-party delivery services (DoorDash, UberEats, GrubHub, PostMates), Duangrat's is NOT.  There is no affiliation, association, partnership, representation, contract, compensation, etc.

You might ask, "How or why is your menu available on these websites?"  To make a long story short, it is apparently not illegal for these delivery companies to "hijack" (copy & paste) restaurant menus without consent.  This is because these services act as a "restaurant taxi" on behalf of the customer; NOT as a delivery driver of the restaurant.  

Once a menu is hijacked, some delivery services take the liberty of inflating the restaurant's menu prices and/or charges the customer an additional service fee.  We are not a fan of this "double-dipping" practice.  Rather, we believe in fair, face-value pricing and transparency. 

When you place an order through their portal, your payment is collected solely by them.  Their agent phones us your order.  They dispatch a driver, who pays us with a credit card upon pick-up.  

This non-consensual "partnership" between delivery service and restaurant means that the line of communication is effectively one-way, i.e. the service can call the restaurant, but not vice-versa.  Therefore, if an issue ever arises with an order, the customer must contact the delivery service, which then calls the restaurant.  This middle-man process between the three parties may significantly delay the delivery!  


With that said, we recognize that in today’s World, a third-party delivery service is convenient and mutually beneficial to all involved.   Mistakes have been few and far between, so we will allow them to carry on.  However, for aforementioned reasons, we cannot take responsibility for any errors, delays, issues, that may arise with the delivery.  


Should we determine that these services are disruptive and/ or misrepresent our brand, products & services, we will take action to have our menu removed from third-party websites.