Wela Thai Courtyard Puts a Whole Ribeye on Its Khao Soi

The West Hollywood newcomer's steak-topped curry noodles cost $35 on its posted menu and come out in a wisteria-covered courtyard.

A whole ribeye, sliced and cooked to order, sits on top of the khao soi at Wela Thai Courtyard, a new Thai restaurant in West Hollywood.

L.A. Taco spotted the bowl in its Nov. 6 Weekend Eats column, and it's the order. Most of Wela's menu is the Thai lineup the city already knows by heart, with pad Thai, pad see ew and a row of $20 curry plates, so the steak-topped curry noodles are the one I'd order. Nobody from the Globe has eaten at Wela. This pick rests on L.A. Taco's report and the restaurant's own posted menu.

According to L.A. Taco, the bowl is coconut curry over two kinds of egg noodles, fresh and dry, with pickled mustard greens and the sliced steak laid across the top. Wela's website promises Thai comfort cooking. L.A. Taco reported that the kitchen works with herbs and sauces shipped in from Thailand.

Bring a few extra dollars. L.A. Taco put the dish at $32, but Wela's online menu, checked Nov. 9, lists "Kao Soi Ribeye" at $35. A chicken khao soi sits right above it at $25, so the steak is a $10 upgrade, and the ribeye bowl is exactly the splurge it looks like.

The setting does the rest of the selling. On the restaurant's website, Wela describes stepping through an iron archway, under a ceiling of hanging wisteria, into a brick courtyard with olive trees, a fountain and string lights overhead. After dark there are lanterns and candle lamps on the tables. L.A. Taco adds a magnolia tree to the scene. Indoors, the site says, there's a crystal chandelier, dark wood beams and a tiled archway.

The menu could use some of that calm. It runs from $8 edamame to a $35.99 whole fish in tamarind sauce, with a chef's specials list heavy on duck, and on Nov. 9 it still carried a Halloween section. At a new place with a menu that long and still settling, the smart order is the dish somebody already photographed.

L.A. Taco says it serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. The menu also lists a 2-to-6 p.m. happy hour but doesn't say what's on it.

Wela isn't the place to work through a long menu. It's for the eater who wants steak night and Thai night in the same bowl, eaten under the wisteria.

Source: lataco.com, retrieved November 9, 2026. Other sources: welaweho.com, the restaurant's website.