Thai Garden — Restaurant in Bristol

Really disappointing experience. Service was slow and inattentive. We were told they were out of sticky rice, which is a Thai staple, so really weird to not have during peak hours. Waited an excessive time for food to arrive, our dumplings were incredibly bland but the sauce was good. Another long wait for our noodles, but they were very tasty, even though the presentation was ugly. Another long wait followed for our second dish (fortunately we were sharing). It was a wet curry, and arrived without the egg-fried rice we'd ordered in lieu of our sticky rice. So, we waited, and waited, and waited for rice that never arrived. We wound up catching the server's attention, she seemed surprised that we'd ordered rice, despite there being a whole conversation about it. She went back to the kitchen and never returned to us. Ten minutes passed, by which point we'd finished our wine. We gave up, paid for our noodles, dumplings a £4 corkage and left. No apologies were given by staff for our wasted time or the...

We ordered a takeaway and the food was ready in about 15 minutes. For mains we ordered sweet and sour pork and chicken with ginger and mushrooms, both with noodles. The noodles were really tasty but the mains what kind of lacking particularly watery and not as punchy as I think we would like. I'm not a massive fan of pork usually because a quality is quite poor but I thought that the cuts of pork were very good and we have lots of big chunks of vegetables which were tasty. The crab spring rolls were massively disappointing so I really wouldn't bother with getting them. We have quite high hopes for the place given that the reviews are around 4.5 but considering what we paid which was about £30 in all we weren't left feeling massively satisfied or really impressed. The service was very prompt and the staff were lovely, but the quality of the takeaway only really warrants...

I was pleased to discover this restaurant. Reasonable location and seems popular with locals. Had favourable reviews too. I don't want to say bad things about this place, but I have nothing good to say. As we sat there eating the mediocre food, I thought what they ought to keep and what needed updating. There is nothing worth saving. It wasn't terribly expensive, but I left, still hungry. Strip everything out the place and start again. Update and improve the menu. Meat was chewy, especially the pork. Suspect it was frozen. Please, just produce much better vibrant Thai dishes. When ready- meals beat your dishes hands down, it's time to change. A few days later. Sorry. ps, I hardly do any cooking but out of curiosity I tried to do better with Shop bought authentic green Thai curry paste. Wow, Think I'll be applying for...