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Thai & Vietnamese are a natural combination, one that’s done well at this Uptown fusion spot. Giant chicken wings in a chili-garlic glaze make for the perfect accompaniment to one of Malai’s house-brewed beers, as does the green papaya salad made with candied beef jerky. When it's time to order entrees, go for pad thai or the chiang mai noodles, served in a spicy coconut curry sauce...

Selling packaged beer to-go gives Southlake’s Malai Kitchen an advantage, owner Braden Wages said. Because he operates as a brewpub, Wages is allowed to sell the restaurant’s beer to-go. He said this rule helps make his product better. “The beer we are serving has always been brewed within a week or two tops,” Wages said. “It didn’t get made, … go through distributors, and sit in a grocery store. Freshness is really shockingly very important to beer.”

Food and drink options abound during happy hour at this West Village spot. Check out one of the six house-brewed draft beers for $4, wine for $6, and the eight specialty cocktails for $7, like the Tropic Thai with vodka, ginger liqueur, passionfruit puree, pineapple, and mint. Asian bites also take center stage with fried imperial rolls, chicken satay, and Vietnamese meatballs for $5.

Ready to celebrate Lunar New Year? On Feb. 5, families around the world take part in the celebrations for Tết, the first day of the Lunar New Year — and spring — for Vietnamese families. ... Topping the list is Malai Kitchen. Located at 3699 McKinney Ave., Suite 319, in Oak Lawn, the Thai, Vietnamese and breakfast and brunch spot is the highest rated Vietnamese restaurant in Dallas...

Five months after they opened, business went off the face of a cliff. The decline was a gut-punch surprise for owners Braden and Yasmin Wages. Malai Kitchen was their first restaurant, and good feedback met them right out of the gate. They’d traveled the world, enriched bowls of lip-smacking curries with, say, the electric pop of kaffir lime, but suddenly, the honeymoon was over...

It may come as a surprise to some, but Dallas is a surprisingly friendly city for diners who seek gluten-free dining options... Malai Kitchen: Pretty much everything on the menu at Malai Kitchen is gluten-free, or can at least be prepared that way, which means that gluten-free diners can dig into pineapple fried rice, peanut-encrusted trout, and green curry chicken without worry.

An Uptown Dallas restaurant is hosting a specially themed pop-up dedicated to craft beer. Malai Kitchen in the West Village is hosting an event called Bia Hoi Popup, a one-day only Vietnamese-themed event that's an entirely separate restaurant right in front of Malai Kitchen...

Dallas' highest-rated restaurants according to rankings by TripAdvisor...

Best of Fort Worth 2018 Winner Malai Kitchen - "Best New Restaurant", "Best Vietnamese", "Best Wine List" & "Best Place To Take A First Date To Impress"