Parade Thai Restaurant — Restaurant in Adelaide

We've been eating at Parade Thai for a number of years and have found the food to be of very good quality and authentic Thai. On Friday night unfortunately we found the overall experience to be very poor. None of our favourite dishes, such as the Red Duck Curry, Pad Thai and Stir Fried beef were up to their usual standard, with the food lacking taste and light on key ingredients like chicken and prawns in the Pad Thai. Our favourite dish, the Red Duck Curry was extremely disappointing with the sauce and duck meat both tasteless.

We also had to wait 35 minutes for our entrees and a further half an hour before we were served our mains. The table that came in 15 minutes after us however received their mains before we even...

Went for lunch on a weekday, was busy with mostly what appeared to be business men, some of whom didn't seem to have a volume control... Not the restaurant's fault obviously. Waiter was the sole front of house staff and was run off his feet, but he was attentive and patient with our indecision. We ordered an entree of salt and pepper squid which was the highlight, so delicious and plentiful, as well as the obligatory pad thai, and massaman chicken curry and beef and basil stir fry from the lunch specials. All dishes were very nice, tasty and...

Quality ingredients and NOT OILY! Ugh it is so hard to find a Thai restaurant that doesn't drench the stir fried in oil and sugar to try and fill you up. Some people complained the food was too watery, have they never tried a stir fry in Thailand? It is meant to be infused with spices and other flavours in a broth, not a sea of oil. Often they have soups on the menu as well which this place does.

Very friendly staff and a nice atmosphere make it worth the...