Thai Village
Thai Village
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
4 reviews
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Six months ago, boyfriend didn't know me, but more importantly, didn't know what Yelp was. And yet, as we walked out of Thai Village last night, he said "that was -at least- 4-and-a-half stars!"
"Yes but you can't give half-stars which INFURIATES me," came my response.
"Well then maybe you should give five stars."
Five stars it is. Thai Village is some of the closest Thai to my Bushwick home*, but because 1.9 miles of Myrtle Ave. separate us, they do not bring their delicious goods to my home, and we had to come to them.
We enter. It is 8:30 on a Saturday night and there is no one else in the restaurant. This fact put us off a bit, but the restaurant was so clean and neat that I got over it pretty quickly. I remembered the high Yelp rating and took comfort in the revolving door of delivery people. People eat their food, I assured boyfriend. It will be ok. We are not completely alone.
We order. We wait a reasonable amount of time and out come the appetizers… spring rolls for me and a mango salad for him. With the exception of some too-ripe avocado slices on his salad, everything was delicious. I wasn't a huge fan of the plum sauce that came with the spring rolls, but it did go well with them.
Soon our entrees come out. His, chicken pineapple fried rice sans curry powder, molded into a mini mountain. Mine, chicken pad see-ew piled nicely on a white dish. Both hot hot hot. And delicious holy crap. Everything about my pad see-ew was wonderful. The broccoli was perfectly steamed, the the black sweet sauce was perfectly sweet, the chicken wasn't dry at all.
I will be back, Thai Village.
After a few seamless Seamless orders, we came in to pick up an order (we felt like taking a walk that day). The order took an eternity and we weren't sure why. The restaurant was completely empty. We left to continue our stroll and when we came back, we were still waiting. Orders ahead of us? Sure, I can buy that excuse, but what if it were a packed restaurant? Shouldn't you have done enough prep in the kitchen to get orders out faster?
Length of time to receive our order aside, I like them. The food is consistently decent. Not amazing, just decent. No complaints on taste, but that's not to say I was blown away. #decent
The fried rice is not excessively salty…I like that.
The pan fried noodles they use are the extra wide type…I like that.
Their "Drunk Man Noodles" were seasoned differently than most Drunken Noodles or Pad Kee Mao dishes I've had…and I like that, surprisingly!
The spring rolls and calamari are average, but the sauce is a bit bland. Not enough chili and no garlic (the way I personally like my Thai chili sauce).
I like them enough to continue ordering from them, but I'll stick to delivery to avoid staring at their ceiling fans for what feels like hours.
Never again. Thai Village just delivered my food and it is cold, tiny and disgusting. I paid $16 bucks for ridiculously small portions of calamari, spring rolls and curry puffs. I specially told them that address was in the basement and they insisted on making me come outside (in the rain) to another apartment. I should have just kept it trill and had a bowl of cereal. This place is a waste of time, money, energy and chewing.
Ridgewood has a new addition-Thai Village!
So here's the deal. You are not going to get authentic Thai in Ridgewood. That's a given. However, it will definitely satisfy a craving. My party of four came here on a weekday and we had good prompt service. And some little kid was sitting behind the counter using the computer-cute kid, probably the owner's son. We ordered a green curry, papaya salad, an entire red snapper with chili sauce, pad thai and pad see ew. Hands down the fish was great. I mean of course it was deep fried but the sauce with it was sooo good. The papaya salad was lacking a flavor that I can't identify-maybe a bit too sweet? I enjoyed the green curry a lot although my friend who is SE Asian said it was way too sweet. The noodles were both very good and standard. Nothing fancy.
It's great to see Thai Village in Ridgewood.