Red Corner​ Restaurant -​ Thai​ and​ Seafood — Restaurant in Karon

Just finished eating, let me talk about our evaluation and experience: Disappointed, angry! I ordered a total of six dishes and waited for more than 20 minutes for a plate of water spinach and a bowl of Tom Yum Kung soup. In the next 40 minutes, I saw that other people who were seated in the back were all served. After urging twice, I greeted and asked the waiter many times and basically ignored you. After many urgings, I got a fried rice noodles with seafood. The problem is that we ordered fried rice noodles with pork and chicken. So I directly asked to cancel the remaining dishes and check out. The most irritating thing is that we had to wait for nearly 20 minutes even for the checkout. In the middle, we asked different waiters many times for the checkout and just cleaned up the table (even though no one was seated) In the end we said we will leave three minutes after, regardless of whether we had already checked out or not, and finally someone came to check out.

Regardless of the dishes, you can directly score 0 points in terms of service. We arrived at the store close to eight o'clock, and finished eating after nine o'clock. The restaurant has never been full and queued up, and even the store was only half full at the end of the meal. Even so, it took 20 minutes to check out. After reading other reviews, I realized that the attitude of the service staff in the store is indeed suspected of being treated differently.

Since this is the first meal in Phuket, and there are no dishes on the table, the seafood was finally canceled. There are not many reviews on the dishes. I am not sure whether the level of this restaurant is higher than other restaurants in Phuket. Many people recommend it, but I think the dishes of this restaurant are below the average...

First off, service was excellent and they removed any charge for the 2 dishes sent back. We were initially engaged on the street by a kind waitress as we looked at their fresh live seafood tanks of maine lobster, spiny lobster, mantis shrimp, crab, and large prawns. We specified we were seafood snobs who only would eat fresh and live seafood. The waitress did a great job seating us in the air conditioned annex across the street when we asked for a spot with a cooling fan. Waitress was helpful going through menu item questions what was fresh or in season vs which was not.

The first dishes delivered of fried prawns and curry crab were pretty good, not perfect but obviously fresh. The next dishes of white wine mussels and a seared rare mushroom steak completely changed experience. Half the mussels were unopened, and the open ones had the tinge of undercooked and not fresh. The rare steak was outer gray with minimal malliard sear with a very raw interior. Upon biting into the steak it was obvious it was still frozen in the center well below the liking of the most raw steak. We pointed out the problems with the later dishes, but instead of sending our helpful and knowledgeable waitress a confrontational man spoke with us that the mussels are bought at a market and they can't control them. Ok, fine, but not helpful.

They removed the steak and mussel charge from the bill appropriately. We couldn't find our nice waitress until leaving.

Overall I can't recommend Red Corner for fresh seafood and chef skills, despite helpful waitress. We had eaten at Kwongs Seafood next door twice previously and were satisfied with the freshness and delivered quality...

The food at Red Corner looks good enough, but my business review is based on my experience with the restaurant. No matter how many times I walk down this street I will be approached on the corner by 2 people trying to get me to enter. One of them is very friendly. I’ll pass another restaurant and reach a second Red Corner where the person will try and get me in. Their phrase “Are you not hungry?” is clever, but gets annoying the more they pressure it. If I pass on the other side of the street they have another person there to stop me and send me to the other side where the restaurant is.

There is a restaurant between all of these Red Corners which I also don’t particularly like, but feel sorry for. They’re trying to run it out of business surrounding it like this and when we saw that restaurant get a customer the Red Corner person from across the street started yelling and wanted to fight them.

They all wear red and the restaurant next to them wear yellow. It’s like a restaurant gang war and I want nothing...