A Thai restaurant, regularly ranked as one of the Birmingham area’s best, plans to reopen Wednesday after temporarily closing.

Blue Pacific at Hoover Food Mart notified patrons in August via its Facebook page that it would close due to a family emergency. The nature of the emergency that required the operators to return to Thailand was not disclosed.

Late Tuesday, a new Facebook post announced its reopening.

“We are excited that we will be back operating our normal business hours starting tomorrow Wednesday Sept. 20 at 11am!!” the post reads. “We appreciate everyone’s patience as we had to handle our family emergency back in Thailand. We are so excited to be back and to see everyone! We hope to see some familiar faces this week. Please come by soon!”

The mini-mart and restaurant was opened in 2015 by Sam Aroon, who operated it with his wife, Prachit, and her brother, Dominic.

The format was unusual: When word-of-mouth began to spread soon after its opening, a reviewer entered to find “the convenience store to the left, a small industrial kitchen in front of us, and three small tables to our right.” Aroon later added more tables to meet rapidly growing demand.

Blue Pacific tends to feature in “Best Thai restaurant” rankings for the Birmingham area, including recommendations published by Yelp.com and soul-grown.com.