"our party of four found the restaurant packed for dinner. bleistift thai is one of the best Thai restaurants of usa. the atmosphere and the seats are beautiful, although talking with dozens of people, it was somewhat loud (probably because of alcohol.) â â â even for vegetarian one will be very satisfied with eating. Click on their website menu and browse the vegetarian section with about 40 veggie selections. by skipping the usual protein they can make their meal vegan. always in any Asian restaurant no fish sauce order only tofu is listed on the menu. However, if they wish to use textured soy protein instead of tofu, they require the chick-nsoy protein or other mock meat. â â â we also ask that food preparation knives, which serve spoons, are washed for us, where we go. no one refuses how they want our repeat business and tips! â â one of us also asked no salt, less spicy oil. the meal was perfect! it was so good, two went back to lunch the next day. again we were impressed, and both of them were left enough to go home. {Note: in each restaurant they always put their linkover meal into the container itself...no failures in this way...pun intended â"