Dao Thai Restaurant and Noodle Palace — Restaurant in Chicago

This is a long review but in short, DO NOT GO HERE PLEASE. SPEND YOUR MONEY SOMEWHERE ELSE! The other one star reviews here are truly correct . Please go to Star of Siam (a couple of blocks away) versus this place.

Basically, my girlfriend and I went to this Thai place on a Friday night and there was only 6-7 people there (already a bad sign when there’s around 30 empty tables there). Their menu was very conscious of which items contained peanuts as it was highlighted in bold red. All items listed the ingredients inside so we felt okay ordering the Vietnamese fresh spring roll. My girlfriend is allergic to carrots and when the spring rolls arrived, there were carrots inside. We politely apologized to the waitress and asked if they can remove the carrots since we can’t eat them. Keep in mind we would have asked to have the carrots excluded if the menu stated that carrots were in there, but the menu did not state that carrots were inside. We double checked the menu in case we made a mistake, but sure enough, the menu did not list carrots for the spring roll item even though other items listed carrots in those. The male manager came by and was very rude to us while asking what we want to order differently. I was very apologetic to him as I already felt bad for having them take away the spring rolls but all I asked was if they can remove them. The manager was very rude as he explained that if “I just looked carefully at the menu” I would not have made that mistake. He said that we sometimes put carrots as a decorative piece on items but the spring rolls had carrots inside. He was extremely impolite and became frustrated. I said we do not what to order anything new and he grabbed the menu out of my hand and rushed away, eyeing me as he went into the kitchen.

Once we got the check, he charged us for the item we never ate. I requested to have it taken off and they begrudgingly did so. When I was walking away I spoke with the female waitress and another server and they apologized for how I was treated. They said it was their fault. But the male manager didn’t show has face, and was hiding in the kitchen. I told them I wanted to support local businesses like theirs but it’s hard to do so when you’re treated like that. That manager does not have the luxury of treating customers like that when his restaurant is only at 1/8 capacity in a Friday night!!!

To even drive home the point further of why not to come here, I later realized that they only gave me one shrimp wonton for my noodle soup when others (based on recent pictures of other customers’ orders) got two. That manager purposely took off one topping since I apparently angered him when it was his fault in the first place. Please everyone reading this, please do not go here. I really feel bad for the other staff, but this manager has no clue what he’s doing and has to get his anger problems looked at by a therapist. Go to Star of...

I love the service here. Everyone SUPER kind, sweet, and attentive. there's lots of seating options and it is so cool and slightly inconvenient to climb into tour seat but it feels homey. There's a bunch of noodle options so we had to get 2 and a carry and papaya salad as a classic Thai dish.

Papaya salad looked good and it comes with one shrimp. I felt like it missed a bit of sweetness and chili for me. This one's very tart and felt like it did not have much flavor profile as I am use to. It's very refreshing and the papaya got an addictive crunch to it. The peanut are so good with the whole salad is palette cleansing.

Mussman curry with chicken. The chicken was good perfectly in the curry which I'm very satisfied with. It comes with a side of white rice. Curry is nutty, sweet, and creamy flavor that's so good. It honestly surprised me when I got some pineapple because I never thought fruit be in a curry. There's bits of potato and tomato. MUST TRY.

Pad khee mao with beef aka spicy crazy noodles which isn't so crazy spicy but def spicy if you hit those jalapeños which adds alot to the dish. It's thick broad noodles that are chewy and absorbs the sause well. The veggies and fresh Thai basil makes this dish very delicious and goes with beef the best. Over dish is slight sweet and spicy with umami from the sause. I recommend.

Bamee Noodles in soup is also super refreshing with thin egg noodles and bbq pork. I did not like the pork. The noodle and soup is very good and light. It's lighter on the flavor and the egg noodles is very similar to wonton noodles. The cilantro in the broth makes it very clean and fresh. I enjoyed it

Overall the food was decent with fair pricing and...

The Worst Tom yum soup with noodles I have ever eaten at any Thai restaurants. I ordered a Tom yum chicken soup with noodles that was listed on their menu for $14.50 and the description indicated that the soup base supposed to be sweet and sour, spicy, chopped lemongrass, and with a few other spices. When it was brought out to me it didn’t look or smelled anything like Tom yum soup. It looked and tasted more like a regular chicken noodle soup. I immediately asked the waitress if this dish was brought to me in error, she then brought it back into the kitchen and when it was brought back out to me, seems to me that they just added 2 dried hot red peppers, onion, vinegar and mushrooms to the soup and took out all the noodles. When I asked shouldn’t there be noodles in my soup, she said, it doesn’t come with white rice, noodles or anything. I did not end up eating the soup at all (picture shown below). It tastes awful and yet I was charged for the Tom yum chicken soup with noodles. (Note: they do have just the Tom yum soup on their menu for just $12.95). No wonder this restaurant looks very rundown. If I could I would give them a negative 10 rating. I have eaten plenty of Thai foods at different Thai restaurants in different states as I am a...