Thai House Restaurant — Restaurant in California

'23/10 1st time customer/review (dinner group of 4): -- Very easy to find in prominent street side location at entrance of shopping center. Plenty of free parking. -- Small, tight indoor and patio (fenced) dining, but BOTH noisy (inside from kitchen and outside from busy shopping center/street). Inside was uncomfortably cold for a fall day, to point took that moved to patio dining even before placed order. Not ideal inside or out for hard of hearing, wheeled mobility impaired, or small children. -- As other reviews point out, service was nice, but slow and unattentive to the point multiple time had to get up to go find waitress. Also, as other reviews also pointed out, food delivery time to the table was disjointed (3 members received food well before last member). -- While the menu is decently impressive, and food is plated beautifully, the food itself was VERY bland. Two at our table can take heat, and specifically asked not only for their dishes to be spicy, but to also bring spicy sauce to table. Neither happened without, once again, seeking out a waitress. Sadly, even then, at two attempts--their standard 3-dish sauce tray and a "spicy oil," the heat was still elusive. Both diners were quite underwhelmed at best. Being it was a celebratory dinner, we tried NOT to focus on the dismal service and food. -- While holding out for the dessert to be as amazing as the menu picture, the plating did not disappoint. However, sadly, the taste did--undercooked black rice and generic mango ice cream. Bottom Line: Sacramento has many other Thai restaurants worthy of your hard earned dollar. This establishment works in a pinch if "nearest vicinity" is the driving factor...

I truly understand how places like this continue to win "best of" when it is simply not authentic: Influential rich white Sacramentans like their food to taste like nothing. Really, they consider breadcrumbs a "spice"...

We ordered a selection of classic items to be picked up and taken home. I have to start by mentioning the most offensive thing: their chicken satay tastes like a 1978 bowling alley ashtray. It's absolutely inedible. I could easily taste that they were grilled over flaming newspaper. Just an awful awful taste. And it clearly marinated for 23 seconds and the the peanut sauce contained a whisper of peanut and had the consistency of truck stop coffee with not enough imitation creamer.

The green curry chicken was a complete and disastrous mystery. No basil at all and again a watery, flavorless green latte in a portion that I could eat with a teaspoon.

While I found the "drunken noodles" had a good flavor it was a bit crumbly with the uncomfortable texture of the ground meat. Again with the pad thai the flavor was good but the texture was just... odd.

I could not eat the satay or the green curry chicken. They both went in the trash. Embarrassing and revolting. Winning awards in Sacramento seals your fate as a dumbed down flavorless mush of food. I've had better food at a Mormon wedding.

It seems that whenever a Sacramento publication throws a "best of" at your gut it's ultimately the worst thing you'll ever eat. This place exemplifies that...

When I entered the restaurant, a customer was at the register indicating she had been waiting a long time and couldn’t wait any longer for her order. The owner came out and started yelling at the customer. It was shocking, watching a business owner yelling at a customer. the customer finally left but after she departed the owner return to the kitchen and continue to yell for at least a half an hour the unhappy customer had been gone for half an hour. I sat there and tried to eat my food that I was looking so forward to my stomach was getting so upset when my food finally came. I just couldn’t eat it, I paid for my food and I left and when I got home, the food was so spicy I couldn’t even eat it and I remember the owner yelled out my order to someone and it was my order because of what I had asked for the food was so hot I couldn’t eat it. My stomach was so upset who wants to go into a restaurant and listen to the owner yell for at least 30 minutes I asked my way to dear god is he ever going to stop and my waiter basically said no this is just how he gets .

As I was putting my food in the to go box the owner yelled that we don’t do miles. We do it one way spicy he was right so don’t tell customers they could have a mild say it’s either spicy or extra spicy. For those people who like their food extra spicy good for you however, sometimes food can just be so spicy that it’s not even comfortable to eat then add that the owner is yelling, horrible...