Royal Thai — Restaurant in Sofia City

I give 5 stars to food and atmosphere because honestly I was not able to dine there and the atmosphere looked nice. But I can not avoid to write about what happened which took me and my girlfriend to have dinner elsewhere. I called the restaurant Feb 7th at 6.00pm in order to reserve a table for two for Feb 14th (Valentine's Day and my girlfriend's name day, on top of all) but nobody picked up the phone. After 10 minutes, the restaurant called me back and I was able to reserve a table for two for Feb. 14th at 7.30pm, being told that the payment is cash only. On Feb.14th, at around half past noon, I called the restaurant to move my reservation from 7.30pm to 8.00pm and I mentioned the reservation was under David's name. No problem whatsoever, apparently. We reached the restaurant at around 8.05pm, we have been welcomed by a guy with short dark hair, I gave the name of the reservation and he told me that there is no reservation under my name and that surely I never called the restaurant. I took my phone out to show the calls, we have been completely disregarded and been told that the payment is cash only (which was already mentioned via phone) and we had to reach AT LEAST 120lv. I replied to him that nobody told me such a thing at the phone and he answered again that is because I NEVER CALLED THE RESTAURANT, and left without giving us any way to discuss further. Apparently I never called the restaurant, but they even called me back on Feb. 7th. Amazing. Is do not have any money related problem, but this restaurant will not have any from me, considering how...

👩‍🦽🥬🚭 I came here around 8 pm on a Monday. It was not crowded but it was frequented. The staff immediately asked me if I could pay cash, I said I could. They have not been accepting cards for a while (September 2023) and they do not know when they will accept cards again. The staff presented the menu and left me and my partner plenty of time to choose, which was nice. The menu was extensive, and only had very small pictures that were difficult to relate to. Once we ordered the dishes the food came rather quickly. There was a Thai beer on the menu but it was only cans, so we opted for Heineken draft beer. The choice of drinks was rather limited. When the green curry and the shrimp soup came the green carry was warm but not hot. I almost sent it back but didn't want to wait again. We were presented with no additional lemon or coriander, and the curry did not have any. The curry can be accompanied by meat, fish or tofu. We chose tofu. The tofu was nice, but the curry sauce itself, was really really average. The shrimp soup was more tasty, and a bit more hot. My partner and I eat very different levels of spiciness and we were able to manage this with the help of the staff who brought my partner chilly in a dish. The two options of rice we took, two simple and one with egg, were ok, but again, even the rice was very average and plain. We spent 75 leva, for a salad, one curry, one soup, three portions of rice, which given the quality seemed a little...

Update for 01.2025: Last time I ate here was 2 years ago and my friend ordered good stuff. I've been to Thailand and I liked the stuff we ordered. Last night, another friend who is new to Thai cuisine decided to trust my suggestion so we went there. I ordered red curry with tofu, masaman and pad thai with tofu. I was really disappointed. Red curry was full of bland thick chunks of tofu, super thick bland zucchini and ajvar paprika?!? Masaman was for some reason limited only to pork version and my friend had to gnaw on the bones to get the meat off. The masaman soup tasted like Indian curry and had glazed onions inside which I don't remember seeing in thai kitchen, but it tasted well. Pad thai was lacking chillie flakes and peanuts on top and was quite dry, lacking the sauce. Water bottle was more expensive than a bowl of rice, rice came 5-10 mins after the curries. I was disappointed since 2 yrs ago this place left me happy, and I left 5 stars before. I wouldn't really recommend these dishes again. ... Me and my friends shared tofu pad thai as well as tofu panang curry, and it blew me away how authentic both dishes were. The pad thai was nutty and panang was milky and coconutty as they should be. Soon followed three sweet plates - mango sticky rice, fried banana and coco-ice cream, as well as sweet potato and black rice with coco-milk, and these three sealed the deal. Hands down, very genuine Thai flavors. Would...