Wanida Thai Bistro — Restaurant in Bellingham

I've been here twice, dined in once, and did a takeout order the other time. My dine in experience was 100% A+ on all accounts. My take out order was mostly good but there was one thing that kinda got me a little eh, so I walked in I ordered, they said 20ish min, ok cool, I went over to Yeaggers to shop around a little and then came back to pick up my food, I saw an order on the table but wanted to wait to ask if it was mine till I saw someone and a lady walked up and was like "yes this is your order", BUT... she wanted me to pay for it... like lady, I already paid before I left when I placed the order... luckily, the chick that took my order was juuust getting off work and as she was leaving saw what was happening and was like "she already paid, shes good".. then the other lady completely changed her tune and was like ok here ya go! Like what? So next time I order to go, I'm gonna get an itemized receipt so I can show them like look I already friggin paid. It wasn't that bad, but that stuff shouldn't happen. They should have made a note on my order that this chick has already paid, I mean, what if the other chick had already gotten off work? Would have they not let me take my food? I dont like...

Basis the ratings, we were really excited to try this newer Thai Bistro. Unfortunately we were sorely disappointed. We started with the Calamari, which was decent in flavor but look more like frozen squid sticks vs. traditional calamari. We had the Panang Chicken Curry, which was extremely thin and watery and severely lacking in flavor. The sauce needed to be much more creamy. The chicken in the dish appeared to be boiled instead of sautéed. Very pale and limp. It almost made me think it was undercooked. We also tried the Crispy Chicken Pad Thai. The crispy chicken was cooked well but was really lacking in flavor. I was hoping to mix it into the Pad Thai, but there was not much sauce or flavor there either to help the chicken. The food came out looking very appetizing but fell flat in the taste department. The prices are also very high. We had two dishes, one appy, and a Thai tea, and it was about $80.00. The quality of the food and service does warrent the price. We would not recommend this place. There are better options...

We were a big group of 30+ people, this was pre planned with the restaurant to celebrate a bday.

Coordinating with Sandra for this party was so smooth and professional. She gave us an option to go outside dinning. Glad the weather cooperated (May 14th) .

The food and service was fast! The group was hungry so it got devoured fast. We ordered, chicken karage, tom yum, thai fried rice, beef curry, pad thai and sticky rice w mango. They were all very good.

The thai ice tea was the only slight negative as it came a bit sweet on first batch and 2nd batch was not enough sweetness. But we dont care, the group had a great time!

Especially appreciated the service coz we were at semiahmoo resort the night before and the food service was sooooo slow like 1.5 hrs!! to get our food served.. so here there were 3 people serving and they were very efficient! They planned it very well 3 long tables where we split all girls , all men and all kids.. everyone was full and even took...