Lime Leaf
“The massaman curry is delicious as well as everything else I tried.”
“Not the best thai i've ever had, but definitely the best thai delivery i've had in a long time, and destroys everything else on the UWS.”
“The food is delicious, from the pad thai to the pad see-yoo (I think that's how you spell it haha!).”
Lime Leaf
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Accepts Apple Pay: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
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Not sure why they're getting less than great reviews. The massaman curry is delicious as well as everything else I tried. Everything was full of flavor!
My friend and I were wandering around the UWS when we happily ran into Lime Leaf. Looking for our hunger fix, we both concluded that Thai food would do. We were expecting a pretty casual venue but were shocked to see that the inside was indeed pretty fancy and dare I say romantic? When we sat down I think we were the only "non-couple/just friends" in the entire place. We had a few good laughs over that one.
Their menu is simple and included all the favorites of Thai cuisine. They bring out what I thought I heard was "shrimp crisps". It looked like puffy rice cakes* and they served it with peanut sauce. Interesting, very interesting. That night I was feeling the crowd favorite– the Pad Thai with chicken. It was good. Flavorful and a nice portion for the reasonable price of $12. I also ordered the Thai Peanut Salad which was a refreshing element. I'm a big fan of peanut dressing and they even added some fried tofu which was a nice surprise. Crisp and a good textural piece to my meal.
-Funny side note:
The whole time we admitted that it was a very relaxing atmosphere. Low lighting and soothing music definitely helped. As we were walking out we saw that the music was actually coming from a live band! Who knew?! We were so far back into the place that we completely overlooked this. I have to say… I thought it was a CD playing. They were that good. I've never been to a Thai restaurant with live (almost coffee shop styled) music!
*When I ate them, all I could think about was Rice Krispies. You hear that snap, crackle, pop!
Food was okay, drinks were good, friendly staff, and free jazz band! Fun!
Oh Lime Leaf, you're so lucky you aren't in Hell's Kitchen.
With the prices you charge relative to the portions you serve, you wouldn't last very long against some real Thai competition in that part of town. But since you're on the UWS, where good food seems to always be in short supply – I guess you'll do just fine for people who are craving Thai but don't want to schlep downtown.
Personally, I think it's worth the schlep than to eat here, not because the food is particularly awful (it's not) – but you just don't get much bang for your buck.
After a quick dinner here – i wasn't exactly happy to see that you're literally paying nearly a dollar a for each bite of tiny fried tofu appetizers. They also tasted mediocre, which made the small portions feel even more diminished.
As for the main meal – I had the beef prad kra pow – which was a stir fried basil dish. For $13 bucks, the amount of food you get is fine if you don't come here with a semblance of an appetite. Couple the small servings with a small bowl of rice, and you get a dinner that really fill you up. The taste of the actual dish was fine – it was nothing different than what you get from ok places in HK like Yum Yum. But again, unless you're not super hungry coming here, you're better off just going downtown and visiting some other places like ViV, Breeze or the countless other Thai places that give you more for your money.
My only suggestion would be to provide a bit more bang for the buck for some dishes and this should help improve the customer experience.
Otherwise you'll end up like me and walk over to Cold Stone where I had the luxury of having (plenty of) room for dessert.
Compared to other thai places on the west side, this place is 4 stars. Compared to places downtown, 3 stars, but for where it's at, I'll keep it at 4.
The wait staff here is very kind and super attentive. They are constantly refilling your water and making sure you don't need anything else. The food comes out pretty quickly too. Also, they are really great about informing you what you can eat if you have a fish/seafood allergy, and there are actually a lot of options which is great.
I've had both the Pad Thai and the Pad See Ew from here and they were both fantastic. Excellent portions and a good meat-veggie ratio. Everything was mixed together well and served with lime for extra flavor.
I've never ordered drinks here but they seem reasonably priced if not cheap, especially during Happy Hour. Perfect choice for affordable dining near the 72nd metro station where things can get pricey fast.
I thought the food was a little too sweet, but otherwise tasty. The free shrimp chips were a nice touch. Love those…
The meat/fish portions are ridiculously small: my beef red curry had hardly any beef. My tom kha soup had one sad lonely shrimp in the whole soup, all by its lonesome. You really had to dig around to find beef in my wife's noodle dish.
But what trumps all this is my wife fell quite seriously ill eating food from this restaurant.
We had dinner at 10pm. In the morning I woke up at around 9:30am to the sound of my wife violently vomiting in the bathroom so badly that her whole body was shaking.
She repeatedly vomited, had diarrhea, body aches, nausea, body tremors, weakness, and joint pain (*) for nearly the whole day. I was so scared for her.
It's now 4:30pm as I write this, and she's just now feeling strong enough to eat some bread and drink water from bed.
I know this can happen in any restaurant, but we had ordered over $60 worth of food only for my wife to have the most agonizing day in her life since giving birth (and at least she got some morphine and a baby out of that one!) And you should know that my wife is a strong woman with high tolerance for feeling crappy. She's not a girl that gets knocked out by small things. Whatever this was, it must have been bad-ass to take my wife down like this.
Never again.
(*) When I was Googling to figure out if I should take her to the ER I read that joint pain can be a symptom of non-botulism food poisoning. Never knew that.
We were in NYC and in the area so we stopped in here in a whim. We were seated immediately and the server came over quickly. I ordered the Curray Puffs and the Massuman Curry. My girlfriend ordered the Spring rolls and the Pad Thai. I ordered a soda and my girlfriend asked for water and the drinks never came until our starters came out and I had to remind the server for the drinks. My Curry Puffs and the Spring Rolls were pretty tasty, but the Main dishes were not great at all. My Massuman gravy was mostly flavorless and the chicken was pretty dry. My girlfriend asked for her Pad Thai to be very spicy and she said it was way under flavored. She asked the server for a hot sauce on the side so she could adjust it herself and it did nothing to improve the taste. We never saw the server again until I flagged her down and asked for the check. No second drink or anything. Bottom line, the food wasnt great and on this particular day, neither was the service. Even if in the area again, I wouldn't go back.
Came here for lunch after a stop at the Lincoln Square Apple Store. We got in at around lunch time on a Sunday but the place was completely empty which made me start to wonder if we had made the right choice.
As everyone had mentioned, the free fried shrimp chips and peanut sauce appetizers were very welcoming. My mom used to make them for me when I was younger. So that alone, although w much bias, immediately reassured me of the restaurant.
I got the chicken spicy basil noodles and Thai iced tea. The tea was $3, kind of pricy for the portion but the perfect combination of cream and tea! I asked for extra spicy for the noodles and was thankful that I had my tea to help me when I tried to quit on the dish.
I assumed the spicy noodles to be broad noodles like what you would normally expect when you order drunken noodles but they were thin pad Thai noodles. They gave me generous amounts of chicken, basil, hot Thai peppers, and bean sprouts for the price of just $8! The taste isn't particularly something to rave about – very standard Thai food. But I was very happy for the price