Best of Boston

2025 Best Pop-up

Phaeng & Phiu

If chef Veo Robert’s pop-up doesn’t spark a citywide obsession with Laotian cuisine, we’re staging an intervention. Whether he’s cooking up pun mieng—a big platter of drinking food, from fried whole black bass to smoked sausage—or New England-meets-Laos grilled quahogs with jaew som (a spicy-sour sauce), fried garlic, and caviar, this is one pop-up worth chasing.

Multiple locations, instagram.com/phaengandphiu