Thaigga — Restaurant in Wagga Wagga City Council

The location is very nice, with a big window at the front of the store, a massive tiger mural, and nice wood tables. The restaurant was nice but lacked atmosphere, there was no music or anything like that.

The first thing we noticed was the lack fo service, it took atlest 5 minutes until someone even asked us if we had a booking. Then she pointed to our table and told us it was ours.

Once we sat down there were already plates and menus preped so we opened the menu to look at our options.

The layout of this restaurant allows you to see the kitchen which was nice but it also meant we could still the servers. I'm not one hundred percent sure whether it was because they weren't to busy or overstaffed but it took them a long time to take our order.

Then it took around 20 mintues to get our starter which I would blame on all the deliveries being made. The starters were very nice, we then had our main course arrive which looked as good as they tasted but the rice we ordered was bland and dry.

Overall very nice place to go but probably best to either get takeaway or go once a year type thing.

My only problems with this experience was the lack of service, lack of atmosphere, overpriced (one glass of cheap wine was $8).

Another thing was when we were sitting down once our food was delivered at no point did anyone ask if we wanted more water or to order dessert.

Then also tried to clear our table before we even left. Once we were going to leave our table was cleared almost instantly but they didn't greet us or thank us for coming. At a few points we could also see the servers standing around doing nothing or...

While it pained us to ignore the punny name, Thaigga was so strongly recommended by Wagga Wagga locals, we had to pay them a visit. Located at the hipper Northern end of town, it’s another expansive room (venues in Wagga Wagga are large) well placed to serve larger groups.

What Thaigga do very well is walk the line between Thai authenticity and producing food that locals want to eat. Nam jim lamb ($28) is a good example. Saltbush-grazed lamb cutlets are cooked much more lightly than usual, then teamed with a nam jim jaew dipping sauce. The dish works both as Thai food, and as juicy, grilled lamb cutlets, where you can really taste the high quality produce. Crying Thaigga ($28) does pretty much the same treatment with Riverina scotch fillet, except the meat is marinated before being cooked to medium against more nam jim jaew. It’s a country-sized serve, too, and eats well against pinches of sticky rice ($5).

Neatly arranged on excellent bok choy, drunken duck ($30) gives you crisp skinned golden roast bird in a Thai red wine sauce. It eats very well over crab fried rice ($18) which is worth the extra spend—the flavour and amount of crab meat easily beat the last few exemplars of this dish I’ve had in Sydney. There’s a short wine list which contains a few nods to the local guys, including the Charles Sturt University winemakers, and an international beer list. I opted for craft—Tumut River Brewing Co. pale ale ($7)—and the food came too quickly to even get in a second round.

Thaigga is regional Thai...

Niceish food but nearly $50 for two basic dishes - pad see eww and pad kee mao both with chicken? The chicken must be freighted straight from Thailand at an extra $5 a pop for this option. I guess having little competition means they can pretty much charge what they want. If these guys were in a big city they would be out of business fast. FYI the pork is always dry and don't get the crab curry - it's nasty. I would give them two stars but they lose one for price.

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Do you critique all negative feedback based on the person's past reviews? In my case I have none. I'll let people make their own assumptions about that...

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I’ve shared photos of some of your other sassy critiques as a reminder... Enjoy. Classic lines such as the below.

Thiagga (Owner) in response to reviewer's comment:

"You seem to love dropping the 1 star reviews on places!

Also funnily enough, your review of Gaetano Coste Le Roof from 4 months ago mentioned the Lamb you had was undercooked, is Lamb Vegan now?

Many customers love our vegetarian and vegan offerings, we are a Thai restaurant so don't think you'll see a burger on the menu anytime soon... Sorry."

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FYI, of course I did create my account especially for Thiagga. You should feel lucky that your restaurant really is bad enough for me to leave a one-star review.

Seems like you manage to annoy quite a few customers based off some of the negative reviews you get.

I look forward to seeing more of you...