Patou Thai — Restaurant in Belmont

I had their lunch special for $14. Spring rolls, curry puff, glass noodle soup, and pad thai. Overall the experience was mediocre. It says on the menu that there would be two spring rolls ("Spring rolls (2)"), but what came were two cross section pieces of a whole spring roll. You get about a half roll's worth. The pieces were stuffed mainly with cheap lettuce (and you can tell the original roll had loosely wrapped lettuce so they couldn't even be bothered to put a lot of a really cheap ingredient). They each had a piece of what I believed was chicken; the meat was so small I couldn't even taste it. The piece had none of the traditional noodle, basil, cilantro, meat combo (the lettuce used isn't even indigenous to Asia). The curry puff was a small triangle that contained about the same volume of a McDonald's chicken nugget and stuffed with, again, mostly with cheaper ingredients like potatoes. If there was chicken I could not taste it. The glass noodle soup was made with chemical-ly "chicken bouillon". There was barely a mouthful of glass noodles, a not very fresh shrimp, two pieces of tasteless canned mushrooms, and one green bean pod that wasn't trimmed of the fibrous sides. It wasn't even a bowl's worth, maybe a half bowl. It just looked like there was 'more' owing to the bowl that is wide and shallow relative to the quantity of soup. So again, they skimp on premium ingredients, use cheap substitutes, and then skimp on the quantity served of this mostly cheap offering. The pad thai came with three pieces of not fresh shrimp (tail ends had already turned black and texture turning to muh) and loads of noodles. if there was chicken I didn't see any. I could have counted the number of bean sprouts among the mass of noodles. The pad thai would totally not be worth the $10.50 it normally would have cost a la carte. I've had better quality and quantity of premium ingredients (eg, shrimp, chicken) for comparable, if not less, elsewhere in the Boston area. For using mostly cheap ingredients, skimping on serving a fulfilling quantity of even cheap ingredients, using unfresh 'premium ingredients', I'm not impressed. How they make up for the mediocre food is with the ok decor and ambiance. If they served this kind of food in a more cafeteria like setting I doubt it would be much above 4 stars, it would be more around 3.5. In fact I've had better food at places with less stars. what seems like a deal for $14 is really just paying for a lot of mediocrity. I'd rather spend a little more for much better and more premium/traditional ingredients. I'd give the ingredients 2 stars. A lot of cheapness, and unfresh premium ingredients. The dressing for the spring rolls and the pad thai tasted 'traditional' enough. but owing to the over substitution of cheap ingredients it did detract from 'authentic taste.' So I give the taste just under 3 stars. That makes the average just under 2.5 stars, and I'm annoyed enough that they have been getting away with such mediocrity owing to the decor such that I'm going...

We just had one of those meals that we shall remember for a long time. The restaurant atmosphere is very nice with cloth napkins and fresh paper table clothes. The water has a very clean taste with plenty of ice. We started off with the three roll combo which was good. We ordered the vegetable fried rice which had a great flavor and we learned of the extra hidden white pepper technique, my wife had the tofu flat rice noodles with vegetables dish that had so much flavor that I wanted more myself. I had hot beef platter that had tofu and vegetables cooked perfectly. One of the owners (Dan) paid is a visit and we chatted for a bit. Seventeen years in business “We have to cook a lot of rice to pay for the space” We all laughed so loud, great time with Dan. This was our best meal since moving to the area. We can suggest Patou Thai at our highest recommendation if you want delicious food and...

This is the first time that I’ve been here and also the first time I walked out of restaurant that fast.

I ordered papaya salad, pad Thai and fried rice.

I ordered the papaya salad with medium spicy. It came out with no chilli in sight and not spicy at all. Besides that, the taste was nothing but disappointing. I finished anyways because it’s $16.

The pad Thai was straight sugar and oily. That’s all it tasted like, i tried to down one more bite but I couldn’t do it. The egg in the pad Thai was fried and boarder lime burnt. I immediately just order the check and leave.

The fried rice was also super sweet for some reasons and very oily.

We were planning to order some to go for some people at home. But I was like immediately not.

This place is not cheap at all so I do not recommend people who actually love Thai food to come into this place, I will not go...