Restaurant

Khom Loi

Thai
LocaleTerroir: hostess at the door, Sebastopol, Sonoma County
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7385 Healdsburg Ave Ste 101
California
95472
Downtown Sebastopol
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Monday–Tuesday, Closed · Wednesday–Thursday, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM · Friday–Sunday, 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM

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.

Outdoor Seating
LocaleTerroir: hostess at the door, Sebastopol, Sonoma County
thai curries, big flavor

Khom Loi

Downtown Sebastopol
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Sebastopol
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7385 Healdsburg Ave Ste 101
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Sebastopol
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California
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95472
Monday–Tuesday, Closed · Wednesday–Thursday, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM · Friday–Sunday, 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Outdoor Seating
Wine Focus
The drinks list makes a case for Riesling with Thai cooking, and a happy hour runs 3 to 5 pm Friday through Sunday.

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.

Menu Highlights
Green Papaya Salad
Classic som tum
Fried Chicken
With nam jim dipping sauce
Massaman Curry
Golden potatoes, braised beef
Green Curry
Manila clams and potatoes
Thai Sausage
House-made, with green chili dip

The menu is made for sharing. Start with a pomelo salad or a wild mushroom naam tok, add roast duck by the half or whole, a whole fried fish under chili sauce, and sticky rice to soak it all up; pad Thai is here too, made with care. Curries and pastes are made in house, and the heat runs honest, so ask if you would like it gentler. The drinks list makes a case for Riesling and other lighter wines with Thai cooking, with pours by the glass in several sizes, a bottle list of offbeat finds from the Basque Country, Portugal and Hungary, Thai beer, and a coconut-cardamom Thai iced tea. Happy hour runs from 3 to 5, Friday through Sunday. The light, airy room suits a long, unhurried lunch.

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Matthew Williams

Chef & Co-Owner

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.

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Moishe Hahn-Schuman

Chef & Co-Owner

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.

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