Golden Thai Restaurant — Restaurant in Longwood

Amazing food, great service amazing food, great service! A new favorite!

Update 3 yrs later While the food at this restaurant is still very good, I have been disappointed recently with the service. More than a few times, the young kid, I think he's a college student, has messed up my order, but today was a straw that broke the camel's back. I called and placed an order, He tells me 15 to 20 minutes, I give them 30 but when I get there he tells me that they have no more rice. Yes it is true I called the order in at 7:45 p.m., but a Thai restaurant running out of rice is like KFC running out of chicken. At that point, I'm a annoyed because how do you have curry without rice, but I'm already there, right?! So I reluctantly agree to some noodles. So I'm sitting there waiting for an order that was literally supposed to be grab and go, and 15 minutes go by and I ask him what the status was because I placed the order 45 minutes prior and he tells me he didn't put it in when I called it in because he didn't know what I wanted with my curry So instead they didn't put any food order in for me. No attempts to call me back and ask me if I would like a substitute. The restaurant was not busy, there was literally one couple sitting down eating, one other to go order that arrived while I was sitting there waiting for my food so I cannot even make an excuses for him. So I get home, I'm already annoyed but I'm even more annoyed when I go to try to eat the noodles. They were bland and rubbery and completely stuck together in a big mush. I literally had to throw them right in the garbage and make myself some rice so that I can have some with my dinner. Tonight was a flop, there have been other times where he's messed up minor things, like the protein that I wanted my soup or the type of soup and one time he forgot my spring rolls, but today, today was not good. I've decided I'm not going to stop supporting this business because I have met the cooks and owner and they're really sweet. I also know it's really tough during the pandemic, but I've decided that if I ever hear the kids voice on the other side of the phone, I'm hanging up, calling the next local spot. I really miss when the girls that used to work the front! I took the liberty of photographing the...

Golden Thai has been here for as long as I can remember, but strangely I’ve never been. Its an cozy location and seems to do mostly take-out. Their prices are slightly lower than other Thai restaurants in the area — about $2 less for lunch than most places I have visited. As usual, for my first try, I had the lunch Panang Chicken and Thai Tea. The tea was very good. The veggies in the curry were very fresh, as you would expect of any Thai restaurant. The Panang itself was watery, lacking body and flavor. Some tastes were very salty and others not so much. The rice was a clump. It even had harder clumps inside the main clump. It was also almost flavorless. Just a quick aside here — a year ago I would have said that rice was just rice, some smoother than others. But after having the rice at Dee Thai in Lake Mary I find that I am SOOO wrong. I can’t put my finger on it, but it is so much better than any rice I’ve ever had anywhere else. Back to Golden Thai — at the end of lunch I would have to say that this seems to be “The McDonald's” of Thai restaurants. The price is slightly lower, the quality is mediocre, and some people would say, “You get what you pay for”. But for me, just a few miles up Rangeline Rd and then up Lake Emma Rd and you would be at Dee Thai. For $2 more its like going from McDonald’s burgers to Ruths Chris’ burgers...

Okay, I have recently with my last year or so realized that I actually love Thai food, and I simply have found the best restaurant to get it from. The food in here is made to order so your food's not going to come out fast, but I'm going to tell you right now it's going to be worth every freaking second that you wait. I got one of the lunch specials. I ordered red curry chicken, and you can add two lumpias or vegetable wraps and a cup of soup for $2 extra. The wraps were as fresh as I've ever had in my life the soup was fantastic I was brought out a plate with three little pots on it with spoons in them with different things there was one that was a spicy taste another that was the spicy like gochujang powder one and then there was some peanuts stuff on there which was not happening with me lol but she did this so that I could make the soup in the curry a spicy as I wanted to. Literally the only thing that I did not like about it was the green peppers and carrots in it for some reason those don't seem to cook well to me in a soup and they just don't taste right to me I don't know. So if you like Thai food, this is where you need to go, and the lunch special was $11.95 for all of that food plus a bottle of water. Honestly it tasted so dang good I forgot to take pictures that's how...