The Thai restaurant at 17 East Main Street in Westminster MD recently
changed hands.
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Welcome to the Tim Thai Classic
restaurant in Westminster.
Eating at an ethnic restaurant is certainly nothing new in Carroll
County. Ever since William Winchester founded Westminster in 1764 on one of the
three main roads in Maryland for travelers headed west, there has always been a
strong restaurant tradition in town.
By Kevin E. Dayhoff
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Last Friday night, November 15, 2013, after John and Debby Sosnowsky’s opening
at Off Track Art, John,
Debby and Corrie Sosnowsky, Bobby Waddell, Linda Van Hart, Caroline Babylon
and I went over to the Tim Thai Classic restaurant in Westminster at 17 East
Main Street for some food and fellowship.
There has been a restaurant at 17 East Main Street as long as most
folks can remember. It is believed that the “Central Restaurant” was located
there as far back as the 1950s. Much more research will be needed to determine
when the Central Restaurant opened and closed. Phone books from the very early
1950s show a “Central Restaurant” located in Hampstead at 20 South Main Street,
but not in Westminster.
The 1952 Westminster phone directory shows Acme Market at 1 East Main
Street; Treat Shop – owned by the Burk Family – at 5 East Main; the Carroll
Pastry Shop at 7 East Main; “The American Restaurant” at 9 East Main; The
Coffman-Fisher Co. Dept. Store at 11 East Main; Hollander’s Home & Auto
Supplies at 13 East Main; Read’s Drug and Chemical C0 at 15 East Main; and 17
is listed for “Dryden, Clarence C, Helen F Myrtle… Kipe Doris, Larry E Martin.”
Are we understand that it was a residence in 1952?
The 1954 phone directory does not show a listing for a restaurant. (It
does give my address as 40 Ward Avenue in Westminster.)
In recent years, 17 East Main Street has been a Thai restaurant for
many-many years. However, we were not aware that it recently changed hands.
Although the new owners of the Thai restaurant at 17 East Main Street have
repainted some of the walls and are in the process of changing a few things
around; the food and the service were still wonderful.
I had the vegetable fried rice, spring rolls, and shitake soup; plus a
little of this and a little of that off of my friends’ plates. Caroline had the
eggplant tofu. It was all delicious. And the service was friendly,
conversational, personable and personal.
The website, http://www.thaiclassiconline.com/
notes, “We have recently changed
ownership and management. As such our menu (now posted) will be changing.
“Our offerings are individually
cooked in the traditional way. Thai and other Asian foods that have been
"tweaked" for American tastes. “Come in and try our Tom Kha (coconut
soup) and taste the balance of sweetness and tartness…”
In addition to an article in the Baltimore
Sun on February 11, 2013, I have written quite a number of articles on
restaurants, inns, hotels and saloons in Westminster…
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