Celadon Thai — Restaurant in Melbourne

Very bad experience. We ordered for the pad thai noodles with vegetables and emphasised that we were vegetarian to the person who was taking the order. To my surprise, the dish that we received had a meaty smell so I started searching if there was any meat and figured out that it had egg in it. So we called the person (who took the order) and told him that the order was vegetarian but it has egg and if he could please change the noodles and give us the vegetarian one. Consequently, he said, “ egg is vegetarian, without egg is vegan “. I thought in my mind, i will have to now open googe and show him the difference. Anyways, we asked him to change the dish if possible. He then went inside the kitchen and then came back saying that they always serve egg with vegetarian noodles☹️. After that he also emphasised that it has been clearly mentioned in the menu as well and then it was a catch because I read the menu very thoroughly before placing the order. And so I asked him to bring the menu and show me. As expected, it wasn’t mentioned in the menu and the person said, “oh, okay I will take this dish back”. In 5-7 mins he bought a new plate of noodles with much lesser quantity then before. However, we decided this time not to argue….. just eat and leave. I would never go back to this restaurant again…. Nonetheless, he was really sweet in asking if we would like a sprite or coke at the end, but we thought it will be billed to us...

Food was good, quiet night so atmosphere was reasonable. Service was just ok but at the end of the meal, there was an issue with splitting the bill. It was a small group of friends that wanted to split the bill 3 ways. The waiter turned nasty stating it was a rule for no split bills, and waving his hands towards a very small sign (unreadable) stating no split bills. There was nothing stated on the menu. He said we could pay cash and get a 5% discount (dubious behaviour) or pay by ONE card and pay a fee of 1.5% extra. After an arduous arguement he relented and he split the bill. Whilst it was a reasonable night up until that point, we all were very disappointed of his attitude for payment, and will never recommend or return again to...

After a last minute change in our plans for dinner we decided to find the nearest well rated Thai and came across Celadon Thai.

When we arrived the place was around 70% full but despite not having a booking we were fortunate they had a table to spare.

There was a decent variety of the usual Thai dishes as well as some Chinese style dishes.

We ordered 3 entrees of fish cakes, satay chicken skewers and spring rolls... all of which were tasty.

For our mains we shared green chicken curry, massaman beef and rendang beef meatballs. All of our mains we tasty and glad the massaman beef was tender and lean.

If we are ever in the area we be happy...