Thai Garden Restaurant — Restaurant in Amarillo

We are blessed to have so much amazing international cuisine in Amarillo. While there are many spread about the town, the greatest concentration is along Amarillo Boulevard, aka Route 66. There you will find Thai, Vietnamese, Mexican, Somalian, and more.

And if you want to escape from there banalities of typical American cuisine, this is the place to do it.

I had reason to venture to Amarillo’s north side to hit a Mexican fruiteria today, and then chose Thai Garden on the Boulevard for dinner. It is a very unassuming place, not among the highest class of Thai restaurants their government has subsidized through their gastro-tourism program the last two decades. But pretense does not always mean good food; I’d rather keep it simple and just have good food.

Which is exactly what Thai Garden served. I went with the Yellow Curry, a hearty plateful of veggies and spicy coconut milk with a side of steamed rice. I was in heaven; I give the heat factor a rating of 2 out of 5, enough to get my attention, but not enough to have me sweating or crying. It was just right.

I took the time to look around, and as per my usual assessment when dining at International restaurants, I wanted to see how I fit into the crowd. To my liking, I was the only white guy in the place, which is a good sign. It means that this is no corporate chain with faux food, but rather a place that has a loyal following among its own people.

Better yet, this is on the Mother Road, and restaurants like this represent the future of the road. I give Thai Garden two thumbs up, and shall promote among the many Route 66 travelers I know who journey across this...

So I called in a order and it was around 9:46. They didn't tell me they were going to be closing soon or anything like that yet there sign when I got there said they didn't close until 11:30. Like their sign was literally still lit up saying they didn't close until 11:30. I pulled up the park to go in and pick up my order and the doors were closed. I called and I was told that I needed to go to drive through because they were closed yet the sign was still on... Well trying to argue with the person on the phone that hey nobody told me that y'all were closing and all that the person decided to hang up with me and due to the fact that I then had to get behind a vehicle that pulled in after I had parked on the drive to window they didn't want to give me a discount considering that at the window it says there is a 3% charge for debit card charges which is not advertised on their site. So I was asking for discount considering that I was not tall that the restaurant was closing and I had gotten hung up on. Not a place that I would ever recommend to go to. I would just that you go to Thai arawan before even considering...

Absolutely horrible employees they have working here now. Not only they were trying to get more money out of me for me getting too small fried Rice's which are $10 each and charging me $26 for two small fried Rice's and when I asked why it was 26 and not the usual $22 that I pay she then got very angry with me and kicked me out the store and yes I was very irritated when I showed up and they said that they didn't even have my order when I recited them their phone number she said she didn't even know the phone number to your own store which caused me to get very irritated and I walked off. I greatly do not recommend this place if you want some good food that's for almost the exact same price you should just go down the street to the Thai House never again will I be eating at this Thai Garden restaurant The Worst by far experience I've had with them and I've already had run-ins with them for charging me more than what they should have they supposedly said it was another staff member but when I confronted the staff member that was working today about it she got...