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If you’re looking for a magical, bordering on ethereal, dining experience, head straight to Restaurant Moon in Darlinghurst.

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Restaurant Moon is a unique Darlinghurst dining destination from restaurateurs Jackie Park and Touchpong Chancaw, known for their work at Aum.

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Longrain alum heads up this innovative Thai restaurant on Liverpool Street, and we can’t help being drawn into its orbit.

Moon restaurant takes over Onde site in Darlinghurst

The Darlinghurst site where Onde traded for 21 years until late last year has a new operator. Moon Restaurant is trying to pick up where the innovative Onde left off.

You’ve never had surf and turf like this

Combining Angus beef sirloin and octopus confit, with basil and roasted chilli sauce, the use of two proteins requires totally different cooking techniques.

Restaurant Moon, Darlinghurst: the new Thai temptress

Restaurant Moon puts on a stellar performance with its modernized Thai cooking brought to Darlinghurst via Europe by an alumnus of Sydney stalwart Longrain.

Reaching For The Moon At Moon Thai, Darlinghurst

Their signature dish and it is 72 hour braised beef ribs with the meat taken off the bone and sliced to show that it is still pink in the centre. The tamarind glazed beef outside is crispy but each piece simply melts in the mouth.

Journey into the cosmos at Darlinghurst's new modern Thai eatery.

Like its contemporaries, Chin Chin and Long Chim, Restaurant Moon has moved beyond the cheap and cheerful format to create a more refined offering. In this case, it's European meets Thai with a moon dust sprinkling of molecular gastronomy.

Restaurant Moon is much more than your local Thai takeaway.

It’s the perfect blend of traditional Thai cuisine and modern European fare. Restaurant Moon is carving its way through the engrained notions of Asian cuisine. With industrious and passionate co-owners Jackie Park and Touchpong Chancaw (Aum) at the helm

Moon Gets Innovative With Thai Food

Moon plans to do this by plating up European-Thai dishes, something the team says you don’t often see. It also pays homage to Aum’s culinary background, which marries molecular gastronomy with traditional Thai cooking.

Thai food, but not as you know it, at Restaurant Moon

Thai food is changing, and one of the people changing it is Aum Touchpong Chancaw​, a former Longrain chef passionate about bringing a few European kitchen smarts to traditional Thai cooking.