Simply Thai Restaurant — Restaurant in Florissant

I want to start off by stating I love this restaurant. The food here is good and it is a regular restaurant in my rotation, or at least use to be. Today, my mother called in to place our order as she believes it to be easier than ordering online. While she was on the phone, I priced the food for us and the total for 4 entrees and adding chicken came up to $56.46. She ordered over the phone and the owner did not tell us the total, I had him ask and it amounted to $63.18. I told my mother not place the order and explained to the gentleman that it is cheaper to order online, he said the price is wrong and I told him to not complete it over the phone and it is okay. Instead of choosing a different restaurant, I proceeded to place an order later, online, because I still wanted to eat here, again, I do enjoy the food here. I go to the restaurant to pick up my order and was greeted warmly, I proceeded to let him know I had a pickup order. The owner immediately grabs my order and tells me “Enjoy this because it was priced wrong”. I tell him thank you and I understood then asked is he put the sauce in the bag that I requested in the notes. He tells me no, asks me how many I need, then places them in the bag. As he is placing the sauces on my food he says “ Yes, appreciate it at this price this time”. I smiled kindly, told him thank you and headed home to enjoy my meal. After the ride home where I could process this interaction I find it very off putting and disheartening. I understand the first comment of letting me know he will be making the price the same online, but to tell me to “appreciate” the fact that he gave me the food is very off putting. I could have not order here or argued about the difference in price. I mean in this economy EVERY penny counts! There is about a $7 difference between the online price and the price over the phone so yes it makes sense for one to place an online order. The owner should “appreciate” that I still choose to eat at this restaurant after the price discrepancy, I could have simply gave another restaurant my $57. Overall, it is disappointing to say after the interaction, because this is not the first I’ve dealt with a bad attitude here, I will no longer be a patron. I hope you appreciated my business this...

Update Friday 5 Aug 2022: Several years, a pandemic and a move to a new location later... Disappointed. Ordered Fried Shrimp Rolls - great; Tom Kha Gai (Coconut Chicken Soup) - never arrived until the meal was over; & Kaeng Khiao Wan Neua (Green Curry w/Beef) - the curry was tasty but thin and lacking the richness of enough coconut milk. However, the beef in it was execrable - tough, old, poorly and too-thickly sliced and just short of "gamy" off-tasting. Also, they did the "substitute peas for tiny Thai eggplants (which are readily available in St. Louis)" routine - but I'm kind of used to that with Thai restaurants. We were there early and there were no other diners when we ordered. I mentioned the soup being missing when I was almost done, i.e., "cancel" but they brought it out when it was too late to worry about. Opening it at home later the soup was not very close to the "real thing" - again not enough coconut milk and lacking any lemongrass or galangal (kha) taste whatsoever. It looked like a bad marriage of yum & kha soups without cilantro. The good news? They have kept their prices down better than just about any place in the area. Unfortunately, it appears at the expense of not using coconut milk (or other pricier ingredients) any more (which is kind of essential in Thai cuisine). So sorry, but they've traveled too far from "authenticity" and we will be traveling elsewhere for Thai henceforth.

This place is schizophrenic - sometimes it's awesome & sometimes it's just passable. They do NOT recognize what most people expect in pad see ew - if you order it, you'll get a pad woon sen noodle dish. Staff was nice & friendly;...

I see from other people's reviews that this place is the best Thai food in town. I hope not because this place is not good at all. I ordered drunken noodles beef. The noodles weren't the wide egg noodles you'd expect but the thin spaghetti ones. They were dry and salty and the meat was over cooked. After the food was brought the waitress never came back to all us to ask how our food was. I sat over half my meal with an empty glad and was thirsty from the salty food. My wife ordered panang curry chicken and asked for light spice and explained she can't handle spicy. Well it came out spicy, even for me and I like spice. Her chicken was over cooked and the curry tasted more like watered down lemongrass soup with a hint of coconut milk. Again if this is the best in town then either no one here has ever had real Thai food or they need to get their taste...