Quite simply, the best Thai food I have found ANYWHERE in the DFW metroplex in the 10+ years I have lived here.
Not only is the food fresh, amazing, and delicious, but the girl who always waits on me is literally the sweetest person I have ever encountered in the service industry, and all of the cooks/managers she works with (who are CLEARLY her parents/siblings/uncles/aunts/cousins/etc.) are all almost just as kind and extremely accommodating.
It's the type of place where the cook, manager, and your server all stand by, with bated breath (at a respectful distance, so as to not make you feel uncomfortable or on the spot), eagerly awaiting your reaction to the first bite.
It's quite obvious by their body language that their food is a source of great pride to them, and they want nothing more than their customers' full approval before they can feel good about it. Just a great place!
They also routinely would open the dining room just for me so I could eat my lunch there, despite the fact that they were technically closed for their post-lunch downtime/dinner prep. This always meant a GREAT deal to me, because it was completely unnecessary. But they were absolutely insistent, because I was a regular customer.
Ideally I would NEVER even consider asking to be served when a restaurant is closed, but it just so happened that my lunch break was at 2:30 everyday, which meant that making a special accommodation for me was the only way I would ever be able to eat there.
Since I had already been well established as a regular by the time my lunch break time had been changed, they just flat-out refused to take no for an answer when I tried to leave, once I realized that they were closed. After that first time, they would only let me leave once they had secured a PROMISE from me that I knock on the door any time I wanted to eat lunch during their post-lunch downtime.
Only after their repeated insistence that I continue to come for lunch despite my break being during the time they were closed every day, and only after they PROMISED me that they WOULD turn me away if it ever WAS inconvenient for them to serve me on any given day, did I reluctantly agree to this arrangement. Needless to say, I tipped a minimum of 30% every time I ate lunch there from that day forward!
Unfortunately, post-COVID they wound up closing my office down altogether, and having us permanently work 100% remote, so I haven't had much opportunity to eat there lately, since it's hard to justify driving all the way to Irving from McKinney just for food.
But I will DEFINITELY continue to go out of my way to give them my business anytime I am anywhere close to their neck of the woods during a mealtime! Not just my favorite Thai restaurant, but one of my favorite restaurants, period!
I just wanted to make sure that I give them the credit they are due. If you haven't done so already, and have a great love for authentic Thai cuisine, do yourself a favor and give Thai E San a try! I promise you won't regret it...
BTW - For those of you that are huge fans of spicy food like myself, I just wanted to make you aware that even though it's not on the menu anywhere, the server confided in me one day upon me placing my normal "five stars" order that unlike most Thai restaurants, they do not stop at five stars as a maximum spice level. In fact, they will go all the way up to "TWENTY-FIVE STARS" on the spice! I honestly had never even heard of such a thing, and felt quite honored to be let in on the secret.
Unfortunately, I have always found their "five stars" to be the PERFECT amount of spiciness (unlike literally every other Thai restaurant I have ever tried, where "five stars" has still been disappointingly underwhelming), so I have never had the cause, nor the opportunity to put their 25-star maximum to the test, but I still appreciate knowing that it's...
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