Behind a modest Healdsburg Avenue storefront in Sebastopol, a bright room opens onto a patio framed by two-story shoji walls. The Ramen Gaijin partners cook regional Thai food for sharing: green papaya salad, fried chicken with nam jim, massaman curry with braised beef, whole fried fish, roast duck. Curries are made in house. Michelin Bib Gourmand, 2026.



Khom Loi is a Thai restaurant on Healdsburg Avenue in Sebastopol, opened in 2021 in the space that once held Peter Lowell's. It is run by chefs Matthew Williams and Moishe Hahn-Schuman, the partners behind Ramen Gaijin across town, and the cooking draws on Williams's long travels through Thailand: vivid, regionally rooted dishes rather than Americanized standards. Within months of opening, the Michelin Guide named it one of ten notable new restaurants in San Francisco and Wine Country, and it now holds a Bib Gourmand in the 2026 California guide for quality and value. From the street it is a modest storefront, and much of its following has come by word of mouth. Inside, the dining room opens to an indoor-outdoor patio framed by two-story sliding shoji walls.

Matthew Williams came up through kitchens such as The Restaurant at Meadowood in Napa before meeting chef Moishe Hahn-Schuman at Woodfour Brewing in The Barlow. Their ramen staff meals became a monthly pop-up and then Ramen Gaijin in Sebastopol, and the two chefs went on to open Khom Loi, their own take on Thai cooking, in the same town.

Moishe Hahn-Schuman co-created the culinary speakeasy The Blind Pig and cooked at the Casino Bar & Grill in Bodega before meeting chef Matthew Williams at Woodfour Brewing. Their ramen staff meals grew into a pop-up and then Ramen Gaijin in Sebastopol, and the pair went on to open Khom Loi, a Thai restaurant in the same town.