The Best Restaurants in Minneapolis and St. Paul | Eater Twin Cities

"Chef Ann Ahmed’s Gai Noi is a perfect foil to its sister restaurant, Khâluna, one of Eater’s best new restaurants of 2022 — where Khâluna is poised and enchanting, suited for long sit-down meals, Gai Noi plays it a little fast and fun, whisking crispy basil chicken wings, steaming bowls of khao poon gai, and panang spaghetti to tables. Ahmed has said her biggest inspiration for Gai Noi was the Lao city Luang Prabang: There are three kinds of larb, the national dish of Laos, on the menu, as well as shaved Luang Prabang-style papaya salad, mok paa (whitefish steamed in banana leaves), and four kinds of jeow, the spicy, salsa-like Lao dipping sauce." - Eater Staff