Thai Garden House Restaurant — Restaurant in Sydney

Love the service at a 21st on the night. Thanks for the compliment on our home baked birthday cake! 😎 Happy we could share our joy with some of Thai Garden House’s crew.

Food: 4 ⭐️ A definite 4+🌟 should the portions be more generous. Here’s what a table of 5 adults and a teenager ordered (4/10/2023).

1. Yum Burramundi (if only there were more servings of burra.),

2. Phuket pork belly (only so-so),

3. Prawn in betel leaves/Miang Kham (6),

4. Papaya salad burramundi (if only there were more servings of burra.),

5. Salt and pepper squid x 2 [Actually ordered “large” serving, but one wasn’t enough, so ended ordering two. Only 3.5 ⭐️ Missed a 4 ⭐️; if only the serving portions were more generous],

6. Tom zaap (spicy pork bone soup) Surprisingly good! 4.5 ⭐️ ,

7. Pad see eew beef (only 3 ⭐️ Missed a 3.5 ⭐️ due to serving portion).

You might say we have a table of 6 big eaters, but I come back to the serving size.

Tip: Booking is recommended, and be prepared to search for street parking.

This reviewer previously lived in Malaysia for 10+ years, having crossed over to the Thai border many times, as well as tasting northern Malaysia’s Thai restaurants.

Thai Garden House has my endorsement (for what it’s worth 😊). We specifically requested “Thai / Asian palette flavours”. I would dine again. Hopefully the serving size may increase? Try booking for a table on the “deck” (undercover outdoor seating).

The menu caters for vegetarians.

Sawa...

The first time I have ever left a Thai restaurant hungry.

I came here with my father for dinner on a Saturday night and ate the worst Thai food I have ever had.

The chicken satay came in pieces the size of my index finger, and had zero flavour or caramelisation, as if heated in a microwave. The peanut sauce was a vile, salty sludge and there was way too much of it.

The prawn Pad Thai was overcooked into a gelatinous mush, and we could only eat the prawns. How do you stuff up a Pad Thai?

They also managed to gelatinise the coconut rice which was so sickly sweet I would have rejected it as a dessert. We ate maybe a spoon or two and left the rest. Disgusting.

The beef massaman curry was the most edible out of the four dishes we ordered (maybe because we were hungry?) but still very bland and over-salted. I wouldn't have it again.

None of the staff asked how our food was. When my father gave a waitress feedback, we got the stock standard "I'll pass it on" response. Yep...

The restaurant seemed pretty busy, but don't let that fool you. When I go out for Thai food, I'm not expecting 'haute cuisine', but this was disappointing. If you want decent Thai food in Parramatta, please do yourself (and your stomach) a favour, and go elsewhere.

Total price: $85.62. There are plenty of more deserving restaurants to spend...

Had pretty high hopes for this place after seeing the sign that said Best Thai in Metro Sydney 2013 out the front, having passed it several times we decided to go in.

From entering the restaurant it took 30 minutes for the entree to come out, waited ages to get the menu and then they just ignored us. The entree was the Deluxe Chicken Roll, which was a dried out rice paper roll with old iceberg lettuce, mint and chicken. It was amazingly boring without the sauce.

Then another 30 minutes for our mains to come. We order a salad each; one Beef Salad and one Duck Oh Duck. Despite being priced as a main the Beef Salad was served as a side really, small serving size and not on a mains plate. Both salads were cold, not crisp cold but left to wilt cold. Maybe if they weren't left out so long we wouldn't have had to wait so long. The crispy duck skin on the salad had gone cold and chewy, the duck breast was just miserable. Both salads were swimming in excess dressing, which wasn't fantastic to begin with. The cut of beef wasn't amazing, probably suffered from being cold when served.

Service was pretty woeful, no enthusiasm, just people pottering around moving silver urns of rice up and down stairs. I think the waitress in our area was trying to look busy so she didn't have to do...