Sawatdee — Restaurant in East Devon

Instead of getting food delivered from our local Chinese takeaway, we drove six miles to collect our order, in search of the traditional fresh flavours of Thai cuisine... we ordered a shared starter, a hot and sour soup and two vegetable pad thai. The starter was nice enough but expensive. The soup was ok but not very spicy, the Pad Thai was garnished with lemon instead of lime and it did little to mask the overwhelming sickly flavour of cheap sweet chilli sauce! (not a traditional ingredient for good reason!) As prawn crackers were not included in our £30 order, we added them for an extra £1.80 but they were inedible due to unpleasant texture and musty flavour. Very...

Hello..fellow diners..we visited this restaurant for a family birthday celebration..yesterday. The staff were warm and welcoming and the menu is full of variety and excellent for vegetarians and meat eaters alike.The interior decoration is plain and simple but the food was delicious and subtly spicy, evoking happy memories of travels in thailand..the food is also reasonably priced.. as in the wine. Another positive, is the interesting non alcoholic drinks menu..all in all a very relaxed and...

My food was fine. But they were actively aggressive at the question "do they have anything for vegans or vegetarians?" "No! " was the answer. Clearly everything has fish sauce in it and is pre-made so they can't do it without. It was actually amusing at how rude and angry the owner was. How preposterous was the attitude. But we normally eat at jasmine Thai in Exeter which has a massive vegan selection, and is better in...