Where the listings come from
Business names, addresses, phone numbers and websites start from open geodata: the Overture Maps Foundation places dataset, which includes Foursquare OS Places and OpenStreetMap contributions. We keep Thai restaurants and Thai kitchens, Thai noodle houses and street-food spots, Thai-and-sushi restaurants and Thai cafes that serve full meals; Thai massage studios, Asian grocery stores and markets, catering-only kitchens, food trucks and restaurants that only list a few Thai dishes on a broader pan-Asian menu are not listed here. We remove duplicates (the same name and street in the same city) and drop businesses that are reported closed or that asked to be removed.
A city gets its own page when it has at least two Thai restaurants; towns with a single listing appear on their state page, so no page is built around one business.
What a listing shows
95% of listings have a phone number and 67% link to the business's own website. Opening hours appear only where the business or its owner has published them. We do not show ratings or reviews, and we do not copy text from other directories.
How features are marked
Vegan, buffet and sushi are marked from the restaurant’s name and business category or when the restaurant’s own website names them; Thai tea is marked only from the restaurant’s own website — we read the site text with fixed word rules and check samples by hand. A restaurant without such words is left unmarked rather than guessed. A vegan label means the restaurant says so about its menu, not that a dish is free of any ingredient — confirm ingredients with the staff. These marks are applied by software — name rules, wording rules run over each business's own website, and an AI model that reads that website — not written by hand. A mark from a website is kept only when the wording is found on the page, so a business without a mark may still offer the service — call to check.
Corrections from owners
Owners can correct their listing for free — new hours, a changed phone number, a moved address, services they offer. Corrections are applied and the listing is marked "Updated by the owner" with the month. Owners can also ask for a listing to be removed, and the removal is permanent. Write to contact@thaifoodatlas.com.
How lists are ordered
Top 10 lists and the order of each city page follow how complete a listing is — website, phone, hours, services — and whether the owner has checked it. No business can pay for a position.
How often it is updated
The directory is rebuilt from the current data every night, so owner corrections usually appear within a day. The underlying geodata is refreshed from new Overture releases.