Blue River — Restaurant in Melbourne

We had a 6pm booking on a Saturday. After being very eager to get our drink and food orders (before we even had a chance to look at the menu...didn't even notice the drinks menu on a stand on the table, as it wasn't pointed out), the staff all kinda retreated to the bar/kitchen area.

Entrees came promptly.. and lovely and crisp money bags and prawn rolls were demolished. Larb Gai (chicken salad) was also very morish.

Next, pad Thai (chicken).. followed quickly by the 2 curries (massaman beef and duck red curry) and the pineapple fried rice... yet.. they forgot the serve of roti that the server suggested we order! We had to ask as to its whereabouts, so that came out last, we only had the liquid left of the Curries to dip in ...

While they kept replenishing water for the table, there was no offer of a dessert at any time... hmm.. so maybe they don't do desserts? (Their banquets do have ice cream for dessert.)

Cost . 4 people . 3 drinks. 2 entrees. 3 dishes. 2 carby mains. 1 side . Totalled $190 approx.

Would we say we were full? Cannot talk about the other couple we went with, but we defo had room for more. But with the cost, we didn't want to order more there.

Would we recommend it? I mean, food was decent, service was ok, but probably won't be...

I’ve been past here many times but am glad I finally noticed this place and tried it

I was there having a family event, and we all enjoyed ourselves there.

Service was great and the food was really nice The prices were a little up on other Thai restaurants, but the ambiance and food quality may explain. Servings aren’t very large and we had to order some dishes twice to have enough to share.

We were talking so much we didn’t notice it was late and we were last there. But staff was polite and we didn’t feel pressure to leave.

Couldn’t see it on menu but they charge $3 pp corkage for BYO wine.

I’ll be back as the food is good and staff is good.

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Will come...

There are a few really good Thai restaurants in melbourne this is not one of them, this is two levels above this is a fantastic Thai restaurant! Finally a local Thai restaurant that knows how to cook their food, charge reasonable prices, are polite and knowledgable and above else, cook fantastic food with generous portions!! Great decor for the solo diner and are attentive to your needs. Spring rolls and crispy calamari and the rice are excellent as too the stir fry veggies and pork belly with lemon grass, spicy, crispy, fragrant. The red curry beef, the massaman and the Thai green curry are some of the best I have ever had as too th e Tom ka Kai :) Well done, forget the rest , this is my number one and only Thai restaurant I am going to from now on! Such lovely...