Not the usual, predictable (overly sweet) Thai menu. This cozy restaurant's food is regional and authentic. (I've lived in Asia.) I can vouch for the green mango salad, crab curry, kabocha squash, and asian-flavored creme brûlée. Nice cocktail, too. I'll be back for sure!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jaden Lessnick
My coworkers and I loved our experience here. The owner shared with us how each dish was inspired by family recipes and personal experience. We let the staff choose our meals for us (with some limitations, including gluten free), and our meal was tremendous. The staff was kind and attentive. We look forward to coming back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Kata Budapest tour guide
Food was great though a but too spicy. We tried the green mango salad, the beef curry and a minced chicken dish. ?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Kaeng Phet Charinda
Chi Vu
Wonderful food and cocktails. A highlight of ours in Phoenix.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Marvi Yap
Great Thai food in Phoenix? Yes!!! This restaurant is memorable. I was just in Bangkok 2 months ago so I came in with a bit of skepticism. I have sampled the best Thai food in its motherland so I’m not sure how this place will compare. Well it didn’t disappoint. We had 4 dishes and a dessert between the 2 of us and we scraped our plates clean.Memorable dishes are the mango salad with crème, sautéed crab (with big chunks of crab) and stir fried wide rice noodles with Tom Yum sauce. This last one was simply divine!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Anna M
We made reservations online, otherwise I doubt we would have been able to try this restaurant. It was a Thursday and there was a steady stream of people.Food is quite good. Our server recommended most of the dishes and we were happy we followed him.We had 4 dishes between 2 people and 2 desserts.We had the green mango starter with coconut cream and peanuts and shredded toasted coconut. It was refreshing and the texture made it even more interesting than the regular mango or papaya salad.The crab with coconut curry paste was also quite good, it came with a cup of rice. There were chunks of crab and we were happy to see that. Flavour was mild.The fried chicken was extra crispy but lacked flavour in the meat, it seemed that it wasn’t marinated.The winning dish was the langoustine with curry paste and egg and tomatoes with the wide noodles. Really flavourful.For dessert, we had the crème brûlée. One was a Rosella Hibiscus, the other was a Tom Kha flavour profile (I preferred this one)Price-wise, it was fair enough for the kind of food they served.The service was quick and efficient.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Yam Mamuang Boran, Gai Tawt Won Pen
Evan Rothrock
Having visiting Chang Rai, where half of their menu is drawn from, I was delighted with the flavors and textures of the food we enjoyed. Staff was friendly, attentive, and informative. Cocktails were superb, particularly the rum-based ones...
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Matt Myers
Possibly the best Thai restaurant in Phoenix. Don't expect to see the usual Thai menu items.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Rachael Shively
Absolutely fantastic! Everything about this place is spectacular. The service is friendly, quick and charming. The food cannot be matched, everything is delicious. There is nothing on this menu that you’ll be disappointed in. We had the arai kodai and could not be happier. I had the three kings cocktail to start and Mr. Baan’s medicine cocktail to finish, both are light, flavorful and pack the perfect punch. Do yourself a favor and eat here as soon as you can.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Olivia Capizzi
Every time we go we let them decide what we eat. Love that they have this option!! The food is always amazing. Always. And the service is fantastic. 10/10
Wonderful, fantastic experience! For a special evening, don't hesitate to dine here and to ask for the "Give us the best that you've got" meals.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
maria escarcega
The restaurant is cute, I expected more of a cultural feel. I didn't love how loud it was and we sat next to the bathroom, which was less of an issue than being shoved into a large protruding art peice. It's lovely, but my art shouldn't supercede comfort and function. As far as service the wait was kind, but not as helpful on menu items, the 1st 3 dishes we asked for they were out of one ingredient and had no substitutions out outside of the box thinking... we were still hours from closing time. In addition, the descriptions of the food were hard to understand and you couldnt tell what was a starter vs a main dish. The waiter seemed to pressed for time, despite how empty it was. It took FOREVER to get our drinks.The food had a nice taste.. but for the price was not remotely enough, nor delicious enough. We were told the chicken would be a "decent amount of food"... it was 6 chicken wings. We left starved.Its possible it was an off night... but I wouldn't go back again based on principal. Spending 90 bucks on 2 people, when one of the dishes was 6 chicken wings... is not my idea of great time.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 2
Spew Evil
I guess this place wasn't our style.The beef was full of gristle. If they were trying to capture the slow-cooked, soft, delicious fat consistency, they failed. Every piece had a big chunk of hard gristle.As others have mentioned, they try to replicate eating in the village, so all food comes out at once to share, discuss, revel, laugh, and cry. You can only order one time! No more! Who knows, this may be a ploy to get you to order too many dishes, because they suggested 7 to 8 for a party of 4, and we would have been great at 5. And completely against village conviviality, they kick you out after 90 min.We paid $15 per person to reserve, and couldn't even sit at the table and get a drink (at our reservation time) while waiting for the others to arrive. Isn't that was the $15 per person charge is? Insurance that people will show up? Fine by me, I'll spend my cocktail money next door.Sauces were delicious, though. Sea bass was great.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 3
Peter Rowe
Date night, ordered Arai Kodai, paired with their wine special, flavors were outstanding. We were served the fried bamboo, peanut sauce was spot on, and the perfect amount of spice. Green Mango followed, just the right amount of creamy, crunch, and spice. This was probably our favorite, however the curry sea bass was a close second. Sea bass was cooked perfectly, the fourth was Tom ka Gai. Flavor was ok, would of preferred the Tom ka before the richness of the Sea Bass as the flavors would have developed differently. We are already planning our next visit.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Yuh Yeet
This Thai restaurant was delicious! Please make sure to get a reservation as their seats fill out fast, even on a Thursday night. The only reason I gave one star less was because I found a piece of hair by my creme brulee. We didn’t say anything about it but it did affect our dining experience towards the end. The food is worth a try and everything came out amazing, the wait wasn’t long either for the food! Should definitely share everything family style. Pricing was fair considering it’s downtown Phoenix. 5-6 plates is a good recommendation for a table of 4.
Not the usual, predictable (overly sweet) Thai menu. This cozy restaurant's food is regional and authentic. (I've lived in Asia.) I can vouch for the green mango salad, crab curry, kabocha squash, and asian-flavored creme brûlée. Nice cocktail, too. I'll be back for sure!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
My coworkers and I loved our experience here. The owner shared with us how each dish was inspired by family recipes and personal experience. We let the staff choose our meals for us (with some limitations, including gluten free), and our meal was tremendous. The staff was kind and attentive. We look forward to coming back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Food was great though a but too spicy. We tried the green mango salad, the beef curry and a minced chicken dish. ?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Kaeng Phet Charinda
Wonderful food and cocktails. A highlight of ours in Phoenix.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great Thai food in Phoenix? Yes!!! This restaurant is memorable. I was just in Bangkok 2 months ago so I came in with a bit of skepticism. I have sampled the best Thai food in its motherland so I’m not sure how this place will compare. Well it didn’t disappoint. We had 4 dishes and a dessert between the 2 of us and we scraped our plates clean.Memorable dishes are the mango salad with crème, sautéed crab (with big chunks of crab) and stir fried wide rice noodles with Tom Yum sauce. This last one was simply divine!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We made reservations online, otherwise I doubt we would have been able to try this restaurant. It was a Thursday and there was a steady stream of people.Food is quite good. Our server recommended most of the dishes and we were happy we followed him.We had 4 dishes between 2 people and 2 desserts.We had the green mango starter with coconut cream and peanuts and shredded toasted coconut. It was refreshing and the texture made it even more interesting than the regular mango or papaya salad.The crab with coconut curry paste was also quite good, it came with a cup of rice. There were chunks of crab and we were happy to see that. Flavour was mild.The fried chicken was extra crispy but lacked flavour in the meat, it seemed that it wasn’t marinated.The winning dish was the langoustine with curry paste and egg and tomatoes with the wide noodles. Really flavourful.For dessert, we had the crème brûlée. One was a Rosella Hibiscus, the other was a Tom Kha flavour profile (I preferred this one)Price-wise, it was fair enough for the kind of food they served.The service was quick and efficient.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Yam Mamuang Boran, Gai Tawt Won Pen
Having visiting Chang Rai, where half of their menu is drawn from, I was delighted with the flavors and textures of the food we enjoyed. Staff was friendly, attentive, and informative. Cocktails were superb, particularly the rum-based ones...
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Possibly the best Thai restaurant in Phoenix. Don't expect to see the usual Thai menu items.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Absolutely fantastic! Everything about this place is spectacular. The service is friendly, quick and charming. The food cannot be matched, everything is delicious. There is nothing on this menu that you’ll be disappointed in. We had the arai kodai and could not be happier. I had the three kings cocktail to start and Mr. Baan’s medicine cocktail to finish, both are light, flavorful and pack the perfect punch. Do yourself a favor and eat here as soon as you can.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Every time we go we let them decide what we eat. Love that they have this option!! The food is always amazing. Always. And the service is fantastic. 10/10
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Yam Mamuang Boran, Fried Chicken, Kaeng Phet Charinda
Restaurantji Recommends
Wonderful, fantastic experience! For a special evening, don't hesitate to dine here and to ask for the "Give us the best that you've got" meals.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The restaurant is cute, I expected more of a cultural feel. I didn't love how loud it was and we sat next to the bathroom, which was less of an issue than being shoved into a large protruding art peice. It's lovely, but my art shouldn't supercede comfort and function. As far as service the wait was kind, but not as helpful on menu items, the 1st 3 dishes we asked for they were out of one ingredient and had no substitutions out outside of the box thinking... we were still hours from closing time. In addition, the descriptions of the food were hard to understand and you couldnt tell what was a starter vs a main dish. The waiter seemed to pressed for time, despite how empty it was. It took FOREVER to get our drinks.The food had a nice taste.. but for the price was not remotely enough, nor delicious enough. We were told the chicken would be a "decent amount of food"... it was 6 chicken wings. We left starved.Its possible it was an off night... but I wouldn't go back again based on principal. Spending 90 bucks on 2 people, when one of the dishes was 6 chicken wings... is not my idea of great time.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 2
I guess this place wasn't our style.The beef was full of gristle. If they were trying to capture the slow-cooked, soft, delicious fat consistency, they failed. Every piece had a big chunk of hard gristle.As others have mentioned, they try to replicate eating in the village, so all food comes out at once to share, discuss, revel, laugh, and cry. You can only order one time! No more! Who knows, this may be a ploy to get you to order too many dishes, because they suggested 7 to 8 for a party of 4, and we would have been great at 5. And completely against village conviviality, they kick you out after 90 min.We paid $15 per person to reserve, and couldn't even sit at the table and get a drink (at our reservation time) while waiting for the others to arrive. Isn't that was the $15 per person charge is? Insurance that people will show up? Fine by me, I'll spend my cocktail money next door.Sauces were delicious, though. Sea bass was great.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 3
Date night, ordered Arai Kodai, paired with their wine special, flavors were outstanding. We were served the fried bamboo, peanut sauce was spot on, and the perfect amount of spice. Green Mango followed, just the right amount of creamy, crunch, and spice. This was probably our favorite, however the curry sea bass was a close second. Sea bass was cooked perfectly, the fourth was Tom ka Gai. Flavor was ok, would of preferred the Tom ka before the richness of the Sea Bass as the flavors would have developed differently. We are already planning our next visit.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This Thai restaurant was delicious! Please make sure to get a reservation as their seats fill out fast, even on a Thursday night. The only reason I gave one star less was because I found a piece of hair by my creme brulee. We didn’t say anything about it but it did affect our dining experience towards the end. The food is worth a try and everything came out amazing, the wait wasn’t long either for the food! Should definitely share everything family style. Pricing was fair considering it’s downtown Phoenix. 5-6 plates is a good recommendation for a table of 4.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Kaeng Phet Charinda