Salad Thai Restaurant — Restaurant in Oakville

Update Dec 2023: Strayed from the script today and ate in instead of takeaway. Had friends over and so decided to go "off-script" not only in terms of eating venue but also decided to try something other than Pad Thai... started with the Tom Yum soup and finished with the Massaman. Both delicious. Wife continued to be a creature of habit and stuck with the spring rolls and red chicken curry. Neither of us were disappointed, nor were our Pad Thai loving guests who agreed their dishes were amongst the best they'd ever had. Food is so flavourful and the service is as friendly as you're going to find anywhere. The complimentary prawn crackers with peanut sauce didn't hurt either... perfect.

Original review: From the outside it looks like a shack. From the inside the decor is dated and a confusion of colours. However, there is a reason that this place has been our preferred Thai place for over 20 years, the food is exquisite. Pad Thai (either chicken or shrimp) is unbeatable and my wife loves the red Chicken Curry. We are creatures of habit and order the same thing every time but if it's sooo good, why wouldn't you? Take out 90% of the time......

We had ordered take-out from here about a week ago. We ordered a chicken pad thai, chicken panang curry, coconut shrimp soup, and a side order of steamed rice noodles.

The flavours in each dish were excellent. However, we didn’t find that we got good value for our money. For example, the coconut shrimp soup only had 4 pieces of shrimp. Our entire bill was $53, but it didn’t feel as though the price was worth it.

In addition, their website states that there is a 10% discount for orders over $30 if you pay in cash. I brought cash with me, but when I asked about the discount, I was told by the staff that “they have paused that discount”. When I followed up to ask if they will then be updating the website to remove that, they said “oh we will bring it back at some point in the future”. While I understand that a lot of restaurants are feeling the pinch from recent inflation, I found this to be very shady, and not professional behaviour at all. I’m not sure if we will dine here in the future based on this...

Amazing Thai food! So flavourful and savoury - the dishes have a good balance of meat, veggies, sauce, spice, noodles, not too much or too little of one ingredient. Have dined in and taken out and quality is consistent throughout. You know a place is good when you get to the deep fried spring rolls two hours after and they're still crispy! The curries are so rich and thick they blanket the thai jasmine rice so well. I don't like pineapple but these guys know how to use it in their dishes to compliment the other ingredients. I love spicy and a lot of places hold back but tonight I was impressed, I asked for crazy spicy and they brought it! The soups are perfect this time of year, the lemon mushroom soup is amazingly aroumatic for a fairly simple no nonsense broth soup. Prices are better than any other...