Cô Ba Restaurant is a Thai restaurant at 300G Lincoln Road in Addington, Christchurch, holding a 4.5 Google rating.
Thai food lives or dies on balance: the push and pull of sweet, sour, salty and hot, with a good kitchen holding all four in check rather than letting one dominate. Chilli heat is nearly always adjustable, so say how you like it — a Thai medium can run hotter than most palates expect. The best way to eat is family-style: a curry, a stir-fry and something fresh like green papaya salad over plenty of jasmine rice covers more ground than one dish each. Regulars tend to look past the familiar westernised standards and ask what the kitchen cooks for its own table.
On Lincoln Road in Addington, Cô Ba puts that kind of cooking within easy reach of the neighbourhood.