Banana Leaf — Restaurant in Bahrain Island

Staff were friendly. The restaurant is simple and clean but no background music so you just hear the conversation from the nearby tables. When the lady took our order she didn’t ask if we wanted spicy or not so I just assumed we’d get regular Thai spiciness (I love Thai food in particular for the kick you get from the spices and chili). Food: Papaya salad, generous serving, very fresh with lots of papaya but almost no fish sauce and zero chili. I’ve probably eaten over 200 papaya salads in my life and this was the only one with no chili whatsoever. Disappointing! Tom yum soup with crab and prawns - tasty, big serving Pad grapao (kaprow) - another of my go to dishes, again zero chili, when this is meant to be a spicy dish! I asked for chili and they gave me a small dish of chopped green chilis which helped the dish taste more like it usually would. Panang curry with beef - flavours were good but the beef was a little tough. Morning glory - good size serving, very good taste Garlic fried rice - tasty

Overall good quality food but lacking regular...

Unfortunately, our visit was very disappointing.

The menu prices were unreasonably high, our bill could have easily covered a good meal for four in other places. To make matters worse, there was a fly flying around inside the restaurant, which already set a poor impression for hygiene.

Service was also lacking. The waitress struggled to communicate in English and, instead of trying to assist, responded rudely when I simply asked where the washroom was.

As for the food: • The Tomyum was overly sour. • The sizzling dish was not worth its steep price. • One of the dishes even had a foul smell I couldn’t identify, which made it very unappetizing.

Overall, it was an unpleasant dining experience. There are definitely better Thai restaurants in Bahrain offering better food, cleaner spaces, friendlier service, and more reasonable prices. I would not...

Location: quite convenient, street parking

Service: normal, not extremely welcoming but definitely not rude. Menu needs to be scanned with a QR code. Since it's a Google shared document, for some reason my phone didn't work, the staff let me use her phone to order

Food: in general were good, we all quite happy with the taste. We ordered Tom Yum soup, red curry, green curry and Pad Thai. Their Tom yum soup is very rich in flavor. Amount all the food we ordered, this was the best one. Green curry was a bit more on the salty side. Red curry was just the right flavor. Pad Thai was ok as well, nothing too special

Price: all together was 11 BD ish plus tip. Since this was the first Thai restaurant we tried in Bahrain, I don't have much of a comparison in price

In general, we like this restaurant. The place looks clean and the atmosphere...