{"id":5204,"date":"2026-09-18T21:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/chao-baan-to-close-after-seven-years-in-the-grove\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:03:56","slug":"chao-baan-to-close-after-seven-years-in-the-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/chao-baan-to-close-after-seven-years-in-the-grove\/","title":{"rendered":"Chao Baan To Close After Seven Years In The Grove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 18, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) Chao Baan, the Prapaisilp family\u2019s regional Thai restaurant in The Grove, will permanently close after dinner service Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026, bringing an end to a seven-year run that introduced many St. Louis diners to Thai cooking extending well beyond familiar pad thai and curry dishes. The closing represents the end of a distinctive chapter for one of St. Louis\u2019 most established locally owned restaurant families. But based on owner Shayn Prapaisilp\u2019s explanation, this is not a story of a family abandoning the local food business. Instead, it appears to be<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/stlouisrestaurantreview.com\/chao-baan-close-the-grove\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 18, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) Chao Baan, the Prapaisilp family\u2019s regional Thai restaurant in The Grove, will permanently close after dinner service Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026, bringing an end to a seven-year run that introduced many St&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5206,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions\/5206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}