The Basement Thai Restaurant — Restaurant in Derbyshire Dales

Me and my partner love Thai food but this was unacceptable! First the waitress was really rude and looked like she didn’t want to serve us as they were about to close in 30 minutes which is enough time to eat and make food. Secondly, when asking for a recommendation the lady took one look at me and gave me the most mild food ever and then continued to ask me about how spicy I like my food and then finially she was like okay you will like the green curry after I had ordered the yellow curry. She then kept saying oh it has onions and portatoes in and I had to say I love these or I wouldn’t have ordered it to get her to stop being rude. My partner had satay and pad Thai which stained his hands yellow for a few days!!! I don’t know what they put in it! The pad Thai’s chicken was obviously cooked separately as it was bland. My yellow curry was okay except it was so sweet I couldn’t finish it and then the waitress looked annoyed at the fact that I didn’t like the food despite explaining to her several times that it was too sweet and sickly, my food was definatly cooked separately too as the portatoes had no flavour. I paid roughly £13.95 for this and it was not worth a penny!!! When the bill arrived she didn’t even give us a discount or anything off the bill despite several complaints. The waitress overall was rude and looked like she didn’t want to be there and it definatly was not authentic Thai food as everything was cooked separately. I will never ever ever go there again after this experience and I would say to other people not...

After visiting the Thor's Cave, my friend and I came across this place. We thought you can't go wrong with Thai food can you? How wrong we were!

We walked in and whilst waiting to be seated, a lady was wiping the dishes and staring at us with no "Welcome, someone will be with you shortly". The decor in this place looks like it has not been revamped since the 90's. The carpets worn out and the one bathroom in dyer need of a refurbishment. We finally got seated and asked the waitress a very basic dietary question to her response "I don't know". You would think she would have double checked with the chef, but that was to inconvenient for her.

I digress, for starters my friend had the battered prawns and I had the Chicken Satay (picture attached, you can see just how luxurious the table cloths are). My friend commented on how off the prawns tasted. Mine was basic, but bearable enough to eat. The mains however came and the smell was so PUNGENT. I cant explain it, the noodles were drenched in sauce and smelt really fishy and off. I commented that there may be a lot of fish sauce in it, however the manager (or owner) informed us there was no fish sauce in the dish. Am I really in a Thai restaurant who doesn't have fish sauce in their Pad Thai? Anyway we tried our first bite and it was disappointing and inedible.

I have never taken my food back, but this was horrific. I paid for our inedible food and left! This really ruined...

Staying in the area for a weeks holiday we fancied a takeaway and glad there was a thai willing to deliver. Service was prompt and efficient and arrived in the estimated time unlike those local to us. We found the mixed starters were a little deep fried and lacking in flavour relying on the accompanied dips. The satay sauce was the best thing amongst them. The complimentary? prawn crackers were like that of a Chinese takeaway disappointing and bland. Starters not VFM for me. The Pad thai was pleasantly average, with the stand out dishes being the Massaman and the green curries. The only question marks were how many pieces of the beef in the Massaman were actually stewed or were some just boiled for a while to make up the quantity but that’s nitpicking. We were also disappointed and surprised it didn’t come with the rice like it would in the restaurant, that feels a bit stingy for the sake of rice. A mixed delivery bag therefore value for money wise with the overall feeling like it was a touch too expensive as a takeaway for what we received and so if we lived here we wouldn’t be buying it regularly. The restaurant maybe a...