Giti Thai — Restaurant in Inglewood

First I would like to say that I think the people working here are all very sweet and are doing the best they can with the resources they have been given. Unfortunately, that is not enough to really make this restaurant a success. I can see that many people love this place, and they consistently had a lot of to-go orders while I was there, so they are doing something right, but I would still consider this a failed experiment.

Despite living less than two blocks away, I avoided eating here because whenever I looked at the menu the prices seemed a little high. Finally I decided to give in a try, and in the end my bill was not that much, but there were issues with both of the items I ordered. I ordered an appetizer (chicken wings) and a curry. My chicken wings came out and within sixty seconds my curry came out. The wings themselves were ok, but half of the plate was drum sticks and they were very dry (overcooked). Thene there was the curry. I had to ask them to heat it up because it came out room temperature. Once it was hot, it was pretty good. The rice that came with the curry clearly had been cooked much earlier in the day and had started to dry out and become chewy.

I ordered a sparkling water and the waiter was very sweet and eager to make sure I was satisfied and went next door to the liquor store to get me something. When I was leaving I saw the bottled water they have is the kind that you can get from costco in a huge pack that costs like twenty cents per bottle. This is what I mean when I say there's something weird happening because how are you going to have $30 menu items but only have the absolute cheapest bottled water..like just get some bottles of San Pellegrino please

There is some kind of disconnect happening where it doesnt seem the owners are present and aware of what's going on or they are just inexperienced and not sure how to run a restaurant properly. I am gonna guess that this is their first venture in the restaurant business.

Oh also: when you enter the restaurant, you are greeted with some cute Halloween themed decorations, including a rotting pumpkin. Yes that's right, there is a rotting moldy pumpkin on the counter where the host greats you. I kid you not. There's a literal...

This review is not a nag, nor is a complaint, is just a review based on the experience we had. Owner please note that I don't seek a reply, or acknowledgement, or even a make up meal. The bottom line is, this establishment has lost my business permanently. Aledgelly the only black owned Thai food restaurant in the world... I'm glad because it sucks. The breakdown: According to the servers they are understaffed. Point taken, however, it wasn't that busy. Literally I told my wife upon examination of the menu: "this prices better be justified with an excellent culinary experience" they weren't. The service was as bad as they come, we were ignored for a while, took about 10 minutes before anyone checked on us, by that time we were ready to order not only drinks, but the food as well. Three of us asked for hot tea, 1 soda. The food came first 40 minutes later, we asked more than twice for our drinks and they kept forgetting. At last I had to get off the table and asked again. We were told then that there's a tea station, literally 5 steps from our table and that we were welcome to help ourselves (no problem, they should have mentioned from the start) but there wasn't any hot water, the coffee machine carafe glass was broken, so basically useless. For the main dish, the food review: Never have I tasted Thai food this bad, we been to many Thai food restaurants over the years, our kids love Thai food. We even have a couple of places that are our favorites, even if they are far, we make a point to visit again from time to time. Our kids disliked the food so much, they didn't finish their plates, my wife and I try to eat, but we gave up, we took leftovers home hopping perhaps in a moment of desperation we would eat it, but no, they got thrown out. I asked for the pineapple fried rice, albeit, no shrimp because I'm allergic to seafood, but it came with shrimp anyway, got sent back to the kitchen. All dishes came in at different times, order was wrong over and over. Do yourself a favor and avoid the disappointment, this restaurant is...

Aight let me put my little two cents in on this thang. I ordered via postmates so I can't rate or comment on the service or atmosphere therefore my rating is strictly for the food. I ordered Red curry w/ white rice and a Thai tea. The Thai tea was really good. But I think I mighta got a batch of old milk because my tea had a slightly tart smack to it so ill give it a 4/5. Had that NOT been the case, I could tell that my drink would have been fire. As far as the food, I imagine the owner is a fan of Thai food and put together their rendition of the Thai dishes they like the most. The curry was ok 3/5. And I don't say that for any specific reason other than that I don't like curry that has too much creme in it or is too thick. However they do serve it like this at a few Thai places amd as compared to those resturants I would say competition wise it's neck and neck. The reason I do not like my curry too creamy and too thick is because after a couple spoon fulls it becomes a bit one-note-ish and feels like your eating a bowl of seasoned cream. I wanna taste the curry, the veggies, lime leaf, coconut fat , spice, rendered meat fat etc. So when I taste extry creamy curry like this it feels a bit cheap and lazy and on-the-go to me, not something you sit down and savor. The rice was coo...no complaints. It's rare you run into a Thai food place that serves perfect rice 100% of the time anyway....maybe Because many Americans dont really appreciate perfectly cooked aromatic jasmine rice. But ultimately I didn't taste anything in My food that wouldn't make me order twice or that I thought was exceptionally foul or inauthentic. But I would encourage the owners to explore a wider variety of cooking methods from different Thai restaurants. I mean black people cooking Thai is already a huge step out of the comfort zone but I would encourage yall to...