Thai Taste Restaurant
“I ordered the fried coconut shrimp, spring rolls, pad see ew w/ chicken and lychee juice.”
“My main dish is the Massaman Curry; which consists of potatoes, onion, peanuts, and coconut milk.”
“For appetizers I ordered the Crab Rangoon & Coconut shrimp which was delicious.”
Thai Taste Restaurant
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
PokéStop Nearby: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Came here on a rainy but quiet Thursday afternoon for lunch and was delighted to go for some Thai! This restaurant has a decent selection of lunch specials which is Monday-Friday from 11:30am-3:30pm. This includes your choice of mini appetizer (Salad, Spring Roll, Seafood Roll, Vegetable Dumpling Or Soup Of The Day.) You then select the type of meat you would like for the main course (Curry with rice, Noodles, etc) I selected the Soup Of The Day in which was wontons in which I was secretly craving! The Wonton soup comes in three pieces and is made of chicken. My main dish is the Massaman Curry; which consists of potatoes, onion, peanuts, and coconut milk. Portion sizes appear smaller than typical places but nonetheless…AMAZING. Everything in it was delicious, as for the potatoes gave it that rich texture, and the peanuts really gave it that crunch. Also ordered their Thai Iced Tea and would definitely recommend! Would like to return sometime and try out their dinner! Great service as well!
One of our favorite, "GO-TO" Thai HOT SPOTs!
What we have tried on the menu so far…
Mango Salmon – LOVE
Bangkok Chicken – LIKE
Chicken Cashew Nut Delight – LOVE
Chicken Pad Thai – LOVE
Vegetable Pad Thai – LOVE
Pad See-Ew – LOVE
Tamarind Duck – DISLIKE
Garlic Duck – LIKE
Fried Calamari – LOVE
Duck Roll – LOVE
Fried Tofu – LIKE
Thai Iced Tea – LIKE
Let's just say we absolutely LOVE the pad thai here and not so much their tamarind duck.. but not all dishes are always perfect and majority of their dishes are VERY GOOD though…… so yeah, tamarind duck, we forgive you!!! *wink
I ended up here last night with my 2 sons because we were craving Thai food. BKNY was slammed so we came here and decided to give it a try.
Strike 1: As soon as we sat down, someone took our drink order. We ordered 2 Thai iced teas and a coconut juice. The iced teas came out right away but the server came back and asked what else we ordered. I told him a coconut juice and he walked away. Now a waitress came by and took our dinner order and mentioned I ordered a coconut juice for my son. She acknowledged it and walked away. We didn't get the juice until our appetizer came out. How hard is it to get coconut juice?! (P.S. the iced tea is so heavy on the milk you can hardly taste the tea)
Strike 2: My biggest pet peeve at a restaurant is when entrees don't come out together. I can understand if it's a huge group since it can be hard to coordinate. But there was 3 of us. I ordered a pad Thai which came out shortly after the appetizer. We waited a good 10 minutes before another dish came out and then another 10 minutes before the last dish came out. My kids were so hungry they lost their appetites. Every time I asked where's the rest of our food, they kept saying it's coming. That's so annoying!
Strike 3: The bill comes and for an appetizer, 3 entrees and 3 drinks it comes out to about $53. That's so overpriced for the quality of food. Everything was salty and heavy on the fish sauce. I wouldn't mind paying that if the food was good, but it's not! My son's beef pineapple fried rice was $13. $13 for rice pineapple and beef….wtf.
We all ended up not even finishing our food. I had the worst stomach ache after as well. Yea I'm not returning.
Decent thai restaurant. It's close by my school, so whenever i'm craving for thai food, it's right there. Super convenient. The prices are not too bad. I like to go during their lunch special. $8-$10 (depending what protein you choose) for appetizer, a choice of protein, and a entrée. I usually get their chicken pad thai & it is YUMS. It's probably one of the better pad thai I have had. Their pad kee mao is good also! It's not as spicy as I thought it would be, but there is a reasonable amount of spice. The only bad thing is their service is inconsistent. There are times where I would get my food within a few minutes and there are times where I would wait half an hour and still not get my food. Other than that, it's very clean inside and affordable 🙂
It's not a fancy place, but the food is solid. We ordered curry puffs, which were a bit too greasy for me. It would've been nice to soak the extra grease out, or if they fried it at a higher temp so that it less likely to absorb the grease.
It was definitely duck night for us… Duck Red Curry and Duck Pad Thai. Unlike some restaurants, we didn't have to search for pieces of duck. It was a good portion of duck. The red curry was really good, the flavor a were spot on, and the green beans super fresh, and cooked perfectly to offer the right amount of crunch.
I didn't try the Duck Pad Thai, but that plate quickly emptied in front of my eye, so it must have been good. 🙂
Definitely coming back again.
This was our restaurant by default. We had a horrific experience down the block so opted to walk down to try this place for the first time. I mean nothing could be as bad has what we had at the Crepe n Tearia.
I ordered the Thai Fried rice with chicken and pineapple and G had the Pad Thai.
Thai fried rice seemed safe considering the previously not eaten meal and I was right. The fried rice was good and there was plenty of chicken in the dish. It was plated nicely with cucumber. The rice was hot and good but could have been fried a bit longer and the restaurant was a bit skimpy on the cashews. Was the fried rice good, yes, was it great, no. G said that his Pad Thai was very good and I will have to take his word for it as I did not taste it.
Before the meal was over, I noticed that another customer had ordered the Thai Iced Tea. I totally forgot how much I love this drink, so I ordered one. They serve the Thai Iced tea in mason jars, how interesting. The tea was strong but good. It was a different type of tea than I am accustomed to having at Thai restaurants. Again, the Thai Iced tea was good, but not great. I have been to restaurants where the tea has been so good that you can order a second. Not the case tonight. One was plenty.
The food was tasty, fragrant, hot and all around ok. Would I recommend this place, not necessarily but it was ok. We both said it was decent and the restaurant seemed clean. The bill was around $27.00.
The one thing I did not like seeing was the oversized fishes in a very small tank. Yes I know they are fish, but these fish seriously need a bigger tank. One of the fish in the tank was being a fish bully and picking on another fish. Fish frustration, maybe, I don't know, but as I left it seemed as if one of the fish was looking at me and pleading with his eyes…..get me out of here…please.
So please owners of Thai Taste….get a bigger fish tank or re-home two of those big fish. Mr. Orange fish is being a big bully to the other ones.
On my most recent visit I was very disappointed with the food. The lack of quality and effort put forth into cooking my dish was quite evident. The chicken satay was bland and dry and the peanut sauce was not creamy this time it was very oily like it had been sitting around for a while and began to separate. I had to rewhip it myself to get it back to the correct texture.
My massaman curry was also watery and oily, the curries here used to be so thick and creamy. Some of the potatoes in the curry were cut larger and therefore undercooked when I bit into them. There wasn't much flavor or spice to the curry either other than the fact it was slightly sweet from the coconut milk. The jasmine rice was good, at least they got that right. I am really saddended as this is the closest Thai restaurant to me but at this point I feel it's worth the extra time to drive down to BKNY on Francis Lewis as I enjoy their food much better.
In my opinion it was not worth the wait. I placed the order to pickup and was told 25 minutes. When I arrived in 25 minutes it was still not ready. I waited about another 10 minutes. I deducted one star from my previous 4 star review.
2 stars for the food and convenience of the location.
I came with a group of 7 (incl. me) for lunch. At first, the staff was polite and attentive. It's close by school and the lunch special prices are good for broke college students.
I had the chicken drunken noodles (sounds kind of funny heh). The lunch special comes with appetizer (soup, salad, spring rolls) and the dish. Chicken is $8 so it's very reasonably priced.
The amount of food was like the amount of food you would expect to be served during lunch special. It doesn't leave you full or content. It is a decent amount but it didn't leave me satisfied. But what do you expect when you're paying so little.
Food was good, everything was going good.
Then came the time when we had to pay. There was 7 of us, so they added the gratuity. That's fine. Most places add gratuity if you have a party of 5+. I'm ok with that. The thing that annoyed me was they wanted us to tip in cash..? I mean, what?
6 of us have our share in cash, and one of our friend didn't have cash so she was going to use her card. She was well above the minimum amount. But they declined telling us that they needed to calculate the tip in cash. We told them they can just take the tip in the cash stack that 6 of us had given and they can just charge the remaining in card. The lady's response was "oh it's too hard for us to calculate". First, why does your tip need to be in cash? Second, if a payment is above the minimum, why argue about it? Goodness. In the end, we ended up breaking down the tip for her in cash ..
So I guess, if you guys don't want to deal with that, just make sure to bring cash or just take it to go or go to BKNY a couple minutes away.
I probably won't come back.