Park Slope Thai Favorite SkyIce To Open Second Location This Week

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — A popular Thai restaurant on Fifth Avenue will open a second location this week that celebrates ancient dishes from the country.

SkyIce, which has run its 62 Fifth Ave. spot for eight years, has planned a grand opening for the new space at 437 Fifth Ave. for this Friday, the Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District announced. The new location will expand the Thai food and ice cream eatery to include more historical food adapted from the Thai palace, owners said.

"We wanted to do something different, so we compiled a menu that includes some ancient dishes taken from the Thai royal palace," co-owner Sutheera Denprapa told the BID.

Denprapa, a Bangkok native, founded SkyIce's first location with her business partner and husband Jonathan Bayer.

The dishes on the new menu at SkyIce's second location will include 100-year-old recipes Denprapa found from the palace that she translated, and then converted measurements and ingredients to create modern equivalents.

The new spot will feature menu highlights like Crab Meat Curry, Fried Chicken Lamb Ball and Fried Red Snapper with Green Mango Salad along with some SkyIce's most popular staples, owners said.

"The atmosphere at SkyIce 9th St. is still going to be Brooklyn - comfortable and casual with many popular classic dishes that Thai people like to eat when they get together in groups," Bayer said.

The second location will also expand the restaurant's dessert offerings, including a lemongrass iced tea float, milkshakes with exotic flavors like Lychee Rose Thai Tea and more than 300 ice cream flavors, including Wasabi Peanut Butter, White Miso Almond and other unique options.

"What I still love most is strolling the markets and drawing inspiration from fruits, flowers, vegetables, spices and anything else I can connect with in the aisles," said Denprapa, who started the business by creating ice cream flavors for family and friends 12 years ago.

SkyIce, which is 100 percent Halal, was voted the 2019 Best Thai Restaurant by Dime Best of Brooklyn.