Thara Thong — Restaurant in Bang Rak Subdistrict

I had dinner at the end of November (on Thu night) taking several business colleagues to enjoy the Thai food by the river.

I made reservation in order to ensure we got seats but when I came around 7pm, the restaurant is pretty empty although outside seatings were full.

We were given seats outside facing Icon siam mall and Mandarin Hotel. During my dinner time, the river are noisy whenever the disco boats passing by. It's not just 1-2 times but quite often between 7-9pm. So if you need to discuss very important matters, outside seatings will not be the best arrangements.

Service is excellent although I have to use a bit of Google translate to ensure they understand my instructions on getting the cooking with chilli will be as mild as possible.

However, Tom yum goong and Somtum were still super hot even tough I have reminded them about the chilli level. The river prawns were used for the Tom Yum Goong as it has softer texture. Personally, I'm not a big fan but this is very subjective. Pad Thai is not the best and more on the sweet and soft side. Massaman Curry has been the highlight and the saviour for the night. It might look little but the sauce was super thick and lovely.

There are short Thai dance performances so it will be good to showcase to business colleagues who have never visited...

A very bad experience with this Thai restaurant inside Royal Orchard Sheraton hotel. We were so regret to picked this restaurant for my husband for his birthday on 12/12 Saturday evening. The food was not fresh and bad. The satay was dry and no taste. The shrimp of Tom Yum Goong soup is clearly not fresh. The quality totally are unacceptable. The rest of all the dishes also not good. Honestly, this is the only meal we had the worst with unacceptable quality during our stay in Thailand in a week. We asked to waive the 2 satay that totally nobody touched and left all, they refused to only waive 1. The dishes we ordered almost left the most on the table.

The service was inattentive . We were all very disappointed by the food and the inattentive service. Even the water, you need to keep asking to refill .

The only thing I gave a start because of the dancing team. The atmosphere was nice. It is a great pity the restaurant runs to fail to the food and service which are significant parts for customers to pick.

Very regret to pick this restaurant by wasting one night there in our entire trip. That’s the reason we still would like to share all these disappointing bad experience though we were so tired after the trip. Overall, we feel we were cheated .

Absolutely never go back...

This place shines, from the ambience, to its staff it’s all very nice indeed. From a dessert point of view, (in my humble opinion) you’ll be hard pressed to fine better in Bangkok. Indeed all of the food was delicious. Why then I hear you cry isn’t it worthy of a 5⭐️, simply, and again my humble opinion and I appreciate that tastes differ, the food from the western counters that I sampled was of a cooler temperature than I like. Arriving at the very outset of the dinner buffet (17:00) I expected everything to be piping hot and ready to go. Sadly, perfectly cooked food was served cooler than I am accustomed to or like. The duck curry on the other hand was of a perfect temperature and flavour and the rice was delicious, if only the western side of things were delivered at the same temperature. That aside, as I said, the food was delicious, the restaurant was spacious, comfortable and had great views. Superbly attentive staff ensured everything glided along smoothly. Will I go back? Totally yes - in a heartbeat. Would I recommend it, absolutely. Indulge yourself,...