Great news. There's a new Thai restaurant in Sofia. This a restaurant I've long thought we should have in Sofia. So here's a big welcome to the Thai restaurant <a href="http://bluemoon.bg/" target="_blank">Blue Moon</a>!!

They went for a Thai-inspired name but nothing quite as in your face at Thaiphoon or the King and I.

A bunch of us went to check it out on Friday night.

The restaurant is on Rakovski (Раковски 127) right next to Club Alcohol. Literately right next to Alcohol. In fact if you ate a late dinner you could walk out of Blue Moon and straight down the stairs into the club.

Blue Moon has gone for a gold-moon lit from behind with blue light theme and some hanging paper flowers as decor.

The food. Well, here's the bad news. It's not really Thai food. If you go hoping for coconut infused curries or pad thai with rice noodles you'll be disappointed.  The food is good but it would be much better to describe it as Asian inspired than Thai.

Here's what I liked. The vegetables in the noodle dishes were cut into nice sizes--not too big and not too small-- and then they were well-cooked in that they still had a little bit to them.  The dish I had the pad king also had a little kick to it but it wasn't too much. I actually thought that it was pretty great.

Was it Thai food as I know it? Nope. But that's okay. Luckily I know <a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/2010/05/09/pad-thai-esque/" target="_blank">how to make my own pad tha</a>i. In fact I may have to make it one night this week.