Excellent Thai food. Pad Thai noodles are as good as the dishes I had
while on vacation in Thailand. Small, quaint place. Bring your own bottle of wine. Only turn off was the $3.oo corkage fee per person. Lemon grass pork was super. Will go back for sure.

Maybe we are a bit ethnically starved in Mystic for the really good 'different" food rather than seafood and pizza, but this restaurant has become a real star in town.

Located right next to the train station in Mystic, don't be turned off by the exterior or crowds, this place is worth it. From our kids who are 10 and 12 and our teenager on dates, this has become the family favorite based on the range of menu.

You can stick w/ the various types of noodles or go for their daily chicken or pork specilaities, we have never been disappointed. This is the place where you order 3-4 meals and appetizers and just keep splitting what they serve up.

Desserts are also good and different. Service is usually very good, you can bring wine in and they charge you for an opening per person but it is reasonable. We celebrated a real estate sale here one night w/ far too much wine but the Pinot w/ their nice mix of spices was one of my best meals anywhere in the world over the last couple of years.

RS&N was a very pleasant surprise! The food was excellent with just the right amount of tang, very friendly service, and it was right across from a cool used book store. Check it out!

Rice Spice Noodles
4 Roosevelt Ave
Mystic, CT 06355
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Rice Spice Noodles caught my attention one day while I was driving around trying to find something different for lunch. Different I found. The restaurant is just a little bit out of the main seaport area adjacent to the Amtrack station. There is no flashy sign on the building announcing the restaurants presence. The sign in the window is subtle, simple and clean. This is also how I would describe the restaurants interior though I'd add small and minimalist too the above adjectives.

The menu is a small selection of mostly thai and vietnamese influenced dishes with american and french twists. My personal arroach to a place like this is to go for the unfamiliar which, at rice spice noodles definitely pays off. The slippery glass noodle salad, lemongrass pork, and the various fried rice dishes are all outstanding. Rice Spice Noodles is fairly serious about keeping things as close to authentic as they can get away with. This means when they say a dish is spicy - believe them. This is a good thing since, out here in New England, spicy all too often means one notch hotter than a green bell pepper.

Also on the menu are more standard southeast asian favorites like an overly sweet and fairly limp version of Pad Thai and a few standard Thai curries.

Prices are very reasonable - most appetizers are around $4-$7, salads from $8-$12, and entrees from $9-$15.