Thai Chiang Mai Restaurant — Restaurant in Greensboro

Lunch here yesterday was a most pleasant experience, and a bit of a surprise - the food was interesting, fresh, & very flavorful; the service was at least as good, with James leading the way in a friendly and efficient manner.

The restaurant is located in the small strip center where Monesi Brazilian Buffet was housed before moving to the W. Wendover area. Thai Chiang Mai relocated here from N. Main St in High Point (when it opened 10 years ago it was the first Thai restaurant in that city) about 18 months ago. The move was pretty much forced by the shrinking business in that area of the city - an area that has seen Hams, Libby Hill, a relatively new local barbecue restaurant, and just this week, Maize Cantina, close up shop.

It has been nicely decorated in soft, pleasant colors, and there is a small bar area, as well as booths and tables that are functional, if not upscale, or comfortable. The entire restaurant is bright & clean, though it is small and can get a little noisy.

Wanting to trying a variety of dishes, we ordered the Thai Beef Noodle Soup, the Pineapple Fried Rice, and one of the daily lunch specials, Red Curry Chicken. We were given complimentary Spring Rolls (which was excellent), with a nice, refreshing dipping sauce

The Beef Noodle Soup was, quite simply, amazing - the tastes involved, especially after adding bean sprouts, fresh lime juice, & fresh basil, and one or more of the house made pepper sauces (they also offer Sriracha), were deeply rich, and very fresh. The portion is quite large, more than enough to share.

The soup has strips of beef, noodles, onion, and even sliced tomato ( which, surprisingly, works well here), and the best tasting beef broth I've tried - like a great Pho, but even richer, more complex. When you eat your way to the bottom of the bowl, the remaining broth has collected all the various tastes, and is the very best of the dish - don't spare the pepper sauce, whichever is your choice, it will make the last few spoonfuls sublime.

The Pineapple Fried Rice was also a huge amount, spilling over the half of a fresh pineapple serving as a bowl - and best dealt with in a communal manner. The rice has chicken, beef, perfectly cooked shrimp, freshly chopped green onion, pineapple, egg,and cashews. This is a very nice dish.

The Green Curry (Kaeng Kiew Warn) was a fairly small portion (but in line with the lunch special price) served with steamed, white rice. It included, besides chicken, bell peppers, string beans, coconut milk, curry paste, fresh basil, and eggplant. Not a bad dish, but sweet to my taste, and the texture of the eggplant approached creepy.

Excellent lunch experience, and we thank James for his excellent service and charming conversation. The pricing here was more than reasonable - our entire cost for 2 huge dishes (1/2 of each we took home), the lunch special, and 2 soft drinks was $26....

I am a huge fan of Thai food and I will try to give a fair shake at any dish I try. I decided to check out Thai Chiang Mai for lunch on Friday. Unfortunately, I was not impressed. The waitress asked me for my drink order and I asked for water with no lemon. She then proceeded to bring me water and no, it did not have lemon, but it had lime. Yeah, I didn't want lime either. No big deal, I asked her to take it back, and after she pointed out that it was lime, she did replace it. I looked over the menu and decided to try the pad thai with chicken. Worst pad thai I have ever had. The noodles were extremely mushy and the entire dish was way too sweet. I believe the waitress could tell I did not like it, especially after I barely ate half of the already small portion. She did ask me if I was ok, but she never asked me directly about the food, even after she saw the plate was half uneaten. I hoped I could salvage the meal by ordering the sticky rice. It was better than the pad thai, but again nothing to write home about. Overall, this is definitely not a place I...

So I’m in this area all the time and decided to stop for lunch just a little after 11am. I was greeted and told to “ sit wherever I want”. I did just that. There was a few ppl inside eating, but not busy at all. So soon as i sit down the lady behind the bar says would u like to sit at a smaller table? I said no mam, this is fine. She then says well we might need that table for a bigger party. Then why would u tell me to sit anywhere? And then why would you ask me, do I want a smaller table??? As I looked around there were PLENTY of tables big and small. I said forget it, I’m leaving. She looked surprised as I was leaving. She said ur leaving? I said yes mam, I said mam there’s not many ppl in here, it’s 11:10, and there’s plenty of room. No need for me to switch tables. It would of taken me 10-15 mins to eat max. And if I was sitting down and it got that busy, I wld of moved on my...