Alex Boonphaya

Circles Gets A New Lunch Menu, Offers Free Burgers (Yeah, Burgers)

Posted by Jason Sheehan on May 30th, 2013

And because Circles is a Thai restaurant, it makes total sense that, to celebrate the new menu, chef Alex Boonphaya is giving away free burgers to everyone at the Northern Liberties location between noon and 2pm tomorrow–the day the new menu launches. I mean, nothing says Thailand like a nice cheeseburger, right?

Actually, the burger? That isn’t so weird since, slowly but surely, Boonphaya has been turning Circles into a strange kind of Thai/Mexican/American/Indian/Spanish/Korean fusion restaurant with things like Thai burritos, kimchi tacos with Penang beef, lamb massaman naan pizzas and nachos on the new board.

Oh, and that burger? Not your traditional bar burger, natch. He’s calling it a Sai Oar burger, making it with ground beef and lamb, topping it with fried onions, lettuce, tomato, cheddar cheese and a fried egg and and serving it with tomatillo sauce.

You can check out the full lunch menu after the jump. And trust me–it’s worth a read.

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Thai New Year Continues with New Street Menu at Circles

Posted by Taylor Bush on April 25th, 2013

2013 has certainly been a helluva year for chef Alex Boonphaya of Circles. Between the collaboration dinners, his Thai New Year feast, a new menu of soups and whatever else he’s done while we weren’t looking, the man has been busy. And he isn’t done yet.

Boonphaya’s latest creation is a full-on Thai street food menu designed exclusively for the NoLibs location. These ten dishes will be available daily in addition to Boonphaya’s regular menu, and his goal in creating this new menu is to take advantage of Philadelphia’s fascination with street food by introducing flavors from other countries and cultures.

And here’s the lineup…

Show me the menu

Early Weekend Plans: Circles Celebrating Thai New Year With A Killer Menu

Posted by Jason Sheehan on April 10th, 2013

For the past couple months, Circles chef Alex Boonphaya has been welcoming some of the city’s best chefs into his kitchen for a series of collaboration dinners that have all been leading up to this: his three-day-long king-hell blowout 8-course Thai New Year party. For it, he has cobbled together the best dishes culled from his collaboration dinners and will be offering the whole thing for just $50 a pop.

Wanna know what’s on the menu?

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Tonight: John Taus, George Sabatino Are Collaborating at Circles

Posted by Foobooz on March 28th, 2013

thai-scrapple

Thai Scrapple

A handful of seats remain for the John Taus (The Corner, Corner Foodery) and George Sabatino (Morgan’s Pier) collaborative dinner tonight at Circles Northern Liberties. The six-course dinner hosted by Circles’ Alex Boonphaya is $50 per person and is BYOB.

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Circles Is Celebrating Thai New Year With An Awesome Collaboration Dinner Series

Posted by Jason Sheehan on February 21st, 2013

Chef/owner Alex Boonphaya has already made a lot of news with his Thai restaurant Circles in Northern Liberties. But now he’s doing it again, announcing a series of collaboration dinners with notable local chefs, all culminating with a kind of 8-course greatest hits dinner.

Check out the schedule below.

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Circles Debuts Thai Noodle Soups

Posted by Victor Fiorillo on February 13th, 2013

While Circles Bala Cynwyd is in the midst of major drama, it’s full speed ahead at the other Circles Thai restaurants. On Monday, chef Alex Boonphaya will debut three Thai noodle soups at the Northern Liberties location. Read the rest of this entry »

Major Drama at Circles Bala Cynwyd… Is it Closed? Is it Open?

Posted by Victor Fiorillo on February 12th, 2013

My previously Thai-deprived, bougie Main Line friends have been raving about the Bala Cynwyd outpost of Circles since it opened in early December. But now, just two months after the first dinner service, Circles Bala Cynwyd has closed.

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Alex Boonphaya

Circles Gets A New Lunch Menu, Offers Free Burgers (Yeah, Burgers)

Thai New Year Continues with New Street Menu at Circles

Early Weekend Plans: Circles Celebrating Thai New Year With A Killer Menu

Tonight: John Taus, George Sabatino Are Collaborating at Circles

Circles Is Celebrating Thai New Year With An Awesome Collaboration Dinner Series

Circles Debuts Thai Noodle Soups

Major Drama at Circles Bala Cynwyd… Is it Closed? Is it Open?