Krua Thai Restaurant

731 Munras Ave # A, Monterey
(831) 655-9797

Recent Reviews

Sowmya

Ordered fried egg rolls and chow mein. Egg rolls were crispy and delicious. They served a sweet sauce with it, a bit too sweet for the side of the rolls for me. Chow mein was okay. I could only taste the spice in it and not much of flavor.

Food: 4

Ginger green

Food is always excellent!Yellow curry w/Chicken is my

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Pineapple Fried Rice, Pad Thai

Taylor Glaser

We eat here all the time and they never miss. We’ve had Thai food at other places in and out of town and Krua Thai is by far the best. The have the best Pad Thai I’ve ever had. We also love the Laab Kai, Spicy Eggplant, Spring Rolls, and the Sautéed Mixed Vegetables. The staff and owner are great people.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Peanut Sauce, Spicy Eggplant, Pad Thai

Jordan P

Food and service was 100%

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Tammi Chavez

My girlfriend introduced me to this place. I've been to Thailand many times and the food here was first rate. We shared the eggplant and green curry dishes which come with rice. The portions were generous and thought we would be taking some home, but, because it was so good we finished it up.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Green Curry, Spicy Eggplant

Rishi

Best Thai restaurant in town!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Red Curry, Pineapple Fried Rice, Fried Rice

Kishan N

The restaurant demanded a minimum order of seven main courses for our group of seven(no appetizer included), with a clear focus on profit rather than customer accommodation. The manager explicitly and repeatedly insisted we not be seated unless we ordered seven main courses, emphasizing their priority of profit over customer service. The restaurant was empty and the manager himself was seated on one of the tables. Would never recommend visiting this restaurant

E N

My partner and I are from Malaysia, known for its diverse flavour in food and culture. Including Thai cuisines. He and I had the Thai fried rice and the Thai green curry lunch sets. The set came with a bowl of coconut soup and Thai ice tea, which tasted decent. But the mains had so much room for improvement.Firstly, the Thai fried rice lacked its flavour, wasn’t really fried as the rice was still kind of white, too salty, and the rice was too wet to be called fried rice. The pork that came with it also lacked its flavour.Secondly, the Thai green curry wasn’t even green. Instead, it was a yellowish mushroom soup colour. There was decent flavour for this one, but it was way way too salty. I couldn’t finish it even if I just picked at the vegetables and meat with the white rice.As a solution, I thought I would inform the waitress about how salty it was and whether they can do something about it to make it more edible, to which she then informed the what seems to be the manager or owner of the restaurant. But after letting him in on how salty it was for consumption, he proceeded to tell me the green curry had no salt in it, but was due to the soy sauce that’s always been used in their ‘ingredients’ (that information literally helped with nothing). He also went on to say that literally no one has ever had a problem with it, and that’s just how it’s always been cooked. He brushed off the small critique, was not accommodating, and gave no solution to the overly salty problem. Gave off a snobbish first impression.Both my partner and I left without finishing our meals as it unbearable.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 2

Sanya S

We came here to enjoy a meal , but when we arrived the man at the door treated us very poorly. We are not exactly sure why? Seems that he discriminates against kids ? We were also a mixed race group, so maybe both? We told him we are a party of 5 and he looked around the restaurant ( which was half empty) and told us that he was " very busy" and if he sat us it would take him a long time to serve us. We were 4 diverse adults and a mature and well behaved 7 year old child. He said "please don't eat if you aren't patient people” and rattled on about reasons he could not serve us. We had just walked in the door and asked for a table for 5 and had no other exchange. So we turned around and walked out as it appeared he did not want our business.***After reading some other reviews here it is clear that this guy discriminates against people with kids/ families as there are other reviews here that state the same thing ! So odd. We went around the corner and spent almost $200 at the Chinese restaurant since he did not want to serve us.

Atmosphere: 1

Service: 1

Hanna Stapelfeldt

Amazing food, great staff, great service. We thoroughly enjoyed our meal. Thank you so much!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Rafaela Gimenes ñuñes

We went to dine in here but the service is terrible. As soon as we went in with the kids and 2 seniors we got dirty looks and a guy working there told us about a policy that they had. It said that each member needed to get a plate which is ridiculous and no other restuarnt has it. Its not about the money its about the food that will go to waste. They weren't nice at all about this and we instantly knew that they did not want us there. A family member made a review and this is what they responded.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

James Macatangay

YOU NEED TO READ THIS REVIEW. This is the first time I've experienced this kind of discriminatory practice. We arrived with 2 kids (Baby and 5 yr old), and my 80 yr old mother. This guy/waiter (I'm assuming he is the owner due to his assertiveness) proceeds to say (no tables available and at least a 40 minute wait) when there's clearly 2 tables available and at least 2 other parties almost finished with their meals. Keep in mind that there 2-3 other parties in line - but he came straight to us and didn't deny the others in line.I'm assuming the way we were dressed/looked and because we had 2 kids/senior that we were denied. We are in 2023 - We shouldn't be having these kind of issues and there should be repercussions to discrimination like this.DO NOT SPEND YOUR MONEY HERE. If I can prevent one person to spend a single penny and more people refuse to be treated like this.... then this piece of &@!* individual will rethink his discriminatory ways.Check his other 1-star reviews - He has a pattern of behavior that's very consistent of the discrimination we experienced.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Mary Joy Pedras

BEWARE OF HUSBAND OF THAI LADY OWNER- CHECK OTHER 1 STAR REVIEWSMOTHERS, FATHERS, FAMILIES BEWARE:I arrived here with my family at dinner time on Sept 13 2023. We were ABSOLUTELY UNDENIABLY DISCRIMINATED on. Your husband is a piece of work. You definitely chose a winner there. If you check your cameras - bingo - we are asians. We are professionals and business owners that wouldn't leave reviews like this unless it was absolute necessary. I'm only choosing to mention he's white because you tried to hide behind your 'ASIAN CARD - SO HOW CAN YOUR ESTABLISHMENT BE DISCRIMINATORY response?)Your husband absolutely, clearly, UNEQUIVOCALLY approached us at a condescending way and told us ALL THE TABLES ARE TAKEN and it will be at least 40 minutes. This was heard by everyone in line. There was never a mention of any shortage of waitstaff. There was obviously open tables and a few in line that you did not target. We were singled out - PERIOD!Your husband discriminated us BECAUSE WE HAD OUR 2 KIDS/elderly mother in law with us and we were DRESSED down. Your husband is only lucky he isn't social media famous right now because we were tired from our drive and didn't record the incident.Owning a restaurant - the public is your customer and your personal views and hates should not be displayed so openly and carelessly. People should be treated with dignity regardless. Our kids were behaved and we were patiently waiting like everyone else. We did not deserve to be treated that way.HAVE A TALK WITH YOUR HUSBAND ABOUT BEING A DECENT HUMAN BEING.

Atmosphere: 1

Service: 1

Camper01745604368

YOU NEED TO READ THIS REVIEW. This is the first time I've experienced this kind of discriminatory practice. We arrived with 2 kids (Baby and 5 yr old), and my 80 yr old mother. This guy/waiter (I'm assuming he is the owner due to his assertiveness) proceeds to say (no tables available and at least a 40 minute wait) when there's clearly 2 tables available and at least 2 other parties almost finished with their meals. Keep in mind that there 2-3 other parties in line - but he came straight to us and didn't deny the others in line. I'm assuming the way we were dressed/looked and because we had 2 kids/senior that we were denied. We are in 2023 - We shouldn't be having these kind of issues and there should be repercussions to discrimination like this. DO NOT SPEND YOUR MONEY HERE. If I can prevent one person to spend a single penny and more people refuse to be treated like this.... then this piece of &@!* individual will rethink his discriminatory ways. Check his other 1-star reviews - He has a pattern of behavior that's very consistent of the discrimination we experienced.

Kristel Roper

Food was delicious and quickly served. Staff were attentive and polite. Highly recommend the Golden Chicken Fried Rice and the Chicken Satay.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chicken Satay

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