Err Urban Rustic Thai — Restaurant in Khlong Tan Nuea Subdistrict

What. A. Let. Down. Man oh man, I’m shocked…if this place could get a Netflix spot with Phil, then honestly any Thai restaurant in Bangkok could, and they’re probably thousands of restaurants that should have been featured before this place. Everything was off. Price point/menu selling price vs. Portion size is absurd. Literally you’ll spend $2000 THB and leave starving. Every. Single. Dish. Both app and main were portioned out for a bird. It was a joke. Before that I was thinking, ‘oh it’s not actually that expensive’ and then the food arrives and you’re like, ‘ummm where’s the food? Is this a joke?’ Service was brutal. No one is explaining the menu, no one is asking about spice levels or describing anything about the menu, we barely got a smile, it was just dead pan bordering on ‘why are you even here’ expression. The menu is somewhat elaborate and almost everyone in the restaurant was a tourist so the staff should be able to explain the menu in English in some capacity or at least try, even if they pass your question off to that one server who speaks flawless English…just act like you’re passionate about the place because this is not casual, this is a few notches up towards casual fine dining, this restaurant is very popular and their prices are very high in relation to the quantities they’re putting up on the pass so the service had better be there andddddd…..it’s not. That said, the food was pretty good, but it’s definitely style over substance, nice presentation, garnish, plate wear etc but so many bones and way too much spice. If I could summarize the food in two words (or a slogan) it would be Bones n’ Spice. In fact, that’s what the restaurant should be called. The old Chinese style ribs….90 percent bone. The green curry, 2-3 small pieces of chicken with bones, and two big chicken feet - all bone. The basil chicken - holy spice I can’t taste anything else. Mackerel rice balls - spice. You’d never know there was fish in there. So yaaa…the spice ratio and the meat to bone ratio are beyond brutal. Their cocktails were pretty good and not too expensive but they’re not incredible by any means. Everyone raving on here about how amazing their drinks, they’re just good, but not mind blowing. If you’ve been to a good cocktail bar in any major city then you’ll probably agree. This place, you order one and that’s it. No need to go down the list. Anyway, if management is reading this, inject some flare into your staff, simplify your menu (or at least lose the laminated spreadsheet of the world) adjustable spice levels (not that uncommon) beer prices go down, you sell more, portions go up, prices stay the same, cuts are served with meat on them, bones are used for stock (you learnt that in culinary school) add a couple more classic and less progressive cocktails to the list, keep them under 300 THB…maybe tell the staff to greet customers or at least acknowledge their existence at the door…make (or at least think about making) these tweaks and business will go up. The Netflix buzz will not...

Well we popped in to have lunch here and a catch up business meeting!!

The girl that came to serve us was quite cute, and she was very enthusiastic about certain dishes. So we ended up ordering the chicken skin, the green mango salad 🥗 , The beef 🥩 kapow with egg 🥚, Then this egg salad, which she highly recommended and two orders of the rice balls with mackerel in it.

Let’s start with a green mango salad. It was very good but the portion was like very small. I was quite disappointed with the portion because in the pictures it looks quite On the menu. I ordered these rice balls deep-fried with macro in it. I thought it let me try something different and wow I was absolutely blown away my favourite of the lunch. We ended up ordering another order of the same! The beef kapow I didn’t try, but my friend said it was very good, Usually it comes with rice, but there was no rice along with this, so we didn’t order the rice. 🍚 Presentation wise the chicken skin was very nice very nicely done with the dip but again it’s chicken skin and well. It was presented well what to say.

The egg salad that came was too deep-fried eggs in this amazing sort of sauce, but not saucy. I had one egg and the egg was so oily. I could literally couldn’t eat it. I do like my eggs crispy, but it was almost to the point where it was so oily that I was using a napkin to press out all of the oil from the egg white.

The flavour for sure was very good but again it was so oily. My friend could only eat half of the egg on that salad. It was swimming in oil.

I would highly recommend this place just remember the portions are small and the prices seem good until you get the portions!

This place is Chef by two Michelin star chefs, so perhaps that’s maybe the reason is that it’s supposed to be more art than food?

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Negative -- sign outside 'waited to be seated' you gonna wait forever if you don't go inside and ask for a table. -- misleading menu (pickled mustard with cucumber is actually a micro plate with onions {I did not eat as I don't like onions and nothing said on the menu about it} and also the famous fried rice ball with fish {no fish inside just the taste of it}). -- No alcohol sold at the time we chose to go due to a Buddhist event going at the time. (No signs outside or when you are sat, just when they come to take the order, they is a small sign behind the bar which cannot be really seen). -- Portions smaller than the Thai average, and prices too high. --10% service charge without consulting customers (There is a big controversy in Europe about many business keeping it, I cannot imagine how fair is in Thailand, I would rather give it separately to the server)

Positive No plastic straws +Tasty pork neck (number 8) +Fresh lime juice

If you want to go just because of feed Phill in Netflix just try a few starters, but I don't really recommend it. The roof bar sala on the next road is...