New Thai restaurant to open in the Heights

A new Thai restaurant will open in the Heights on May 22, just as restaurants are allowed to further expand their dine-in capacity.

Kin Dee Thai Cuisine, at 1533 N. Shepherd Drive, Suite 160, in the Market at Houston Heights, the restaurant is the brainchild of longtime friends Lukkaew Srasrisuwan and Miranda Loetkhamfu, according to a press release. The restaurant’s name is Thai for “to eat well” and derived from the Thai traditional blessing “Yoo Dee Kin Dee.”

Both women grew up in Thailand;…