Sea Thai Brooklyn

"Located a stone’s throw from Penn Station, Sea comes from Jungsik Yim, the Korean chef with Michelin-starred credentials who has followed up his namesake restaurant with a more casual sibling, serving Southeast Asian dishes with fine-dining flair. Go here for Thai pork sausages, lacy prawn rolls, and dry tom yum beef noodles — there are zero misses on this menu." - Melissa McCart

"Chef and owner Jungsik Yim of two-Michelin-star Jungsik wanted to open something more casual than his namesake. Several years in the making, he opened Sea, a dressed-down Southeast Asian restaurant that fuses his passion for food from Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore; fine dining chops; and Korean and French techniques. Penn Station dining options can be chaos, so if you’re in the area, mark this down for a respite." - Emma Orlow, Eater Staff

"Jungsik’s Southeast Asian sibling SEA is doing a ticketed New Year’s Eve dinner, a four course prix-fixe menu for $145, featuring holiday special dishes such as crab curry, prime rib-eye and truffle noodles." - Eater Staff, Beth Landman

"Sea in Koreatown is from the chef behind Jungsik, one of the city’s first upscale Korean tasting menu spots, but it's a more casual restaurant. The focus here is on Southeast Asian food, and you’ll find things like a $68 raw seafood platter, fried chicken with som tum, crab fried rice, and dry tom yum noodles alongside a full wine list and cocktail program." - will hartman

"The crab fried rice at this Southeast Asian restaurant in Chelsea is one of our favorite versions of the dish, with a baseball-sized portion of juicy lump crab meat, a creamy golden omelet blanket, and a few sweet and spicy pickled chilis on top. From the chef behind Korean fine-dining spot Jungsik, Sea’s food is technically flawless and pared back—their delicate yet punchy yellowtail crudo, or hot salty prawn rolls wrapped in lacy fried rice paper would work well for dinner with co-workers, or a date night. The space is pared back too: all gray cement walls with enlarged Thai and Vietnamese postage stamps providing pops of color. Try their excellent cocktails (we like the Thai iced tea with rye), and the dry tom yum noodle dish that eats almost like jajangmyeon with warmer spices." - molly fitzpatrick, bryan kim, neha talreja, willa moore, will hartman, sonal shah