Sugar & Spice Thai Restaurant
Thai restaurant · North Cambridge ·
Extensive regional Thai menu with standouts like guay jub & khao soi
Extensive regional Thai menu with standouts like guay jub & khao soi
"This Porter Square mainstay has plenty to offer, including a patio for sipping wine and cocktails, weather-permitting. Northern Thailand gets some of the spotlight on the menu with a couple khao soi options and rice noodle soup kanom jean nam ngiao, as well as Isan sausage from the northeast. Other Sugar & Spice must-tries include the guay jub, a rolled noodle soup with a savory five-spice broth and crispy pork; the khao yum, a colorful salad from southern Thailand; and the kuay teow lui suan, which wraps up chicken, herbs, and greens in wide rice noodles and comes with a spicy lime sauce for dipping. There are full menus available for vegan diners and gluten-free diners, too." - Erika Adams
"Sugar & Spice’s massive menu highlights a variety of regional cuisines of Thailand; try something you haven’t seen before, and you’re sure to find a new favorite. The guay jub is a standout, a soup featuring a five-spice soy broth that you’ll want to drink on its own — but don’t, because all the other ingredients are excellent as well. The complex broth is full of wide, flat rice noodles rolled into cigar-like shapes, as well as crispy pork, tofu, and an egg." - Rachel Leah Blumenthal
"Porter Square standard Sugar & Spice has been doling out excellent Thai dishes to the neighborhood for nearly 20 years. Sample a few different signature foods with a $16.95 lunch box that includes salad, gyoza, a protein, and a side noodle dish, or order off the regular menu where regional Thai dishes abound. For eaters with dietary restrictions, Sugar & Spice is very accommodating, offering separate (and extensive) lunch menus for vegan and gluten free diners." - Celina Colby
"Sugar & Spice has long been a neighborhood standby for good Thai food. Its menu dives deep into several specific regional cuisines of Thailand, including a few versions of khao soi from the north, some Isan-style dishes from the northeast, and more. Don’t miss the guay jub, a rolled-noodle five-spice soup packed with crispy pork belly, and the vegan khao yum, a multicolored rice salad with fried tofu and herbs." - Julian Cohen, Eater Staff
"I ate a lot of Thai food in 2019; much of it was from Porter Square’s Sugar & Spice (and a couple other spots that also appear on this map). Sugar & Spice has long been on my delivery standby list — and it’s nice for dining in, too, especially in the summer on its colorful sidewalk patio — but it really upped its game in 2019 with a new menu that digs into a few specific regions of Thailand. The guay jub is my go-to item; it’s a five-spice soy broth packed with crispy pork, tofu, a boiled egg, and rolled-up rice noodles. Other top picks are the kuay teow lui suan, chicken and herbs wrapped up in rice noodles and served with a spicy lime dipping sauce; the kow yum, a vegan salad with rice, herbs, fruits, vegetables, fried tofu, and an herb vinaigrette; and crying tiger, spicy grilled beef with sticky rice. —RLB" - Terrence Doyle