"This is Top Chef season five contestant Leah Cohen’s first New York City restaurant that she opened in 2012 in the Lower East Side. The casual trendy pan-Southeast Asian restaurant offers an array of dishes from kare kare brisket dumplings, the crab foo young, and cocktail tastings with options like the Kentucky Pig made with a curry leaf and ginger. Pig & Khao recently expanded into the Upper West Side in December 2024, too; Cohen also runs Piggyback." - Nadia Chaudhury