Baan Thai Ballsbridge — Restaurant in Dublin

I'm giving this restaurant full stars mainly because it deserves so. This restaurant is upstairs, so after the door located on the street you must walk upstairs and in the first floor there's a Buddha and a picture of the king of Thailand.

Another door and you get inside, very fast you realize this place is good. As I can realize when someone is speaking in Thai language, I know that staff speaks Thai language, so they must be Thai or at least know a lot about Thailand.

Also I paid attention to a table just opposite the doors, the women sitting there looked Thai, and gotcha, they were speaking Thai language with the waiters, so a place frequented by local people almost always means good.

Decoration was full of Thai symbols, God faces and elephants, with the restaurant logo on the windows. After getting our table, we proceeded to take a look to both menus.

The drinks menu included a comprehensive list of wines, some beers, smoothies and some kinds of tea.

Food menu was big, divided by types of food, too many choices for us! We kept it simple and we went ahead with some spring rolls and Tom Ka Kai, both good.

After that we ordered red duck curry and the famous Pad Thai. I must admit both of them were super tasty and with the original ingredients from Thailand.

Service was fast and attendant and the place wasn't...

Excellent Thai food, great service, reasonable price. We started with Chicken Satay and Spring Rolls appetizers. The satay was very well spiced; it was white meat which is not as flavorful as dark but I know lots of you prefer it. The peanut sauce for it was really tasty; maybe the best I've had. The spring rolls were as expected and the dipping hot/sour sauce was also very nice. The satay and spring rolls were cooked perfectly. For mains we had Green Curry with Chicken and Vegetable Stir Fry with Prawns. The curry was spice in the curry was mild (could ask for whatever level you want), the flavor was bold but the coconut milk came through as well. The chicken didn't really add much but there was nothing wrong with it either. The stir fry was perfect. Lots of fresh veggies cooked right; still firm. Lots of flavor, and the prawns added even more. Rice comes with the mains; we got one steamed white and one fried rice. The steamed white was as expected. The fried was a simple egg fried rice with a very nice flavor. The restaurant is up dimly lit narrow stairs so watch your step but...

Before anything, this was a delivery order, so the rating is based solely on food quality. Hit with the strongest smell of dodgy meat when opened the container with beef red curry. Sat there for 20 mins to cool down and didn't get any better. Photo doesn't really show, but that meat looks half dried out not sure from what, tastes like pure spices and nothing like beef (i mean at all, even the texture closer resembles tofu). Such curry BTW was just soup with peas, chili and aforementioned beef in red completely liquid semi see-through sauce with fat on top which just transferred the taste odd beef onto the rice.

Duck rolls were alright, a bit bland, sauce to go with them has a vague resemblance of Cantonese sauce for some reason

Not sure...