From The New Orleans Menu Daily By Tom Fitzmorris Originally published April 16, 2007 Thai Pot 2$ Covington: 315 N. Vermont 985-809-7886 Lunch and dinner seven days. MC V A cottage in the downtown of Covington has a good-sized enclosed deck attached to it, and that facility has served a string of restaurants over the years. It's a pleasant place to dine, and has an interesting bit of ancient history: Lee Harvey Oswald lived here briefly about a year before he became infamous. The Thai Pot has been serving more-than-decent Thai food in this cottage for a number of years. Now and then it shows brilliance, particularly at dinner, when big bowls of juicy Thai curries carry a lot of flavor and (if you ask) a lot of heat. Some of the specials--particularly those involving seafood--are well above the local norm in both excellence and price. They do an especially good job with whole fish, braised with lots of fresh herbs and sauces that are as light in texture as they are intense in flavor. On the other hand, you'll get the occasional tepid fried spring roll at lunch, second-rate ingredients (green-lipped mussels, for example) here and there, and service that's so rapid that it almost seems as if they're trying to run you out of the place. I can understand this at lunch, when a lot of the customers come from the courthouse. But at dinner, it's necessary to ask the servers to slow down. The restaurant was established before the recent multiplication in the number of Thai eateries in Covington. Four new ones have opened since the storm, competing favorably for the Thai-dining crowd. But the Thai Pot retains many loyal regular customers, whose enthusiasm for the food is a touch over the top. This was a restaurant in the 2007 Top Sixty Ethnic Restaurant Countdown. To view the entire list, click here. Click here for an index of all restaurant reviews. © 2007 Tom Fitzmorris. All rights reserved. news@nomenu.com.