GREENWICH — Employing locally sourced components and a “superior broth” for soup and dumpling dishes, North and Jillian Shutsharwan have opened a new Thai restaurant in the coronary heart of Cos Cob.
Nit Noi, 3 Strickland Road, is a next undertaking for the Shutsharwans, who opened their to start with restaurant in Norwalk, where by the two stay. The food items, regionally sourced and sustainable, features vegan and gluten-absolutely free objects, but relies on its broth dishes to convey in clients.
Quite a few of the recipes are people North Shutsharwan’s mother has made, he said. In the beginning, the meals was marketed at the Westport farmer’s sector but proved popular sufficient to let the few to open their Norwalk cafe in 2018. They started advertising at the Aged Greenwich Farmer’s Industry last year.
“People were coming all the way to Norwalk and even to the Westport Farmer’s Sector to invest in from us,” Jillian Shutsharwan said. “That’s definitely a hike.”
Their expansion designs for Greenwich had been to start with specific for 2020 but COVID-19 triggered a delay, the pair stated. They formally opened in Cos Cob in March.
“Everything we’ve experimented with to do is a proof of notion,” North Shutsharwan mentioned. “Our 1st evidence of thought was the Westport farmer’s marketplace in 2016. We did not truly know what we were accomplishing at to start with but we realized we experienced a very good recipe. It was my mom’s broth recipe and a noodle soup recipe. There were a few destinations performing this in New York and some sites in California, but in Asia, this was everywhere you go and it wasn’t listed here.”
North Shutsharwan phone calls the menu “slow meals, served fast.”
“There’s a slight learning curve when people appear in below,” Jillian Shutsharwan mentioned. “That’s why the menu is broth-based mostly, truly. People today usually wander in and check with what you can get.
“People who arrive in locate we treatment about generating true meals and are transparent with our ingredients. We care that it’s from scratch and we actually have a focus on sustainability equally in conditions of the food stuff program and all of our packaging,” Jillian Shutsharwan said. “We want to introduce persons to the new, balanced fast food stuff.”
The menu contains a broth bar and a dumpling station together with standard Thai dishes like the dwelling specialty, guay teow gai — a soup khao mun gai — hen and cucumber more than jasmine steamed rice tom kha ga — coconut soup and a number of curry dishes. But the menu seriously showcases the broth and the range of flavors the restaurant delivers.
The cafe has indoor seating, a comprehensive takeout menu and presents supply and completely ready-made broths and dumplings readily available for purchase. There is also Nit Noi items available.
Long run options also incorporate a learn cooking class by North Shutsharwan’s mother, Westport resident Jari Shutsharwan, the few claimed.
“Our response in this article the first thirty day period has been excellent,” North Shutsharwan mentioned. “People have been coming in and declaring ‘we couldn’t wait around for you to open,’ which is good to listen to.”
The Shutsharwans credited Mike’s Natural and organic proprietor Mike Geller as a person of the key reasons they have occur to Greenwich.
“We’ve been offering by Mike’s Natural and organic in Stamford and he’s been incredibly supportive,” Jillian Shutsharwan said. Mike’s Natural is opening a Greenwich restaurant on the web page of the former Patio.com.
North Shutsharwan extra, “Without Mike we wouldn’t know all the individuals below and we would not have been launched to the industry right here. We have been advertising with him considering the fact that 2017 and Mike was one particular of our very first accounts and is nonetheless advertising our broth.”
The total menu for Nit Noi is on-line at https://nitnoiprovisions.com/ and contains a weekly mailing record.
