Chutatip ‘Nok’ Suntaranon’s star has been rising steadily since she opened the first iteration of her lauded restaurant Kalaya in Philadelphia’s Italian Market in 2019, before partnering with Defined Hospitality and opening an expansive version of Kalaya in the Fishtown neighborhood in late 2022

Though it shouldn’t be, it is still a shock to some visitors that beneath Philadelphia’s infamously rough exterior lies a bevy of restaurants as diverse as the population itself