Coconut Thai — Restaurant in Issaquah

If you have not been to Coconut Thai in Issaquah Front Street - then you are missing out on a gastronomical treat! This is a quaint little restaurant as you enter front street. But don't judge the treat for your tummy by the size of this place. Every item on the menu here is great! Recently, we were here. We got the usual thai iced tea to start with. We ordered Tom Kha and Garden Fresh Rolls. The Tom Kha was not a heavy coconut milk soup like the other places. This one was light, flavorful with galangal and lightly tangy. The garden fresh roll was just out of this world. The nice touch to it was the crispy wonton inside it. For the main course, we ordered two noodle dishes - Chili Basil Noodle and Kee Mao. They both look pretty similar except for a few extra vegetables in Kee Mao. Both are made of flat rice noodles. But the flavor is quite different in both. The tomato in Kee Mao puts a good spin to your taste buds. The crispy basil in Chili Basil Noodles makes it burst with sweet and subtle peppery flavor. You cannot go wrong with either of them. We are almost full but could not resist their dessert of the day - Sticky Rice with Mango. If you see this - you must have this, Excellent dessert. The mango was ripe and sweet complementing the sticky rice smothered with coconut milk. I wish there was more coconut milk on the rice. Overall, tummy happy when we left. The prices are very reasonable. Like you have your favorite song on your playlist, you MUST have this place on your favorite...

Clean, welcoming Thai restaurant with solid service. Went for lunch on a weekday. This was my first time dining here. Ordered the lunch set with Pad Thai and chicken w/out skewers. I very much wanted to like the food; however it just didn’t hit enough of the authentic flavor I had hoped for.

The pad Thai was the main culprit. I read many positive reviews of their pad Thai here, but what I was served was unfortunately sub par. The pad Thai was sitting in a pool of sweet sauce and lacking flavors beyond sweetness. I’m not sure if the lunch set pad Thai is different from the full pad Thai order, but there would be no way a person could finish a large portion of pad Thai if it was like this.

For the chicken, the meat flavor was fine but it also was sitting in a pool of overly sweet peanut flavored sauce. It lacked the grill flavor and smokiness I would have hoped it would have.

Yes, I understand they are likely adapting their recipes for local palate but I have dined at many Thai restaurants in the U.S. and this was unfortunately one of the worst I have tried.

I would be willing to try Coconut Thai again in the hopes that it was the lunch set or an off day for the...

This review is for awhile back. This place should be on your bucket list to start off with. Came here with my (old) boss on a beautiful afternoon, we were craving some Thai food and Coconut Thai had a good reputation in the area.

They gave you vegetable baby bokchoi soup in the beginning to try out their soup broth. The taste of the soup reminds me of home (in Hong Kong).

11 tables total in this restaurant, it's a small restaurant. BUT, their food is really good. Try the 'Lord Noodle' (one of the chef specialties and one of the street food items you find in Thailand), the noodles are very fresh and it was very flavorful. I highly recommend it.

I also tried the Tom Kha, it's one of the two famous soup in Thai restaurants. I personally didn't like it very much because the lemongrass flavor in the soup was way too strong for it, i was expecting the soup to be on the sweet side but it turns out that it was a bit sour.

We also had the spring rolls for appetizer and they were very delicious. The warm cream cheese on the inside plus the sauce that comes with it, ohhhh I can order 10 of these...