SAO Thai Cuisine — Restaurant in Ixelles - Elsene

The place is extremely nice nothing to say, we live next by and we used to go while ago. Unfortunately this time the experience was bit disappointing to say the least. We had been presented with menu on top of the main menu with very limited options ( turned out it was a suggestion menu but this was NOT EXPLAINED) the suggestion menu is logically quite limited personally I ordered Nua Yang which was very disappointing I do not recall myself barely eating a dish I simply could not enjoy it the meat was tough chewy for the price someone would have expected better quality..

Edit following Sao’s feedback:

I agree on the fact on well informing the readers ;)

It is good to have more than 40 dishes but it is even better to explain that they exist and not drop a suggestion menu on top of the main one without ANY explanation I personally though it was a drink menu .. hint to the reader the lowest main dish goes around 27 € in the suggestion menu

On the meat, the staff couldn’t even manage to tell what breed was that .. I really hope you don’t consider that...

Very friendly place. We ate there as they had lots of vegetarian options. Sadly though, some of the dishes had nothing but sauce and bamboo shots with maybe some carrots, together with rice, for 15 euro. Good sauce, but still. No tofu or vegetarian protein and they should add more vegetables. They also served it with prawn crackers which as we know are not vegetarian at all. We got as much rice as we wanted which was great. Good tasting food but they really need to work on their vegetarian and vegan options if they want to attract that crowd, which they should, because there are hardly any of the restauranta catering to us in chatelain. One of the waitresses was vegetarian she said and the management should listen to her when she was trying to make them use tofu. We might be back if...

When we arrived we wanted to have the "plat du jour" which wasn't available on Friday we were proposed to have the buffet instead.

The buffet is just and all you can eat noodles with no starter or dessert or drink. The title is very misleading.

We ordered a pepsi light and were given a pepsi normal.

The staff doesn't speak French except the manager and the English is hard to understand from most of the staff.

During check out I wanted to pay with American express as the logo is clearly displayed on the cashier which was not accepted.

I made a comment that 24eur for a buffet which is all you can eat noodle soup was expensive to which the manager told me "if you are not happy don't come back".

The comment below shows again the arrogance of...