Since we opened our doors

Our story

Inside the Sab Fried Rice dining room on Rogers Avenue.

A family kitchen on Rogers Avenue

Sab means delicious in Lao. We put it in the name because the food we cook is the food we grew up eating — recipes carried through the family, cooked the way they were taught to us rather than the way a supplier's spec sheet says to.

We are a small, family-owned restaurant in Fort Smith, and everything on the menu is made to order. The curry pastes get simmered down, the salads get mixed when you ask for them, and the heat is set to whatever you tell us. Nothing sits under a lamp waiting.

Arkansas welcomed us, and this is what we cook for it.

A dish being finished in the Sab Fried Rice kitchen.

Thai and Lao, side by side

Most Thai restaurants in the region stop at the Thai half. We cook both, because they belong together — the coconut curries and pad thai people come in expecting, and the laab, nam khao, papaya salad and sticky rice that are the everyday food of Laos.

If you have not eaten Lao food before, start with the nam khao or a laab. They are sour, herby and built on texture rather than richness, and they are the clearest answer we can give to the question of what makes this place different.


From our guests

“Fresh ingredients well prepared and presented. They don't cut any corners and the food is fantastic. I've paid much more for mediocre food in upscale restaurants.”

Kirby, via Yelp
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