Restaurants & Bars

Guilford Restaurants Combine To Offer Thai, American Food: Report

Ayuthai Royal Thai Cuisine and Maritime Grille have merged — and they're serving everything from seafood to pad thai, CT Insider reported.

Ayuthai Royal Thai Cuisine and Maritime Grille have combined to form Ayuthai/Maritime Grille, still located in Guilford.
Ayuthai Royal Thai Cuisine and Maritime Grille have combined to form Ayuthai/Maritime Grille, still located in Guilford. (Google Maps)

GUILFORD, CT — Two Guilford eateries have teamed up to create a new Thai-American restaurant with a wide variety of menu offerings, CT Insider reported.

Ayuthai Royal Thai Cuisine, previously located at 2279 Boston Post Road, has moved down the street and combined with Maritime Grille to form "Ayuthai/Maritime Grille," according to the newspaper.

At the new restaurant, diners can order everything from pad thai to traditional prime rib, CT Insider said, cooked by chefs from both restaurants — Pete Melanidis of Maritime Grille and Mexay Khambounhouang of Ayuthai.

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The two chefs are learning from each other, they told CT Insider, and Melanidis' wife Sofia described their relationship as "family."

Ayuthai/Maritime Grille is located at Maritime Grille's home (2548 Boston Post Road).

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