Tin House "Thai Street Food" — Restaurant in Anacortes

From the beast to something beautiful Taking a ride through town one day, noticing newer banners upon an old restaurant, from there I thought i'd cut my Sunday drive short and investigate. After seeing all of the newer renovations on the outside of the old Thai restaurant seeing the open sign in the window was a nice welcome sign. As some one living in town long enough to think that the powers that be would have torn the building down to make way for some new stylish 20th century box with no real class, personally I seen a rose finally blossoming into what I had hoped to be a nice place to take family and friends. What I could only imagine was the owner or a bus boy pop there head out to greet me before I ever disembarked my vehicle. " Hello there I hope your hungry." the gentleman said. "I sure am, so your all ready and open for business?" I replied, "Indeed it is, but its a soft opening, so we can see how things roll in town and what the people like." A soft opening, I thought, that is a great time and place to take the family and see what they think of Thai food. "Then I'll be right back, I've gotta go grab the family, they'll love this." we said our piece and I was back within 15 minutes with the lady that married me and our kid to give the new Tin House a try! We were not in the littlest bit disappointed! Walking into the restaurant seeing the beautiful semi open kitchen with the bar and new floors that looked like anyone could eat off I started scanning to the back of the house trying to see if we would set at the bar or if there was enough seating for 3 or 4 people. There were a few guests there with white plates full of vibrant colors, meat and even noodles! After the gentleman told us about the menu and drinks he had directed us to a very nice window seat. passing by the open waitress stand and a few guests I had asked what they would advise for a few meat eaters and liked a little heat in the mix. The gentleman asked what type of food did you have in the last Thai restaurant that was here? The first time I tried the curry was in college and with the old Thai restaurant having similar types I asked for the yellow curry with chicken so we could try there flavor of curry they had. Our child wasn't very hungry, but being a young growing person we just knew the hunger bug would come when our food did. We went with a nice appetizer of satay chicken with a very nice peanut sauce. Now my wife is a little more eclectic when it comes to trying out new places for food, and this place was some what a new born off and running! Not being able to interpret all the words we looked into what the dish actually provided, before I could suggest anything for her, she came out of her shell with such a large "lets see what a PAD SEE EIW is like." Such a large voice for a small lady, I was even caught off guard, and as almost every one close to us seemed to peer in her general direction the gentleman broke the split second silence with an equally large voice of "What type of meat would you each prefer?" Like an out of tune quire, the three of us almost sang out the words "chicken please!" looking and laughing the gentleman said "i'll be right back with your drinks." As we chatted my wife and child had asked about the wonderful smells that had seemed to be coming from every where but were most prevalent around the front of the house. As they were discussing the wonderful smells the gentleman seemed to pop out of no where with a couple hand fulls of steaming plates! Noticing the vibrant colors on each plate, including a plate full of satay chicken (chicken kabobs basted in something Delicious) with the peanut sauce that my wife said smelled like heaven and the kid started in on, it seemed as though they inhaled it! As the gentleman spoke about each dish, we would each have our first bites I noticed just how much my wife and child seemed to love what ever it was the gentleman had put in front of them. As they began to eat the food seemed to disappear from the plates almost quicker than even I expected. I think he knew...

The place is a cozy one with limited indoor seats but lot of outdoor seating. The place while open through out the day closes for one hour in the afternoon (2.30 to 3.30pm). Even though we (party of 4) went in at 2pm the person attending to us received us with a smile, and informed us about the timings and throughout the time we were there not once did he rush us. He was attentive, kept checking on us to see if we needed anything, and understood our vegan dietary restrictions well. Since there wasn't anyone else eating there at that time, our orders came out quick. Most of the food we ordered tasted good except the tomyum soup which was not that great. The fresh spring rolls and peanut sauce were amazing, and the roti dessert with condensed milk was light, flaky, crispy and juicy. Pineapple fried rice could have had more pineapples, but overall it was decent. We requested medium spice, and it was perfect. Our party finished ordering before 2.30, but ended up still eating past 2.30, and the person there was very courteous to allow us to finish our meals, while he started mopping the place up. Overall 5 stars, I would go to this place...

Where do I start? This was our first time to this restaurant. My wife and I generally try our own dishes and then jointly decide on how to rate the food. She had fried rice with crispy chicken. I had drunken noodles and brown rice with chicken. The food was incredible. Hers was a very wonderful plate of food that what's the plum sauce was incredible. You dip the chicken and you take a bite of the rice and wow. My drunken noodles had just a little touch of heat that tickled the back of your throat but highlighted the food along with using the rights to help sop up some of the not to watery which I found them any places but great flavors. Great tenderness you could tell they take joy in creating their food. To be honest, this is some of the best Thai food we've had in a very very long time and will be...