Good Catch
Thai Urban Bistro
About Good Catch | Thai Urban Bistro
Authentic Thai recipes, inspired by Louisiana’s bountiful Gulf and served with heart.
Food is love. Good Catch is Executive Chef and Owner Aom Srisuk and her husband and business partner Frankie Weinberg’s loving tribute to New Orleans, a city that welcomed and inspired them to dream bigger. Opened on January 1, 2024 in the heart of downtown New Orleans, Good Catch is a space where Chef Aom brings forward her personal style of Thai hospitality while embracing the abundance, energy and generosity of Louisiana through its fresh local seafood.
Drawing inspiration from Louisiana’s rich fishing culture, many menu items at Good Catch highlight ingredients including fresh Gulf shrimp, jumbo lump blue crab, scallops and whole fish, all prepared using time-honored Thai techniques. These ingredients are paired with fragrant Thai jasmine rice, fresh Thai herbs and carefully sourced spices, many supplied by trusted local farmers and Asian markets that provide the essential building blocks of Thai cooking.
Our menu at Good Catch reflects the expansive and inclusive spirit of Thai cooking. Whether you are drawn to seafood, vegetables or slow-cooked comfort, there is always a place for you at our table. Alongside familiar favorites, guests will find regional Thai dishes rarely seen in the U.S., including steamed whole fish with chili and lime, glass noodle clay pot, Ayutthaya boat noodle soup and many additional vibrant plates that feel uniquely at home in New Orleans.
We also proudly offer a full selection of vegetarian dishes-many of them vegan-prepared with depth, balance, care and lots of flavor. Guests will find deeply comforting non-seafood dishes as well, including a tender eight-hour braised short rib simmered in our smooth, aromatic khao soi curry, so soft it can be enjoyed with chopsticks. Every dish is bold yet balanced, always authentic in flavor and cooking style.
With a full bar featuring curated wines, beers and specialty craft cocktails designed to complement Thai flavors, the atmosphere at Good Catch is lively, social and welcoming. It’s a restaurant made for sharing meals, conversation and moments. An urban oasis whether you’re joining us for lunch, happy hour or a long dinner with friends.
Here, food is love.
And every plate is an invitation to the table.
(Good Catch is Chef Aom Srisuk’s second restaurant in New Orleans, and the larger of the two. Guests looking for a more intimate expression of her cooking can visit our sister restaurant Pomelo Thai Boutique Restaurant in New Orleans’ Uptown neighborhood.)
About Chef Aom
Owner and Executive Chef
Chef Aom Srisuk brings more than two decades of experience as a restaurant owner and chef. She moved to the United States in 2018 after owning and operating several restaurants in Thailand, but her first exposure to cooking was as a young girl in her grandmother’s kitchen in her hometown of Ayutthaya, where Aom assisted her grandmother in the daily preparation of large family meals. Grandma taught her every step of the process, training Aom to complete all the small tasks from picking and de-stemming chilis and Thai basil to pounding the curry paste by hand and shaving fresh coconut to extract its rich milk for those curries.
At age 15, Aom moved to Bangkok to help her mother with her Japanese izakaya restaurant in the city’s vibrant central business district, where she learned the foundations of hospitality and business. Working with her mom gave her the opportunity to start from the ground up-everything from the humble act of organizing guests’ shoes before welcoming them onto the tatami mat to serving, managing, accounting, and learning the language of the industry.
Upon graduating from university, Aom opened four successful restaurants of her own in Bangkok and Ayutthaya. After more than 15 years running these restaurants, she rekindled a long-lost love when her now-husband and business partner, Frankie Weinberg (an author and professor) returned to Southeast Asia on sabbatical. Following a year-long courtship, Aom agreed to join him in New Orleans. They married in December 2018, and after gaining her work authorization, she immediately joined the city’s hospitality industry, where she fell in love with both the culture of New Orleans and the excitement of adding Thai flavors into the melting pot that shapes what New Orleans cuisine is today.
About Frankie Weinberg
Co-Owner and Managing Partner
Frankie J. Weinberg, Ph.D., is the co-owner of Good Catch | Thai Urban Bistro and Pomelo Thai Boutique Restaurant, where, alongside his wife and culinary visionary, Executive Chef Aom Srisuk, he creates warm, welcoming spaces rooted in Thai hospitality and cultural authenticity, and community.
Outside the restaurant world, Frankie is an award-winning professor of leadership and organizational behavior at Loyola University New Orleans, a globally-recognized speaker, and advisor to high-impact organizations. His research on mentoring, teams, and leadership is published in top academic journals and recognized for both scholarly impact and practical relevance.
Frankie has taught and led graduate, undergraduate, and executive programs on four continents and recently served as Visiting Scholar at the University of Sydney Business School-home to one of the world’s top Executive MBA programs—in a department ranked among the top 35 globally for business research.
He is co-author of Management Today (Sage, 2nd ed.) and author of the forthcoming book Mentorship: Empowering Mentees to Take the Lead and Co-Create their Development (University of Toronto Press, published under the prestigious Rotman School of Management imprint). In every endeavor, Frankie brings a commitment to fostering connection, cultivating community, and empowering others to thrive.