Zabb City
“They delivered delicious and hot Pad Thai amidst a blizzard, when all other neighboring Thai establishments were closed.”
“Mango with sticky rice comes with coconut milk creme – pretty hard to find in manhattan.”
“The atmosphere, the accomodating waitress, and the FOOD was comparable if not better than the places in Queens.”
Zabb City
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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It was a shame I didn't come to this Thai restaurant before I moved out of East Village. It was small and the decor, or the lack of, was pretty bad. Nevertheless, the food and price here are excellent.
It is more of a Northern Thai style cuisine so you can find some unique dishes here. In addition, they have offered 5 degrees of spiciness for your dishes so you can custom to your preference. I of course, went for the 5 and my tongue was burning and sweat was coming down like crazy!
The seafood papaya salad comes in a big portion and it is very fresh. They gave you a lot of shrimp, octopus, etc. For entree, I got the Pad Kee Mao with beef and it is very spicy and delicious. My cousin tried their Green Curry Fried Rice and it is excellent. I think I am going to get that next time if I come back to the area again.
Pretty decent Thai Food with a very nice price stamp on the lunch special. For $6.95 you get one main dish and a side soup or salad. The salad comes with a peanut dressing and it was nothing to write home about. The main dishes are huge and can easily be split up into 2 meals. I ordered the Pad Thai and my friend ordered the Fried Rice. Both tasted very standard and tasty. I also ordered a Thai Iced Tea to drink which was delicious. They come in a huge cup and are filled to the top.
The restaurant itself is a pretty no frills dining experience. The storefront is small but on a Friday we were the only one's in the restaurant. There is nothing special about the ambience but if you are getting tasty food for $6.95 this doesn't seem to matter as much. The service was amicable and the food came out pretty fast.
Note: This would be a great place for lunch or for take-out. Credit Cards are taken for $10+.
Drunken noodles weren't spicy at all and not very complex in flavor. And no wok hei! My friends enjoyed their curries but I've had much better thai food elsewhere. I thought, with the Zabb Elee association, it'd be better and now I'm not sure about trying Zabb Elee…
The menu is rather diluted from the Zabb Elee menu. I was hoping they would offer more "Isaan" dishes but they were few and far between. All of the lunch specials were generic Thai food. I had pad kee mao and the noodles had a lousy texture, but otherwise tasted pretty okay.
All in all, nothing special and a far cry from dinner service at Zabb Elee. Oh well.
Zabb City at the East Village serves delicious and quality Thai dishes at an affordable price.
The location is conveniently situated a block away from my work place. The lunch special cost $7 that comes with a chicken soup or salad.
This hole in the wall Thai restaurant is something that you should try when in the East Village.
The som tum was decent, not spicy at all. I thought it was a bit skimpy and needed more ingredients, though the flavor was good.
The mango sticky rice was very enjoyable. The square of sticky rice had the taste of sweet palm sugar with coconut milk poured over it. The mango was sweet and had a sprinkle of sesame seeds. The amount was rather small.
The Thai Iced Tea was pretty good and sweet.
The decor of the place was bare and sparse.
Zabb City serves Isaan Thai food – food from the Northeastern part of Thailand. It was decent though there are much better Thai places in the city.
They delivered delicious and hot Pad Thai amidst a blizzard, when all other neighboring Thai establishments were closed.
I ordered from Zabb City because I was returning from work late (after 10 PM) and my usual spot was closed. I was disjointed on various details:
Food Ordered: Kee Mao Noodle and Tom Ka Soup.
Tom Ka Soup was not bad but not was I was expecting. Also it was overly sweet.
Kee Mao Noodle was just bad. It had no flavor and it appeared that it was not even tossed well. I could see chili powder on some noodles and no flavor on others.
Delivery Time via Seamless: Took more than an hour. I placed the order at 10:33 and I got my order at 11:45. Mind you I like only 5 blocks away.
I will much rather eat a yogurt cup next time then order from here.