For writers, editors, and anyone on a deadline.
Everything you need to cover Narwhal Thai Table, checked by the owners: the facts, a boilerplate you can paste, story angles that are actually true, and photos cleared for editorial use. For quotes, interviews or a tasting, email welcome@narwhalthaihb.com — one of the three of us reads it.
Fact sheet
- Restaurant
- Narwhal Thai Table
- Formerly
- Thai Gulf Restaurant (same address; business purchased and renamed July 2026)
- Owners
- Aileen, Annie and AK — three siblings · Narwhal Hospitality LLC
- Opened
- Soft opening Sunday, August 9, 2026 · open every day since · grand opening date to be announced
- Address
- 19072 Beach Blvd Ste A & B, Huntington Beach, CA 92648 (Beach Blvd at Garfield Ave)
- Phone
- (714) 378-6003
- Hours
- Open every day · Mon–Fri 11:30 AM–10 PM · Sat–Sun 12–10 PM · Lunch specials Mon–Fri 11:30 AM–3 PM
- Cuisine
- Thai — curry pastes pounded by hand, wok noodles and fried rice cooked to order, whole fried fish, Isaan salads and grills; vegetarian options
- Menu
- 75 dishes across 13 categories · most plates $12–20 · weekday lunch specials from $11.99
- Service
- Dine-in, reservations, pickup, delivery, catering and private events · dog-friendly patio
- Web & social
- narwhalthaihb.com · Instagram @narwhalthaitablehb · Facebook · Google Maps
- Press contact
- welcome@narwhalthaihb.com — ask for Aileen, Annie or AK
Boilerplate (copy-ready)
Narwhal Thai Table is a family-run Thai restaurant at 19072 Beach Blvd in Huntington Beach, California. Three siblings — Aileen, Annie and AK — bought the former Thai Gulf Restaurant in July 2026, renamed it, and opened on August 9, 2026, cooking Thai food the way they grew up eating it: curry pastes pounded by hand, wok dishes made to order, and weekday lunch specials from $11.99.
Narwhal Thai Table is a family-run Thai restaurant on Beach Boulevard in Huntington Beach, California, opened in August 2026 by three siblings, Aileen, Annie and AK, with thirty years of restaurant life between them. The family bought the neighborhood's longtime Thai Gulf Restaurant in July 2026 and rebuilt it as their own: curry pastes pounded from whole chilies, garlic, lemongrass and galangal in a granite mortar; dry spices toasted and ground in small batches; wok noodles, fried rice and curries cooked only when ordered. The 75-dish menu runs from Bangkok street plates and an Isaan corner of som tum, larb and crying tiger to whole fried pompano and Super Crab Fried Rice, with vegetarian options and weekday lunch specials from $11.99. The small dining room is joined by a dog-friendly patio under string lights, a short wine list, and a dessert list that starts with mango sticky rice. Open every day. narwhalthaihb.com · (714) 378-6003.
Story angles
- The succession story. A longtime neighborhood Thai restaurant changes hands to a Thai family who kept the address and the welcome, and changed everything in the kitchen. What it takes to inherit a room full of regulars and win them over again.
- Three siblings, one table. A family business in the most literal sense — who does what, what they argue about, and why they opened in Huntington Beach.
- The mortar, not the tub. Curry pastes pounded by hand in a granite mortar in 2026 — why it still matters, how you taste the difference, and what it costs a small kitchen to keep doing it.
- Mango sticky rice, done properly. Why the rice matters more than the mango — warm coconut sticky rice, a whisper of salt, ripe fruit — and how a small kitchen keeps it right every day.
- Lunch on Beach Boulevard. Weekday lunch specials from $11.99 with a salad, a spring roll and a cup of soup — a made-to-order alternative to the lunch line.
- Dogs on the patio. A dog-friendly patio under string lights, a short drive from Dog Beach and Central Park — the Huntington Beach version of a Thai family dinner.
Visiting for a story or a tasting
Email welcome@narwhalthaihb.com with your outlet and what you're working on. We're glad to host a tasting, walk you through the mortar and the wok, and put you on the phone with any of the three of us. Weekday afternoons between lunch and dinner are usually the quietest time to shoot the room.
Photos cleared for editorial use
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